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première here last night, a success which is expected to have its sequel abroad. It not only aroused the public’s enthusiasm, but also won the almost unanimous praise of the critics as a nobly conceived dramatically powerful work, which yet is executed with fine restraint, indulging in no inartistic exaggeration or crass stage realism. The music is in Dohnanyi’s best vein, not too modern, but rich and effective and never trivial. Some slight use of Hungarian folk song is made, and the influence of this is felt in the flavor of the score. The book, based on a story of Hanns Heinz .Ewers, treats the ancient folk theme of human sacrifice to placate the evil spirit, who in this case demands the immuring of a beautiful woman in the Tower that is being built. The scene is laid in Transylvania.
B. S.
Goldman Band to Inaugurate Fifth Season
One of the most extraordinary series of band concerts ever undertaken in the City of New York, or perhaps in the United States, is planned for this season, starting on June 12 and continuing for a period of twelve weeks until September 8. The unusual reception given to Edwin Franko Goldman and his band, and the unprecedented attendance during the past four seasons, have justified the enlarging of plans. Those who were doubtful of the possibility of carrying out successfully such an elaborate program are now convinced that these concerts are not alone precisely what the public wanted, but also a real and positive necessity.
The average audience at each of the concerts during the past season was from eight to twenty thousand people a night. The grounds of the Columbia University are beautiful—with their wonderful trees, smooth lawns and handsome buildings. The bandstand and chairs for the audience are situated in the heart of these lovely grounds. The atmosphere of stately Columbia has the dignity and refinement of the aristocratic old college, established for generations, and it is impossible to sit there with the evening breeze coming in from the Hudson, and not feel the charm and refreshment of the entire environment, both physical and mental.
Edwin Franko Goldman, the conductor of the band and the originator of these free concerts, is a program builder of taste and distinction. He knows how to reach and please his public. The programs will be of high character, varied so as to make them not only educational, but also thoroughly entertaining and of general interest.
The entire undertaking is financed through the subscriptions of public-spirited citizens and the people at large. The subscribers include those who have contributed amounts ranging from one dollar to five, and up. Hundreds of people who have received free tickets in the past, have shown their appreciation by contributing some smali amount.
The, Columbia Concerts have a two-fold mission : the education as well as the uplift of the masses. No concerts in the past have been received with greater enthusiasm, and the present season will probably prove to be one of the finest series of concerts for the people ever attempted.
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latter practically idle, the Austrian Government refused to grant Reinhardt a lease on either of the two houses, owing to public sentiment which is against having a foreign company occupying a native state theater. P. B.
Vienna to Have Schubert Festival.
Vienna, March 27.—Preparations are already being made for a great Schubert Festival to be held here in the early fall to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Schubert’s birth and in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the day when he commenced work on his unfinished symphony (October 30, 1822). There will be an orchestral concert, a church concert, several song recitals and a complete cycle of Schubert’s chamber music compositions. The festival will also include at least one of his operatic compositions.
P. B.
Einar Nilson Composing Salzburg Festival Play.
Vienna, March 26.—Contrary to original plans, the incidental music of Hofmannsthal’s new play, “Das grosse Welttheater”—written for the Salzburg Festival—will be composed, not by Strauss, but by Einar Nilson, the Danish composer, who wrote the music of Hofmannsthal’s “Jeder-mann” for the previous festivals. Nilson has arrived here to discuss details with Hofmannsthal, Reinhardt and Alfred Roller, who will make the stage designs.	P. B.
Strauss Refuses to Aid Russia.
Vienna, March 24.—Considerable sensation and some surprise has been caused by the refusal of Richard Strauss to collaborate in a big benefit concert shortly to be arranged here by the Vienna Artists’ Relief Committee for Starving Russia. The matter has caused extensive comment in the Vienna press.	P. B.
Salzburg Festival Details.
Vienna, March 27.—The Salzburg Festival Committee announces that this year’s festival will last three weeks, starting August 10. The exact dates for the different plays which have been recorded by the Musical Courier will be published shortly. . In the three days’ International Chamber Music Festival preceding the festival proper, the following composers are to take active part: Arthur Bliss and Arnold Bax from London, Darius Milhaud and others from Paris, Egon Wellesz and Rudolf Réti from Vienna. Marie Gutheil-Schoder, from the Vienna Staatsoper, and a Berlin string quartet will also participate.	P. B.
“Get the Hook.”
Vienna, March 19.—In connection with the War Victims’ Week, starting today, there will be a concert at the Kon-zerthaus which will mark a departure in local concert life. Any member of the audience will be allowed to appear as soloist, instrumental or vocal, but will be obliged to stop his or her performance if the audience desires it. P. B.
New Opera House for Londoners.
London, March 31.—A new opera house has been built at the Royal College of Music, complete with a well arranged sunken orchestra. It was first used on March 20 for a performance of “Madame Butterfly” by the students, and proved most successful.	G. C.
Royal Choral Society’s New Conductor.
London, March 31.—Sir Frederick Bridge, conductor of the Royal Choral Society since 1896, is retiring at the end of this season. The new conductor is H. L. Balfour, .for twenty-five years organist at the Royal Albert Hall.
G. C.
Dohnanyi’s New Opera Acclaimed,
Budapest, March 18.—Ernò Dohnanyi’s opera, “The Tower of the Voyevod,” won a triumphant success at its
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“Peer Gynt” a London Success.
London, March 28.—The Old Vic’s production of “Peer Gynt” has been so unexpectedly successful that in addition to the scheduled repertory performances, for which thousands of applications were turned away, a run of two weeks and perhaps more has been provided at the end of the regular season in May. There will also be given, in a few days, a gala performance of the play (with Grieg’s
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music, of course) at “West End” prices, the proceeds of which will go toward the Old Vic’s Restoration Fund. Collections for that fund in the audience are bringing record results these days, and some $3,000 have been collected to date. The appeal poster (reprinted herewith) is doing its share.	G. C.
Wolff Honored by French President
Paris, March 28.—Between the second and third acts of the performance of “L’Attaque du Moulin,” at the Opéra Comique, Saturday evening, March 25, Albert Wolff, the former French conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was informed by M. Berteaux, Minister of Public Instruction, that President Alexandre Millerand had conferred upon him the rank of Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.	T. B.
“Symphony of the Thousand” Done by 999.
Chemnitz, March 21.—Mahler’s eighth symphony has just had two extraordinary performances at Chemnitz, under the baton of Prof. Franz Mayerhoff and Generalmusik-direktor Oscar Malata respectively. It was the work’s first hearing here, and the success was unparalleled. The choruses and the orchestra were beyond praise, and the soloists, imported from various large towns, were excellent. A curious coincident brought it about that this “Symphony of One Thousand” was performed on this occasion by an ensemble of exactly 999 persons.	M. U.
The Furtwängler Monopoly.
Berlin, March 29.—Wilhelm Furtwängler, having obtained a release from his contract with the Berlin Staats-kapelle in order to be able to accept his double call to head the Philharmonic in Berlin and the Gewandhaus in Leipsic, has been asked to retain his post for the balance of the season, as no successor has yet been found. Since he has undertaken to begin his new duties at once, he will, for the present at least, conduct virtually all the important concerts in the two cities—an unprecedented monopoly. C. S.
An Andalusian Festival.
Madrid, March 20.—A competitive festival for the advance of the cultivation of Andalusian folk music is to take place in Granada in June. Modern music is to be absolutely excluded from the programs. The committee is headed by Manuel de Falla.	R. L.
Marsick Goes to Spain.
Madrid, March 25.—Armand Marsick, the well known Belgian composer and conductor, until now a professor at the Conservatory of Athens, Greece, has been appointed director of the Conservatory at Bilboa, a big Spanish industrial town. He has also founded an orchestra of sixty-four men and expects to give regular symphony concerts in Bilbao. Marsick is a pupil of Vincent d’îndy.	E. I.
Music Strikers in Vienna.
Vienna, March 24.—The employees of all Vienna music dealèrs,, including all publishing firms, have gone on strike for higher wages, with the result that all such establishments have been closed up for over three weeks. There is no prospect for their resuming business very soon.
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Austrian Government Snubs Reinhardt.
Vienna, March 26.—Max Reinhardt’s intention of founding a “Reinhardt Theater” at Vienna has had to be abandoned, owing to his failure to secure either the Schdnbrun-ner Schlosstheater or the Redoutensaal of the Imperial Castle. Although the former is vacant at present and the