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if they take the trouble to inquire concerning him, which I expect to do very soon. The piano department of Lucy Cobb Institute will give its commencement concert on the evening of May 8, the date that will be celebrated as the hundredth anniversary of the first rendition of Home, Sweet Home in London.
Perhaps the information about Payne and Miss Harding will be interesting to your readers. It seems no trouble to prove that it is authentic.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy, I am Respectfully,
(Signed) Harriet May Crenshaw,
.	Director of Piano, Lucy Cobb Institute.
[After reading the articles published in the present issue of the Musical Courier, Miss Crenshaw will readily understand why the manuscript at Rochester is referred to as the original manuscript of Home, Sweet Home, since the song was originally part of an opera, Clari, or the Maid of Milan, and the complete manuscript (orchestra score) of the opera is in the Sibley Music Library of the University of Rochester. At the same time, it is more than probable that a voice and piano copy of the song was made in advance of its incorporation in this orchestra score. It might, perhaps, have been such a manuscript that Payne presented to Miss Harding, if the story is true. In fact, it is quite likely that more than one such manuscript was prepared to facilitate the work of rehearsals, etc., and Miss Harding may very well have had one of these. Or Payne, who appears to have been a gentleman of romantic tendencies, may gallantly have prepared an “original” manuscript of the song especially for her.—Editor.]
HEMPEL TO BROADCAST
HOME, SWEET HOME
Will Pay Her Tribute to “the Greatest Song in the World’’ on Centenary of First Time It Was Sung
Frieda Hempel, world famous for her singing of Home, Sweet Home alone, will celebrate the centenary of the first singing of the song in public by broadcasting the simple melody to a million listeners. The event will take place at the Waldorf-Astoria studios of the Westinghouse Radio Statian WJZ at 9 o’clock on the evening of May .8
Just one hundred years before that time a first night audience at the Royal Theater, London, was listening to Sir Henry Bishop’s new opera, Clari, or the Maid of Milan. The libretto was by a wandering American actor, John Howard Payne. The great moment of the evening—Home, Sweet Home—came in the second act. The music, so the story goes, was adapted from an old melody which Payne had heard in Italy. The centenary will be observed throughout England, and special efforts are being made to have London “listen in” when Hempel sings.
Miss Hempel has sung this song perhaps more often than any other artist. As an encore, it has been part of every recital; she has sung it many times with orchestra; it has followed the interpolated number in the lesson scene in The Barber of Seville and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan. Following the custom of her illustrious predecessor, she features Home, Sweet Home from the opera of Clari, or the Maid of Milan, in her Jenny Lind Concerts. The form of the announcement has hitherto excited great curiosity and surprise. In the old days the song was not used as a closing number. The Swedish Nightingale counted Home, Sweet Home among her most beloved songs, and, as Hempel does today, sang it simply and just as it was written.
Annie Louise David Going West Again
On Thursday afternoon, April 19, the Montauk Club of Brooklyn presented Thomas Sidney, England’s successor to the art of Corney Grain, George Grossmith, Leslie Harris and Albert Chevalier, in a Ladies’ Easter Matinee and Tea, assisted by Annie Louise David, the harpist. Miss David will leave July 15 for San Francisco, her teaching time there being entirely filled at the present time. Any information regarding her concerts or available time may be ascertained through her manager, Selby Oppenheimer of San Francisco.
Golschmann Coming to America
It is announced by the L. D. Bogue concert management that Vladimir Golschmann will probably Visit America next season as guest conductor. Mr. Golschmann is well known in Paris, where he has made a pronounced success as conductor of his own orchestra in a series of concerts at the Theatre des Champs Elysees. He has won recognition from all of the critics for his programs of very old music and of the most ultra-modern music. A fine musician and a vigorous and magnetic conductor, Mr. Golschmann should be welcome in America.
A New String Quartet
Arthur Judson, concert manager, announces the formation of a new string quartet to be known as the Philharmonic String Quartet, composed of Scipione Guidi, first violin, who is concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra and formerly a member of the New York Trio; Arthur Lich-No. 6. stein, second violin; Leon E. Barzin, viola, and Oswald Mazzucchi, cello. All four men are excellent artists and have the added advantage of having had long ensemble experience.
Mengelberg and Monteux to Perform Leginska Work
Ethel Leginska’s symphonic poem, Beyond the Fields We Know, will be performed next season by both the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under Mengelberg, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under Monteux. Mr. Mengelberg has also signified his intention of producing the work in Amsterdam when he conducts there.
Gutia Casini, the Cellist
Since his arrival in Europe recently, Gutia Casini has been offered a tour in South America. Owing to his contract to play in forty Mary Garden concerts in the fall, he has had to refuse the brilliant offer.
MANUSCRIPT OF HOME, SWEET HOME
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