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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8. 1908, SOME years ago the following Ad vertisement apepared In the New York World: "Wanted At Coney Island restaurant, a pianist who can open oysters. Can there be a ' more speaking sen tence? ' In that little advertisement Is wrapped up the tragedy of much of the musical situation today. The story of the Incompetent musician who Is an In sult to his Instrument and to Intelli gent humanity; the story of th misled student; of the poet musician who can barely make enough to keep himself from starving because of the unscrupu lous tinkerer at the profession who steps in and steals his rights; all these are told in that one sentence "Wanted A pianist who can open oysters." "It is a sad fact that a large propor tion of the pianists we hear every day would better be opening oysters, and certainly more profitably. They might, too, learn some valuable lesson from the oyster and his family In shutting up like a clam a lesson bought and paid for at the highest price by our greatest philosophers. The advertisement, to be sure, does not say how this versatile pianist is to open the oysters whether with a knife, or by the mag-io of b's art like the mythical Orpheus who, with his lute, made the trees and mountain tops bow to the ground, and who did not Mop at opening a ltttle oyster shell, but opened the very gates of Hade;, where his beautiful love was confined. Mavbe the Coney Island plsmlst oeuld do as much with the oyster shell, were his love confined within It. The country is overrun with oyster opening pianists. I believe America gets them irom all over the world. Doubt' less other countries have their share ot these pot-boiler artls?n. but America, the great land of the free. Is such a beautiful country in -wiiien to practice to one's nearfs content the buncombe game of bad mUBic. And in some coijn trfeB thete is les tolerance for such nulsancns The appreciation and exac tions of more musical countries would protest against it, You may have heard of the Italian and Qertnn discussing the relative im portance of their countries as musical ,ntn rcrmnv ftp.Ameri to have more arguments in its favor and the excitable i Italian nrantlisning nis anna wnuiy, said: 'But Italy Is turning out the most musicians and has always turned out the most." "Ach Uoit!" exclaimed the German, "Can you jilame dem?" Well. yes. we will nay that Italy turns out the most. Many of them are good muslrlan. Doubtlens there are more Italians than of any other nationality represented among the operatic artists, and probably In the bands and orches tras about the country the same is true. Hut there ar many, many poor music ians, who come over here and pass themselves off for virtuosi. Their names will carry them a long way. And because of the foreign name, the foreign birthplace, and, perhaps, a bewitching accent, a slippery mustache, burning yes and an excitable temper, they paas for musicians. . They receive students who are paying tribute to the romanticism of their for eign ways anl not to their ability as mu sicians. They pretend to teach the art of music. Tliey may succeed In hack ing up the poor student's latent talent Just about as badly as they would hack up the defenseless oyster within its shell. But the oyster has passed Its earthly usefulness, or will have In a short time, and embryo possibilities have not oeen misled or utterly ruined. And besides, that man might learn in a little time to handle the knife a little more carefully his employer would demand It. But there is no one to demand that he make a first-class mu sician of himself before he begins to Impart his Incomplete knowledge. There Is the other side to be consid ered The poor .musician who has to riant himself to circumstances because of the manner in which he Is crowded out by his unscrupulous neighbor. I suppose the musician with any business Instinct and there Is no aesthetic law preventing a musician from being as sound minded In financial matters as a man of any other profession will be able to make circumstances subject themselves to him, but there are many who are good musicians who are help less In subjecting financial difficulties. It Is for these to learn to open oysters, to whittle monkeys out of wax, to do fancy work or to take in fancy washing anything to eke out their slender In come." And this because so many who should be dolnsr these Jobs all the time are selling half their time at bargain counter rates In giving poor music les sons, and so are detracting from the value jf the efficient. No. there Is no lesthetlo law against making money by music, but there should be an ethical law, commonly called professional ethics In other pro fessions, to prevent Jobbers from vent ing their ignorance on unsuspecting pupils. . A local music teacher told me the other day of a woman who came to her to studv who couldn't play the first two measures of the Clementl sonatlne without getting off the key, and yet she had a large class of pupils paying her a dollar an hour for lessons. An other couldn't play the scales but had a few "pieces" at her finger ends which she played for her students and piano teaching was her means of livelihood. Another, a graduate of a musical con servatory, who carried a bachelor de gree behind her name, wanted lessons hvcauM she couldn't nlay the music of a popular opera wnicb ner position de manded should be played. And that might serve as the Introduc tion for a discourse on the fakery .of so-called conservatories of muslo where students are rushed tnrougn a eeriam period of time, and not through a cer tain amount of work done with a cer tain degree of quality. And It might, too, serve as the text for an argument that would-be music teachera should go through an examination Just as much as should teachers of the public schools. Manv a talented person who can play well and with ease la absolutely un fitted to teach others to play. The abil ity to teach Is an art entirely separate from the ability to perform well, though in any case one must have the knowledge of how it Is done. But that Is another story. y Miss feironeim vuniiunjr b, cert at Vancouver recently In which she scored a success. There was a large attendance and her numbers were re ceived with enthusiasm. The Vancouv er paper speaks of her voice as "a con tralto voice of more than ordinary depth and flexibility." She was as sisted by Miss Cornelia Barker, violin ist, of Portland, and Mrs. A. J. Dor land, reader, of Vancouver. Mrs. M. B. Kies was the accompanist for the eve ning. - The Enna Amateurs had a meeting Friday evening with Mlsa Rasmussen, one of the members. Mr. Erma gave a program consisting of Swedish, French, German, Dutch, English, Amer ican. Russian and Norwegian ' composi tions. The members will give a publlo recital at Ellers hall March 19. - ' ' .- The taste for classical music, as for certain kinds of cheese,' is 'with aome persona natural, with- other an fto quired taste. , Some persona appear to be born with the ability to spell cor rectly, othera painfully acquire that ability by dint of unremitting applica tion to the pages of the "unabridged." There la such a thing- as learning to like classical music, even to prefer It, In the long run, to the other kind that is stigmatised as popular. "We first endure then pity, then embrace. Phil adelphia Ledger. Miss Grayce Campbell has prepared a most Interesting program for the com ing vocal recital to be riven by pupils of Mra. Rose Coursen-Reed at Ellers recital hall. Among Miss Campbell's numbers are two songs of Mrs. H. H A. Beach, the bg aria "Lletl Slgnor froyi "The Huguenot," and a new waltz song, "June Time," by Sans Soucl. Dr. George Ainslee, tenor, and F. S. Hickle are down for Interesting numbers also. The Ladles' Aid society of the Cathed ral la planning' a benefit concert to" Be given Friday evening, November 20, at the Helllg In the Interest of St Atrnes' Baby borne. Mrs. May Dearborn Schwab and Miss Petronella Connolly have charge of the program and are one of the most sucessful features of the "Isle of Spice" for the past two seasons, has retired from the cast of that production and la now In this city taking vocal Instruction from W. H. Boyer. Miss Convey aspires to prima donna laurels and for the present has decided to devote all her time to study. She has arranged to remain in Portland until May 1. 3 DIERKE'S PUPILS TO ' Give Initial Recital J The first of a series of recitals to be given by the pupils of Charles Dlerke will be held next Tuesday af ternoon at Ellers hall. This recital wlir be of a good dear 6rTnTerer"be cause of the rank Mr. Dlerke holds as an instructor among the piano fra ternity of Portland, and because the pupils whom he will present are among n lis most accomplished. Miss Pearl bamboo, gourd (especially calabash) and of tlnkjjng strips of metal, while his melodies, like those of the feathered creation, acquire a compelling charm from monotonous Iteration and reitera tion. Even the Intervals of the barbaric scale. If scale it can be called, are of such an Indefinite and Illusive character that they may very Justly be thought to have their prototype In the throat of the songbird. So much ! do sounds of a gentle nature ravish the ear of the native African that ha dons, when dancing, a belt of large dried bean shells filled with softly rattling peb bles, which he strings together like beads and winds about his waist. The lovabla "ricksha" boys, curiously and gaudily costumed, oxhorn and feath ers on their heads. Imaginary stock ing's of amazing pattern painted on tbeir bare legs,, wear these dancing belts as anklets, and a they lope along In Imi tation of the Native springbuck, drag ging their human load after thejn, any thing more deliclously, entrancing than the soft rhythmic "chink-chink" of these musical ornaments can hardly be Imagined. Another Kaffir ornament Is a head dress having beaded strings dangling between the eyes, with tiny bells crude ly carved out of bits of horn Jingling on the -ends. These dark-skinned, lithe-limbed na tives possess also a delicacy of touch which they apply as readily to the manipulation of a musical Instrument as to their quaint bead-siringing, plaited straw work and the like. To hear a Kaffir boy play an In strument of the white man's fashion ing, an ordinary mouth organ or the plebeian concertina, la something of a revelation. I heard once in the solitude of the hills of Bwatzkop. Natal, a Kaf fir lad softly playing a concertina as he strolled barefoot along the narrow mountain patn. ' JneJlttla Jjftunimg Bfir as ejia repeated over and over again, producing a tone so sweet and seduclve that I stood en tranced. As he passed, me, some pretty instinct or courtesy prompted mm to subdue his tone to a mere breath of sweet sound, producing an effect in the - . : i s1bbb sam sal I. .--....' - 7 1 -. i -"V 'it 4s Miss Amy May. Pianists to Be Presented by Mr. Miss Pearl Smith. Dlerke." preparing one of a good deal of merit The Lakme quartet, of which they are both members, will sing, and Stuart McGuIre, the clever baritone, will be a soloist. Mrs. Schwab, soprano, Miss Connolly, contralto, and Miss Cornelia Barker, violinist, will be the other soloists. The Instructors of muslo at St Helen's Hall gave a recital Thursday evening and a large number of the friends of the school attended. Miss Abbott, the pianist, la a woman of much ability, who plays with musical feeling and good technical training. Her pro- ?:ram showed force and a good deal of ndlvldirality. and altogether left a most pleasing Impression. Mrs. Lindsay, the vocal teacher has a small soprano voice. The quality is not displeasing, but her training is interior ana ner Dreaming under very poor control. She has the fault of singing songs that are beyond tier. The muslo of the First Baptist church today will be as follows Morn ing organ voluntary, "Idylle." (Rheln berger) ; anthem, "The Lost Sheep," (Jordan); solo, "Hold Thou My Hand." (Gounod), Miss Ethel Shea; postlude, "March. (Merkel). Evening organ voluntary, "Melody," (Thome); chorus, "Oh. Be Joyful In the Lord' (House- ley): quartet, "The Dawn of God's Dear Sanhatn. tuosmer); soio ana quanei, "Where's My Wandering Boyf" and "Tell Mother I'll Be There"; postlude, "Postlude," (Rlnck). . w Thernuslo at the First M. E. church today will be: Morning Organ rhap sodie (on a theme for Pentacost), Faulkes; anthem. "Oh, Gladsome Light," (Sullivan); offertory soprano solo, "This Day Is Born a Savior," (H. J. Stewart), Mrs. Salmon; organ "Festive March," (Rogers). Evening Organ, Meditation in B Flat, (Clark); anthem, "The Radiant Morn," (Woodward); of fertory quartet, "Jesus Only," (Rotoll); organ, "Festive March," (Bruno Huhn). There la ' a great deal of Interest shown In the oomlng recital of Adele Verne who has bean widely heralded as a talented pianist She will play Thurs day evening at me rcomsn mm cameu ral before the members of the lodge anl their friends and they are looking for ward to an exceptional treat Miss Vena made her debut In New York early this season. r Mrs. Charles Relnhardt of Seattle is In Portland to spend several months studying violin with Henry L. Bettman. Mra Relnhardt is a violinist of no small ability. Mra. Rose Coursen-Reed sang most delightfully at the council of Jewish women Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. A. L. Hexter accompanying. Mrs. Reed was encored heartily, and received beau tiful flowers. W Miss Alice Juston has. returned from Condon, where she sang at the big Caledonian . celebration. Miss Juston was most successful In her Scotch songs and was encored again and again. Mrs. P. S. Monte, contralto, has be come a member of Mrs. Rose Coursen- Reed s Treble Clef club. Miss Loretta Convey whose singing of the Peggy Brady number has been Smith, Miss Amy May, Miss Ruth Ray mond, Miss Anna Bltzer, and Miss Evelyn Carey will give the program. Most of these have been heard of be fore as verv talented nunlls. Miss May and Miss Smith, particularly, have ac quired a good deal or local lame, even though they have not before appeared In public recital. Both are exceptional ly talented and have a great deal of temperament, and both have for some vears assisted Mr. Dlerke In Instruct ing. .Miss Carey, Miss Bltzer and Miss Raymond are all said to be pianists of no small ability. Following Is the program to be given: Les Preludes, Symphonic Poem Frans Liszt. Misses Pearl Smith and Amy May Valse In D Flat , Chopin Arlequine Chaminade Miss Ruth Raymond. Romance in-E Flat Rubinstein Invitation a la Valse Weber Miss Anna Bltser. Angelus, From Scenes Picturesque! Massenet I,e Chant du Rulsseau Liadow Aragonalse. From Le Cld Massenet, anno rjviyu tarev. Hungarian Fantasie Frans Liszt Miss Pearl Smith. TT AUd" POWELL TO 1. A Study African Negro a- 9 Be Beautiful Tan, rreoklea. Holes, Koths, So ftuoua Haw KBMOVxtD AT TKurunra cost, Thin ShexUders mad plamp, lM face made Mr.' F. C Batcheller Ml 8wwtUa Bid, . cor. ruth and Wash. ,. j j Ffcone Mala 6334. Pr-; 1 I What I found one of the most Inter esting features last year about that tal ented and entertaining woman, Madame Maud Powell, who In private life is Mrs. Godfrey Turner, was her general information. Her Interest Is not con fined to things musical, much less to things vloltnlstio. Though she Is a complete master of her Instrument though she knows violin literature from A to Z, she can converse Intelligently on almost any other subject you choose to Introduce. Her travels have keen. extensive and In the course of them she has kept her eyes and her ears and mind open. So it la that Madame Powell wields the pen about as well as she does the bow, and with her naturally musical temperament you may divine readily mat when she writes It Is in f 'leasing style. I am glad that Portland s to have the opportunity of hearing her again, and I nope that the many wno were denied me privilege or hear ing her last year because of the incon venient hour will be able to hear her when she comes late this month. The following article on "South Afrl can Sidelights on a Musical Problem" which she wrote for "Musical Ameri ca" from her personal observations, pre sents so many interesting points that ii is reproduced nere entire: A recent trip to Tennessee has re railed impressions received in South Africa impressions of the colored man and bis love for rhythm and tune. There Is an esthetic susceptibility about the colored race that responds quickly to both beauty of color and of sound. It was of frequent occurrence in my travels in l06 in Bontn Arriea. to dis cover half-nude Kaffirs standing an hour at a time outside the hotel win dow listening to my violin practice. The knowledge of Enellsh speech amounts to a vague understanding of so-called Tcltchen-kafflr (a most elemental speech adapted to his limited under standing), but the language of music speaks to him in direct and Intelligible terms. Our own southern darkey brought his taste for folk-lore and song with him from Africa, when he came to us long ago, to help In the corn and cotton fields of Dixie land. The love of beautiful line, color and sound Is a racial instinct "No wonder the White man covers his nakedness,'' says our black brother of the antipodes, "for 'he is ashamed of his deformities." As the South African native borrows his color schemes In his head-work from the heavens or from the myriad hued wild flowers that deck the gret treeless Karroo, so he steals from the songbirds of the forbidding hills - the secret' of soft, persuasive music. His musical Instruments are mellow tone and sweet, being; made of wood. stillness of the late afternoon that was indescribable. I havo since been Informed by an En glishman who knows something of the K?.51C,,bjr vlrtu of his long association with him in an official capacity, that a native man Is known by the one tune that he always plays. (Here we have the leit-motif In embryo.) Moreover, he has a way of repeating his tune in cycles in some manner un fathomed by the white man, and it seems that my boy of the concertina had some large rythmic plan, which made rum loath to atop playing. Inasmuch as he would thereby lose count and per force have to go back to the very be ginning. ' This same official also gave me some particulars about the natives of Bechu analand. who have good voices and sing remarkably well in chorus. On one of those strangely clear nights under the Southern Cross they will congregate in scores or even hundreds, ranging them selves in groups around an enormous bonfire. Then they will sing in unison, 'n chorus and antfphonally The burden of their song may be some strange folk-lore or tribal history or mayhap a rehearsal of all the daring reats and brave deeds of their honored and worshipful chief. One group will " -1 " mm a. siow monotonous dron ing, a second will presently intone a sort of melody, which in turn will be taken up by a third group, and so on. Each group will have its individual tune, while the various groups will an swer each other or sing together In a sort of curious oounter-point And for a grand and glorious finale thev will rise and sing together In a simple impressive unison. It Is not agreeable to learn that the white man's hymn, too often feeble in both tune and words, and unfortunately associated with the civilizing (?) intro duction of the whiskey habit, is grad ually usurping the place of the native song, romantic fitting, thrilling as it is. Like the clothes of ,Tclvil!zed" cut that eit In repulsive filth and awkwardness on the splendid bronze figures, so the white man's song is also a mournful misfit. In view of the much discussed ques tion of an American school of composi tion arising out of the melodies of our southern negro, these musical suscepti bilities of his semi-savage brother across the South Atlantic are of some Import. Certainly the aesthetio advan tage of steeping one's self In the atmos phere of our southern tradition and com ing In touoh with the lovable but fast disappearing "Uncle Amus" type, Is con siderable. But, to my thinking, the overpowering Influence of the great white race, and the tendency of these restless monev making times will kill outright the poet ic possibilities in this direction. We Americans are. more llkelv to live flr;t through a phase of large Intellectual, mechanical music-making before arriv ing at a real individuality of expression. And nothing will accrue through copy ing peculiarities of Interval and rhythm of a race fast losing Its oharm of un spoiled, uneducated originality. The passing epldemlo of ragtime (with Its individuality of rhythm) will have lived its course and have left ira imprint, which in time will have become i an idealized memory. This will be one! element in the building of an American ' school of musical expression and a vi-.1 tallv important element, inasmuch as i rhythm stands at the very root of all ' musical structure, ana mnerent in rag time Is much more than merely struc tural quality. It has a soul of its own, quite apart from anything that has thus far been -created. American history, lit erature of life "befoah de wah" and tra ditions tinted by the hand of time, will create "mood" and this will be another element In the building. It Is a Ions: Process, but we shall achieve the artistic result ultimately. It must be remembered that the great Italian, Dutch and Belgian schools of Fainting thrived and blossomed in the Ifteenth and sixteenth centuries, dur ing the great financial prosperity of the merchant kings of those days. SlfV too vlll flm mnA hlltftvv nmtrm that American music, now in swaddling clothes, received great impetus and en couragement and consequently made great advancement during- an era of nrodoerltv that la the wotider nf th civilized world. MISS LOCKE TALKS ON "GREAT PICTURES" AT ART MUSEUM In her lecture on "Great Pictures" yesterday at the art museum, -he last of a most interesting series on art Miss Josephine Locke named the great world artists in the following order: Raphael, Michael Angelo, Corregio, Murillo. Leonardo, Georgione, Titian, Batticelll, Rembrandt. Turner, Corof, Millet These men founded schools, stood for great departures In art, made epochs. Besides these in the modern world idiss Locke named Rossetti and Bastlen Le Page as men who struck one great note did one supremely great thing. She criticised from the modern view point many of those pictures whtcn have previously held high rank, and in explaining the different value which has attached to pictures with the ad vance of thought she said: "Our standards of value change and must change appreciation of picture and statue as in everything eUe. I choose to call this variation wt preference one of public sentiment rather than of pub lic taste. Psychologically, It Is the re sult of a dV ferent development of brain area and a different quality In the brain cell. PsyFlfKically it is a mental movement, a movement in the conscious ness of the public and the Individual by which one suddenly finds himself abreast not of the perception of past critics but of the interior, subjective motives of the artist himself. "There are art elements that are con stant and abiding. The heroic is such an element, whether In poetry, litera ture, sculnture. music-or coetrv: the heroic stimulants anI TaBcTnates. '"Tnet serene quiet that looks out on the strenuouaness of life, not indifferent but undisturbed, Is another element. The mysticism that sees beyond eyes of sense, that feels beyond the weeing, that understands, recognizes and flaBhes back response, has a perpetual and en during charm. "Whether In the human form or in Change in Potter's Schedule Effective at once, the O. R. & N. steamer T. J. 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