Music (Volume 20-21); A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Excerpt: ... lady" ("le jcune fille," as the French have it), but, on the contrary, free, unconventional, occasionally coarse. They have been read by clubmen with interest and admired by all that rather large class of professional musicians to whom art is not a religion. They have now been collected into a book called "The Melomaniacs" and handsomely brought out by the Scribners. Almost every reader will remember that notable and characteristic, and at the same time clever, story printed two years ago called "A Son of Liszt." This comes near the beginning of the book. The book will probably be read widely, but it is not to be classed along with Huneker's serious work, in which he brings his genius to bear upon the illustration of a great composer, as, for instance, in his "Chopin." The present is one of those cases where the proper thing to do (and lady readers will know exactly how to do it) is to "hate the sin but love the sinner." It would be a great thing for the publishers if some over-strict complainant would interfere with the bookstand sale of "The Melomaniacs," because it would increase the sale so much. There is nothing particularly bad in the book, only a lot of disagreeable people and incidents, a general absence of sincerity and optimism and plenty of disillusionism and disgust. Those who like this sort of thing will revel in Huneker's book. He is a clever writer, but "The Melomaniacs" are a decadent lot. * * * Mr. Leopold Godowsky is meeting with his just deserts in Europe this season. He has played in Berlin several times with as great success as that of last year---more would be impossible. Although upon this point his own testimony may be taken that in a recent concert at Warsaw, Poland, he had the greatest success of his life. He played two concertos, the Chopin in E minor and ...