THE STORY OF THE BOHEMI'ANS

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T is written : In the Beginning was the Word.

Here am I balked : who now can help afford!

The WORD ! —impossible so high to rate it ;

And o therwise mus t I translate it,

If by the Spirit I am truly taught.

T hen thus : In the Beginning was the THOUGHT ,

This first line let me weigh completely,

Lest my impatien t pen proceed too fleetly.

Is it the THOUGHT which works , creates , indeed !“

In the Beginning was the POWER ,

”I read .

Yet, as I write, a warning is suggested

T hat I the sense may no t have fairly tested.

T he Spiri t aid s me : now I see the light !“

In the beginning was the ACT ,

”I wri te.

—Goethe, “

Faus t, S cene III,

HE problem which vexed the mind of Faus t,pondering the philosophy formulated at theoutset of The Gospel according to St . John , issolved so far as the genes is of T he Bohem iansis concerned by an acceptance of all the theorieswh ich Goethe

’s ph ilosopher propounded .

“In

the Beginn ing was R afael Josefi'

y .

’ — T hus wewrite . He was at once Word , T hought , Power and D eed . It was

Josefi'

y who conceived the Club , Joseff'

y who suggested it to hisfriends

, Joseff'

y who had the puissant force to mould them intoagents of his will and thus called T he Bohemians into beingcalled the Club into being and at once planted it in fruitful

ground . It was the adoption of his spiri t of goodfellowsh ip ,helpfulness , unselfish aims , mutual respect among artists , hatredof petty j ealousy and devotion to manly social and arti stic idealswhich gave the Club its firm foundation . It has been by keeping the sal ient and adm irable traits of his character in m ind asa gu ide that the Club has achieved a growth , stabil ity and usefulness which make it unique among organizations of i ts kind . It

will be by keeping in the path illuminated b y his character asman and music ian that The Bohemians shall remain the active andforceful factor which it now is in the artistic life of New York andthe world of music at large .

Let us therefore! «for a moment bring back the man to ourmental vision . The:

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ih bst strik ing and amiable trait in the character of Rafael 50sefi

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y was his lack of envy or j ealousy and hisunfail ing com:

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tesy and kindness towards his colleagues . Andthis no less in the heyday of hi s popularity as a v irtuoso thanafter his ret irement from the concert

-stage in the plent itude ofhis powers and the zen ith of hi s fame. During the decade from

ISBQ’t‘o 1890 he had no real rival among the p ianists who gave

C'dfleerts in New Y ork , either resident or vi siting. His popularityever w ith a steady and lambent flame, no matter how

°much enthusiasm was kindled by newcomers . All of these he metin a spirit of unselfish , unenv ious , ungrudging sympathy . Forevery one he had a prompt and cordial greeting. When a newcandidate for public favor appeared he was always first in thearti sts ’ room to offer hi s fel icitations and wishes for success . Toevery one he brought a message of cheer and encouragement . It

sometimes happened that he met w ith a rebuff from a boor or an

eccentric ; but the treatment never awakened resentment in hissoul . Down to the day of his death he continued to admire everything admirable in vi s iting virtuosos and maintained unsullied hi samiable attitude towards all his confreres .

It was at a social gathering which illustrated th i s trait inc

Josefl'

y’s character that T he Bohemians was conceived . He sat

with some friends at L iichow’s to speed a parting guest as he had

welcomed his coming. Moriz R osenthal had completed a concerttour of the United States and was about to return to his European home . Amongst those who had gathered with Josefl

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y to bidfarewell to the di stinguished arti st were Rub in Goldmark , AugustFraemcke, Hugo Grunwald and Sigmund Herzog. Familiarnames these, for they appear on every page of Bohem ian historywritten in word and deed from that day to this . T here had beenclubs of musicians in New York before , there were such clubs then ,but they all lacked the spark of vitality . Joseff

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y proposed a neworgan ization and outlined what should be the scope, the aims andthe means of its act ivities ; goodfellowship , camaraderie were to bepromoted , the too common feel ings of envy and iealousy frownedon , the art and its practitioners , lofty and lowly , encouraged .

The occasion of the meeting fixes its date as a day ln April, 1907.

Joseff'

y s suggestion was accepted by the coterie and acted onat the earliest practicable moment and a formal organizationeffected at a meeting in the restaurant at the T errace Garden .then a familiar rendezvous for musicians . About 24 men hadanswered the call of Mr. Josefi

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v and his associates and thesebecame the original members of the Club . There was naturallya meeting of minds as to who should be the first president of theClub—a meeting of all minds but one ; but that was Josefi

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y s andit outweighed all the others . Instead of Rafael Josefl

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y, Rubin8

Goldmark was chosen for the post of executive . Not only thenbut ever after Joseff

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y put as ide the repeatedly offered crown . It

was his wish that he be permitted to work for the welfare of theorganization in an humble and inconsp icuous capacity , and in this

he was so determined that when , in later years , the Club , conscious of its great obl igation to him , sought to express it by

giving him a purely honorary title, he steadfastly refused.

“While deeply apprec iating your thoughtfulness in recommending me as honorary president of our club , I

'must gratefully andearnestly decline this distinction ,

” he wrote to the Board of Gov

cruors on May 3, 1913 .

Meanwhile,the founders of the Club , feeling that they were

building on a firm foundation organized themselves into an incor

poration under the laws of the State of New York . The certifi

cate of incorporation i s dated May 26, 1908 , and bears thesignatures of Rubin Goldmark, Rafael Joseffy, Bruno OscarKlein , August Fraemcke, Hugo Grunwald , Paolo Gallico and Sigmund Herzog ; it fixes the official name of the organization as“ The Bohemians (New York Musicians ’ Club )

” and announcesits purpose to be “ T o promote social intercourse among its members , to further the cause of music and the interests of musieiaus — a sententious definition which leaves a wide latitude ofmeans open to the club’ s officials . How social intercourse amongits members has been cultivated and the interest of the art andits practitioners promoted will appear presently in this recital .The annual meeting day was fixed on the first Monday in Mayand the directors named to serve unti l the first annual meetingwere Rubin Goldmark

,Rafael Josefi

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y , Franz Knei sel, BrunoOscar Klein , August Fraemcke. Hugo Grunwald , Wi ll iam H .

Barber,Arthur Claassen , Paolo Gall ico , S igmund Herzog, Henry

Holden Huss , Alexander Lambert , Frederic Mariner and HarrySchreyer.The fact was recognized from the beginning that the Club

might be advanced in all its aims by adm itting non-professionalsinto membership and when a constitution was adopted and bylaws for the Club’ s regulation , three classes of membership wereprovided for, viz . : Active , composed exclusively of professionalmusicians residing in New York City or within a radius of 50miles ; Associates , defined as

“ persons outside the musical profession who are interested in music” and Non-Resident Active

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professional musicians living without the fifty miles limit .Eligibility for office was restri cted to active members , a featureof administration which has continued ever since

.A total mem

bership of 50 was decided upon , but this number has been gradually extended until it i s now 400 exclusive of the Non-residentactive members whose number is optional with the Board ofGovernors ; there is a restri ction on the number of associates

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which is never to extend beyond one-third of the total membersh ip . T he (

‘lub has thus from the beginn ing been essentially aclub of mus icians , its acts and deeds the acts and deeds of musicians , the embodiment of the wishes of i ts founder, Josefi

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y.

Rubin Goldmark was the first president of the Club andremained in that office for three years , after wh ich he yielded itinto the hands of Franz Knei sel, whose tenure of service , like thatof M essrs . Fraemcke, Goldmark , Grunwald and Herzog hasendured from the beginn ing t ill today , and whose acts seem tohave been continuously accla imed by their fellow Bohemians inthe spi rit if not the words of Goethe’s archangels

Und alle ihre hohen W’erke

S ind herrlich wie am ersten T ag .

Mr. Joseff'

y consented to serve as vice-president for two years

( from 1907 to 1909) and as a member of the Board of Governorsfor two more— 1910-1912. When Mr . Kneisel became activelyinterested in the Club and was made its president , Mr. Goldmark became one of its vice-pres idents . Ever since then on everypubl ic or semi-public occasion he has been the Club ’s voice andoracle , the laudator of its guest , the spokesman for its presidentwho, l ike Moltke , is famous among other things for h is ability tokeep silent in seven languages , i f not more . Since it is Mr. Goldmark who is to be honored on the occas ion for which these wordsare written it may fitly be said of him that for fourteen years thehearts of the Bohemians have kept time with the tune of his voiceand that hi s speech has been the image of their actions— to usethe phrase of an ancient author to name whom m ight seem pedantic . It was thi s “ old man eloquent” who , on the occasion of theClub’s celebration of its tenth anniversary , paid tribute to itspresident whose “ cool head and warm heart , unfailing tact and

gently guiding hand” had been of prime influence in the affairs

of The Bohemians ; to M r . Fraemcke who as Secretary had beena “ tower of strength in his qu iet , unobtrus ive way to DIr . Grunwald , whose incumbency of the office of T reasurer for a decadespoke well for the financial stabil ity of the Club “ as well as forthe high character of the incumbent to Mr. Herzog as a manwith “ a veritable genius for management ,

” a “ veritable Atlas whohas borne our Bohemian world upon his shoulders ,

” but who, um

like his prototype never staggered under h i s burden but became“ more buoyant and energetic with each added task . In moreways than one he has been the physical embodiment of Joseffy

’s

spiri t .At first the monthly meetings of the Club were held at the

call of the officers , but their success led to the establ i shment of aregular monthly meeting dav— the first Monday in the calendar.T he rule has been followed ever since . At all the meetings there

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has been music and the character of the programmes is an indication of how one of the purposes of the founders , to promotethe interests of musicians , has been exemplified . Something aboutindiv idual affairs shall be sa id presently and a glimpse of theClub’s act ivities for fourteen years may be made possible by apresentation of the programmes in condensed form . So far asthe outward history of the Club is concerned it need only beadded that changes made from t ime to time in the fundamentallaw of T he Bohemians have extended the number of members froman original thirty-two , reached at the end of the first season , tofour hundred . That is the present limit .

In the first membersh ip li st of The Bohemians there were onlyfour A s sociate , that is non-profes sional members , who were chosenfrom among Mr. Joseff

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y’s most intimate personal friends , and

were also well-known lovers and patrons of music . T hey were :Dr. George W . Jacoby, Alfred Sel igman , Charles T . Steinway andMaurice M . Sternberger . The number long ago reached the limitallowed by the fundamental law of the Club as has also the activeli st . T he benefits derived from the association of professionalsand non-professionals have been many, and there can scarcely beany doubt but that the success of The Bohemians i s due largelyto the associate element in its membership ,

notwithstanding ( perhaps because of ) the fact that the administration of the Club

’saffairs has been left exclusively in the hands of the professionalclas s . It knows best its needs and the laymen know best how tohelp to their attainment . This fact had admirable illustration whentwo years ago it was found des irable to change the regular meeting place of the organization . For more than a decade that meeting place was Luchow

’s Restaurant where the Club had its incep

tion . When a new home became a w ish 0 11 the part of the Club’sofficers and members two as soc iate members came to the rescue .These were D r . F. Morris Class and Bl r . Frances R ogers , throughwhose intercession T he Bohem ians were given the courtesy ofrooms in the Harvard Club , of which Dr. Class and Mr. Rogersare members , for its regular meetings and receptions . In therooms of the house of the college men i t has been gratefully contented and happy ever since.

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SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

HOUGH the social affairs of The Bohemianshave compassed the gamut from an informal“ Smoker” for its members to some of the mostelaborate and impos ing banquets ever given inthe city , and from a cabaret enterta inment inwhich all care was cast to the winds and capand bells ruled the hour to operatic representa

tions and chamber concerts of the highest order, there have beenfew entertainments in wh ich a serious arti stic purpose was notpursued . Much ado is made now-a-days by public concert-giverswhen a composition by an American is performed, or when a classical work outside the conventional lists i s given a first performance .Yet inc idents of this nature have been so common as almostto become the rule of the meetings of The Bohemians . Atthe very first “ Evening with Music

”( typical of what follows

every monthly business meeting ) on January 18 , 1908, BrunoOscar Klein

,with the help of his son, Karl Klein , played an orig

inal sonata for p ianoforte and v iolin , and Rafael Joseffy, Ferdinand von Inten and August Fraemcke played Bach’ s Concerto forthree Claviers with an accompaniment by a string band . Herewas already manifested the sp irit of the Club which seeks to we]come and encourage the new and conserve the admirable oldthe helpful cc-operation of romantic and classic tendencies . Witha firm anchorage ground in the classics the Club i s ever ready tospread sail andmake for any port which offers hosp itable watersand reassuring sk ies to honest artistic endeavor . On the secondeven ing Henry Holden Huss was perm itted to share the com

panionship of Mozart and Beethoven and on the third ArthurWhiting illustrated the idioms of the painoforte and its forerunners by play ing his own

“ Suite Moderne” on a concert grandp ianoforte , and p ieces by Scarlatt i , Bach and Bl ozart on the instrument wh ich was the ir medium of commun ion with the Muses .W hen e . Knei sel and his excellent confreres began their min

istrations it was with that fine flowering of Schumann ’ s gen ius ,the Quartet Op . 431 , No . 3 , and a sober mien rested upon mostof the doings of the year from which there was relaxat ion of adelightful k ind when in the third season the members of the Cluband their guests di scovered that two periwigged classics were alsowont occasionally to put on an antic disposition— Mozart’s ex

quisitely ingen ious bit of humor “ D ie Dorfmusikanten” and Jo

hann Sebastian Bach ’s Coffee Cantata” were performed,the

first at a Smoker, the second at a formal function . Whether ornot the great Leipsic cantor, who wrote church cantatas as indus

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triously as the preacher at St . Thomas Church composed sermons, had ever before been presented to New Yorkers as a funmaker we do not know ; but the presentat ion of a novelty 175

years old bv the master who sums up in his mus1c pretty much allthat was and all that is which i s meritorious in music deservesrecord even in so hurried a chronicle as this . So do the performances of the short. operas ,

“ The Lovers ’ Quarrel,” Mozart ’ s

“Impressario ,

” Offenbach’ s “ Le Mariage aux Lanternes” andPergolesi

’s

“ La Serva Padrone” ( T he Maid M istress ) .

These and other musical entertainments of moment were notindependent affairs , but always incidental to the recept ion of di stinguished guests . T here were also concerts at which members ofthe Club were the composers of all the music performed , at whichmus ic illustrative of national traits was given a hearing underci rcumstances calculated to invite special attention to its characteristics, and concerts designed to exploit the fields in whichthe performers were specializing. The larger affairs , those designated as “ dinners ,

” were graced by the presence of ladies and onthese the attendance ran high into the hundreds . A l i st of themeetings to which a speci al character attached may well precedesome account of a few of their salient and unique features

Smoker to Gustav Mahler, Hotel Astor, January 3,

1909.

Smoker to Felix Berber, Gainsborough Studio , November 12, 1910.

Reception and Supper to Milka T ernina, Ladies’E ve

ning, December 10, 1910.

Dinner to Prof. Engelbert Huperdinck ,in honor of the

production of his Opera,

“ Kon igsk inder ,” Ho tel

Astor, December 30,1910.

Reception and Supper to M r . Arturo T oscanini , Ladies’

Even ing, Hotel Savoy , February 1 1 , 191 1 .

D inner to Victor Herbert , in honor of the production ofhis Opera ,

“ Natoma,” Louis Mart in ’ s

,March 1 1 ,

1911 .

D inner to Rafael Joseffy, Ladies’ Evening,

Hotel Plaza,

April 15, 1911 .

Smoker to Frederick A . S tock , Luchow’s , February 27,

1912.

Smoker to Harold Bauer, Luchow’s,April 20, 1912.

D inner to Arthur N ikisch , Hotel Astor, May 3 , 1912.

Smoker to Dr. Karl Muck , L iichow’s, November 9, 1912.

Dinner to Eugene Ysaye, Hotel A stor, December 22,1912.

R eception and Supper to Leopold Godowsky , Ladies’

Evening, Hotel Astor, March 9. 1913 .

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Reception and Supper to Fritz Kreisler, Ladies’ Eve

ning, Hotel Maj estic , December 6 , 1913 .

D inner to Karl Flesch , Ladies’Evening, Hotel McA l

pin,March 14 , 1914 .

D inner to Ignace Jan Paderewski , Hotel R itz-Carlton ,April 6, 1914 .

Dinner to JosefHofmann, Ladies’ Evening, Hotel Kn ick

erbocker , January 10, 1915.

Smoker to Ferrucio Busoni , Delmonico’ s , February 13,

1915.

Dinner to Mme . Marcella Sembrich , Ladies’ Evening,

Delmonico’ s,April 1 1 , 1915.

D inner to Mischa Elman , Ladies’ Evening, Delmonico

’s ,January 8 , 1916 .

Smoker to Pablo Casals , Delmonico’ s , February 25,

1917.

Smoker to Ossip Gabrilowitsch , Delmonico’s , April 15,

1917.

Dinner to Kneisel Quartet,Ladies ’ Evening, on the

retirement of the organ ization from public activity,Hotel B i ltmore , hIay 5, 1917 .

D inner to Jascha He ifetz , Ladies ’ Evening, Hotel B iltmore , December 29, 1917.

Smoker to Henry Hadley , in honor of the production ofhi s Opera “ Bianca ,

”Luchow

’s , February 3 , 1918 .

Smoker to Prof. Leopold Auer, Delmonico’s , March 30,

1918 .

Dinner to Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ladies’ Evening, Hotel

Biltmore , January 5, 1919.

D inner to Alma Gluck-Zimbali st and E frem Zimbalist,Ladies’ Evening, Hotel Biltmore , April 26 , 1919.

Reception to Joseph Lhevinne,Harvard Club , January

5, 1920.

Dinner to M rs . Frederick Shurtleff Cool idge , Ladies’

Evening, Hotel B iltmore . December 26 , 1919.

Recept ion to Sergei Prokofiefl“, Harvard Club . February

2, 1920.

R eception to Benno Moiseiwitsch , Harvard Club , March1 , 1920.

Dinner to Harold Bauer, Lad ies’ Evening, Hotel Biltmore , April 3 , 1920.

Dinner to Sigmund Herzog, Harvard Club , May 6 ,1920.

Reception to The London String Quartet , HarvardClub October 1 1 . 1920.

R eceptlon to Guy Maier and Lee Pattison , HarvardClub , November 1 . 1920.

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Reception to Mi scha L evitzki, Harvard Club , December6 , 1920.

R eception to Cyri l Scott , Harvard Club, January 3,

1921 .

Reception to Rudolph Ganz , Harvard Club , February7, 1921 .

Recept ion to Ignaz Friedman , Harvard Club , March7 , 1921 .

R eception to Arthur Rubinstein and Paul Kochanski,Harvard Club

,April 4, 1921 .

R eception to Emil T elmanyi and Joseph Pres s , HarvardClub , December 5th , 1921 .

Dinner to Rubin Goldmark , Ladies’ Evening, Hotel

Biltmore, D ecember 26 , 1921 .

One dinner, an affair wh ich prom ised to eclipse all previousachievements of the kind

,has been omitted from the list for the

reason that it was a case in which hospital ity sat without gladness— the hosts were multitudinous but the chair of the guestof honor was empty . He who should have sat in it was EnricoCaruso . T he date was December 26 , 1920. It was a Sunday .

On the Friday evening previous the great tenor had enacted hispart in Halevy ’s “ La Ju ive” at the Metropolitan Opera House .

It was his last publi c performance . On the afternoon of the daywhich he and his hosts had looked forward to with gladness , wordwas received by the Comm ittee of Arrangements that he had beentaken ill and could not attend the banquet . T here was no timeto postpone the affair and The Bohemians sat down with suchappetite as they had but without their guest . Once before sad

ness had supplanted the usual l ightheartedness of a Bohemianmeeting ; but then it was a keener gr ief becau se it became a more

personal lo ss . R afael Joseffy died on June 25, 1915 . It was

in m idsummer when the act ivit ies of the Bohem ians were suspended , it s membership largely absent from the city . Excerptsfrom the minutes of the Club tell of what happened as soon as theClub resumed its activities

October 1 1 , 1915, first regular meeting of the season : Vicepresident Goldmark spoke a few words in memory of the lateRafael Joseff

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y, and requested all those present to rise, thus tohonor the departed master.”

November 1 , 1915, second regular meeting : It was regularly moved and seconded3 to have a brief musical programme onthe first Monday in December in honor of the memory of thelate Rafael Joseffy.

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December 5, 1915 : “ A musical programme was rendered inhonor of the memory of the late R afael Joseffy,

and in consid

cration of the solemn character of the occasion,Vice-president

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Goldmark’s proposal to defer the reading of the minutes of the

previous meeting and argument of pending business until the next

month’ s meeting was unanimo th lv accepted.

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T he programme of the Memon al (‘

oneert may be found in its

prope r place in this chronicle.It is impracticab le to review the notable features of all the

entertainments which have been listed : but there are some whichar e likely to stand out prom inently in the annals ofmusic in New

York as they do in the memories of those who were fortunateenough to part ic ipate in them . S uch , for instance , was the dinner in honor of M r. Paderewsk i , at which the d istinguished guest

gave utterance to word s which not only published the feelings andsentiments of a great and sincere art ist , but sounded l ike a proclamation of the ideals wh ich the founder ofThe Bohemians had proclaimed and followed when he called the Club into existence . Re

sponding to the toast proposed by Mr. Goldmark , Mr . Paderewskidisclaimed a feeling to which it was customarv on such occasionsto give expressi on. Instead of being falsely modest he was sin

cerely humble in the consciousnes s of be ing the recipient of privileges beyond his desert s and the duty to guard j ealously the highcharacter, the noble purpose and the dignity of his profess ion .

He then said“I will confess to you that I am a ha r d . pers i stent worker, one

who has a deep respect for the masters and who stands withhumility before God and art . The public favor given me sustainsme through all the trials and struggles of an artist

’ s career. The

appreciat ion shown me often has been a great solace to me, andif I have been enabled to maintain myself and my position as amusician . I owe i t larg elv to the generous support given me bv

my fellow musi cians . You can be assured that nothing in all mvcareer is cherished bv me more than the regard which I have re

ceived from my fellow art ists , and from the musicians and teacherswherever I have been . Success , my friends , does not last . Publicfavor is eas ily lost , soon forgotten . T he only th ing that does lastwith a man , especially one in publ ic life , is the respect which hehas gained of his peersThere was orato ry of a h igh order by Oswald G . Villard

, RobertUnderwood Johnson. followed by diversions in lighter vein .

Among these was a musical greeting to the guest sung by theassemblage to orchestral accompaniment and a melody from one

of Mr. I’adercwski’s compositions ( Chant du Inthe lines , written by Mr. H . E . Krehbiel, Mr. Paderewski wascelebrated as poet , musi cian, seer , p rophet , patriot and comrade,T he Bohemians. with a versatilitv sug gestive of an operaticchor us dropping into English . Ital ian . Poli sh and German in therefrain which followed each stanza . thus :

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Salve illustreGen io canoro,Cu i tutt i in coro

Liet i innegiam .

W itaj 11am, W itaj namZsarca calego ,Na zdrowie wypij em

Do dua samego .

Hoch , PaderewskiLaut lass es erklingen ,Lasst Glaser zerspringen

Dem Kiinstler zu Ehr.

T here was a sim ilar demand upon l ingu ist ic versat il ity at thedinner to Madame Sembrich, when , after s ix young ladies , pupilsof the guest of the evening, had sung two infin ite canons , orrounds , one in Engli sh and one in Italian which on simultaneousrepetition were found to dovetail into each other though one wasin triple time the other is quadruple , the entire company j oinedin the melee as a third chorus in Engli sh , Italian , German , French ,Polish and Russian acclaims . Other features of the evening whichspoke loudly of the resources and enterpri se of the Committee ofArrangements were a series of stereopticon portraits of MadameSembrich depicting her from her 14th year up to the zenith ofher career as an arti st , the singing of national Polish songs andthe dancing of national Polish dances by the company . T herewere speeches at this dinner also , tributes to the arti st-guest byMr. Goldmark , William J. Henderson and Henry T . Finck . and

music by Sascha Jacobsen , but in all th ings was reflected thespiri t of merriment and gayety as was befitt ing the happy dis

position of the guest and her art . Other occasions were markedby good-natured fun, especially on the “ Cabaret” evenings and

the more or less informal smokers . For the entertainment ofMr.Arthur N iki sch , on his brief visi t to America, Mr. Edwin F .

Goldman conducted a parody of the overture to“ Tannhauser”

with such successful imitation of Mr. Nikisch’s manner that the

great conductor was convulsed with laughter, and enthusiasti

cally embraced his mimic . Chastisement and rep roof were neverthe purpose of the skits in which Hy Maver, A lbert Rei ss . andCharles T . Safford and others indulged : onlv good-natured raillerv.

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THE MUSICIANS’

FOUNDATION

HE good done by T he Bohemians along twolines of endeavor contemplated in the organization of the Club— in the promotion of goodfellowsh ip among members of the musical profession and the encouragement of them in thepursu it of arti stic ideals— has been set forth in

the preceding chapters of this l ittle book . There remains to betold the story of a purely philanthropic enterprise in which is embodied a spirit which imbued the founders from the beginning, butwhich did not come into full fru ition until the Club had completedfive years of existence . By that time The Bohem ians were sofirmly footed that a desire found express ion among its membersfor a permanent home . There were many men of wealth amongthe A s sociate Members

,and it would have been a comparatively

easy matter to raise money for the purpose of building or leasinga clubhouse . The convict ion was general that The Bohemianshad come to stay . But the idea had taken root amongst its leaders that a better use could be made of the Club’s ability to drawon its potential capital , represented by the devotion of its friendsand members , than to apply it to the temporal comfort of themembers at their periodical meetings . This better use was theamelioration of the condition of professional musicians who hadbeen overtaken bv m i sfortune. Practical express ion was given tothe idea when contributions for the purpose came to be placed inthe hands of the ofl‘icers of the Club for di stribut ion . So it wasdecided to organize a kind of auxiliary of the Club for th is ex

press purpose , and on May 8 , 1914 , the certificate of incorpora

t ion of “ The Musicians ’ Foundation , E stabli shed by The Bohemians ( New York Mus icians ’ Club )

” was filed in the records ofNew York County . T he certificate was s igned by Frank Damrosch , August Fraemcke , R ubin Go ldmark . Hugo Grunwald

, S igmund Herzog. Ferdinand von Inten and Franz Kneisel

, and these

gentlemen , together with Rudolph Schirmer and Maurice M .

Sternberger, were designated as Directors to serve till the first

annual meeting in April , 1915. With the exception of Mr.

Schirmer and Mr. von Inten, deceased ( replaced by Mr. George

Hamlin and Mr. Edwin T . Rice ) , they have been identified with

the admini stration of the affairs of the organization ever since .The particular obj ect of The Musicians’ Fund as set forth in

the certificate of incorporation is

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2. Pianoforte Trio in A minor . T schaikowskyErnesto Consolo , Mischa Elman and Willem Willeke

3 . T hree SongsMme

.Frieda Hempel , Max L iebling at the Piano

4 . \ 1Ol in SolosM ischa Elman , Percy Kahn at the Piano

5. Part Songs , unaccompan iedT he Mus ical Art Society

T his concert marked a great stride forward in respect of public attractiveness and scope , but there was. a still greater stride inthe popular appeal when on March 27, 1916 , a Gala Concert was

given in Carnegie Hall by Ignace Jan Paderewski , Pablo Casalsand the Ph i lharmon ic Orchestra under the di rection of JosefStransky with this programme

1 . ( a ) Prelude , Chorale and Fugue

( b ) Overture , Leonore , No . 3”

T he Ph i lharmonic Orchestra

2. Concerto in D for Violoncello .Haydn

Pablo Casals

3 . Prelude,

“ Die Mei sters inger” Wagner

T he Philharmonic Orchestra

4. Concerto in A m inor S chumann

Ignace Jan Paderewski

T his concert was the most sensational incident in the musicalseason , and the publ ic partic ipation was ev idenced by receiptsamounting to over T he war hav ing intervened to directthe charitable impulses of the people into other channels theseconcerts were temporarily abandoned ; but not the benevolentimpulses of T he Bohemians and their friends . Voluntary contributions of large dimensions had been made to the fund , andthey cont inued to flow in . At the end of five years the donat ions amounted to over wh ich from interests on investments was increased by over and the disbursements appl ied to the ass istance of needy mus icians had reached the sum

of T he funds are in the hands of the Farmers ’ Loanand T rust Company, as the offic ial custodian of T he Foundationand only the interest—but all of that , since there are no expensesin connection with the administration of the fund— has been employed for the purposes of relief. In a report made in April

,

1919, the statement appearedBesides voluntary contributions from various sources the

Musicians ’ Foundation has received valuable accessions from theproceeds of concerts given for its benefit . T his source of incomeof necessity ceased during the war, as it was deemed inadvisableto deflect the public from important financial sacrifices which the

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demands of the war placed upon all patriotic citizens . It i s intended

,however, now that peace is in sight , to use every means

to secure further financial support for the obj ects of the Musicians ’ Foundation , which i s greatly needed at this time , and willbe increas ingly needed in the near future .

”

Thus ends the not strange , but certainly eventful history Of

The Bohemians for the present .

PROGRAMMES

FIRST SEASON , 1907-1908

FIRST EVE NING WITH MUSIC , January 18, 1908Sonata for Piano and Violin , No . 2

, B minor, Op . 31 , BrunoOscar Klein ( Karl Klein and the Composer ) Songs by Schubert, Loewe , Beethoven and Franz (Mme. Matj a von Niessen—Stone , Sigmund Herzog at the piano ) ; Bach Concertofor Three Pianos , with accompaniment of String Quintet,J. S . Bach (Rafael Joseffy, Ferdinand von Imten and AugustFraemcke ) .

SECOND EVENING WITH MUSIC , February 15, 1908Serenade in D , for Viol in , Viola and Violoncello , Op . 8, Bee

thoven (Hj almar von Dameck, Joseph J . Kovarik and W illiam Ebann) ; Songs by Beethoven-Huss and Henry HoldenHuss (Mme. Hildegard Hoffman-Huss , H . H . Huss at thepiano ) ; Sonata in D ,

for two P iano s , Mozart ( R afael Joseffy and Henry Holden Huss ) .

T HIRD EVE NING W ITH M U SIC , March 21 , 1908

Su ite Moderne. Op . 15, for Piano , Arthur Wh iting ( theCompo ser ) Songs bv Mahler and Brahms (Mme . R osemarieCampbell ) ; Three Fantasy Pieces for Piano and Clarinet,Op . 73, Schumann ( Julius Lorenz and Otto Reinecke ) FirstMovement from a Sonata , Op . 5, N . Medtner ( Constantinvon Sternberg) .

FOURTH EVENING WITH MUSIC , November 9th , 1908Pieces for Harpsichord, Sonata in C , Minuet in E . Sonata inF , Scarlatt i . Sarabande and Gavotte , Bach and Finale fromSonata in A , Mozart ( Arthur Wh iting) . Concerto in E flatfor Violin, Bach (Karl Klein and B . O . Klein at the Piano )Songs by Brahms , E . Haile , Lemaire (Heinrich Meyn andSigmund Herzog at the Piano ) Aandante and Variations fortwo pianos by Schumann , Impromptu Schumann

’s Manfred ,R einecke (Rafael Joseffy and August Fraemcke) .

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SECOND SEASON , 1908-1909

FIRST EV ENING WITH MUSIC , December 26 ,1908

Piano forte Solos : Toccata in C ,S chumann , Pastorale , Corelli

Godowsky , G igue, Loielly-Godowsky ( Josef Lhevinne )

Songs by Strauss , Pierné and Bachelot (Miss Laura Coombs ,at the p iano Carl Deis ) Quartet in A maj or, Op . 41 , No . 3,

Schumann ( T he Kneisel Quartet ) .

SMOKER T o GUSTAV MAHLE R , January 23 , 1909, at the HotelA stor .

S ECOND EVEN ING WITH MUSIC,March 13 , 1909 '

Octet in D minor, for four Violins , two Violas and two Violoncellos , Op . 5, R . Gliere (H . von D ameck , E . Foerstel , F .

Lorenz-Smith,J . Spargur, J . Kovarik , F . Schmidt , Wm .

Ebann and von der Mehden ) ; Songs by Schubert , Brahmsand S chumann (M i ss Jul ia Heinrich

,Max Heinrich at the

piano ) Pianoforte Solo s : “ L e T ambour aux Champs,”

Alkan , “A borado del G razioso ,

”R avel , L a S o iree dans Gra

nada,

” Debussy , T occata,Debussy ( E rnst S chelling ) .

THIRD SEASON . 1909-1910

SMOKER . December 4 , 1909

Two songs by Schumann (Marcus Kellerman ) ; The Raven ,

” Melodrama , music by Max Heinrich (Max Heinrich .

Sigmund Herzog at the Piano ) three songs by Kurt Schindler ( Sidney B iden . the Composer at the piano )

“D ie Dorf

mus ikanten .” hfozart ( Ludwig hfarum, Philip Mittel , JosephKovarik , August Kalkhof , Herman Dutschke , Franz Niedler ,in costume ) .

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LADIES EVE NING WITH MUSIC , January 15, 1910Quintet for Soprano Voice , Piano , Violin , Violoncello and

Horn,Bruno Oscar Klein ( Shanna Cumming, Bruno Oscar

Klein , Karl Klein , Leo Schulz , Herman Dutschke ) ; ThreePiano pieces , JosefWeiss ( Josef Weiss ) ; The

“ Coffee Cantata,

”Bach ( Edna Showalter, Sidney Biden , Frederic Gun

ster, s ingers ; Ernst Bauer, Ludwig Marum , Philipp Mittel,Daval Sanders , B . Sinsheimer, A rthur Fraber, Joseph KO

Varik , S . Van Praag, Joseph Gotsch , August Kalkhof, Carmin Stanzione , and William H . Barber

,harpsichord

, instru

mentalists )

CABARET , LADIES EVENING , February 26 , 1910Sonata for Piano , César Franck (Henriette M ichel son ) ;Songs by Meyerbeer and Bizet (Maurice Bégue ) violin solo ,Hubay (Karl Klein ) Song by Jensen ,

“ Gaudeamus ,”(Max

Heinrich ) ; two songs by Henchel and R ies ( Carl JOrn) ;Sketch and Caricatures by Hy . Mayer ; Ueberbrettel Lieder

( Clara Seidel ) ; Musical Skit , E in fidelis Gericht ,”R .

Heinze ( Berthold Beck , Henry Weiman , Gustav L anzke) ;“ A Carn ival Episode

,

” B.Zepler (Mrs . E stelle Bloomfield

Adler, Henry Weiman ) ; Conferencier, Carl Hauser ( S igmund Herzog at the piano ) .

L A DIns’EVEN ING WITH MUSIC , April 30, 1910

Qu intet in E -flat, Piano and Wind Instruments , Beethoven

( Bruno Labate, Carl Reinecke, Herman Handt , Alvin Kirchner, Carl Deis ) ; Baritone solos by Franklin Ayres , ArthurBergh, A lexander Russell , and Arthur Farwell (MortonAdkins , MP. Russell at the piano ) ; S ong ,

“D ie Lorelei ,

”

Liszt (Miss Hulda L ashanska , S igmund Herzog at the

p iano ) Sonata in E fl at m inor , for Piano and V iol in , EmileBernard ( Carolyn Beebe and Edouard Dethier ) .

FOURTH SEASON , 1910-1911

SMOKE R TO FE L Ix BERBER , November 12, 1910“ Abendgesang

”for six Violoncellos , Brescht (H . Bri tt, J.

Gotsch, A . Heindel, K . Morgen , Leo Schulz , M . Skalmer) ;Songs ( Royal D admun,

S igmund Herzog at the piano ) Ballade for Piano ,

Liszt ( Arthur Friedheim ) ; Concerto forViolin , Mozart ( Felix Berber, Sigmund Herzog at the piano ) .

RECEPTION AND SUPPER , LADIES’ EVENING , To MILKA T ERN INA

December 17, 1910:Quartet in A maj or, Op . 26, Brahms (Ernesto Consolo, LouisSvecenski, Willem Willeke and Franz Kneisel ) ; Duet ,

“Per

serbarmi fedel,” Meyerbeer, Cora Remington and Edith

Magee (Harry Rowe Shelley at the piano ) ; Terzetto fortwo Violins and Viola, Op . 74 , Dvorak ( Franz Kneisel , Jul iusRoentgen and Loui s Svecenski) .

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DINNER T o PROF . ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK , December 30, 1910

Speeches by Rubin Goldmark , Otto Goritz , Alfred Hertz,Walter Damrosch ; Songs by Harry Burleigh ; humorous entertainment by Otto Goritz .

RECE PTION AND SUPPER LADIES’ EVEN ING , TO M R . ARTURO T osCANINI , February 11 , 191 1

Quartet in C maj or, Op . 23 , Arthur Foote ( Arthur Foote ,Olive Mead , Gladys North and L illian L ittlehales ) ; Songsby S . Camillo Engel , Pietro Florid ia , William S . McCoy andWalter Damrosch ( David Bispham , Harry M . Gilbert at thep iano ) .

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DINNER TO VICTOR HE RBERT , March 1 1 , 1911Speeches by Rubin Goldmark , Victor Herbert, Henry T .

Finck,Walter Damrosch , H . E . Krehbiel and Carl Hauser ;

mus ic , selections from Mr. Herbert ’s compositions , by an

orchestra under the direct ion of the Composer.

DINNER To RAFAEL JO SE EEY , LAD IE s’ EVENING , April 15, 1911

Speeches by Rubin Goldmark and Charles Steinway . Chorusof the Liederkranz under the d irection of Arthur Claassen ;solo dance by Miss Renée Rei ss ; Violoncello solo by Bori sHamburg ; solo dance by M i ss Eva Swain ; couplets by A Ibert R ei ss ; pictures by Hy . Mayer ; Carl Hauser, conferencier.

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SH OKER T o MR . HAROLD RA I' ER , April 20, 1912S ixteen Waltzes for Pianoforte , Op . 39, Brahms (Mr.Bauer ) .

DINNER TO ME . ARTHUR NIKISCH ,May 3, 1912

Speakers , Rub in Goldmark , H . P. Finck, Arthur Nikisch ,Parody on the Overture to “ T annhauser” under the directionof Edwin F . Goldman ; Couplets (Albert Rei ss and S igmundHerzog at the piano ) .

SI! TH SEASON ,1912-1913

SMOKER TO DR . KARL MUCK , CONDUCTOR OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA , November 8, 1912

EVENING WITH MUSIC , IJA DIE S’ EVENING , November 30, 1912

Sonata for Flute , Violin and Harpsichord, Gluck (GeorgesBarrere, Georges Vignette and Arthur W hiting) ; Songs byBononcini , Pergolesi and Martini (Mrs . Anna T aylorJones ) ; Sarabande and T ambourin , from Sonata in D , Le

clair (Georges Vignetti and Arthur Whiting) ; Two Movements from Sonata in F for Flute and Harpsichord, Marcello

(Messrs . Barrere and Whiting ) ; Menuet in G,Sonata in C

m inor and Sonata in F for Harpsichord,Scarlatti (Mr.

Whiting ) ; Il Naufragio,” for Voice

,Flute, Violin and

Harpsichord, Ariosti (Mrs . Taylor-Jones , Messrs. Barrere,

Vignetti and Whiting) .

DINNER TO EUGENE YSAY E , D ecember 22,1912

Speakers : R ubin G oldmark ,W i lliam J . Henderson , E ugene

Ysaye .

“ D ie Dorfmus ikanten ,” Humorous Sextet in Cos

tume ( Ludwig Marum , G . Kuel , J . Kovarek, A . Kalkof,H

.

Dutschke, F . Niedler ) ; Duo from Stradella” (Albert Reis ,and Otto Gori tz , R i chard Hageman at the piano ) .

COMPOSERS’ EVENING, BY THE MEMBERS , February 3 , 1913Quartet in E Minor, Op . 20, Fr itz Stahlberg ( Fred Landau ,William D oenges, Joseph Kovarik and Joseph G otsch )Songs by Victor Harri s ( Clifford Cai rns , Mr. Harris at thepiano ) Sonata for Viol in and Piano , G minor, Op . 9, How

ard Brockway (Ludw ig Marum and the Composer ) ; PianoSolo . Fantasie, Op . 38 ,

“ Amourette di Pierrot,

” Op . 30, No .

1 ,“ T heme Cracovien varié,

” Op . 26 , No . 4 , Sigi smondS tj owski (The Composer) .

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RECEPTION AND SUPPER TO LEOPOLD GODOWSKY, LADIES’E V E

NING , March 9, 1913

Quartet in A for Piano and Strings , Rubin Goldmark ( Sam

uel Gardner,Lou i s Svecenski, Willem Willeke and Clarence

Adler) Quintet in F for three Violins , Viola and Violoncello

(Mss . ) Charles Martin L oefller ( The Kneisel Quartet and

Samuel Gardner ) ;“ A Lovers ’ Quarrel

,Opera in One Act ,

Book by Enri co Comitti, Engli sh version by Alma Strettell,Music by A ttilio Parelli ( Charlotte Nel son B railey , Harriet

Foster, Austin Hughes , Harold Mallory ) . Produced under

the direction of Oscar Saenger ; Stage Manager, Leon R ains .

COMPOSERS’ EVENING , BY T H E MEMBERS , April 7, 1913Sonata for Violin and Piano , G minor, Op . 19, Henry Holden

Huss ( Carl H . Tollefsen and the Composer ; two Songs with

Violin obbligato,Max Heinrich ( Otto Goritz and Edouard

Dethier, the Composer at the Piano )“Revery” and Prelude

and Concert Fugue in C-sharp minor, Op . 23 Percy

Goetschius ( the Composer) Concerto in E minor, for Violin ,Op . 15 (Mss . ) Max Bendix ( the Composer, Paolo Gallico at

the Piano ) .

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SEVENTH SEASON , 1913-1914 .

RECEPTION AND SUPPER , LADIES’ EVENING , T o FRITZ KRE ISLER ,

December 6 , 1913Old Iri sh Melodies

,arranged for Mixed Quartet by Arthur

Whiting ( The University Quartet , Mr. Whiting at thePiano ) ; Solos for Harp by Pierné, Debussy and Salzedo

( Carlos Salzedo ) ;“ Liebesl ieder” Waltzes , Selections from

Op . 52 and 65, Brahms ( The University Quartet and Mr.Whiting) Pastorale for Three Flutes , Oboe , English Horn ,two Clarinets , Horn , two Bassoons and Piano , Jean Hure( The Longy New York Modern Chamber Music Society ,George Longy , director, Carolyn Beebe, pian i st ) ; PianoSolos : Prelude and Fugue in F -sharp m inor , Buxtehude-Zadora

,Deux F souisses exot ique Zadora, Rhapsodie No . 6 ,

Liszt (M ichael von Zadora ) .

COMPOSERS ’ EVENING , BY THE MEMBERS , January 5, 1914

Suite for Violin and Piano ,“ From Old New Eng land .

” E d

mund Severn ,“ T he thematic material of th is work was sug

gested by Old tunes of Yankee origin and carried in theauthor’ s memory since boyhood” (Max im ilian Pilzer, FrankB ibb at the piano ) ; Songs by A . Walter Kramer (WilliamSimmons , the Composer at the Piano ) ; Revery for Violoncello , Leo Schulz ( the Composer ) Trio for Violin , Viola andVioloncello , B-flat. Op . 25, Abraham W . L ilienthal (MaxBendix , Joseph J. Kovarik and Leo Schulz ; three Songs , Dr.N . J . E lsenheimer (Edmund A . Jahn , the Composer at thePiano ) .

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COMPOSERS’ JVEN IN G , BY TH E MEMB ERS , FIRST PERFORMANCES O F

ORIGINAL WORKS, March 2, 1914

T hree Songs , Brun Huhn ( Francis Rogers , the Composer atthe Piano ) four Piano Pieces ,

“

Elegy ,” “ Scherzo ,

” “ AlbumLeaf” and “ Dance Caprice ,

” Carl F ique ( the Composer ) ;seven Songs, Max Heinrich (W . Wheeler, the Composer atthe Piano ) Concerto for Viol in , G . minor, Op . 30, CorneliusRubner (Maurice Kaufman , the Composer at the Piano ) .

DINNER To CARL FLE SCH , L A D IE s’ EVENING , March 14 , 1914

August Fraemcke, toastmaster. Speaker, Walter Damrosch .

Cabaret Programme : Two Vocal Quartets ,“ Dame Holle ,

Dr, N . J . E lsenheimer , and“ Come Down Laughing,

” Spross

(Manhattan Ladies’ Quartet ) ; Lieder zur Laute ( R ichard

Trunk ) ; Paganini’s Vi sit to Li szt ; T he Original T yrol ian

Schmalz Quartet,imported directly from Gmunden , Austria ;

Chas . T . Safford , the famous Composer, will interpret hisnewest work , “ Four Bad Character Pieces ,

” Studies in Interpretation , Opus 4567 , D ummkopf Hartel

, Property ofthe Publi sher. NO . 1 , D ai ly Pract ice Of the Boy ; 2, Facility of the Fingers and Feet on the Organ ; 3 , U seful Ex ‘

pression for Virtuosos ; 4 , The Death of the Broadway C ar .

N . B .

— This Work i s intended only for very advanced pianists ; Intermezzo :

“ Votes for Women The Great G ermanGrand Opera Duo in “ Chri stian Science fresh from IrvingPlace ( Itfi Engel and Heinrich Matthees ) Mr . Louis Mann ;Albert R eiss in his incomparable Short monologue ; T he NewFlesch T ango , and other Modern Dances (May R ichard andS . l\’lark M inuse, assisted by Maurice Sternberger) ; Dance .

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DINNER T o IGNACE JA N PADEREWSKI, May 2, 1914Rubin Goldmark , toastmaster ; speaker : Ignace Jan Paderewski, Oswald G . Villard , Robert Underwood Johnson , T heodore Steinway ; Parody on the Overture to Tannhauser”

( Orchestra under the direction of Edwin Goldman ) ;“ A

Greeting to Paderewski Words to a Melody by Paderewski , by H . E . Krehb iel ( Sung by the Company ) ; Paderewsk i ’ s Minuet in the form of a ballet ( Charlotte Chivaux andCharles Ferois, the orchestra under the di rection of CarlHein ) ; Bohemian March , for Orchestra , Leo Schulz ( underthe direction of the Composer ) .

EIGHT H SEASON , 1914-1915

IVIO NT H L Y hII' SIC A L E , November 2, 1914“ T he Song S inger

’s A rt

,

” by Max Heinrich , a few remarksw ith illustrations from Schubert and Schumann ; PianoPieces by Arnold Schonberg and Lee Ornste in (Lee Ornstein ) .

CoM PO SER s’ EVEN ING , BY THE MEMBE RS , FIR ST PERFORMANCES OF

OR IGINAL COMPOSITIONS , December 7, 1914T rio for V iol in , Viola and Violoncello , B-flat , Op . 25 (Mss . )Abraham W . Lilienthal (Maurice Kaufmann, Joseph J . Kov

arik , Leo Schulz ) five Songs , Carl Deis (W . Pomeroy Frost,

the Composer at the Piano ) ; four Piano Pieces ,“ Colonial

Song,

” “ Mock Morris ,” “ Iri sh Tune from County Derry ,

”

Shepherd’s Hey ,”Percy Grainger ( the Composer) .

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CoM PO SER s’ EVENING , BY THE MEMBERS, FIRST PERFORMANCES OF

ORIGINA I. COMPOSITIONS , January 4, 1915Sextet for Clarinet , Oboe and Str ings , Op . 34 , Eduard Hermann ( Edouard Dethier, R obert J . T oedt, Samuel L ifschey,Joseph G otsch , Carl Reinecke, F . de Angelis ) ; four Songs ,A . Walter Kramer (Martin R ichardson , the Composer at thePiano ) Concertstuck , D , for Violoncello and Orchestra , Op .

31 , S igismond S toj owski (W illem Willeke , the Composer atthe Piano ) : Prairie Idyls” for Piano ,

“ From the Old Mission .

” “T he hl eadow Lark ,

” “T he First Anemone

,

” “In

Prairie D og T own ,

” humoresque ( Victor Wittgenstein ) .

DINNER , TO JOSEF HOFMANN , January 10, 1915 :

Concerto in B minor, for Four Solo Violins w ith A ccompani

ment of String Orchestra and Piano , Antonio Vivaldi , the

piano part arranged by D r . Frank Damro sch (Miss Henriette Bach , M iss Helen Jeffrey , S ascha Jacob son and EliasBreeskin , Clarence A dler at the Piano ) Concerto in A

minor, for Four Pianos , J . Sebastian Bach ( A ugustFraemcke, Ferdinand von Inten, Gaston Dethier and Clar

ence Adler, assis ted by Samuel Gardner, Robert T oedt, Hy

man E isenberg, Louis Bostelmann , Conrad Held and LudwigManoly : Songs by Schumann and Schubert ( Jul ia Heinrich ,at the Piano Max Heinrich ) ; Quintet in F minor, for Piano

and Strings , Op . 34 , Brahms ( Josef Hofmann and the Kneisel Quartet ) ; Sketches and Caricatures by Hy . Mayer.

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9DINNE R TO MADAME MARCELLA SEMBRICH , LADIES EVENING,April 11 , 1915

Speakers,Rubin Goldmark

,Will iam J. Henderson , Henry T.

Finck .

“ Canone doppio e perpetuo , per recte et non retro,poliglotto ma non en igmat ico , in tre contra quattro , a sei

Voc i con S tromenti. Parole e musica composte per festig

giare l’egregia Artista Marcella Sembrich , e dedicato al

Circolo Bohemians da Enrico Edoardo Montecorvo . Op . 0.

l wo. L e S ostenutissi/me :

Come, a roundelay we’ll fashion ,

Not in sorrow, not in pas s ion ,But to hymn the good Marcella.

Songs of birds and scent of flowers ,C oo of doves in dewy bowers ,Weave a charm for fair h’l arcella.

Coro 2do . L e Ch icchierone

C ara , saggia, dolce , vaga,

Donna ammaliante ;Grazi osa e vezzosa ,Moglie molto amante .

Cantatrice. buon attrice,

Stella armoniosa,

Cembalista , Vi olinista ,Bella generosa !

Viva , diva ! Gloria a te !

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C oro 320 . T he Bohemians :

Hurrah ! Huzza ! Queen of Song !Viva, Diva ! Gloria a te !He il D ir ! Prosit ! Kiinstlerin !E lj en ! Soka ! boldogan !Zynam ! Zynam ! Kocham y cie !Vivat ! V ivat ! Grande artiste !D ieva divo , didnaja !

Violin Solo , M azurka , W ieniawski ( Sascha Jacobsen ) ; Stereopticon portraits of Madame Sembrich ; Chorus of Poli shSongs , with Orchestra under the direction of Ernst Schelling ; Dance in Poli sh Costumes .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , May 3 , 1915Quartet in D minor, Mozart , Quartet in A m inor, SchubertMischa Elman , Hans Letz, Lou is Svecenski and WillemWilleke.

NINTH SEASON , 1915-1916

MONTHLY MUS ICALE ,November 1 , 1915 :

Piano Pieces ,“ Marche fantastique ,

” Op . 10. NO . 1 ,“ Pensive

Spinner,” Op . 10, NO . 3,

“In May ,

” Op . 23, No . 3 ,“ Peasant

Dance ,” Op . 24 , NO . 4 , Rudolph Ganz : S onata NO . 2 in E ,

Op . 2, E rich Korngold (Rudolph Ganz ) .

MEMORIAL MEETING FOR RAFAEL JO SE FFY ,December 6. 1915

Address by Rubin Goldmark ; “ T he Angels’ Lullaby , for

Bass solo , Vocal Quartet , String Quartet and Organ ,N icho

las J . E lsenheimer ( hIrs . L ,Jahn ,

l\Irs . J. Co rcoran , CharlesKaiser , Fred Vogt ; S tr ing Quartet : Ludwig Bl ar um , Carl

T ollefsen , I Bostelmann and Gerald ; Organ , F red . Shoro .

Under the d i rection of the Composer) ; Vier Ernste Lieder,Op . 121 , Brahms (Max Heinrich, Carl Deis at the Piano ) ;Address by August Fraemcke ; Piano Pieces ,

“ Cradle Song”

and “ Five Hungar ian Melodies , Joseffy ( Paolo Gallico ) .

COMPOSERS’ EVENING , BY THE MEMBER S , FIRST PER FORMANCES OFORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS , January 3 , 1916Symphonic Rhapsody in F minor, Op . 35, for Violin and Or

chestra, A . Walter Kramer ( Frederic Fradk in , the Composerat the Piano ) five Songs , Ciarl Deis (Royal F . Dadmun, the

Composer at the Piano ) ; T hree Modern Piano Etudes , A lbert von

.D oenhoff ( the Composer) String Quartet in D

minor,F . Lorenz Smith (Maximilian Pilzer, W illiam

D oenges, Joseph J. Kovarik , Mark Skalmer) .

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DINNER TO MISCHA ELMAN,LADIE S’ EVENING , January 8 , 1916

Violin Concerto March ,“ M ischa Elman ,

” Edwin F . Goldman ; Fantasy from the Grand Opera “ Natoma,

” Victor Herbert ( under the direction of the Composer ) ; Violin SolosConcerto in G minor, Vivaldi ,

“The Call of the Plains ,

”

Rubin Goldmark ,“ Souven ir de Moscow ,

” W ieniawski

(Mi scha Elman , Walter H . Golde at the Piano ) OrchestralPieces : “When You ’re Away

,

” “Whispering Willows ,”

Entr’acte from Princess Pat ,” Victor Herbert ( conducted

by the Composer ) ;“ A Wagner Humoresque

”

( ParodisticQuadrille) for the particular exaltat ion and edification Of

all R eal Modernists , with a new“1916

” Overture . Dance .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , February 7 , 1916Quintet in B flat , for Piano , Flute , Clarinet , Bassoon and

Horn,Rimsky-Korsakow ( Carolyn Beebe and the New York

Chamber Music Society ) six Songs by Rudolph Ganz (PaulD raper , the Composer at the Piano ) ;

“ Des Hafiz L iebeslieder,

” Karol S zymanowsk i ( Pau l Draper , R udolph Ganz at

the Piano ) ;“ Kammersymphon ie in B fl at

, V Volf Ferrari

( T he New York Chamber Mus ic S ociety ) .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , March 6, 1916Quartet in F , Op . 96 , Dvorak (Knei sel Quartet ) five Son

gs,

Rudolph Ganz (Paul Draper, the Composer at the Piano )Duet ,

“Warrior and Death ,” Max Heinrich (George Harri s

,

Jr . ,and Edmund A . Jahn , Carl Deis at the Piano ) : Octet

in C for four Violins , two Violas and two Violoncellos,

Georges Enesco , Op . 7 ( the Kneisel Quartet , assi sted byEdouard Dethier, Elias B reeskin, Lou i s Bostelmann andJacques Renard ) .

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MONTHLY M I'

SIC A IE , April 17 , 1916Quartet in D minor, Op. posth . Schubert (The Olive MeadQuartet ) : six S ongs (Herbert VVitherspoon, (

‘arl Deis at

the Piano ) : Piano Solo s : Fantasie , Op . 17, Schumann , A irdc Ballet , Gluck-Saint-Saens , and Etude cn Forme de Valse ,Saint-Saens (Harold Bauer ) .

T ENTH SEASON , 1916-1917

MONTHLY M I'

SIC A L E , A PIANOFORTE REC ITAL, November 6 , 1916Variations serieuses, Op . 54 and Song without Words , in 3 ,Mendels sohn ; Minuetto and Impromptu

,Op . 142 No . 3 ,

Schubert ; Rhapsodie , Brahms ; Gavotte Gluck-B rahms :

Study in F , Op . 10 No . 6 , Chop in :“D es Abends ,

” Schumann ; Valse , Op . 34 NO . 1 , Chopin ( Os s ip Gabrilowitsch ) .

COMPOSERS’ EVENING , FIRST PERFORM ANC ES o r ORIGINA I. COMPOSITION S

,December 4 , 1916

Sonata in A minor, for Violin and Piano , Op. 32 (Mss ) ,Edw in Grasse ( Edwin Grasse and George Falkenstein ) ;seven songs by Alexander Russell ( Vivian Gosnell, WilliamR edd ick at the Piano ) : three Pieces for Violoncello andPiano (Mss ) , N . S childkret (Robert Thrane , the Composerat the Piano ) ; Quartet for Strings , B-flat , Op . 17, (Mss )Abraham W . Lilienthal (Maximilian Pilzer , William Doen

ges, Joseph J . Kovarik and Mark Skalmer ) .

T ENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUND ING O F T H E BOHEMIANS ,December 28 1916

The Impresario , Comedy Opera in O ne A ct , Mus ic bv

hfozart , Dialogue and L yr ics by H . E . Krehbiel . T he

Cast : Jmanuel S chikaneder , D avid B ispham : Philip, John

S aintpolis : l l'

olfgang Amadeus Jl ozart, Albert R eiss :M adame Hofer, Miss Greta T orpadie : D emoiselle l lhlich ,

Miss Lucy Gates . Conductor, Sam Franko . A fter theOpera Dancing.

MONTHLY MUSICALE PROGRAMME OF MODERN FRENCH M e sIC ,

January 2, 1917Ravel , Sonatina ; Debussy ,

“ Hommage a Rameau ,” “ The

W ind ,” “ Pagodes ,

” “ Minstrels” ; Ravel ,“ The Gibbet

,

”

“ S carba”( Leo Ornstein ) .

1\IO N THLY MUSICALE , February 5, 1917 '

Quintet in F minor, for Pianoforte and Strings , Op . 34 ,

Brahms ( Leopold Godowsky and the Kneisel Quartet ) : tenSongs by Brahms ( Rheinhold VVarlich, Carl Deis at thePiano ) .

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SM OKER T o PABLO CA SALS , February 25, 1917

Mot ion Pictures ,“T he Stampede” and “ Automatic M OV

ing Couplets (Albert R eiss and Max Liebl ing) ,“T he

Seven Ages of Man , from A S Y ou Like It,” Melodrama,

mus ic by Henry Holden Huss (David Bispham , the Com

poser at the Piano ) ; Mot ion Pictures : TW O Members of

The Bohemians ,” “

T he Ourangutang,” “ The Land of Si

lence ,” and “ HOW to Get a Breakfast by Strategy .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , March 5, 1917

Sonata for Viola and Pianoforte , York Bowen ( Samuel L if

schey and Carolyn Beebe ) ; Sonata for V iolin and Pianoforte, Henry Fevrier ( Edouard Deth ier and Gaston M .

Dethier) ; Sonata for Violoncello and Pianoforte, Debussy

(Engelbert R oentgen and Charles Cooper ) .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , April 2, 1917Pianoforte T rio Op . 15, Léon Boellman (The Tollefsen

Trio ) ; Impromptu for H’

arp, Gabriel Faure (Alfred Kast

ner ) ; Fantasie for Violin and Harp,Op. 124 , Saint-Saens

( Elias Breeskin and Alfred Kastner ) ; Quartet in E m inor,Op . 45, Vincent d’Indy (The Berksh ire Quartet ) .

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SM ORE R TO OSSIP GA BRII.Ow1T SC H , April 15, 1917Improvizations ( John Palmer and Charles L . Stafford )“ T he Hypnotic Method ; or Mephistopheles as MusicT eacher,

” by Frederick H.Martens , Music by Moritz Mosz

kowski with additional numbers (Mephisto, Samuel J .

S iege], Pupil , Miss Pirani ) ; A Musical Pleasantry for

Everybody ( T he Bohemian House Orchestra ) .

D INNER TO T HE KNEISEL QUARTET ( on the reti rement of theorganization from public life ) , LADIES

’ EVENING,May

5, 1917

Speakers : Rubin Goldmark, Louis Svecenski, Oswald G .

V illard , Frank C . Lawrence ; Orchestra ,“T he Stars and

Stripes Forever” ( John Philip Sousa impersonated byEdwin F . Goldman ) ; Pictorial Chronicles of the KneiselQuartet ; Parody of the Kneisel Quartet ( Gustav Saenger,Carl Tollefsen , Edmund Severn and M . Blumenthal ) ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ( Impersonation of LeopoldGodowsky by Max Pi rani ) ; Hy . Mayer in one of his ItalianMonologues and His Own Moving Pictures .

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l\IO N T H L Y MUSICALE , November 5,1917

“ Beethoven as a Humorist , Comments and Anecdotes byH . E . Krehbiel , on a Group of Canons by Beethoven sungby A lveric Bellenoit , George Harris, Jr. , Charles Kaiserand J . H . M cKinley ; T rio , for Piano and Strings , Variations on Ich b in der Schneider Kakadu ,

” Beethoven ( Samuel Gardner

,W i llem W i lleke and Clarence Adler ) .

MONTHLY MU SICALE ,December 3 , 1917

T rio for Viol in , Viola and Violoncel lo , Beethoven , Op . 9, No .

3 , Beethoven , Hugo Kortschak , Clarence Evans and Emmeran S tolber ) Quartet in G minor, Op . 10, Debussy ( T heBerksh ire Quartet ) .

DINNER T o JASCHA HEIFETZ, LADIES EVENING , December 29,1917

Le hi ariage aux Lanternes , performed in Engli sh as“ The

T reasure T rove ,” Operetta by Jacques Offenbach (Albert

Reiss , Miss Sue Harvard , M i ss Ampar ito Farrar,Miss

Blanche da Costa. Conductor, Walter Damrosch , S tageManager Jacques Goini ) .

MONTHLY MUSICALE PROGRAM OF RUSSIAN MUSIC , January 7,1918

Songs by Moussorgsky , Gretchaninow, T aneiew and Arensky sung by Reinhold W arlich , accompanied by Fritz Krei sler at the Piano , followed by a talk on Scriabin by AlfredL aliberti.

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MONTHLY M I'

S IC A LE , November 4 , 1918“Poems ,

” Sonata NO . 2, Op. 20, fo r Violin and Pianoforte ,G . Gatoire ( Edouard and Gaston Deth ier ) .

MONTHLY M I'

S IC A L E ,December 2, 1918 :

Quartet in E flat , Op. 67 , Brahms ; Quartet in G ,Mozart

( T he Letz Quartet ) .

DINNER TO S ERGE I RACHMANINOFF,LADIE S EVENING , January 5,

1919 '

Songs , in Russian , by Rachman inoff and Balakireff (M issEmma Roberts , Kurt Schindler at the Piano ) ; DancesPavane , Gabriele Faure ( T ulle L indahl and Caird WalkerLeslie ) , A llegrias ( Catherine D egalanta) ; G opack , Moussorgsky, Margite T arazova, Alexander Umansky, Berthe Uhr,

Berta Selskaja, Clara Torp , Cec ile d’

Andrea— staged byAdolf Bolm ;

“ Mooncalf,” a Play in one act by Arthur

Hopk ins ( Harry Mestayer and Frederick Burton ) ; f‘La

S eva Padrone ,”Intermezzo in T wo A cts bv Pergoles i , in

Engl i sh as“T he hIaid M istress” ( Percy Hemus , Florence

Easton , Lou i s Burgstaller . Conductor , S am F ranko ) .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , February 3 , 1919 :Pianoforte T rio in C minor, Op . 101 , Brahms , and Pianoforte Trio in B-flat , Op . 99, Schubert (The E lschuco Trio ) .

COMPOSERS’ EVENING , BY THE MEMBE R S, FIRST PERFORMANCESOF ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS , March 3 , 1919

A Group of Bagatelles for Pianoforte, Henry Holden Huss

( the Composer ) ; T hree Songs by Carl De is ( HerbertWitherspoon (Accompan ied by the Composer) ; Quintet forStrings , Ell iott Schenck ( Nicholas Garagusi, FrederickArnemann , Samuel L ifshey , R obert T hrane ) .

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MONTHLY MUSICALE , April 7, 1919

Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, F maj or, Op. 99, Brahms

(Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals ) ; three Spanish Folk

songs arranged by Joan Manen (Andres de Segurola, s e

companied by Franci s Moore ) ; Piano Solos ,“ Pictures at

an Exposition ,” Moussorgsky (Harold Bauer) ; Suite in D

minor for V ioloncello alone , Bach ( Pablo Casals ) .

DINNER TO ALMA GLUCK-ZIMBALIST AND EFREM ZIMBALIST,Ladies Evening, April 26 , 1919

S onata for Piano and Violoncello,Rachmaninoff ( the Com

poser and Pablo Casals ) ; Quartet in A minor, Fritz Kreisler (The Letz Quartet ) .

THIRT EENT H SEASON , 1919-1920

DIoNT H L Y lVIU SIC A L E , MONTHLY ME ETING , November 3 , 1919Sonata in E minor, for Violin and Piano (Mss ) , Gustav

Strube ( Joseph Fuchs and Carl Deis ) ; Nocturne for StringQuartet, D minor, Frederi ck Jacobi ( Joseph Fuchs , Wil

liam Kroll, Cyril Towbin and Isaac Sear ) ; Symphonic

Dramatique ,”for Viola and Piano , in Memory of David

Hochstein , k illed in the Argonne Forest , France , 1918,Samuel Gardner ( Samuel L ifshey and Walter Golde ) .

MONTHLY MUSICALE , December 1 , 1919

Quartet , NO . 2, G minor , Op . 153, Saint-Saens ( the Berkshire Quartet ) ; Quartet in A , Op . 41 , No . 3, Schumann

( the Berkshire Quartet ) .

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RE CE PTION TO JOSE PH LHEVINNE , January 5, 1920

Sonata in A for Violin and Piano , Handel ( Sascha Jacobsen and Emanuel Zalaban ) ; Songs by Mozart and Franz

( George Meder, Walter Golde at the Piano ) ; Violin SolosMeditat ion

,

”G lazounow.

“ Legende, Godowsky ,“Per

petuum Mobi le” Novacek ( Sascha Jacobsen , EmanuelBalaban at the Piano ) ; Songs by Campbell-Tipton , Wolf,La Forge and-T ost i (George Meader, Walter Golde at thePiano ) .

RECE PTION T o SERGE I PROKOFIEFF,February 2

, 1920

Qu intet in B minor , for Clarinet and Strings , Brahms ;Variations for String Quartet , Op . 20, NO . 1 , Gneisin ( firstt ime ) ; Overture for String Quartet , Piano and Clarinetfirst time ) Prokofieff ( Players the Palestine ChamberMusic Ensemble

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RECEPTION TO BENNO MOISEIWITSCH , March 1 , 1920Sonata for Vi ola and Piano , Henry Holden Huss ( EdwardKreiner and the Composer ) ; group of Russian Songs ( Constantin Buketoff, Walter Golde at the Piano ) .

DINNER To MRS . FREDERIC SHURTLEFF COOLIDGE , LADIES’EVE

N ING,December 26 , 1920

S onata in A minor, for Viol in and Piano , Op. 23 , Beethoven

(M i scha Elman and Ernest Hutcheson ) ;“ Songs of Love

,

”

for Piano , four hands , and four Solo Voices , Op . 52,

Brahms ( Florence H‘inkle , Merle Alcock , Lambert Murphy ,

Reinald V Verrenrath, Carl Dei s and Arthur L oesser ) ; Sep

tet . in E -flat, Op . 20, Beethoven (Mischa Elman , SamuelL ifshey , m eran Stoeber , L . E . Manoly, ! avier Reiter,A lbert Chiafarelli and B . Kob on ) .

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MONTHLY MUSICALE , April 5, 1920

Sonata for Violin and Piano , E minor, Alberto Bachmann

( the Composer and Beryl Rub instein ) ; two Scotch Songs ,arranged b y Reinhold VVarlich and Fritz Kreisler, and four

Songs by Brahms ( George Hamlin , John Doane at the

Piano ) ; Piano Pieces by Scriab ine (Alexander Skarlewski) .

DINNER T o HAROLD BAUE R , LAD IE S’EVE NING , April 3 , 1920

Overture on Hebrew T hemes , for Str ing Quartet , Clarinet

and Piano (Mss ) , Sergei Prokofieff ( Palestine Chamber

Music Ensemble Scherzo-Humoresque for Four

Bassoons Sergei Prokofieff ( Benjamin Kohon , Oscar

Modes,Philip Reines

,George E . Weiss ) ; Humoresque for

T hree Viol ins Fr . Hermann ( Joseph Fuchs , Wil

l iam Kroll , Cyr i l T owbin ) ; Choral Sett ings of Catlonianand Basque Folk songs ( Choru s of the S chola Cantorum

under the direction of Kurt Sch indler ) .

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DINNER To SIGMUN D HE RZOG , May 8th , 1920Speakers : Rubin Goldmark , Herbert Witherspoon , MartinBlumenthal ; Children Symphonic for E ight T rumpets

( Edw in F . Goldman,Conductor ) ; Piano Solo Paraphrase

“Walkure” ( E rnest Hutcheson ) ; Sonata for Violin andPiano by Nicolaiff (Misha Piastro and Alfred M irovitch ) ,Humorous Parody on Mesia ( Charles T . Safford) Stories by

(Hy . Mayer) .

FOURTEENTH SEASON ,1920-1921

RECEPTION T o T H E LO NDON STRING Q UA RTE T, October 1 1,

1920 :

Quartet in D minor, No . 13 , Mozart ; Quartet in E minor,Frank B ridge ( The London S tring Quartet— James Levey ,C . T homas Petre, H . Waldo Warner, C . Warwick Evans ) .

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RECEPTION TO G UY MAIER AND L E E PATTISON , November 1 ,1920

Variat ions on a Theme by Haydn , for Two Pianos , Brahms ;“Pupazzetti ,

” five p ieces for Two Pianos by Casella : Prelude

,Fugue and Variation for Two Pianos , Ce

' sar FranckScherzo for Two Pianos , Op . 87, Saint-Saens (Mess . Maierand Pattison ) .

RECEPTION T o MISCHA L EV Is I, A PROGRAM IN COMMEMORATION OF BEETHOVEN ’S 15OT H B IRTHDAY

,December 6

1920

Four Songs by Beethoven (George Hamlin, Walter G oldeat the Piano ) ; Thirty-two Variations on an Original Themein C minor, and Sonata in F minor, Op . 57, Beethoven (Mr.L evitzki) .

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R E CE PTION T o R UDO LPH G AN z, February 7 , 1921 .

“ Morning and Even ing at Blue H ill, Sketches for Strings ,Oboes

,Clarinet , Percuss ion and Piano , Frederic Jacobi

( under the direct ion of the Composer ) four pieces for Pianoby Rudolph Ganz ,

“ Au Jardin du sieux Serai” and “ Serenade ,

” Blanchet ,“L a F il le aux Chevaux de Lin and T eux

d’A rt F ice,

” Debussy (Mr. Ganz )“T he Village Musicians ,

”

Mozart ( by a band in costume ) .

RECEPTION TO IG N Az FR IEDMAN , March 7, 1921S ongs by Messager, Gounod, Hue and Wolf ( Paul R eimer,Maurice E i sner at the Piano ) ; two pieces for Harp Solo ,Sarabande, Couperin , and two French Folksongs , MauriceG randjany ; three Preludes for Harp , Carlos Salzedo . Mr.Salzedo in Piano Solos (Mr. Friedman ) .

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R EC EPTION T o ARTHUR RUBINSTE IN AND PAUL KO C R AN SR I,

April 4 , 1921Sonata for Violin and Piano (New ) , Ernest Block (Mess .Kochanski and Rubinstein ) .

FIFT EENTH SEASON , 1921 -1922

MONTHLY MU SICALE , November 7th , 1921Trio in B maj or for V iolin , Cello and Piano , Op . 8 , Brahms ,Suite for Piano , Violin and Cello by H . Waldo Warner,the prize-winning compos ition at the Berkshire Festival

( T he E lshuco T rio ) .

RECE PTION TO EMIL T E L M ANYI A N D JOSEPH PRE SS,December 5,

1921

Sonata for l loloncello , Henry Eccles ; Etude , ChopinGlazunow ; ( Joseph Press and Gregory Ashman at thePiano ) ; Sonata for V iolin , F . Busoni , Emil T elmanyi andSandor Vas at the p iano .

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DINNER T o RUBIN GOLDMARK , LADIE S’ EVENING , December 26,

1921 '

T oastmaster Herbert W itherspoon ; Speakers , Harold

Bauer, Rubin Goldmark .

Festival Prelude for Orchestra, Frederic Jacobi , composed

for the occas ion ; Call of the Plains , W itches’ Sabbath , Rubin

Goldmark, orchestrated for the occasion by A . W . Lilienthal

( E frem Z imbali st ) T he Mountebanks , Song Cycle for four

voices , Easthope Martin (Mrs . J . C . Phillips , R ose Bryant ,Lambert Murphy , Conductor M r . Sam Franko , Fred Pat

ton ) . First time.

At all of the Banquets and Enterta inments Rubin Goldmark

acted as toastmaster.

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ADMINISTRAT ION

1907-1908

OFFICER S : RUBIN GOLDMARK , PresidentRAFAEL JO SE FFY ,

Vice-President

A UG I'

ST FRA EM CKE , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : PA OLO GALLICO , CARI. HEIN , SIGMUND HER

ZOG , BRUNO OSCAR KLEIN , JULIUS LORENZ,HARRY SCHREYER , MAx SPICKER .

1908-1909

OFFICERS : RUB IN GOLDMARK , PresidentRAFAEL JO SE FFY ,

Vice-President

FRANZ KNEISEL , Vice-PresidentBRUNO OSCAR KLE IN , Vice-PresidentAUGUST FRAEM CR E , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS WILLIAM H . BARBER , ARTHUR CLAASSEN ,PAOLO GALLICO , SIGMUND HERZOG, HENRYHOLDEN Huss , ALE ! ANDER LAMBERT , FREDER IC MARINE R , HARRY SCHREYER .

1909-1910

OFFICERS RUBIN GOLDMARK , PresidentVICTOR HERBERT , Vice-PresidentFRANZ KNE ISEL , Vice-PresidentBRUNO OSCAR KLE IN , Vice—PresidentAUGUST FR A E M C R E , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS :W IL I .IAM H . BARBER , HIA L M AR V . D AM E CK ,

CARL FIQ UE , SIGMUND HERZOG , PHILLIP M IT

TEL , FREDERIC MARINER , ALBERT R EISS .ARNOLD VOLPE .

1910-191 1

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNE ISEL , PresidentAUGUST FRA EM C R E , Vice-President

R UB IN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentVICTOR HERBERT , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG

, S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD, T reasurer

GOVERNORS : RAFAEL JO SEFFY , BRUNO OSCAR KLEIN , L UDWIG MARUM , PHILLIP MITTEL , ALBERT REISS ,LEO SHULZ , ARNOLD VOLPE

,ARTHUR

WHITING.

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191 1-1912

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISEL, PresidentAUGUST FRA EM CKE ,

Vice-President

RUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentVICTOR HE RBERT , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : WILLIAM H . BARBE R , GUSTAV L . BECKER ,FREDERIC MARINER , RAFAEL JO SEFFY ,

ARTHUR E . JANKE , LUDWIG MARUM , ALBERTRE ISS , L E O SCHULZ .

1912-1913

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISEL, PresidentAUGUST FRA EM CKE ,

Vice-President

RUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentVICTOR HERBERT , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : RICHARD ARNOLD , ERNESTO CO N SOLO , PAOLOGALLICO , MAx HEINRICH , FERDINAND VON

IN T E N , ALBERT REISS , L E O SCHULZ, LOUISSVE C EN SKI.

1913-1914

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISEL , PresidentAUGUST FRAEM CKE ,

Vice-Presiden t

R UBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentVICTOR HERBERT , Vice-PresidentCLARENCE ADLER , SecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS RICHARD ARNOLD , PAOLO GALLICO , MAx HEINRICH , SIGMUND HE RZOG , FE RDINAND VON

IN T EN , ALBERT R E ISS, L E O SCHULZ,LOUIS

SVE C EN SKI.

1914-1915

OFFICERS FRANZ KNEISEL , PresidentAUGUST FRAEM CKE , Vice

-President

RUB IN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HE RZOG , Vice-PresidentCLARENCE ADLER , SecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

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GOVERNORS : PAOLO GALLICO , OTTO GORITZ, VICTOR HARRIS,LUDWIG MARUM ,

ABRAHAM W . LILIENTHAL

,L EO SCHULZ, SIGISMUND ST OJOW SKI ,

JOSEF STRANSKY .

1915-1916

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISEL, PresidentAUGUST FRA EM CKE , Vice—Presiden tRUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HE RZOG , Vice-PresidentLUDWIG MARUM , SecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD, T reasurer

GOVERNORS : ALBERT VON D OENH O FF , OTTO GORITZ , VICTORHARRIS, RAFAEL JO SE FFY , ABRAHAM W .

LILIENTHAL, L E O SCHULZ, SIGISMUND STo

JOW SKI, JOSEF STRANSKY .

1916-1917

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISEL , PresidentAUGUST FRA EM CKE ,

Vice-President

RUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG , Vice-PresidentLUDWIG MARUM , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : ERNEST T . CARTER , ALBERT VON D OENH O FF ,

VICTOR HARRIS, ALE ! ANDER LAMBERT , ABRAHAM W. LILIENTHAL , L EO SCHULZ, SIGISMOND ST OJOW SKI, JOSEE STRANSKY

1917-1918

OFFICERS FRANZ KNE ISEL , Presiden tAU GUST FR A EM C KE ,

Vice-President

R UBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HE RZOG , Vice-PresidentLUDWIG MARUM , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD, T reasurer

GOVERNORS : ERNEST T . CARTER , CARL DEIS , ALBERT VONDOENHOFF , EDWIN F . GOLDMAN , VICTORHARRIS, A L ExA NDER LAMBERT

,ABRAHAM W .

LILIENTHAL, JOSEF STRANSKY .

1918-1919

OFFICERS FRANZ KNEISEL, President

RUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG , Vice-PresidentA . W . LILIENTHAL , Vice-PresidentERNEST T . CARTER, SecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

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GOVERNORS : WALTER L . BOGERT , CARL DE IS, EDOUARDDETHIER , EDWIN F . GOLDMAN , GEORGE HAM

LIN,ERNEST HUTCHESON , CORNELIUS RYB

N ER , HERBERT WITHERSPOON .

1919- 1920

OFFICERS FRANZ KNE ISEL , PresidentRUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-President

SIGMUND HE RZOG , Vice—PresidentABRAHAM W . LILIENTHAL , Vice-President

ERNE ST T . CARTER , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : WALTER L . BOGE RT , CARL DEIS , EDOUARDDETH IER , EDWIN F . GOLDMAN , GEORGE HAM

LIN , ERNE ST HUTCHE SON , CORNELIUS RY B

NER , HERBE RT WITHERSPOON .

1920-1921

OFFICERS : FRANZ KNEISE L , PresidentRUBIN GOLDMARK , Vice-PresidentSIGMUND HERZOG , Vice-PresidentABRAHAM W . LILIENTHAL , Vice-President

ERNEST T . CARTER , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS WALTER L . BOGE RT , EDOUARD DE THIE R , CARLDEIS , EDWIN F . GOLDMAN , GEORGE HAMLIN ,ERNEST HUTCHE SON , CORNE LIUS RY BN E R ,

HERBERT WITHERSPOON .

1921-1922

OFFICERS FRANZ KNE ISEL , PresidentR U BIN GOLDMARK , Vice-President

SIGMUND HE RZOG , Vice—President

ABRAHAM W . LILIE NTHAL, Vice-President

ERNEST T . CARTE R , S ecretaryHUGO GRUNWALD , T reasurer

GOVERNORS : WALTER L . BOGERT , EDOUARD DE THIE R ,GEORGE HAMLIN , WILLIAM H . HUMISTON

,

ERNEST HUTCHESON , GARDNER LAMSON,

CORNELIUS RYBNE R , HERBERT WITHERSPOON .

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T rootstwyk , IsidoreV an V liet, CorneliusV echey, A rmandVolpe, ArnoldV on D oenhofl’, AlbertV on S ternberg, Constantine‘V arlich , ReinholdW arner, H . WaldoW h iting, ArthurW ickman, Frank‘V il leke . \V i]lemW i l l iams, L ewisW i lson, ( leorge ArthurVVinkler, Em i l K .

W itherspoon, Herbert‘Vittgenstein, V ictorVVolfsohn, L eopoldV V

oodruff, D r. Arthur D.

Yon, Pietro AlessandroYsaye, Jugene

Z imbal ist. EframZuro, Josiah

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Abraham, HerbertAdams, A . F .

Adler, S iegmundAltschul , CharlesAndrews, George H .

Ansbacher, David A .

Ansbacher, Louis A .

Asch, D r. Josef

Auerbach , Howard IBach , M ilton J.

Baruch, D r. EmanuelBeck, Mart inB ierhofl

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B lumenthal , MartinB lumenthal , S idneyBonwit, Paul J.

Born, D r. R . O.

Bowman, John McE .

Bry, E dwinBurdett, John L .

Bushnell, Chas . E .

Class, D r. F . MorrisCole, D r. Carter S .

Cone, D r. Arthur L .

Copley, R ichardCowen, W i ll iamCzaki, Fred

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Dallet, JosephDemarest, D r. F . F . C .

Demuth, LeopoldE instein, M i lton I . D .

E isenbach , HarryE ll inger, E rnestEmmerich, ArthurEmmerich, WalterE rental, R ichard F.

F ischer, Walter S .

F lagler, H . H .

F lechter, Victor S .

Gemiinder, August M .

Gerrish, F . S .

Goldmark , D r. CarlGoldmark, Emi lGoldmark, RalphGottl ieb, A lbert S .

Haensel, F itzhughHamersley, George W .

Hanson, M . H .

Heinecke, PaulHess , Arthur M .

H irsch , R ichardHochsch ild , B .

Irion, Herman

Issacs, L ewis M .

Jacoby, D r. George W .

Jacoby, D r. J. RalphJais, Jacob D .

Janowrtz, JuliusJohnston, R . E .

Junge, HenryKahn, Fel ix E .

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Kops, DanielKops, Max

Kops , WaldemarKohn, D r. Arthur K .

Leidesdorf, S . D .

Levy, Leo

L ewinson, Benno

L i l ienthal, A . M .

L imburg, Herbert R .

Mainzer, Herbert R .

Mainzer, Robert H .

Marcus, Alfred J.

Mayer, DanielMayer, Edward L .

Mayer, Hy.

Meyer, PaulMeyer, D r. W i llyM i ller, D r. Albert R .

M i l ler, D r. Frank E .

Mohr, Edward H .

Moody, L . A .

Morgenthau. Max imil ian, Jr.

Naumberg, George W .

Naumberg, Walter W .

Neuer, BertholdNewberger, Morton J.

Obermeyer, Theo.

Oppenheimer, Harry C .

Oppenheimer, MauriceOppenheimer, D r. Seymour

O tterbourg, EdwinPerera, L ionel loPfeifier, C . H .

Pfister, D r. CarlPlochman, George

Porges, Colonel GustavePretzfeld , R obert H .

Prince, S iegfried S .

Prince, TheodoreR ice, Edwin T.

Roeder, Benjamin F .

Rmen, FelixRosenfeld , ErnstRosenheim, Oscar E .

Rossbach , L aurence B .

Sachs, W alter E .

S choedler, D r. U lrichSchulze-Berge, H .

Schwartz, ArturSelig, ArthurS insheimer, Alexander 1S tahl, AdolfoS teinway, Frederick T .

S ternberger, Maurice M .

Straus, Herbert N .

Strauss, JackS trauss, SamuelTas , Emi leTaylor, D r. James W .

U lmann, James

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Urchs, E rnest Wh itlock, Victor E .

Van der Hoeven, Constant W inston, Maximil ianV an Wezel, Joach im W oarms , EdwinWagner, C . Alfred Woititz, MorrisWalker, D r. W . W . W olf, FrankWarburg, Fel ix W olf, I . S .

Warburg, Paul M . W olff, Herman H .

Weber, Joe W olfson, TobiasWeil, Frank W right, Julian M.

NECROLOGY

VVolfsohn, Henry

Bachel ler, ‘Villis I“

K le in, B runo Oscar

Leo, R ichard IMahler, Gustav

Henius, JosephL oeb , Prof. Mo rris

Sel igman, A lfred ISpicker, Max

Behrens , E . H

Peiser, D r. L ouis

Baumann, F . C .

Englander, L udwigGruening, D r. EmilSteinhardt, A . M .

B itter, KarlB litz, D r. E douardJosefl

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Mayer, D r. AbrahamProx , A lbertSears, Albert RowlandBoughton, HerbertBry, Jean

Gotsob , JosephHeinrich , Max

Ranger, Harry

M i ldenberg, AlbertSch irmer, D r. Otto

Sel igman, Isaac N .

S tengel , Prof. G .

Arnold, R ichardGreen, Merri ll H .

Heiman, Julius

V on Iuten, Ferd inandEpste in, R ichardParker, Horatio W .

Sch irmer, R udolph E .

S teinway, Charles T .

Zach , Max

Scognamillo, E . M .

Humperd inck Prof. E .