The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-14
MUSICAL NOTES.
Miss Avirett Addresses Some Items of In
tersst to Her Late Pupils.

musically, that feel like sharing
the pleasure, by recounting it to
friends who have not been so for
tunate. Imagine yourselves in the
old music room at Martin College,
crowdlng the benches, sitting on the
window stills, coal boxes aud even
utilizing the floor as you used to
do on Wednesdays when l chatted
to you of the College of Music and
the celebrated living and dead of
the ar world. 1 feel like a return
ed exile since getting back to Gin
cinnati and the college. Our facul-
ty is little changed and Herr Shra-
dick, Signor Como, Messrs. Singer,
Doerner, "popa" Baetens and Frou-
lein Gaul are all in their old places,
and gave me CHEEKY welcome.
have neither space nor time to tell
you all that has occurred OF musical
interest since ! was here before,
but cannot resist the desire to sing
Froulein Gaul's praises little and
tell you of her recent sojourn in
Germany. l studied piano nearly
five years with her and you can i'm
agine my joy at seeing her and
hearing her again. Few women OF
this day have better skilled fingers
than she and certainly God has
endowed none with more passion
ate, poetic soul! l spent Friday
and Saturday with her at 322 Linn
street. After our greetings were
over Friday night, / drew a cosy
chair up near her Steinway grand,
and gave her a most appealing
look. 1t is not conventional to ask
professional pianists to play but 1
was too anxious to be polite. She
understood of course what l want
ed, and INDUCED me. OF late she
has added many charming new
compositions to her repertoire,
among them a barcorolle valse and
etude by MoszkowskI, and some
concert numbers from Henselt, Raft,
and Letchetisky (the great Vienna
teacher, and Madame Essipoff's bus
band Her pretty fingers careered
over the keys with an ease and con
fidence resulting from exultant
mastery of all technical difficulties
bringing out an establishment
here, a romance there, with always
such impassioned phrasing, such
liquid tone, and such pathetic
singing legato, that one must be
moved by it, and say with the poet,
This woman from her crystal soul
has shown US something men call
art" The symphony concerts begin
on Oct. 18th. The orchestra num-
bers are as follows: Enryanthe
overture, Weber; 4th symphony
Beethoven; serenade No. 8, Volk-
mann. The first chamber concert
is the week following and ushers
in the season. Concerts will fairly
tread on each others heels and by
December 18th, the anniversary OF
Beethoven's birthday Weber comes
a day or so earlier) Doerner is to
give US q programme from these
two masters on that date down at
Millersburg where l teach. He
christens our new grand with a re-
cital, you see. The season in Gin
cinnati promises to be a feast, for
which our ears will send up a
thanksgiving. Thomas brings his
English Opera for a week this
month and soon we are to hear the
new star-a tenor who surpasses, it
is said, the silver throated Campo
nini-one Heinrich Bolel from
Kroll's theatre in Berlin. Two
great pianists loom up on the win
ter's horizon; Alexander Stave mia
gen and D'Albert, both young, net
over twenty-five and real vertuosi.
The former the pupil and protege
of List, the latter of Carl Tansig.
D'Albert IS married to a woman a
dozen years at least his senior, who
looks after him and his interests
while he devotes his whole time to
art. Havenhagen on the contrary
is a blonde Apollo. am gossip
ing too much. / want to tell you
about Bayreuth, for there we find
the graves of Liszt and Wagner,
and as LISTS death is so recent,
Saturday night, July 3Ist, you
may be interested in knowing
something of his grave. Weimer
was his home. There is the beau
tiful house Kaiser William gave
him, and then in summer was Civ
en- the much desired instruction
which made Weimer the Mecca of
ambitious pianists. He was on a
visit to his daughter MADAME
Wagner when he was seized with
his final illness. The occasion of
his visit was his granddaughter
marriage. A movement is on foot
to carry his remains to Pesth and
inter them with all sorts of honor.
1t is a plain tomb now, with
no monument but the flowers
the whole world delights to put
there and each visitor is expected
too add a fresh blossom to the
heap. 1t is. thought likely, now
that he is dead, that Liszt's fame
as composer will wane, for he was
really far more apt at brilliant
adaptation than great as creator,
UuL GuG ages VIII CAuplJ duQ W nlP
name as piano virtuoso. Scholar
ships in his name are to be given
young musicians of promise and his
Weimer house is to be converted
into Liszt Museum after the style
of the Mozarteum at Salisbury and
the Wagner Museum in the theatre
at Bayreuth. He deserves all hon.
age. Not only was he great, but
used his great gifts unreservedly
for the benefit of others. Not far
from him in the Bayreuth cemetery
in a pretty sylvan spot, rallied of
and enclosing one square marble
tomb, completely hidden with ivy,
ever green as the fame of its quiet
occupant, sleeps Richard Wagner.
Froulein 6. says as she and her
party stood reverently around it
they were startled an instant; a
figure, robed in mourning, tall,
sparse, white headed and enough
like List to be his ghost, rose from
a half kneeling posture, looked at
them and glided away. 1t was
poor Casino List. Fascinating,