The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-01-13

Michael Banner, the sixteen4yearsotd
American vi0linist, has been playing NICER
many lately, and the Berlin papers speak
well Of hinl
Sophie Menter IL expected next yeRr TO
give q series Of pianoforte ~recitals in Lon-
don. She has given up her post at st. Peters
burg Conservatory.
Colonel McCaull is contemplating q grand
production OF nBoccaccioa ia English. Sig.
Perugini. who II now Ia Paris, wlli sing the
4iele role il he returns in time. Otherwise 1t
will fall 70 Nine. Cettrelly.
Dr. Bridge, the organist Of Westminster
Abbey, London, has purchased from tho
library Of John Goss, the musician, lately
acUtaa1aS q aVl155T - sss-ss-sse%sF-=
marginal notes Of the hand Of Mozart.
A Dusseldorf painter named Baclkmann
has finished q picture representing Wagner
Cosima, and List at the moment when tho
former has put the finishing touches ID
"Parsifal.n The picture has made . great
sensation.
The Interstate Commerce bill has
greatly reduced the number OF opera com.
panies on the road. There are now less
than twenty OF these organizations travel
iuRthronwh tho country. Last season thera
were more than forty.
Mozart's "Don Giovanni had its I'VE
hundreth performance in Berlin the other
day. At the same opcrA-house Wagncr'a
ssRheingold,' and "GotteSdammerung'' aro
in active preparatlon.an Ghsck's AIphigonie
in Tauris" 10 to be revived with Wagner's
e~mendationh and additions.
The figures Of the receipts OF Jenny
Lindis ninety-Eve concerts in this country
under Mr., Barnum's management are thus
stated ia Barnum's autobiography; Re-
ceipts, &7i2, 1911 paid Jenny Lind, ei56,0Tb.
Harnum paid al travelling expenses for the
singer and servants, and kept carriages at
her constant command.
concert-goers sometimes wonder how
many concerts have been conducted during
q lifetime by eminent leaders like Theodore
Thomas. An approximate idea may be OBJ.
tanned from the announcement in Berlin
papers that Herr Bliss has just conducted
tho four thousandth concert IN Berlin
The first was given twenty years ago.
The Music Teachers National Associa-
ton, which is to meet in Chicago next july
win have musical facilities for presenting
its concert programmes. An -engaRement
has been entered into whereby Mr. Theo
dore Thomas will condnst the concerts, 10
which his orchestra and 4 largo chorus win
take part. Mr.. $. g. Pratt his been elected
director OF the chorus, and Nnll superintend
its preparatory study Of the various choral
works that are to be given.
The Boston Ideals have brought utACar.
men, with Miss zclie dc Lassan as tho he
7oinc, and the p~rodnction has proved sue.
ees-ful. The English version 81 Bisct's
masterpiece will be represented at the
Fifth Avenue Tllecter IN January. ard dur.
ing the IDEALS ecaAca at That house "9uern
Topaz by Massc, Wnl have its first hear.
ing III tho Unitei 6taseg. There Is als8 a
| probability that sThc Trunpeser of 81clan.
genn Will soon DO added 10 liz Io5tors
repertoire.
Tho GGmparini concart company travels
Ia 4 spacial Ger cha ssaea the sCasnpeni
MI, AID equipped VII en- Italian cook and
q large cs-orsncnt Of yalesa, waters ard
RAIDS Ia one ccrnerg off1e cor stands
TWO hago irca cylinders, Vlaiea have been
srnrioaeIy talren Tor ttii ~ rese=rS
CIR pgngp5, lne cgtingai shers ananlarraoth }
geolso-pos9. Ii reality TIE cyin&er3, wa1n
lsrl saa14a 81 1aoaaa of which
coapgossod SIR nay ba iahaicd, end e d
to Their use thu sg Cam9aaini Is said %
be jndo5ted for The recovery Of his voice,
winch W. years ago had quite forsal1cz
him.
Like many composers Of distinction, World
was an organist at an carly age. When
only twelve he did dufy is organist ia the
church Ct Roncolc, bis native village, study
ing harmony rnder the organist Sig
Baistroschi, . raan Of talent and knowledge
At fifteen Verdi dictated as organist At the
great church Of Bus.ctto. with q salary d
zee . year. His salary, first fixed at 81
Lrc,n ascss $3.50 was, during his second
years office, raised to no lire After
wards Verdi added the work Of c~hoirnasteI
70 that Of organist Soon after his mar
rage, when about twenty-five, he passed
1 m s-1asre Ct nnmnnsing for tAe4sae
his career as an humble, country-churci
crganisf ended, and be soon found himgei'
q famous opera-writer.
The world is just now busy il Europz
singing 3 new song, calling il 1sIhc Bon'
LANCER March, and il the h0trheadsd
Frenchmen who sing Il were to lose their
good sense o little moro the song might vel
get the world into trouble rs many another
song has done. The power Of q politics
song il wondcrful, and may rush any nRaiot
into war and bloodahcd. What q harangui
Of IN hour can not accomplish = song Of ifvs
minutes can, and the words 'En xev6nani
de IL Revuc's may yet have something II
answer for. The march was composed b
Desormes. originally leader Of . Partisan
theater ORCHESTRA, and would not have a.
tracted unusual attention IL it rad net beet
for Panius, the popular. variety singer d
Paris, who, hiking thp rhythmicsl swing. con
ceiyed the idea 81 having verses written 70 Il
II which introduced the name o. tho pcpalai
RaffBian idolof the hour, General BoulanRer
This, together with the lnlmitahle mnpneI
II which he sang Il caused y % achieye
phenomenal success At the Cafe Chantan
whore he sang It nightly. II was then tnkel
up by the bands, and has at last become 81
associated with the political fortunes Of TIL
soldier whose name it Gears as to cause Ia
French Government TO- prohibit the band
81 TIE army from playing M-Anef can In