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BoAndsr will occupy In turn the boards Of the MstrS
| politAn Opera House this week "TannhAuser" 10
given Monday evening and Saturday afternoon. Aida
Wednesday evening and DER PlisEends Holhnder
between the three tsnorS Hsrron vog, Peroth an
KSllsch and gives Herr RsohmAnn . chance to asssr
himself Friday EsSs gracefully than baritone cal
hope do when the leading role in opera assigned
to a tenor. big little In AIDA" Of course, Her
Psroi IL to be RdddreG RshsArsas Of vsrdrs 'otellO
have already been had In this It IL understood tina
Herr voEl will n the tituAr role
Mr. Thomas will give second Sunday concert thi
evening at the Lenox Lyceum. His programme viii
include Massensts Scenes EapotaineS" the overture
| to the Magic Flute" "Ruy Bias" (Mendelssohn's)
and "Tannhaaser." an AndAnto and sohorzo by Bach
and sundry other good hngS besides Johann srausst
very newest and In America quite unknown. "KAisei
Waltz" Tho vocalist OF the occasion is to be Nile
Clemsntina De We're, who will sing "oli anEul" from
"Tho Magic Flute" and the Bird Song" from DaVidi
| "Pero du Bresll."
Tho third and last of Herr DAberts rscals of piano
music may be attended at steInway Hail. on Monday
Afternoon The brilliant virtuosos anal programme
likely to prove attractive than its predecessors
for 1t Ia stamped by unusual variety. Schubert GreR
DAbert, TRusiR, and LisEt all represented within
its limits its contents being follows Schubert i'm
promptu op. 90 No. 8; fantasia or is @ major. Ed
ward Greg, "AlbumblatL" op. 80 No q; "Erotik" op.
8s No I, "Humoresko" op o, No 8 ballad In form OF
| variations on a Norwegian melody. op. "a BuRen
| DAlbefS suite op ], In movements Shrl lAublk'
waller on Strauss "NAohtfalter"
| erweisen" Franz Liszt, "LiebestrAum." No 8, Po'
lonaise No. 2 4 major, "vaSo lmpromptu" Hungarian
| rhapsody. No. II
| ssfor sarasate and Herr D'Albert will make their
last appearance in this city-for some weeks at any
| rate-at tho Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday
evening The Spanish vioinist is to play Laos span
ish Symphony and his Nightingale and Bundry
minor solos while the Franco Germano Scottish pianist
will perform BrahH Aconcero in d and somo compost
tions OF sliRhter proportions 1t is understood that
after this the artists to part company
for awhile II being intended It Is said. to send Herr
DAlbert westward far as may be found profitable
So while Senior sarasato goes to Mexico II this
plan carried out Cincinnati and Chicago will be the
loserS but the Mexcans will escape an overdose Of
Brahm and this Jointly for the good Of Herr DAlbert
himself, who might be suffered by Mexican audience
to finish the 6rst movement Of Brahm composition.
but would never live through q second
Tho Boston Symphony Orchestra. the receipts of
many Of whose outortown concerts have almost ex.
coeded this the extraordinary akngs in Boston,
give their second New York performance Of the
current winter at steinway Hall on Tuesday of this
week. The programme arranged by Nr Arthur Niki1ch
Is follows: l. Overture, "sakuntala" Goldmark; p
Concerto for viooncello Saint Saens; Variations on
n themo OF HAydn's, Brahms; symphony in fat
No. / (nrst timel Alexander Bozodin Mr.. Anton
HekknR violoncellist will be the Bolost
Dr. F. L. Ritter of vassar College, . composer and
historian sold attainments and European well AZ
American renown will give the first of series Of four
afternoon lectures music, with illustrations at
Chiokering Hall on Thursday. Jan 2S
The music lovers OF Milan are in great distress for
Franco Faccio the celebrated conductor Of La Scala Is
about to forsake them After eighteen years Of good
and loyal service La Scala, siRnor Facco goes to
Parma succeed BottesinL de ia to have charge Of
the Parma Conservatory and orchestra with three
months of absence and annual salary of 2oO
It IL clear that Italian musicians do not yet command
tho salaries paid by American spoculators and man
aRers Herr Seid earned last year about $1,000; N.
Bouhy received $4,000 for eight months work as
director the Conservatory h Seventeenth street. and
behold the leading operatic conductor of tne world
accepting the pay Of first violin in the United States
siRnor Facco unlike his illustrous fellow countrymen
of DID, can have suspected the existence of the
New World
Great excitement prevailed in Paris during q recent
performance of Lucia" ct tho Grand Opera Tho
tenor CaSSirA, suddenly seized with an attack OF
influenza aud the curtain had 70 bo lowered The aged
Duprez who DoniIetns opera at the San Carlo In
Naples in 1885. in the house. but although quite
prepared to entertain proposals. for an American tour
he declined to face PariSiRn audience. He suggested
however pupil young toner named EnRel EnEei
seated In the stalls and pounced upon at once
But declined 70 sing saying that he rendered his
vices to NM Rtt and oailhard time before and
that these gentlemen told him that his voice would not
the third Of parquet seats Duprez dragged
Enge the and there N. Ritt-Gailhard being
absent-besought him to help them out and apoogzed
in tho most abject manner for his partner
had rashy prophesied The upshot of the matter was
that Engel finished the opera, and successfully. Mme
Melba was Lucia
Tho success of the season the Liceo Theatre, at
Barcelona. Is Gluck's "orpheuR" with Nine Sofia
scalchi or5eo Tho Spanish newspapers are nled
with ouloEes Of the oontralto, and sonnets abound.
1ropatore is authority for the statement that Man
aEer Stanton has secured tho American rights TO
new opera " The vassal OF Szigeth," and
for the further announcement that he will shortly pro-
duce at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Victor MAursra illness repored to DO of serious
nature that Is considered doubtful he will be able
10 fulfil his South American engagement More bad
Is at hand In shape OF dingS that Adoph Fischer
he wel.romembered viooncellist who went mad some
Tears ago but Attorward restored to health has
lgAin gone out Of his Benses
Tho Paris newspapers ma ke known that American
ournal has thus the OF the Mar.
luis de Caux. Nine AdelnA PATHS husband He
vas In his cath year when he died.
The complete recovery of Mmo. zeiiA Trebei and her
temperance in public In announced by
European newspapers
Andrea CastellAn of vicenza, Gtdt II and q great |
in the days Of Cruvell RubnL coottL and other
most prehistoric sovsreRns of the lyric stage no
loro lie earned his livelihood during his declining
ayB a small dealer In tobacco and salt With lit
10 caution Masini the admirable Of living tenorA
likely to end his existence In comfortabl cir
umsanceA He has already invested upward OF $3.50.
DO in Italian real estate Apropos Of tenorA the story
sgnor Mazcows financial troubles Is auhoEitatvely
enied. He Is still wealthy. and likely to remain So
The scenic rehearsals of "Die MeistersinKsr" now
RkinR ready for production La Scala In Milan arc
'nduoted by Julius KneSs chorus master at BayIouth
Tho ToVdtoTe newspaper prints In Its issue of Dec
following laconic despatch Chicago II Dicembre
pertura Auditorium con Concerto CdHtdtd occAsIono
" eBecutorii SplendidA Patta-cantd; Home. Sweet
ono; PreSidente Harrison, Ministr. AutortA pres
It'll" All musical Italy has grown wildly excited over
10 newspapers extraordinary enterprise.
The performance of "EsclArmohde" was notAwAitsd q
th pleaSurable antcipatons In BrusSelA The orches
al musicians proclaimed the opera bad imitation OF
Agner from beginning to end, and Belgian VITA ii
ya du, by the way-proposed that Its title should be
ngthened out 20 as to read. "ESear mOnde-OG ron n