The morning call., 1894-10-17

spectacular show and the most wonderful
peri ormance l ever saw in my life. To
look all over The stage when the show
was going on was sinpy imp is-ihlP.
There were a thousand girls in the ballet
alone, and altogether there were two
thousand people 10 the production, which
was simply dazzling. AS soon as you
en- ter you are lie e.v,d by Turks, who be-
tween the acts conduct you through the
magnificent lamp-lit gardens, or you can
sail in caique through the hall of the
thousand and one columns. The whole
front of the stage is one vast lake"
DO boats sail about on The stageT was
asked.
"Boatsw calculated August Hinrichs
''big fleets come in. 'C0nstaDtinople' is
so gorgeous and tremendous, In fact, that
it is more like the capital Of Turkey than
specta cuIar show al all
I'm Paris what delighted me was VerdPs
'Falstatf,' which l saw at the Opera
Comique. 1t was wonderfu-sO full of
piquancy and gracefniness, and yet so
mode m, a great advance on Nerdi's other
work. / could have heard that opera not
once but twelve times. and then have
wanted TO hear it again. Some of the
choTuses were q la cappelIa, just the voices
without anv orchestra. 1t was grandly
sung and eed, too. Fngere, who takes
MauTeIS old part, was simply immense"
After commenting on the outward mag
nticeBee of the Paris Grand Opera ana the
sha abbiness of its interior decoration, tue
Baldwin conductor added: ANY Ameri-
can would be ashamed To sit in such
places as most of the seats are, but the
outside Is an imposing sight. The produc-
tionS OF opera are simply immense. but
you would not go 10 them after you have
seen a performance in Bayreuth. There
you get the most perfect production in all
its details that You can possibly imagine.
and nothing but English is spoken in
the town. 1t was common joke at the
festival that If you do not wish TO be un-
dersto0d you must speak German there. "
August Hinricbs. who was uupackng q
number of interesting trophies, then
showed his 'Bayreuth card" which con-
| tained the pictures of the leading lights
of the festival That's Wiborg." he ex-
| claimed In a0miring accents, rs he pointed
tn tile photograph of the great singer.
"Acb, as Ell Zabetb in 'Tannnauser' she
sang The Blue Down from Heaven
There's Van Dyke-he Is a grand tenor
and Birren koyen, what a 'Parsifal' he
made; he was TO my mind the best artist
/ there
| Another interesting souvenir was of a
concert given in Munich fer some people
in Bavaria whose homes had been de.
! stroyed by cyclone.
IL went all the way from Saltzburg to
hear it. For the first and last time Leon
cavallo conducted. He cid 1t Just as a
drawing card for the concert. He is a
young man of middle stature and mos,
unpretentlous. Tne music he conducted
was the overture to his L Medci' and
the intermezzo from Il Pag iacci' AS
for the people, they went wild over him
when he came on the stage and when he
had ended conducting, but every time he
bowed to the orchestra and would moi
| claim any of the ovation for himself"
Another musician of whom Mr.. Hin
| richs had pleasant memories was the
clever theorist and composer. Meyer Older.
| sleben. whose opera. CLARA Dettina. y
was recently produced with great success:
| at Weimar. and who is soon going into re.
| hearsal at the royal theaters of Munict
and Berlin. All the time he was away
however. the conductor of the Baldwin
never seems to have forgotten his musi
| clans at home. Not only did he bring eaci
man indiV iVidually a souvenir, but he ha.
also brought a number of pictures To-
their room at the Iheaier. II have abou
100 overtures from new operas." he said
when questioned about his collection o
music. 81 shall spring some Of them OF
the public next week, when the Kendall
come. To tell the truth am tired of loa I
ing around and doing nothing. Ishall b
glad to 60 to work again.