The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-08

night in or about graveyards, to fright
en- away evil spirits who came to dis
turb the peace Of the dead; 6) war
songs-among the most celebrated of
which was the Song of Roland.
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A correspondent at Munich thus de-
scrlbes the new machinery for produc-
ing the motions of the Rhine daughters
in Wagner's 'Rheingold:" Each of the
three singers stood in a sort of cornu-
copia, hung from pulleys and trolleys
by nearly invisible wire ropes; each of
these three appliances required for its
manipulation the aid of thirteen men,
and every movement, up or down, to the
front or back or side, was controlled by
a separate rope; while one man of each
thirteen acted as director, Indicating
each movement as called for by text or
music.
Scranton has again been threatened
with a production of Queen Esther"
and considerable apprehension has
been felt among musical people over
the threatened outbreak. 1t is to be
hoped that the effort to review the old
chestnut will be nipped in the bud.
Esther has served her time as an
instrument of torture in the hands of
ambitious amateurs and is entitled to
an unbroken rest. BY all means let
Essy's ghost remain undisturbed.
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The members of the chorus in the I'M
perial opera at Vienna are in no sudden
danger of becoming millionaires. Dur
ing the first two years they are regarded
as students and receive no compensa-
ton. The next three years they get %
florins (about $1W a month, to which 81
a month is annually added, till, in eight
years, the maximum of $2S a month is
reached.
Johann Strauss seems to be indefatig-
able. He has already completed the first
act of his fifteenth operetta, while his
"Jakuba," produced during the jubilee
in Vienna, has hardly had time to reach
other German cities. 1t has now been
given in Berlin with even more brilliant
success than in Vienna, while Hamburg
and other cities will hear it soon.
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Will c. Macfarlane, the talented
young organist, who opened the new
organ at Penn Avenue church two
years ago, is giving a series of recitals
in New York, at All Souls church.
The twenty-sixth recital of the series
will be given on Tuesday afternoon
next. 1t is probable that Mr.. Macfar-
Lane will be again heard in Scranton
during the present season.
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The chorus choir at the First Pres
byterian church will be increased to
forty voices when the programme of
Christmas music Is rendered. Director
music at First church this year will be
the finest ever heard in that edflce.
Table Morgan, the we'll known mu-
steal director, has been made represent
ative of the Musical Courier for north
eastern Pennsylvania.
sHARPS AND FLATS:
"The Trial Kiss" is the name of the new
operetta which Mllloecker has Just com.
pleted.
The sum of $1,000 has been so far col
lected in Italy for the monument to Doni
zetti at Bergamo.
In his thirty hours pianoforte perform
ance In London 1t Is estimated that Herr
Berg struck the instrument ], 1886, 900 times
The last composition of the late Hunga
rian composer Czibullxa is a WALTZ
| Serenade" for plano numbered as opus 800
There is no chorus and no ballet II
Mascagni's opera "Ratcllff," which is tC
have its first performance in Berlin mex
January.
Hans Sommer's opera, "St. Folk" re
Gently had its first representation at The
Court theater, Munich. He calls It q thu
morous music drama"
Sir Arthur Sullivan has finished all thu
music for the new version of the "Con
trabandlsta," which will be almost new
opera, as only five numbers of the origina
version are retained, while the second act
words and music. is entirely new. Sii