The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-15


a soprano waltz song. Dreaming OF
Love-" and I'm Just Little Indian,
Nothing More" A Spanish dance in
the second act is executed by twelve
young women.
A select male quartette. Messrs.
Samuel Spry. j. T. Dunbar. John
render the musical exercises at the
funeral services of the late Sergeant
Wilson today.
The possible value of bamboo for or
gan pipes, suggested at a meeting of
the Japanese society, in London, has
been demonstrated at Shanghai, ac-
cording to a correspondent, who writes
that the tone of an organ made from
bamboo pipes is incomparaDly more
beautiful than that of eny 'rgan he
has heard in Europe. AS the cost is
two-thirds less than that of other or
gans, the development of The idea may
be rapid.
A series of revivals of the most pop
ular of the Gilbert and Sullivan OPP
eras is to be commenced at the Ire
mont theatre, Boston, May IS, and to
continue fourteen weeks. John Mason
and Marian Manola are to be the stars
of the production, and Julian Edward
will be the director. The scenery and
costumes will be entirely new, and the
casts will include as many of the orig
inals in the characters as can be en-
gagged.
Gilbert describes his method of col
liberation with Sullivan. He meets
the composer and proposes a subject,
which they discuss freely and fully.
After the plot is settled Gilbert writes
a fairly long scene, and that is dis
cussed and altered several times. Any
thing that Sullivan thinks is unfit for
musical treatment is stricken out. At
ter number of conferences Gilbert be-
gins in earnest, and sends his libretto
to Sullivan.
A concert will be given in the Six
teenth ward meeting house on Fri
day night, the Goth inst. The best tai
ent the ward affords will take part
and an enjoyable time is promised all
who attend. Samuel Spry, leader of
the ward choir, has charge of the af-
fair and that fact alone is a sufficient
guarantee of its artistic success. The
proceeds are to go towards defraying
the cost of the new meeting house.
The English theatrical papers have
been discussing, pro and con, the death
of Mime. Patey, which some of them
claim was due to the inconsiderate in
sistence of her audience at Manchester
upon an encore. There are few artists
of the stage who will not risk injury
to respond to an enthusiastic recall. The
artists of the drama, however, are for
tunate in that their presence, with
possibly a few words of acknowledge
ment is enough, while the singer is ex-
pected to sing again.-Dramatic Mir
ror.
Although it has confidently been
stated in some quarters that Verdi has
resolved to make "Falstaff'' his last
opera, yet news from Italy persistently
repeats that he is engaged up0n an
other opera. working at it two or three
hours steadily every day. The subject.
is a close secret, shared only by Boito,
its librettist, and Mrs. Verdi. 1t is,
however, generally understood that it
is on the subject either of King Lear
or Romeo and Juliet" for it is known
that Boito has written ibretti to each.
Mascagni is said to be depressed by
the reception of his operas, THE Rant
Eau" and Friend Fritz" and lately
gave utterance to his dissatisfaction at
Naples. Il will have revenger' he
cried. II will show that L can still do
something. Revenge. Revenge!' His
companions replied, We'll, take the
Revenge of Teboldo Cicconi." Mas
cagni sprang up. You are right; l
will take it," So one of his next operas
will be called Revenge" Tamagno
has refused to create the title role in
"Ratcliff,' and the composer is on the
lookout for another tenor
Says contributor to an English
paper as to Paderewski: He pos
sesses great tact and that happy
quality of being able to make all about
him comfortable. No matter how tired
he may be after a concert he always
has a kind word for everybody who
has assisted him, whether in an i'm
portant or a humble capacity; and
there is probably no artist who pos
sesses in a more marked degree the
good will and respect, as we'll as ad
miration, of those who come in contact
with him in an official way. Once
after travelling whole day he arrived
at his destination just in time to fill
his evening engagement. He had
eaten nothing for hours, and felt ut
terly tagged. Of course he had to pull
himself together and give his recitals.
The concert over, he prepared to leave
the hall He was told that the people
would be dreadfully disappointed if
they were not presented to him. With
out a word, but with a smile. he took
off his top coat and faced the ordeal.
He shook hands with over 800 people
before he was permitted to escape"