The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
Gathered i'm the
World of Melody.
Interesting Notes About Famous
Musicians at Home and Abroad.

| finally the Meyerbeer stipends. which
enabled him to continue his studies at
the Royal School Of Music, at Munich,
and to spend a few years In Italy. In
1881 he went to Barcelona, Spain, where
he taught composition and music
theory at the Conservatory of Munich
until 1887, when he returned to Cologne.
Since 1880 he has been one Of the teach
ers at Hoch's Conservatory at Frank
fort.
SHARPS AND FLATS:
| Blind Tom ls playing In Texas
| Ysaye, the violinIst will 20 to San Fran
cisco next month.
| Goodwin and Furst are at work on an
opera fer Della Fox.
| Trilby is said to be the theme Of an
opera that IL being prepared.
| Tristan and Isolde" was produced In
Boston for the first time last week.
Camille D'Arville will appear in a new
opera In New York the coming summer.
Eddie Foy and Marie Dressler will ap-
pear In a new comic opera entitled Little
Robinson Crusoe"
| Owing to Its success In Reading last
week, the Aborn Opera company was en-
gagged for two weeks there in October.
| Mrs. Marie Harrison. the Canadian So
prano. is said to possess a vocal range
greater than that Of the phenomenal Miss
Ellen Beach Yaw.
| Miss Marguerite Merrington, the play.
wright. has written the libretto of two
act comic opera called Daphne" Arthur
| Bird composed the music.
Harry Askin has purchased 'The
Sphinx" new opera by Louis S. Thomp.
son and William NJ. Browne. both Of Bos.
| ton.
| NJ. Guzman, musical enthusiast, has left
$1,000 francs to the city Of Paris to pay fol
musical entertainments for the sick poor
In hospitals and asylums.
LA Jacquerie," grand opera left un-
finished by the late Edward Lalo, COM
poser Of lie Roi dYs," and completed by
NJ. Cocquard, has been given with success
at Monte Carlo.
The cast for Estelle Clayton's opera
''The Viking" includes William Il. Carl.
ton, Edwin Stevens, Albert Clayton, Burt
| Haverly, William Vaudeville, Clara Lip.
man and Marie Dressler.
Max Alvary speaks five languages, his
latest acquisition being Russian. He is g
photographer, blacksmith, carpenter, elec.
trician, architect and soldier, having
served year in the German cavalry
"Amusia" or loss Of the musical fac
ulty, has been reviewed by Professor Ed
gren, Of Stockholm. The disease proves
to be strictly analogous to aphasia, the
loss Of speech, which may or may not ac
company 1t. .
NJ. Paderewski is still devoting portion
Of his leisure to the orchestration of hi.
new Polish opera, but the work will not ht
ready till the end of the year, and possibly
not till after his tour in the United State.
the coming season.
To this day the most popular of nj
operas in Cairo is Aida" which is per
formed there every year by French com
best opera was composed for the late Is
mail Pasha, who paid the composer $50, ,U-
for it. 81.
De koven and Smiths new opera, "The
Tzigane." the scenes of which are laid IL
Russia during Napoleon's invasion in 1872
will be produced by the Lillian Russell
Opera company on May 10. The title role
will be sung by Miss Russell, and is that o,
a Russian gypsy.
Demetrio Alata, Of Reggie, in Calabria. {
telegraph operator in Milan, has invented
a process to transmit music writing u,
telegraph. The Italian minister for pos
and telegraphs has directed the commit
tee whose duty 1t is to examine into tn,
merits of new inventions to make a re
port.