The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-05

career. Every possible comfort is to be
provided, not emitting fifty pianos and
proportionate number of organs. The
designs for the building are already
in a forward state, and the composer
even hopes that it may be completed
before his death"
Rubinstein's room at Peterhoff has
been locked and is to be kept exactly in
the condition in which he left it, The
expense of his burial was undertaken
by the government, and a subscription
was at once started for a monument.
His friends say that he was himself re-
sponsible for his untimely death; he ate
too much took too little exercise.
worked too hard. and stubbornly re-
fused to see a doctor even when
asthma, fainting fits and insomnia
warned him. Plaster casts have been
taken of his face and hands. The st.
Petersburg Conservatory remained
closed three days.
There Is no chorus and no ballet in
Mascagni's opera, "Ratcliff," which Is
to have it's first performance in Berlin
in January.
Il II Il
A letter from st. Petersburg states
that shortly before his death Rubin
stein put the finishing touches to a
suite in five movements for orchestra.
and this, together with the cantata for
soloists, orchestra and chorus, written
for the opening of the new building
of the st. Petersburg Conservatoire,
was his latest work. Another and more
important effort-that Is to say, a sa-
cred opera, to take three evenings in
performance, and entitled Cain and
Abep'- he leaves unfinished.
Il II h
Private letters from Paris state that
Calve has become perfect hypo-
chondriac. To all appearances she is
perfectly well, but those privileged to
know her personally have to listen to
ions accounts of her ailments and to
her constant reiteration of the remark
that she Is very sick woman.
SHARPS AND FLATS:
Nikita is singing in Russia.
Leoncavallo will soon conduct his new
symphony, "Seraphita," at Berlin.
Edwin Stevens will appear in Rob
! Roy" De Koven and Smiths new opera.
"Ignelde," a new opera by Max Schil-
| lings, llbretto by Count Sporck, will soon
be given in Carlsruhe.
There Is no chorus and no ballet in Mas
| cagni's opera, "Ratcliffe, which Is to have
its first performance in Berlin next
month.
Emperor william Is arresting Berlin
critics on charge of lese majestic because
they express adverse opinion of his "Song
to Aegir."
1t Is related of Chopin that he would GO
from one end of Paris to the other rather
than write letter. Brahms has the same
popularity.
Being asked at Paris II It was true that
he was writing a symphonic poem on
Death" Verdi replied, Death is think
ing of me. but 1 am sure l am not Of
| It,"
Bronlslaw Hubermann, the violinist. has
| received from an admiring countryman,
| the Polish Count Johann Zamoyski, a
| present Of a Stradivarius violin valued at
| $500.
Saint-Saens will again spend the winter
in Algiers, where he will devote part of
his time to completing the operatic torso
left by the late Ernest Guiraud. "Frede-
gonde ct Brunehaut."
Upward of 200 one-act operas have been
written in Germany and Italy during the
] last twelve months. as consequence
probably Of the success of Cavallcria Rus
I ticana." The plots of nearly all Of them
| turn on tragical outcomes Of Illicit love-