St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-15
LOCAL NOTES.

The Musikverein st. Paul, under the
a concert on the evening of Dec. 26.
The interest in the coming Wagner
ian opera season is daily on the in
crease, and the operas are being stud
! led from all points of view.
Rev: w: R. Lord, Of the Unity
church, will deliver a series of lectures
on The Spiritual Motive of the Op-
eras Of Richard Wagner" just before
the operas are rendered in this city.
One or two prominent musicians will
also give talks on them from musi-
cal and artistic standpoint.
Miss Fannie Larkin will leave Jan.
for an extended stay abroad, visiting
the great performances. 1t is her in
tention to spend several months at
Vienna, where she will study the
piano under the direction of Lesche-
tizky.
Walter Gurnesy Reynolds, one of the
very well known young men in the
music circles of the city, will be mar
ried on Christmas evening TO Miss
Sadie A. Davis, of Appleton, Wis.
At the cathedral on Christmas two
fine musical programmes will be rem
dered at the forenoon services. The
first will be of Gounod and Beethoven
music, and the second will be a COM
pl6Ie beGlHONSH mass, NhlCi VIII po
rendered by a large choir, soloists,
pipe organ and full orchestra.
Emile Onet Is meeting with much
success in preparing the performance
Of Faust" which will be given short
ly after the holidays. He has not yet
fully arranged the chorus, and will
receive any who desire to sing in the
chorus at his studio at Dyer's from 3
to 5, Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Miss Harriet Hale will sing at the
regular recital of the Thirteen club
of Faribault, on Tuesday evening.
The coming Wednesday programme
of the Schubert club promises to be
one of unusual interest, and is given
under the direction of Mesdames De
Wolf and Curtis, who will present u
programme which will consist very
largely of the music by Americas ris-
ing young composer, Mcdowell. The
selection is a good one, and few writ
erS of this country are attracting
greater attention than he, and his best
work will be brought into notice on
Wednesday. The soloists of the AFTER
noon will be Mrs. De Wolf and Miss
Augusta Wicklund. The women's s
chorus. under the direction of Miss
Elsie Shave. will be heard in a num-
ber of selections.
Speaking of opera a weli-known writ
er said recently: "The people in this
art. Italian opera has served it's pur
pose, and good, long, faithful work it
has been forced to by managers too
timid to invest in novelties. by con-
ductors too ignorant to study the mira
cles wrought by Wagner, and by sing
ers too lazy to master new roles. All
this has changed. 1t is now Wagner
and the Wagnerian. music drama.
There is no escaping the relentless log
ic of the situation. Here on one side
the banal situations, the hackneyed
barrel-organ tunes of the old faded
Italian opera. On the other the fresh,
young, vigorous sap of the music
drama. The eternal songs of love-life
revoiced afresh. All the bewildering
charms of color, harmony, dramatic
incident are told in the most magical
tones the world has yet heard-told by
the voice of Wagner. The fervid pas
sion of Christian and Isolde" the ex-
qusite poetry of "Lohengrin," with its
pictures of medieval pomp. the ro-
mantle atmosphere of "rannhauser,"
the great philosophic sombre Ring of
the Nibelung," miniSture Cosmos.