The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-26
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

| l;ye1y German writer who uses the PEN
name Of Kalauer fNonsense), has just pub
| lished a Little Dictionary OF Music, when Is
| full of piquancy and which treats even VIZ
| m ost serious questions with clever 'eI'o dn1
| rajllery. Among other good things on mus
this iocund definition OF the .'Music OF the
Future (Zukunftsmusik). "By TINS teini,
saws the author, sare designated the WorAs Vi
certain classic composers who have corraileu
beforehand the motifs that Wagner had re,
served for his own music or the lutuie-
Mendelssohn in particular, inaugurateu ms
system OF refined robbery. For lhsthhce' ~
commenced his overture OF 'Ine falr ".
sine by the Wave Motif which pelohseu ~
the future prelude OF the 'Rhinegoid, ana ms
"A Minor symphony begins Win one
of the most beautiful motifs OF the
sWelkure' which was also an opera OF the
future when Mendelssohn used the moth. III 10
not astonishing that the plundered wagner
should have become furious as Lowe yam
amusing play OF words follows, untrahsiate u
in English on the name OF ''Lowe." the cele
brated composer of ballads, which slgnInes III
English "lion') robbed OF his ballads. NO one
can wonder that Wagner found nothing good
in Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert, who also'
in spite of his honesty, could not resist com
posing music of the future; it was Schuoert
who stole, beforehand, the Forge theme
from that esteemed composition, the "Nlpel-
ungen," and used it for the principal mollVe
of the scherzo in his minor quartet, although
he had the decency not TO print the Work tlii
after his DEATH" Kalauer goes on IN TINS strain,
and his revelations are entertaining 10 1husl-
clans, though they will make him enemies
among the straitest sect of the Wagnerlans.
The journal II Trovatore thinks that much
seeking after composer to guide its muslcai
destinies has driven the little town OF
Pesaro crazy. Comes was first asked 10
take the dictatorship of the Pesaro
Music Institute, but he could not leave
Brazil, Puccini declined the honor, but
Mascagni, who was and is making sensational
tour of Austria and Germany as conductor,
consented TO assume the duties OF director on
his return to Italy. II Troyatore says: "They
have lost all common-sense at Pesaro. Tnls
will be self-eyident wren we explain that the
beginning of the scholastic year came the
other day, and as it was impossible to present
the new director to the public, the composer OF
'Cayalleria Rusticana' was replaced by MS
wife. Mrs Mascagni was paraded through the
streets, and the town was Illuminated in her
honor. What q ridiculous celebration. De-
cidedly the people OF Pesaro have lost their
heads"
pair of long black gloves on two slender
expressive arms have captivated Paris for the
IasL thIeS years, anu Ao" lhoy oAe 0@Aot "i"-Ae
their fascination on New York They belong
to Yvette Guilbert, the most remarkable cafe
chantant singer OF the century. She has not
the slight test claim to beauty, and her features
in repose have little fascination. The first
Partisan manager who took her up and COM
meneed TO coin money with her cannot for the
life OF him tell how he ever gave her chance
among his performers. But on the stage Yvette
is transformed. She is a living, breathing ex-
ample of a woman who does the impossible. She
is statuesque, not chic. Whatever abandon she
may have is not expressed in frou-
frou OF skirts, or series OF we'll
directed kicks. She uses her eyes with
effect put it is from her arms and her