The record-union., 1896-04-19

little over 800 and the average atlenu-
ance at the tabernacle is 4Oo The
choir was organized by Brigham Young
something like forty five years ago, and
has ever since been maintained out OF
the best voices of Utah. At nome 1t
sings with the support OF one OF the
finest organs in existence, and IN a
chamber that will hold many thousands
OF people and which has the best
acoustic properties of any auditorium in
the world Indeed, we have stood ooO
feet away and distinctly heard and
understood a sentence barely whispered
at the other end of the chamber. Inc
choir at the Columbian Exposition,
Chicago. won a 81, ZOO premium for its
merits in competition with other sing
ing bodies. 1t has sung to the support
of Gilmore's Band Theodore Thomas
orchestra, and with Emma c. Thursby
and NJ w Whitney leading, as well as
in support of other noted vocal1sts. Ii
also appeared in conjunction with
Paderewski and Sousa's Band recently.
It's excursion to California is one of
pleasure and its concerts are given
simply to aid its members in paying ex-
penses. It's repertoire embraces thirty
oratorios, operas and cantataS and vast
number of glees, choruses, part songs,
solos, quartets, quintets and concerted
pieces. 1t has the largest music library
of any singing organization on the CONT
nent In the group to appear here are
several of the daughters and grand
children of the late Brigham Young.
AT the Clunie Opera-house this even
ing for the last time the first act of LAS
Al aTlxr
David Garrick." Next week the farce
comedy The Private Secretary"
The once famous singer Piccolomini
who left the stage to marry the Marquis
Della Farina, a cousin of the Duke OF
Sermoneta, lives in seclusion in Flor
ence.
At Tamagno's last appearance in ST.
Petersburg as Othello an orchestra
chair cost $50, and the boxes were from
S400 to $500. Russia is paying high for
privileges of hearing singers that are
not in demand in this country.
NJ Duprez, the famous French tenor,
creator of the part of Fernando in la
Favorita,'' will this year celebrate the
ninetieth anniversary of his birth
Amateurs who do not know what
Wales has done in producing composers
vocalists, instrumentalists and conduc-
tCrs will soon have no excuse for igno-
rance, Frederic Griffith, the flutist, be-
ing engaged upon a volume entitled
Notable Welsh Musicians" The book
will be illustrated by nearly hundred
portraits, and the editor, by way of pre-
face, takes critical survey of the pres
ent condition of music in Wales.
An erroneous item about Mozart is go
ing the rounds of the German and mu-
steal papers. It states that no opera of
Mozart was sung in Berlin till five
years after his death, or just hundred
years ago. The truth is that Don
Juan was produced there in the year
of Mozart's death QS91); yet one of the
leading critics wrote that sit is the pro-
duct of a freak, a caprice, and not in
spired by the heart. Beside
we have never heard anyone claim that
Mozart is a composer Of note"
After a long silence, explained prob
ably by his numerous failures, Charles
Lecocq has come forward once more in
Paris with a new operetta, "Ninette,' ,
but it's libretto is SO simple and unin-
teresting that its chances of life are con-
sidered very slender
An interesting item comes from
Madrid. At recent orchestral concert
given there by Conductor Kogel ot
Frankfort, Liszt's symphonic poem
Lies PrecIudes," created such a sensa-
tion that the audience insisted on its
being repeated twice. The southern
nations are only just beginning to find
out what great composer Liszt was
They will admire him some day as
warmly as they now admire Wagner.
T. l.. Southgate of London, in a recent
lecture "On the Treatment of Music by
Novelists." referred to a hero who was
supposed to live in the last century and
whose favorite oratorio was Mendels-
sohn's Elijah" Other amusing points
in Mr.. Southgate's catalogue of errors
were an elastic penny whistle, and
Chopin's A fiat impromptu as a voca
piece: also the fascination which a ref
.erence to consecutive fifths" and hero
ines who sing fugues have for novel
lists.
There is a movement in London to re-
store the ballet to its former popularity
Sir Arthur Sullivan is going to write q
ballet for the Alhambra, and the names
of Mr. Cowen and Mr. German have
been mentioned in connection with g
similar task for the Empire. A class
for the composition of ballet and light
music has also been formed at the
Royal College of Music, and at It's head
has been placed that eminent hero of q
hundred ballets, NJ. George jacob
English and American critics of the
present day are perhaps severe on occa-
sions. but they must hide their dimin-
ished heads in shame in comparison
with their colleagues of fifty years ago
Here is a nice little paragraph which
appeared in the London Theatrical
Times" QS46) in regard to a "Bal
Masque" given at Covent Garden by
Julien:
The last seal was set to the preten-
sions of that impudent imposter, Jul
lien in the result of his beastly French
exhibition on Monday last. How Eng
lishmen can tolerate the vile abomina-
tions of such an exhibition, we know
not What were the police about that
haif-naked unfortunates and wretched
debauches were allowed unrestrictedly
10 promenade the public thoroughfares
disgusting every eye and annoying
every ear within reach of the intolerablt
nuisance? Let us hear no more of the
talent of this Julien. Any advertise