The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-03

liItc bdIS. ana lItN SuEStSN s''iiiS-
thing familiar. i cannot understand
or explain. II is. perhaps, because OF
some certain atmosphere. The subject
of the first movement OF lDNOraK 5
symphony. From the New World and
the melody Of a song called ANN pnia,
which occurs in the queen of Hearts
an operetta that l wrote in 1855, are
exactly Identical. The song in Iues-
ton is placed in the second oct. and
when the Queen faints the Jack Of
Hearts produces the smelling tottle
and sings:
It's a well-established fact
That nothing serves so well
To neutralize and counteract
A swoon or fainting spell
As this peculiar drug, they say.
Which you will recognize
BY pungent memories which may
Bring tears into your eyes.
Ammoniai Ammonia,
Perhaps in Patagonia
The natives say 'Ammonier,
But we regard ii 'tonier
To call IL thus: Ammonium,
Am mo- ni-ah!
Il am confident that Dvorak never
saw the operetta and most likely never
heard Of IT, That ne has used the iden-
teal subject l feel proud, and that |
am an American, at least according to
the ideas of SO great a man as DNorak.
who gives in his symphony the idea or
American music.
Il have written four comic operas.
Two of them were failures. | have
now written one for De Wolf Hopper.
II will be brought out next fall. l hope
it win succeed. Then | have written
another. which, in that case, will be
brought out the year following. The
subject of the first is Peruvian, placed
in time of the Spanish conquest. The
| book is by Charles Klein, author or
The District Attorney II this long
suffering comic opera public likes FL
Captain, The Bride Elect of which
am guilty of not only the music, but
the book, will follow. ! trust this
double work of words and music Will
not prove a second case of the prince
! who was a soldier and who undertook
| TO write a poem. The soldiers all pro-
nounced him a good poet and the poets
| a good soldier.
Il have noticed that people who are
/ at once successful fail to fulfill ex-
| pectations. Take for instance, Teddy
! Solomon. 'Billee Taylor from a comic
| opera point of view, was surely sue
| cessful, but future expectations were
not fulfilled. If a man starts out TO
| find recognition and fails he must plOd
and strive hard if he wishes to obtain
It, If after years he makes a success
| he knows how hard IL was TO get it,
and he tries and strives to hold it.
! The way things some times come.
| Take for instance these two songs,
| All Me- and Song of the Sea- ] wrote
them in 1877. almost twenty years ago.
and got SO for them. \ publisher
| lately bought the copyright from the
| firm / sold them To and they send me
! copy Of each with the request that |
! viii revise anything / may care to.
and that ! shall have 10 per cent of the
sales. But il one tolls and makes "A
dent on the public mind he must know
how to value It, \ man too readily
successful thinks the public lightly
won. The public is not easy to win. To
show how dangerous IL Is 10 take lib
critics even I'm small matters ] will
mention this: We arrived one day last
winter in a little New England town
In the midst Of a blizzard. The audi
cnce was small. for ii was a difficult
matter even for US to get there our
selves. Some of the boxes containing
music did not arrive. Handels Largo.
announced for performance, was
among the missing. l played some
thing else, but made no announce
ment Of the number, as | should have
done. 1t had seemed scarcely neces-
sary After the performance an old
gentleman came to me and said: i
liked the concert. but, candidly. the
one thing | came TO hear was Handel's
Largo
Il believe thoroughly in electrical
currents and magnetism and that one
can feel what an audience thinks one
infallible evidence of dissatisfaction is
coughing. When ] hear good dea
of that l generally know what parts oil
the composition are best cut"
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