The herald., 1896-07-12


attire, she sat for moment in private
box while the conductor begged the
fndulgence of the audience. who natu-
rally would have been astonished TO see
her in travelling costume. Signor Ar
diti boldly took the plunge:
"Ladies and gentlemen. he SAID
Mile. de Lido is undressed In pox.
But she will sing If you weesh."
STRAY CHORDS.
Mr.. Eric Hamber of Winnipeg, one of
Canada's best known tenors, Is soJourh-
ing for few weeks in this city. 49,,
The piano pupils recital Is still with
us. On Tuesday evening Miss Caro-
Higgins students will give proofs OF
their progress at the Southern California
Music hall.
Miss Mollie Brown. soprano; Mrs.
Edith Brown Young, alto; Mr.. J. IA.
Zinck, tenor; Mr.. c. S. Cornell, BARI
tone; Mr.. McQuillen, flute soloist; Mr..
Theo. Martens. pianist; the Ladies
Quartet and the well known Dudley
Buck Concert club of this city, compose
the aggregation of musical talent that
will assist at the Chautauqua at Long
Beach. The opening concert will be on
Tuesday evening.
The first number of the Journal Mus
ical has just been issued in Paris. 1t
is an interesting national critical bulle-
tin of musical photography.
Charles Scribner's Sons have issued
new volume, The Legends Of the Wagner
Drama, Studies in Mythology and Ro-
nance, by Jessie l.. Weston, which will
doubtless find large number of readers
The book is published by a London
house with which Scribner's Sons have
arranged for the American publication.
Aubrey Beardsley. the decadent. has
thus delivered himself: 1T is thous-
and pities that concerts should only be
given either in the afternoon when you
are torpid, or in the evening when you
are nervous. Surely you should assist
at fine music as you assist at the mass,
before noon, when your brain and heart
are not too troubled and tired with the
secular influences of the growing day.
In one of his recent essays Phillip
Hale, the musical critic of Boston, sum-
med UP the peculiarities of musicians in
this way: "Pianists and composers are
apt to be irritable and vain. Fiddlers
are inclined toward poker. Singers are
often naughty persons. Oboe players
have an unfortunate tendency to go
mad. do not believe a cornetist can be
a good man. But organists are meek,
long suffering. industrious" Mr.. Hale
evidently once played the organ.
At Arras in France, Sunday, June 2l.
Adam de la Halle's LIE Jeune de Robin ct
de Robin, adapted to modern use, was
performed In the original it is written
somewhat after the manner of opera
comique, divided into scenes, and inter-
spersed with airs. 1t was first perform
ed before the French court at Naples.
in 1885. Adam, called lie bossu of Arras.
was born about 1910.
The deaths are announced of Delahaye.
long chorusmaster of the Paris Opera.
Dorus. the flute player who was the
brother of a distinguished singer Nine.
Dorus-Gras, and had reached the age II
eightyfour and Danhauser, for many
years principal Inspector of singing
teaching in the Paris Communal schools.
The alterations lately made in the text
of the Latin hymn Stabat Mater by the
Dean of Lincoln. for a musical festival
in Lincoln cathedral, have been charac-
terized in London as foolish nanifes-
tation of sectarian spirit" Yet the
dean merely did his duty in substituting
the Father and Son for the Virgin in
the prayers. though the necessity of
using the Latin hymn a all in the cathe-
dral festival is not obvious. Juggling
with master works IS never allowable
IN art. but. presumably. the dean did not
arrange the program.