The herald., 1896-10-04

| Handel; soprano solo, Thy Great Mercy.
from Stabat Mater. Rossini; Infiam-
matus. from Stabat Mater, Rossini.
Miss Grace Jenkins Is q late arrival
from Chicago and expects to reside here.
| The Boston papers give considerable
| space to the Worcester musical festi-
val. where Nine. Nordica, Mrs. Kath-
crime. Bloodgood, Mrs. Stone Barton, H.
Evans Williams, G. Campanari, ]. G.
Bartlett and others have sung. OF Mrs.
Bloodgood, San Diego'e daughter, the
| Boston Herald says, speaking Of the
rendition of the Golden Legend: MRS.
Katherine Bloodgood was the Ursula,
and her warm, trained and tender
searching contralto voice was again
heard with pleasure. She sung with feel
| ing, admirable reserve and always with
| q keenly intelligent appreciation of the
| composers intention. The efforts were
| a prominent charm in performance
that was abundant in that element"
| The Boston Journal says: Mrs
Bloodgood's rich and sympathetic voice
IL known to the Handel and Haydn au-
dience. Her enunciation might be clear
| er and experience will probably bring
greater. warmth; for / do not believe
that she is destitute of temperament
One has to read the foreign papers to
| get freak news from home. This Is lie
Menestrers latest news from the United
| States: "The Protestant minister of
| Pleasant Valley, United States, and the
faithful of his flock were grieved and
astonished the other day to find that
their beautiful organ, which they had
paid for out Of their own pockets, had
| disappeared from the church. Some un-
known robbers had broken into the sa-
FOL 1,a M N G
| to pieces and had carried it away, bit by
bit. But" asks LIE Mehestrel, what
could these daring and original brigands
want with the organ?"
Nine. Klafsky, who died at Hamburg
on the 22d ult., was born in the little
hamlet Of st. Johann in Hungary. a
change In family affairs forced her at an
early age to earn her own living. She
went to Vienna, took lessons, entered
o comic opera chorus, where her beauti-
full soprano voice paved the way to her
engagement as soloist in Salzburg, and
later was engaged at the City theater
In Leipsic: Then her success began; She
sang Sieglinde and Brunnhilde in Sieg-
fried with big success in the principal
cities Of Europe as result Of continuous
rehealsals under Wagners own direc-
ton.
In 1883 Klafsky was called to the Bre-
men City theater and in 1885 she went to
the Hamburg City theater In 1892 and
1894 she sang the leading Wagner roles
In London under the late Sir Augustus
Harris.
In America last year she sang in Gin
cinnati Chicago, st. Louis, New Or
leans and Boston, as we'll as in New
York, and was the most prominent fee-
ture of the Damrosch Opera company.
Frau Klafsky had been engaged for
Wagner opera in this country this sea-
son. Her death, which was sudden and
the result Of an operation, will be gen.
orally mourned In musical circles.
STRAY CHORDS 80
Mr.. r. L. Huebner has been elected
choir. master at the First NJ. E. church,
Broadway, recently vacated by Mr.. Cor
nell, who has had charge Of the music
for the past two years.
A new choir has been organized at the |
Church Of the Unity, and will make Its
first appearance this morning. The
choir Is to be under the direction Of Mr.. |
w. H. Hamilton, and will be as follows:
Miss Elizabeth Kimball, soprano; Miss
Rosina Rosin, contralto; Mr.. Leader,
tenor; Mr.. Hamilton. basso, and Miss
Edith Haines, organfst.
Sousa, the eminent band leader, has |
left for Europe on vacation. Sousa's
band has closed engagements for twen-
ty-two weeks. beginning in December,
to San Francisco. At the conclusion of
this engagement the band will again
play at Manhattan Beach.
On his recent visit the Emperor of
Russia was very much pleased with the
operatic performance prepared for his
amusement at the Imperial Opera of
Vienna; SO much so, in fact, that he
bestowed decoration on DR.. Hans
Richter, the first; kapellmeister.. On |
thinking 1t over, however, this decora-
tion did not seem enough reward to sat-
isfy his imperial majesty's admiration
so he just sent Dr. Richter gold cigar
case ornamented with the Russian eagle
In diamonds. 5,.s
Richard Wagner was one Of the most i
Industrious letter writer's who ever
lived. One thousand eight hundred Of his
epistles have already been published, and
now 1t is announced that Viennese ad-
mirer of the Bayreuth master is pub
fishing catalogue of all the published
letters written by Wagner between the
years 1880 and 1888. This catalogue will
contain the date Of each letter, the name
Of the person to whom 1t was addressed
and the title Of the work in which it has
been published.
Massenet is hard at work on his new
opera Sappho, the text being based on
Daudet's pornographic novel Of the same
name. "a
Ch Widor is busy on the completion of
his new opera, Les Pecheurs de Saint
Jean, which will be produced at the
Paris Opera Comique.
The first performance of Camargo by
Di Leva will take place at the Argen-
tina, Rome, and that Of Franchetti's
Pourceangnac at Naples. - fN
In Client one-act opera, Razzia, has
had a great success.
Prof. Krebs, the new organist and
choir master of st. Johns Episcopal
| church, and teacher of piano in Miss
Marsh's school, has just arrived in this
| city, to take UP his musical duties Prof
| Krebs was born in Mansfield, Ohio, but
| received his musical education in Lon
| don England, and at the Conservatory
| of Music in Leipsic, Germany. He has
held several important positions in
| musical circles in the east and was for
| two years, instructor in sacred music at
the Episcopal University of the South
in Sewanee, Tenn. He is the author Of
a most valued text book on musical
| modulation.
LIVING BENEATH A LAKE.