The herald., 1897-08-01
Stray Chords

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Mascagni's opera of "Zanetto" has been
complete failure at Rome.
| Massenet has just completed a new fan
| tasia for piano forte and orchestra.
| Rumor has it that Victor Maurel intends
giving series of concerts in America next
| season.
! The Henschels will tour the United States
next season. They begin in Brooklyn early
| in October, and will travel as far west as
| California.
| Theodore Dorre, the American soprano,
whose excellent work in Los Angeles with
| The Marie Tavary opera company will read
| lily be recalled, has been engaged by the
| Carl Rosa opera company for the forth
coming opera season for the parts of Car
men, Mignon and La Vivandiere.
| Sir Arthur Sullivan has set to music the
'Recessional," Rudyard Kipling's latest
poem, composed in honor of the queens
jubilee.
Here is the title of a new and, let us
hope, unpopular song: GAS Stood by My
Mothers Open Grave I.Wondered If She
Were Dead."-New York Courier.
Last year England awarded 81, ,o30O 900 in
grants for music. covering 1850 900 pupils
| in elementary schools, which are state
| aided.
| The Royal opera Of Berlin employs thir-
| ty-three solo singers. The Berlin opera
and operetta theaters together give en-
| ployment to 443 male and 1888 female sing
| ers.
Mascagnrs "Iris'' is now complete, and
| it was performed in the house of the
Marquis Guerrieri-Gonzago. The tenor,
| Runcio, whom Mascagni claims to have
discovered. will take the leading male role.
| Three theaters in Venice have lately re-
joiced in La Boheme." The Fenice gave
| Leoncavallo's the Rossini Puccinfs and
| the Goldoni presented an italian transla-
| ton of the original piece by Murger and
| Barriere.
| The new three-act opera, "King Arthur"
by the young Spanish composer, Amandeo
Wives, was recently produced for the first
| time in the Novedades theater of BARGE
| Iona, Spait, and achieved an immediate
success. The press of Barcelona and Mad
| rid declared with unanimous enthusiasm
that this work marked an epoch in the
| history of Spanish music. Wives is only
| 26 years old.
| Important if true: DR.. Max Schiller of
Berlin has shown that by the use of the
| Roentgen rays one can see how sounds are
produced by the voice in singing. The
process will be very useful to all teachers.
DR.. Montier Of Paris has trated several
singers by static electricity. and claims
| that the treatment produced very happy
effects on the intensity, pitch and timbre
| Of the voice.
| Mime. Lillian Blauvelt will proceed to
| Italy to participate in the Donizetti me-
mortal celebration, which takes place at
Bergamo in August. She is the only singer
not compatriot of the composer who will
| sing on this occasion. She has received
\ an invitation to sing at the Gewandhaus'
concerts, Leipsic, an honor which has
rarely been extended to American singers.
| A fine bronze bust of Beethoven was un-
Veiled last Wednesday at Chautauqua. 1t
was a present to the Chautauqua assem-
bly,. Addresses were delivered by Chan
cellor Vincent and Stanley Hail. and VIM.
FL. Sherwood played the Apassionata
sonata OF Beethoven and was enthusi-
astically encored by the audience, receiv-
| ing the Chautauqua salute great honor.
| Brahams' twenty-one Hungarian dances
were originally arranged for the piano and
afterward transferred to the orchestra.
They are SO familiar in their orchestral
garb that I need hardly allude to them,
except TO say that some of them are not
so well adapted for the piano. But there
are q half dozen that will outIive all the
| Liszt rhapsodies, for Brahms has pene-
trated more deeply the Hungarian spirit.
has caught color, swing, perfume, mad
melancholy and reckless joy without a sus-
picion Of the glittering embroidery of
Listz's virtuoso-ike paraphrases, These
dances of Brahms can be made to sound
superbly if played by pianist with tenn
permanent, above all a pianist who has in
his veins Magyar blood.-Raconteur in New
York Courier.
In view of the success of Victor Herbert's
opera, 1.-THE Serenade," as given by the
| Bostonians so many weeks last season.
much interest attaches to his two new
operas that are to be brought out next
season. He has been doing assiduous work
upon 1.-The IDOLS Eyes since early spring,
and of late upon the other which, as yet,
| is without name. This, however, is said
to be of lighter and less taxing vein than
the first and Of that sparkling kind of
music. "The Idols Eyes" which has just
taken it's name, is full of bright comedy,
and an intimation is given that it's more
serious parts are studded with most beau
tiful gems. 1t will be produced by Frank
Daniels, for whom 1t was especially writ
ten The other is for Camille D'Arville.
Vance Thompson says in the New York
Courier: Lottie Collins got a Judgment Of
So against London Society because the