The record-union., 1897-09-05

playing through the Old-time mining
camps in the northwestern part of the
State with a small company. They do
a novelty on the revolving globe, the
lady doing a serpentine dance while
Mr. Hewitt does a clown Juggling and
plates spinning act.
Charles Coote. an English comedian
and stage manager, who first came TO
the coast with Cora Tanner some
twelve years ago, died suddenly in New
York 3 week ago last Monday at the
residence of his brother, Bert Coote.
Maggie Moore's return to the Aus
tralian stage, after her tour of America
and Europe, partook of the nature of
an ovation. She opened at the Theater
Royal in Sydney in David Belasco's and
CLAY Greene's comedy, johanna"
Mrs McQuinn's Twines." another
American acquisition, was her second
production.
Victory Bateman, who is engaged for
the stock company at the new Imperial
Theater in St. Louis, is a Philadelphian.
and for several years, under the name
of Lizzie Creese. was considered one of
the brightest amateurs of the Quaker
City. In 1880 she decided to adopt the
stage as a profession, making her ap-
pearanee as Camille" in April at
Woods Museum.
The celebration of the Donizetti cen
tenary at Bergamo. Italy, has begun
and will last two months. A series of
Donizetti's operas will be given at the
theater by good companies. and at the
concerts Joachim, Teresa Tuca, Mar
tuci. Melba and others are mentioned
as soloists The monument to DOni-
zetti will be unveiled in the beginning
of September. 1t is the work of the
NeapOltan sculptor Francesca Jerace.
The composer is represented writing
melody suggested to him by the muse.
The Wagner Museum at Eisenbach,
Germany, was formally opened not
long ago. The materials for it hav-
ing been gathered together by an Aus
trian gentleman, an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of Richard Wagner. who has
spent a number of years in collecting
interesting relics of Germany's great
tone painter Among other things. the
script of "Rienzi," for which it is said
II. coo was once offered. There is also
the decree of arrest issued against
Wagner as a politically dangerous in
dividuaT' in 1S49, while he was at
Dresden The little old piano upon
which Wagner received his early les
sons from Theodore Weinlig, cantor of
the Thomasschule at Leipsic, in 1880.
is one of the most interesting curios of
the museum.
MN. Camille Saint -Saens and Louis
Gallet are working on a composition
tracing the history of the nineteenth
century. which will be executed on the
occasion of the Universal Exposition
of 1900.
Emma Juch and Marie Louise Clary
have been engaged for the soprano
parts of Eugene Sibley Wheeler's ora
tOrio The Resurrection" which will
be sung at the Tennessee Centennial
Exposition next month.
Nine. De We're Sapio who has been
singing a Convent Garden. London,
will shortly go to Paris. and then to
Palermo, where she and her husband
are building a house She viii return
to this country in October next, and
is TO make a twelve weeks concert tour
of the leading cities.
Duse, the eminent actress, is said to
be quite a musician, and sings delight
fully.
Alexander Guilmant, the celebrated
French organist, will make a three
months tour of this country.
Melba has sung many times at social
affairs in London lately, and received
s.. Geo for each occasion.
Robert Radecke has been appointed
successor to the late Vladimir Bargiel
as Director of the Academic Institute
OF Church Music, Berlin.
The report of the Dresden Conserv-
atory. now in it's forty-first year of es-
tablishment. shows 242 pupils. of
whom ten Americans are taking special
courses.
organist of Chicago, has returned. He
will give organ recitals in America
until January next, when he will go
abroad again.
Camille Saint-Saens is to go to Lon
don next spring to conduct one of his
operas at Covent Garden. probably
"Ascanio If this work be chosen
the principal parts viii be played by
Nine Heglon. who will be specially en-
gagged from the Paris Opera. NJ Reg
maud and Nine Eames. The other
choice would be the same composers
Henry VIII"
The modern school of Italian operatic
composers, of which Mascagni. Leon
cavallo, PuCcini and the author of An
! drea Chenier' are exponents. is again
attracting the attention of musical cir
/ cles in Europe through the great sue
cess Of La Boheme." in Italy and
| Germany. Sorrentino. the leader of
the Banda Rosa, which will give FIVE
! concerts at the Metropolitan Opera-
house, beginning October 10Th. writes
/ that his first concert here will include
! selections from La Boheme." i" and that
/ he will make the selections from Ital-
ian works strong features of his pro-
/ grammes.
The performance oe so-caned cony-
right productions cfvari u pays t flu
/ I'll the requirements Of the Eng ish law
! has given rise "a 21.,ch comment re-
Gently. It is serious y questioned whe-
ther the sort of renditions that are Gus