The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20

front, and he's a good deal more en-
joyable man at home than he used to
be.
About Christine Nilsson, Max Maret-
EEK had good story in his repertory.
One time, during a trip from Cincin-
natl to Buffalo, Max, feeling hungry,
bought a big sausage and loaf of rye
bread. Presently Nilsson, who was sit
ting in front of him, turned round with
grimace of disgust and inquired:
Who is eating garlic or sausage, or
something?" Max pleaded guilty, and
put what was left of the sausage in
his pocket, while she made fun of hiis-
for buying '"such awful stuff The
train was due in Buffalo in time for
supper, but there was an accident
which delayed it several hours. Max,
having had his supper, felt comforta-
bic and fell asleep. About in the
morning he felt touch on his arm. He
rubbed his eyes and asked, who is
it? What's the matter?" Hush! It's
l, Max" came the answer in Missions
clear voice. Say, Max, I'm awful hun
CRY. Can't you let me have that bit
of sausage which saw you put in your
pocket when I scolded you so? Do let
me have it, Max"
New York Post: A good deal of SYM
pathy has always been bestowed on the
late Johannes Brahms because he was
supposed to have been neglected by his
contemporaries. AS a matter of fact,
considering how dry and unpopular in
,l,., 81. l.; he
was financially an extraordinarily sue
cessful man. When he died it was re-
ported that his estate was worth 100-
900 forms, but that was an understate-
ment. His Berlin publisher, Simrock,
announces that Brahms was worth no
less than 2S5, 900 marks $4,000 when
he died. Reference has been made in
this column to the fact that Brahms
neglected to draw up a will in legal
form; but his desire that the bulk of
his money with his collections) should
go to a Vienna musical society is so
explicitly expressed in his letters to Sim
rock, that the Hamburg Senate, which
has a legal claim to his money in de-
fault of a legal WILL will in all proba-
bility respect his wishes. Among the
minor legatees are stepsister who gets
5000 tiorins, and the widow who took
care of him in the last years of his life,
for whom he left $4,000 FORMS Be
sides these, there is a donation for
mirabile dictul-the List Society in
Hamburg. What do the Brahmsites.
whose chief delight is to abuse List,
say to that?
The posthumous works of Brahms in
clude several songs and choral setting
of the Lutheran Church service The
London Musical Times for May says,
in an interesting article on Brahms,
that, he certainly showed a lack of
discrimination in his selection of an
English translator to his songs, but it
is satisfactory to learn that this error
is now being made good by the COM
mission intrusted by Messrs. Simrock
to Paul England"
William Winter: The stage, in Itself
is not degenerate. The old fires are not
yet dead. The world moves onward
and the palmy days move onward
with the world. AT this moment the
public taste is tickle and the public NOR
ality infirm; but this moment is re-
dictionary, and of course it will not last
The stage has been degraded; the press
has been polluted; the church has been
shaken: the whole fabric of society has
been threatened. The assaults of mate
rialism, bIighting faith and discreditins
romance have had temporary tri-
umph. The dangerous delusion that
there is a divinity in the untaught null
titude, has everywhere promoted dis
order, violence and vulgarity So, from
time to time, the dregs endeavor to
reach the top But all this fever and
turmoil will pass; and, in those saner
times which are at hand, the stage, as
we know it and love it, the stage of
Wignen and Dunlap, the stage of Reach
and Barry, the stage of Wallack and
Booth and Henry Irving, and Augustin
Daily, the stage that, in our day has
been adorned by Rachel, Ristori, See
bach, Janauschek and Modjeska, and by
Adelaide Nelson and Mary Anderson
twin sisters of loveliness, the one all
passion and sorrow, the other all in
nocence, light and joy), the stage that
possesses the wild, poetic beauty and
rare, elusive, celestial spirit of Ellen
Terry, and the enchanting womanhooG
of Ada Rehan, the stage that is conse-
Grated to intellectual genius and beauty
will again assert its splendid power, and
will again rejoice in all the honors, and
manifest all the inherent virtues, of the
stage of our forefathers in the best of
their golden days.
Why are the Germans so much more
are various reasons, and not the least
among them is that they have so many
excellent music schools There is Wurz-
burg, for instance, a Bavarian city of
only 10000 inhabitants. 1t has a music
school, which, on May 10Th. gave an
excellent performance of so difficult a
work as LISTS oratorio "Christus"
The orchestra contained ninety players.
the chorus $50 singers. In no other
country in the world would such a
thing be possible. Education does the
work Musical education makes the
Germans musical. They do not per-
petually run after prima donnas; they
love music for its own sake, and go to
hear it even If the soloists are not the
very best or most expensive in the
world. And that is where they differ
from Americans, 90 per cent. of whom
have no love of music at all. but only
go occasionally TO see (rather than
heaD the singer or player whom they
know to be the most high-priced in
the world.
The duties of conducting at Bayreuth
have now definitely been arranged DIR.
Richter will only direct two of the cy-
Giles of Der Ring des Nibelungen. .
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