The herald., 1897-08-29

Wales, travelling semi incog., graceu the
on.-Musical Age.
The management of the New York
Casino announces that this year con-
trary to what has been the custom for
some seasons past, there Will be stock
company organized and permanently
maintained there.
Might 1 ask what school of music you
prefer?" inquired the young man with
the long hair. And the old gentleman
replied, THE homeopathic school. The
smaller the dose the better it suits me-"
Washington Post.
The following is an exact copy of a
letter received by young lady, who,
possessing a piano and being about to
move to a small country town. adver-
tised for room and board with family
"musically inclined:'
The celebration of the Donizetti cen
tenary at Bergamo, Italy, began last
week 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 Tua, Mar
tucci. Melba and others are mentioned as
soloists. The monument to Donizetti
will be unveiled in tha beginning of Sep
tember. II is the work of the Neapolitan
sculptor, Francesca Terrace. The COM
poser is represented writing a melody
suggested to him by the muse.
"Deare Miss, we think we kin suite You
with room and bord if you peefer to be
where there is musick, play the fiddel,
my wife the origin, my dotter julie the
akordion my other dotter the bango,
my son Hen the gittar, my son Jim the
foot and koronet, an my son Glenn the
bas drum, while all of us sings gospel
hims in which we would be glad to have
yau take part both vocal or instrumental
if you play on anything. We play by
ear an when we all git started there is
real. musick in the air. Let us know If
YOU want to come here to bord.'-Har-
per's Bazaar.
1t will be welcome news to the legion
Of organists and admirers of organ mu-
sic that Alexandra Guilmant, the re-
nowned organist of La Trinite, Paris,
has at last concluded to visit America
again for a few months this fall. Mi
Henry Wolfsohn received a cable last
week asking him to prepare the tour. as
the necessary leave of absence was OBJ
IdlUSu
ard the director of the Conservatory,
NJ Dubois. During the fall Of 1893 M
Guilmant was heard in a few organ re-
citals and most enthusiastically received
and there is no doubt but what he will
duplicate these triumphs. He ranks not
only as an organist, but also as COM
poser among the highest.-New York
Courier
The press of Germany write words
of praise on the Banda Rosa and its
recent concerts in that country. In Ber-
lin and Leipsic immense throngs at
tended the concerts and nearly every
number on the program was repeated in
response to the enthusiastic applause
These triumphs were repeated in Co
logne, Antwerp, Vienna Amsterdam and
in all cities on the continent visited by
the Banda Rossa. If the press of these
cities is to be relied upon, the music
lovers of America will be permitted to
enjoy a rare musical treat during the
current season when this bard makes its
first tour of this country. The American
debut will take place al the Metropoli
tan opera house, New York city, and
plans are being perfected by Karl and
lHeOuUTS INOStElGlu, NllO are
the American tour, for a series of grand
concerts in all the principal cities of the
United States and Canada. Is Los An
geles one of them?
In the presence of vast assemblage
Archbishop Corrigan blessed the new
chimes of st. Patrick's cathedral, on
Fifth avenue, New York, Sunday, Aug
use 18th. The bells are said to form one
of the finest chimes in the city and are
nineteen in number. They We're made in
Savoy, and all of them We're given to the
cathedral by different persons or socie
ties. The name of the donor is on each
bell, with the name of the saint for
whom it is named. They vary in weight
from 1000 to 300 pounds. 1t is said that
the 1000 pound bell. costing $4,000, is do
mated by the congregation and has been
named st Patrick" Its clapper alone
weighs 400 pounds The bells will be
hung in the north tower of the cathe dral
on platform to be erected for them
The chimes will be rLsng by electricity
from a keyboard resembling the key
board of piano. The music was made
a ature of the exercises a the service,
and was under the direction of Mr. W.
F. Pecher, who has been organist in
charge of the cathed dral choir since 1879
The chancel choir, composed of eighty
boys from the Catholic orphan asylum
sang, assisted by a triple quartet of male
voices.
About Beethoven's relations to the
Baroness Dorothea Won Ertmann, Law
yer DR.. Moriz Won Reichenfeld of Graz,
who is the possessor by inheritance of a
letter written by the master to the bar
oness, has published the following high
ly interesting article in the Tagespost:
'The Baroness Won Ertmann nee
Graumann, from Offenpach near Frank
fort-on- the-Main, during the first and
second decades of this century was one
of the first and most valued of the vi
emma pianists. According to the descrip-
ton of some of her contemporaries she
was beautiful woman of majestic fig
ure. intelligent features, eyes full of 'ex-
preston and long, dark, wavy masses of
hair. Without her, Beethoven's music
for the piano would have almost disap-
peared from the Viennese concert rep
ertory at the time when Hummel and
his epigones were beginning to monopo-
lie the same. 1t was through her and
her magic hands however, that the in
nermost meaning of Beethoven's music
was laid bare to l:er listeners Beetho-
ven himself had the highest admira ton
for this rare woman, whom he revered
like a high priefSt psS of tba topol :, =