The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15

Opera-house last April by Damrosch's COM
pany. The pianist however, is much more
generally known by his minor compositions,
such as his Polish Dances" which are very
pular with pianoforte players. schar-
weuka's home is in New York, where he took
up his abode in 1891.
Nine. Marchesi, the professor of singing who
is so much affected by American students In
Paris; is to cross the Atlantic this winter, with
an eye to American dollars. The lady's project
is certainly original, though 20 any one who
understands the serious study necessary to be-
come q vocalist it must SAVIOR of harlatanism.
Nine. Marchesi intends to make tour OF the
United States, giving lectures en- route, in or"
der to initiale professors and pupils into her
smarvelous'' vocal method. This singing
taught while you watt style of teaching may
line Nine. Marchesis pockets heavily with
gold, but 1T is hard to believe that teacher OF
her experience can refrain from smiling in her
sleeve at the .dea of initiating any one into
the 'marvelous" art OF singing in the course
of lecture. lie Menestrel, in commenting on
Nine. Ma rchesis coming departure, remarks:
"Encore une idee nouvelle de la libre Amer
iquew Decidedly the idea is new. but it can
scarcely be commended. few stray ideas
may possibly be cleaned from the Marchesi
lectures, but the pupil or professor who at
tenn pts to put them in to practice Will probably
get the "marvelous'' Marchesi method hope
lessly jumbled up and his last state will be
worse than his first. Nine. Marchesf, who
owes great part of her success to a complete
knowledge of the gentle art of self-advertise-
ment, has certainly taught many celebrated
singers, but many of them went to her with
all the foundations already laid. On the other
hand, she is accredited with overstraining and
running q great many voices. Her reputation
rests largely on an American foundation.
The Paris justices have laid it down that
you cannot keep piano with impunity
Nine. Bertrand, whose pupils are well known
at Coyeut Garden and in the Carl Rosa Opera
Company, started training-school in the
neigh borhood of the Pare Monceau. gentle
man OF gentle habits took the fiat beneath
her. From morning till night he heard only
the ladder-climnin of the voice which began
at "Ta" and after sixty-one vibrations would
end at "Ra''-or some thing of the kind-if
Nine Bertrand did not stamp her foot and
make the future De Reszkes begin all over
again. 1t broke the man. heart and he sued
both his landlord and Nine. Bertrand. He
won.
The fortiath anniversary of the Handel festi-
walls has just been celebrated at the Crystal
Palace. London. 1t was in 1857 that the first
festival took place, with the assistance OF 1000
executants and it excited general admiration,
for never before had people seen so many
musicians assembled in g concert-hall The
festivals have taken place regularly from that
date and at present the number of singers Is
25OO, with an orchestra of 500 executants.
The conductor OF the first festival, Sir Michael
Costa, has been dead since 1884, and among
the soloists the only survivors are ihs eternal
tenor Sims Reeves, and the celebrated so.
prano. Clara Novello, who has JUS entered her
eightieth year.
The celebrated Carl Rosa Opera Company.
founded by the husband OF Parepa Rosa, has
been entirely reorg anized in view OF It's next
season,w which will begin at Liverpool, England,
on August 16. Nine. Thea Dorre, the Chicago
prima donna, has been engaged as one of the
leading stars. The troupe, which is greatly es-
teemed in England, is to play several works
quite unknown in that country, among others
Ambrose Thomas "Songe dune Multi Pete
fesMidsummer Nights Dreamy, which Beathie
Kingston has adapted into English, making,
it is said, a version quite different from the
original. In order that the opera may not be
confused with Shakespeare's celebrated work
it has been renamed "a Poets Dream"
An imposing musical performance was re-
Gently given in the antique Greek theater OF
ancient syracuse, DuliulnS WHICH Is IN an
admirable state of preservation and can con-
tain 20 900 spectators. The grand chorus of
the sTor lures" by Eschylus, was given by
superb body OF voices. This work was first
executed in the seyenty-eighth Olympiad,
that is TO say, 525 years B. G.. The majesty of
this admirable musical monument is said TO
have produced deep and lasting impression
on those present.
The congress OF German musicians, held at
Mannheim has decided 10 publish COM
pete edition of the works of Franz Liszt.
AS these works do not become public property
till 1916 the publishing-houses OF Breitkopf
and Haertel have been requested to treat with
Liszts different publishers in order to arrange
for sumptuous edition of the Weimar mas
ter's works. The association has pledged itself
10 purchase 200 copies OF the edition, which
it intends to distribute gratui tously to the
musicians who have contributed to the propa.
CATION OF LisZt's works.
An interesting instrument was exhibited
for the first time at the Music Teachers Ma
tional Association in New York. 1t was
piano, the case OF which was made OF the
wood of the famous Charter Oak. When the