El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-10


ny sits alone at the Pierson hotel table
in magnificent loneliness and solitary
grandeur.
Adolph NeuendOrff is to be perma-
nent conductor of the Metropolitan op
era house in New York vice Anton
Seidl who goes to Covent garden IN
London to conduct Wagner operas
there.
There is peace in prospect for the
much disturbed New England conserv-
atory al Boston. Carl Faelten, the ar
bitrary, mutton headed director, has
been fired, and a man of better equl-
poise will be given his shoes. Under
Faelten the conservatory came near
going to pieces.
Talking in the concert room is not
good manners; and people have no
right to so disregard the feelings OF
others who desire to listen by rudely
keeping up conversation during a
performance on the stage. There
| were several instances of bad manners
in this respect at Chopin hall Saturday
night.
Sousa al his Incompatible concert
band will be in Albuquerque on Tues
day next; but it is uncertain whether
he will 90 west over the A. u T., or
will come down here first. There is
nothing written for strings that Sou
sa's entirely wind band can not play.
| SOusa will not hesitate to play even
Godowsky or Dvorjak.
There has been some talk this winter
of having Orgauist William Q. Carl
and Antonio H. Sawyer contralto, OF
| New York, stop over for one concert
in Ell Paso on their western trip. But
it is doubtful if it comes to more than
| talk. Mr.. Carl is organist of John
| Halls old church corner Of Ninth ST.,
and Fifth avenue, New York.
Ed De Ramer is struggling manfully
with his bassoon, and is bringing order
out of chaos-intuitively for he can
| find no one to show him points of infor-
nation he is in search of Ed thought
some one in the Grau opera company
ought to know: only they didn't, and
| the orchestra musicians said bassoons
were clear out of their repertory.
"Touch" and "phrasing' would be
carefully explained. The English
papers speak highly of Professor
Smith. He would like to have members
of the MCCinty club assist him by
| giving practical illustrations on differ
ent classes of instruments. 1t has boon
suggested to the professor that he
conduct this lectures under the auspices
of the ladies Guild of St. Clements
| church.
Paderewski has written new mi
nuet, and people are saying unkind
! things about it: that it might please
| had not the composer written some
time ago minuet that has been drum
med and thrummed to death in several
! large towns and divers and sundry
boarding schools. The new minuet
! squints very much at the old one, and
some unfeeling people even declare the
new minuet is the old one played back
ward.
Prof Smith the talented organist of
st. Clements church is thinking of
giving several lectures in this city on
harmony, cOunterpOint, and the Scient-
ific points of the art as well as musical
matters historical and literary. The
professor is we'll able to deliver very
interesting and instructive lectures
He would endeavor to simplify musical
study, to prepare ones mind to under
stand the grammar of music by special
ly prepared diagrams, models and'other
suitable illustrations.
Chicago is excited over the
phenomenal performances there of
Leopold Godowsky, citizen of that
town, in connection with Thomas
orchestra. Godowsky played at a
a recent Auditorium concert the
piano concerto, one of the grandest
and most difficult works for piano and
orchestra ever written. After the
successful finishing of his really
tremendous effort, the artist received
an ovation not only from the audience
but from Mr.. Thomas and his orchestra
as well. He was given six recalls,
and then played the scherzo from
Saint Saens' G minor concerto with
orchestral accompaniment, which
again stirred enthusiasm to high
pitch.
A young musical student from the
west, who has rich relatives in New
York, was honOred with an invitation
to the opera the other evening. Her
purse was always very SLENDER and
even the thought that she was only
invited because some more favored in
dividual had refused did not dampen
her joy. There were four in the grand
opera party, but five seats. When
told to lay her wraps with the others
in the empty seat, she demurred, say
ing surely 70 one would surely miss
such a musical treat as was coming,
and the occupant might come in at any
moment. Her rich relatives laughed,
and said they bought an extra seat for
that purpose every night of the season.
The poor young student in telling of
ly with an ''Oh, how L do envy those
heavy wraps" Her teacher says these
same rich relatives will be buying In
extra seat for wraps to hear her some
of these days.
The standard of music and musical
performance is being raised in this
city, which is certainly gratifying, es-
prcially to those who have struggled so
long to push up that standard. Ell
Paso people are coming to not merely
appreciate but call for classical music.
The almost furious applause which fol-
lowed Mrs. Goodman'S performance of
the Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Sat-
urday night, was a fair Indication of
this; and last summer more than once,
the most classical mum bers on the plaza
concert programs received the most ap-
plause. A judicious mixture was OBJ
served on the McGinty programs, the
heavy and lighter selections being so
| arranged that every listener in the
park was pleased. But there are two
| C.OTnpOSitiDnS in the NcGintv lihraru