The record-union., 1897-09-12

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programmes, and rather than continue
with Verdi, Donizetti and Meyerbeer,
he has decided to abandon the direction
of the orchestra at its public per-
formances.
Anton Seidl, it is said, after his sue
cessful appearance as a Wagner leader
at the Bayreuth Festival, paid a visit
TO his friend Antonin Dvorak, the great
Bohemian composer, whose acquaint-
ance. he made in New York when DR..
Dvorak was head Of Mrs Thurber's
National Conservatory. In the course
of Dvorak's American exile" as he
has been heard TO call it, he and Seidl
were in the habit of meeting at a GER
tain Viennese coffee house on Broad
way, where over their coffee and cigars
they discussed American and European
musical matters and frowned at the
musical critics who occasionally came
TO disturb their peace by maladroit re-
quests for interviews. Thus these VITO
inherently dissimilar men became fast
friends, and soon made common cause
among their many detractors and
would-be rivals.
William Worrell, formerly one Of the
best known circus men in the country,
died al Newark, n. j.. August 7th of
pneumonia, aged II years. He was
the son of Judge Worrell of Cincinnati,
and MAS educated for the profession
Of civil engineering. Naturally fond
of the circus, however with the help
Of John Robinson he entered the bust
ness and became a noted horse trainer.
He took the first American circus to
Australia and was the builder of the
Ampnitheater in Melbourne. His
daughters were the famous Worrell
sisters. Sophie, Irene, Jennie and Ro-
sta Mr.. Worrell was of a kindly dis
position and had a great love for ami
mails and children.
Mr. Governs new symphony, The
Idyllic," appears to be modelled after
Beethoven's Pastoral" It's four move-
ments are tended to suggest: % The
pleasure BILE sensation of awakening in
the country on a breezy, sunny sum-
, mer's morning (2) walk in the fields
which are resonantly bright with the
sound of shepherds pastoral pipe.
90 The peace and meditative stiffness
of a hot Sunday afternoon. a. Evening
outdoor festivities.
A few weeks ago it was announced
that the City of Milan had about de-
cided to close up the Scala Theater
Italy's most famous opera house, and it
now appears that the situation is really
serious. The theater costs the city
nearly $30,0O0 a year, and the box hold
ers refuse to share the losses. The
city has commenced a suit against
them which Will occupy the lawyers
about three years. and as in the mean
time TIE city will pay no subvention
Milan viii probably have no opera next
season.
Many critics have endeavOred to de-
scribe the popularity of Gounod's man
nerism. Saint-Saens thinks its secret
lies in a peculiar mixture of archaism
and modernism, which greatly puzzled
the critics; and he goes on to say in a
recent article: Thirty years ago
GOunod was attacked by the admirers
of the then triumphant italian school,
ana accused of German tendencies; to-
day, When the critics have been cap
tured by the German school, the at
tempt is being made to declare him an
Italian. In truth, ne has never been
either German or Italian, but French
as French as you can imagine an ar
tist."
Mascagni has tired of the position as
director of the Pesaro Conservatory
the largest and best endowed in Italy
and IS said to be in quest of the head
ship of the Parma Conservatory. His
latest opera, "Zenetto," has recently
failed both at Leipsic and at Rome.
Kunzl, composer of the very success
full opera Der Evangelimann," has set
to music a little known poem by
Richard Wagner entitled "BOnapartes
Return" written in Paris in December,
1910, when Wagner saw the first fun
eral obsequies of the first Emperor
Napoleon.
Sam T. Shaw's big comedy company
is playing a successful enga cement at
the Metropolitan Theater in this city,
and will continue throughout this week.
1t is an all around good road company,
the best of its class decidedly that has
ever visited this city
The reconstructed Clunie Opera
house in this city will be reopened this
evening by Frank Bacon's comedy
company in the play "Gloriana" Pro-
prietor General Clunie, and Manager
J. H Todd have every reason to take
pride IN the new house-it is a beauty
1t is handsome in finish, artistic in
decoration, very airy, admirably pro-
vided with exits, and all in all is as
pretty, roomy and inviting a theater
as there is in the country There are
houses more richly decorated, but not
one that is neater or so well provided
with conveniences. The public will be
greatly pleased with the interior of the
house when it is thrown open tonight.
Digby Bells new play, THE Hoosier
Doctor" by Augustus Thomas, seems
to be a winner. 1t has just closed a
second prosperous season in Chicago,
and after touring the Northwest it
comes to the Columbia, San Francisco,
next month.
A performance of THE Road to
Ruin was recently given at Long
Brancn n. j., for the benefit of St.
James Church. Murray Woods. a
graduate of the old California Theater.
directed the stage, and those who 9th
erwise assisted embraced a number of