The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-30
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
CALvE GONE TO PARIS TO SPEND
HER TRUNKTUL OF DOLLARS.
She VIII Return Next Season for An
other ColIection-TamagnO Great
Hit in Paris.

Europe last wednesday She was looking
well, though a great deal paler than usual.
She explained her intense whiteness by say
ing that sailing" day was always try
ing one for her. She was attired in tailor
made suit of blue and a miniature hat COM
posed of Marguerites and green stuff.
Glad to get homer" she echoed. Yes
and no. Glad to see home again, of course
regret to leave so many good American
TRENDS, and have d great many American
friends. This with winsome smile ana
the sparkle of her dark eyes.
tho coming T6ana back back? In year l come under
close of the opera season made a concert
tour on my own hook, as the Americans
say. IL was a great success. am positively
erywhere | am going ultimately to my
farm at Cabrieres, in Arlington. Before go
ing to France | have planned to sing at
the Covent Garden on June 2S, the night of
the queens jubilee. | may do Carmen. |
Go not yet know what l shall do on this oc-
casion. After that L go to Paris to do
rest, is it not? But it is not profitable
AS the steamer backed away from the pier
TO the pier, and old men and young men
and quite a few women, scrambled and
fought for them, much newsboys might
h8ht Ior hand1ul or pennies
1t will be remembered that New York was
codly critical of Tamagno as a shouting
tenor couple of years ago, and that even
his great Othello did not meet with much
real success. Paris, on the other hand has
received him with open arms, although the
performance of the opera there is prob
ably not nearly so good as that in which
Tamagno sang in Brooklyn when Nordica
was the Desdemona and Maurel the Iago
AS an illustration of the different tempers
Of the two cities toward a work of art
the following account of Tamagno's re-
ception in Paris given by the Philadelphia
Record is interesting. THE sensation of
the week IN Paris was the first appear
ance OF Tamagno, the Italian tenor, at the
Grand Opera House. His debut surpassed
even the high expectations that had been
raised by the fame preceding him. The
President of the French republic at the
mead OF the most brilliant society and sur
rounded by almost the entire cabinet and
the foreign ambassadors, attended this
mnem0ra6le m performance of Verbs
OthelIo. The house was absolutely sold
OUT. the receipts amounting to 1855 francs
($oIZO.) When Tamagno appeared and sang
the, now famous 'Resultate' there was
such a storm of enthusiasm through
to be interrupted for several min
utes, since the public was not to be
OF the second act had to be repeated by
TamagnO, his extraordinary voice permit
ting such an unusual feat. He played the
hnal act with great force and passion. The
newspaper critics unanimously admire him
and the press declared Tamagno as a tenor
a unique phenomenon. AS an actor he was
likened to Ernesto Rossi, the late Italian
tragedian. President Faure went twice
back of the stage to see Tamagno. and aft
er the second act he decorated him with
the silver palms, a decoration heretofore
given only for great merit to frSt-claSs
French artists. After his incompatible
rendering of the third act, however, the
President again called on the artist, and
requesting him to return to him the decora-
ton he had just received, he handed him
n.
considerably higher in value than the one
hrSU given, as it carries with it the rank
of officer of public instruction. The day
after the performance congratulatory tele-
grams We're received by Tamango from
Verdi Boto, Ricordi, Princess Alice of
Monaco and many others. Altogether. the
erably more important event than would
nave been supposed at first. He will sing
he vii! not sing in French, he will be seen
exclusively in the part of Othello, the men,
bers of the company having studied their
pf'r's III ltal2an on ms account.
In the new comic opera, THE Walking
Delegate of which Mr. Charles Emerson
Cook is the librettist and Mr. Lucius Hos
mer the composer, to be produced at the
fremont Theater, Boston, tomorrow night
some very good fun is said to be had at
the expense of an old custom of the Cor
cans. For a part of his theme the author
has been fortunate enough to discover one
of those actual phases of life in the old
country which to us in the new country
seems so grotesque and absurd that no
stage eXaggeration is necessary to get all
the humOr out of the situation The opera
pictures the people of King-Ti-ToO, COrea
feSslonal ancestors. 1t seems that the
unique and amusing point is that all de-
Votions to their deceased ancestors are paid
by professional priests, who assume these
duties on a salary basis. Thus making
business of praying to ancestors, they are
themselves called ancestors from the ma
ture Of their profession Much humor is
said to be worked out of the fact that at
the opening of the opera hard times are
supposed to be existing in Corea, and the
professional wOrshiping house of Hyson
Ding-Dong q HySOn, including Mum Tung
the silent partner, proclaimS the approach
OF the rellglouS festival and announces that
owing to the bad state of the ancestor BUSH
ness they must ask an increase of salary.
Apropos of II Trovatore," Maretzek, who
never became reconciled to German opera,
used to tell a story as follows: when
Nine. Pappenheim was giving German
opera at the Academy of Music it was de-
cided to try q season out of town, and
was engaged as manager. We went to. Bos-
ton with the announced intention of giving
nothing but Wagnerian opera. 1t was just
at the beginning of the craze. After one
week of Wagner in Boston there was not
penny left in the treasury. | called the
company together and suggested it might
be we'll to try II Trovatore.' Nine. Pappen-
helm and Mr.. Adams. the tenor, protested
but it was either "Trovdtore' or the sheriff.
and 'TrovatOre' was given with immense
success and receipts amounting to more
than $4,000. The morning after this turn
in the tide | went around among the singers
and got 81 from each one for a purpose
which L refused to disclose at the moment
With this money L sent cable dispatch to
Verdi, telling him that II TrOvatore' had
saved a company of Wagnerian singers
from starvation"
A double piano, invented by NJ Lyons
has come to the front in Paris. The pecul-
lar instrument is piano at each end, the
table extended between. The technical fab
rication is much the same as in the ordi-
nary piano, only with overlapping layers
of wires Some claim for it a more homo
gefleouS enunciation than two separate
pianos could have. Its claim for conven-
fence is still greater, however occupying
but half the space and necessitating but
one shift in case of orchestra combinations
At present the pedal touched at one end
of the instrument carries over into the
other. which, of course, will not do in en-
semble art. This is to be rectitied, how
ever, in the second edition, when middle
damper will be arranged so that each ped
al must mind its own business.
The famous piano vrtuoso. Leopold Cod
owsk yielded to pressure from American
musicians and musical societies and will
remain on this side of the Atlantic. He had
N, do oil arra n onmputS to return to EurODa