Arizona republican., 1897-11-21
MUSICAL NOTES.
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I am never merry when


 sweet music Shakespeare.
 I am given to understand from a very reliable source that the two city bands are likely to consolidate The part of the mediator is in very good hands and I feel sure that all that can will be done to bring about this desirable result. I hope to greet the consolidated band a month hence. If a little reason is exercised and for bearance shown there is no doubt the end sought will be accomplished.
 Perhaps some of my readers have never heard the sound of the bagpipe. If they have not, don't let the d;sire arise to do so. DeQuincey tells of brother of his who was always seized with an abstract desire to kick after hearing the bagpipe. A good many people will be seized in the same man her if the threatened popularity of the pipe should become a reality. It is said that many ladies who have been spending their holiday in Sc3t- pipers; and there is an au- thentic case of two Edin- bllrgh ladies performing selections | cent concert. This surely is the lat est development of the new woman. presaging even the welding of the wild trombone and the loud bassoon We hope that the sex will temper their enthusiasm with mercy. Let them do anything with the bagpipe but play tiff indeed that instrument can be played. Sydney Smith thought that it could not. "One might as
 we'll" said he, speak of playing an iron foundry And very Mkaly he
 was right.
 Miss Jizbeth Y. Allen is with Us
 again. She will be an acceptable
 addition to our musical circles thi:
 winter.
 Mario. the great tenor, would fefus;
 Ito sing in certain operas, and urg;
 a sore throat as a protest; while nex day rival doctors would publish an 1; nouncements respectively asserting and denying his ability to sing. On , vocalist said that his voice was husky , ana pleaded 'off'' simply because } rival was in the sama case. Ronconi the Italian baritone. generally adopt l ed this plan whenever he found tha l his wife had not been billed" to sin, : along with him. But Ronconi triet the trick once too often. He had sen
 message to the manager that h.
 was afflicted with an (abassamento d T vOco) and could not sing. It was nea the hour of the performance and tn. manager was just getting into } frenzy about deputy. when it oc cured to him that he might go ant l see Ronconi, taking his own physi : elan with him. The singer expresse 7 his regrets in hoarse undertone; bu
 the manager knew Ronconi's power l as an actor and proceeded to tall l about something in which he knev ? the supposed invalid to be greatly in $ terested. In moment Roncon frightened up, the feigned voice wa ? forgotten and the wonted tones cam I ringing forth in the animation of dis 2 course. The slhamming vocalist ha s nothing for it but to get ready fo ) his duty, protesting the while tha g the presence of the doctor had helpet ) him to recover his voice; and Q course it did.
 s Mir. J. w. Benlham, who used t. t shine in musical circles here, has re = turned to the city.
 l I have heard more than a few epi f thets applied to Mendelssohn's wed ding march, but the strangest of al occurs in a Ceylon paper: "Ol
 Thursday morning last the marriag
 was solemnized of MT. am v Miss -. The bride was conduct g ed up the aisle by her brother. whil t the organ pealed forth the titivatin, r strains of Mendelsshon's weddin,
 march," "Titivating' is none the les ! good because, in this connection