The record-union., 1897-02-21


| lery of a popular order. 1t strikes the
audience as saying just the right thing
on burning topic. No doubt we shall
have an opportunity of applauding it
| here before long
While the song has been a success, it
has not accomplished its purpose. Like
Seabrookes song in ''Tobasco,'' the
public laughs when he says he wants
the hottest thing ON earth, but they
don't care for it themselves. So with
| the hat song The ladies laugh and
applaud-and then wear the biggest
hat they have. There can be no other
explanation of it save the inherent OBJ
stinacy of lovely woman.
Paderewski will give few concerts
in London next autumn, and six in the
provinces. He will also play for the
first time in public MackenZie's new
Scottish fantasia with the London Phil
harmonic. His manager. Mr.. Gorlitz,
has just returned from South Africa,
where he had gone to accompany his
wife (known as Amy Sherwin) on a
musical tour. which proved very sue
cessful She sang at siXty-five con-
certs and appeared twenty-nine times
in grand opera. Mr.. Gorlitz met with
an accident While in Africa, and for five
weeks had TO use a crutch, but he is
all right again.
Modern science is beginning TO throw
all the tales of Munchausen into the
shade. There is a rumor that Professor
MacKendrick of Glasgow has succeeded
in Gevisins an apparatus which will
enable the deaf and dumb to hear op-
eras. He uses telephones connected
With the stage at one end, and at the
other with vessels filled with a saline
solution into which the deaf insert
their hands. No sooner have they done
so than their faces are illumned with
joy of new sensation; they can hear
the singers and the orchestra distinct
ly! This sounds american" as for
eiSners say, but after the Roentgen
rays and kinetoscope everything seems
possible. Naturalists believe that in
sects have senses utterly different from
ours and it is not impossible that with
the aid of electricity and Roentgen
rays, man may practically acquire a
new sense of power to perceive the un-
seen world.
More than 1000 different objects of
interest were to be seen at tlle Schubert
Centennial Exhibition in Vienna The
English have paid quite as much at
tention to Schuber-t's hundredth birth
day as the Germans. They feel a JUS
titled pride in the fact that two En-
glishmen, Arthur Sullivan and George
Grove, first rescued some of Sdhubert's
forte works are perhaps better known
in London than in German cities, and
the best biography of Schubert so far
written is Groves in his Dictionary of
Music and Musicians" There is an in
teresting sketch of his life in one of the
five-cent volumes of the Reclaim edi-
ticn; some one ought to translate it
into English DIR. Max F'riedlander is
now at work on an exhaustive biogra-
ply. Dvorak's article on Schubert
which appeared in the Century a few
years ago was pronounced by Sir
George Grove the best one ever written
on that composer.
Dolores" a new lyrical drama, by
George Boyer and Andre Pollonnais, |
was performed for the first time at Nice
February Goth, with Mime Adelfna
Patti in the leading role. In this event
the musical world throughout Europe
as interested and a brilliant audience
was expected to witness this initial
performance. Nine. Patti has been at
Nice for the past few weeks, and has
been spending some time in trying on
the two costumes which she is to wear
during the play. She is charmed With
them, especially with one-'an elegant
black silk dress, after the Spanish style.
Full of passion, interest and tragedy is
this new lyrical drama, which is based
on the Napoleonic wars in Spain.
Hector Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto
Cellini," originally produced in Paris IN
1893. where, however, it did not survive
it's third representation, and which IN
1853 was brought out at Covent Car
den, when Berioz himself conducted,
Tamberlik singing the title part ana
Nine. Julien that of Teresa, on which oc-
casion the opera again proved a failure,
was revived recently at the Berhn
Opera house. The late Carl Rosa at
one time contemplated the production
of an English version of the work, but
eventually abandoned the project-Bos- |
ton Transcript.
The new journalism is not popular
with the courts of Germany. One of the
Oldest musical periodicals of that coun- |
try has suddenly ceased to exist. Some !
time ago it began a series of violent |
attacks on an eminent conductor bring |
ing in even his family affairs. The con-
ductor brought libel suit, and mat |
ters were finally compromised by the |
editor agreeing to cease publishing his |
paper.
English music is at last beginning to !
be recognized in Italy. A so-called !
British Festival is to be held at |
Rome during Easter under the direc- |
ton of Albert Visetti. Sir Arthur Sui |
livan's Golden Legend Sir Alexander |
Mackenzie's Britannia" overture, Pro- |
fessor villiers Stanford's Irish" sym
phony, and compositions by DR.. HUI |
performed.
After twenty-five years Of hard work |
at the Vienna Opera and elsewhere Frau |
Materna has asked for her pension, on |
the ground that, While she is still able |
to sing selections, a whole opera is too |
hard a task for her. The pension she |
receives amouns to $3.50 horins--
Cleveland Leader.
New Years jolliest success, THE |
Founding" with Cissy Fitzgerald in her |
inimitable dances, comes to the Column |
bia, San Francisco, in April, under the |