El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
MUSICAL NOTES.
Matters of Interest to the Musical
Community Here and Elsewhere.

Professor Smith will hold his next
organ recital on the evening of Friday,
January29. The program will be as
follows: Allegro Maestoso final third
chorus. "Oh, for the Wings of a Dove"
Mendelssohn, Mrs. Thomas and St.
Clements choir: Andante in G minor,
eleventh nocturne,) Chopin; soprano
solo, with Verdure Clad" from the
Creation by Haydn,) Mrs. Sanford:
Toccata and Fuge in D minor, Bach;
bass solo, NAZARETH" Gouuod, Mr..
Rokahr: largetto in D (Cavatina,l Raft;
Grand Fantasia in D (St. Cecilia No.
p Batiste: hymn, No. 40.
Walter Damrosch is making a tour
throughout the country with his Ger
man Opera company.
The latest addition to singers in this
city, is DR.. Pryor Allison of ST. Louis,
who sang for the first time in this city
recently with the Presbyterian choir.
His voice is a baritone, and he is very
pleasant man to rect.
Sousa is to appear at ST. Louis Fri
day night with his big band on their
new transcontinental tour; and the West
Point Cadet band will appear there the
last of the month. The West Point
band has made a great Improvement
since the new management took hold
OF it. and the Instrumentation has been
| increased. When the band was at the
| Worlds Fair in August, 1893, the band
| was marked for the spotless integrity
| Of its uniforms, its martial bearing and
super-excellent marching. But when
it came down to brass facts in playing
the work of the band was weak and
threadbare, and was easily distanced
by the militia bands on the grounds at
| the same time.
Professor Smith, the organist of ST.
Clements church and a talented
musician, advises that the McGinty
band add a stringed bass to its en-
semble He says it would add greatly
to the steadiness of the bass playing,
and besides when the lower registers
are reached for by the tubas the tones
are not apt to be brought out
with the desired roundness and full
ness. The use of stringed double BASES
is becoming quite common in all large
bands, and gives soiidity to the part
| that is much to be admired.
Madame Melba is quite i'll at the
Windsor hotel, in New York, due to
Academy of Music. She says: I'm the
tomb scene, Juliet lies directly in sight
of the audience for fully twenty min
utes. l felt at the beginning of that
ordeal that it would be disastrous.
There was strong draught across the
stage. l felt that minutes would cost
me fully $S,0OO-the amount l would
lose by two weeks illness.
A Berlin prima donna declines to
sing in London unless it is put in the
contract that in case OF the death of the
queen she, the singer, should not be
the loser thereby in consequence of the
closing up of places Of amusement in
the united kingdom during the mourn
ing period. Miss Clary has been en-
gagged for the April festival at Mont
real.
Sousa opened his season Decent bel
81, and the first weeks business netteC
lSIl576. Two days business at Phi
ladelphia reached almost $1,000; and al
Washington the sale of tickets wa:
stopped, as no more people could be
admitted to the theatre. SOusa's tour
will cover 81 900 miles.
The New York Musical Courier
keeps up its cOmmendable lick agains
the foreign He5sian contingent of sing
ers who have taken possession in tot
of the best places on the America
concert and opera stage, and reall.
brought the American public to believ,
that only foreigners know anythin!
about operate and concert work, ant
that the American is not in il all. s.
these foreign coyotes have raked in tn
American dollars until they are fairl
gorged with them, and yet are greedil
1 reaching for more. These poop!
receive about one fourth in EurOp
( where they are appreciated at thei
{ true worth, and the Courier shows thi
: by the following figures. In New Yor
( Jean do Reszke receives $4,000 pc
!. night, in Paris $500; Eduard de Reszk
{ receives in New York per night $500
( in Paris $50. The figures for Melb
!. are $1,000 as against 5000; for Calvt
: $500 against 5000; Plancon, 500 agains
500 Lilli Lehman in New York re
!. ceives $1,000; in Bayreuth 800. Th
: Courier says the whole system is pc