The herald., 1897-07-18

tras of female players. Altogether about
1000 persons make q living in connection
with these bands.
1t is said that Calve will originate the
title role in Massenet's "Sappho" mex,
season. The opera is founded on Dau.
diets novel of that name.
Nine. Emma Eames is still adding tc
her Wagnerian repertory, and after the
present season, in addition to Elsa III
"Lohengrin," she will sing in the orig.
inal language the parts of Eva, Eliza
beth and Sieglinde.
Nothing succeeds like success. Since
the remarkable success a year or sc
ago of Kienzi's "Evangelimann," in vi
emma, this opera has been produced in
one hundred different cities. London
will be the one hundred and first city tt
hear it.
Madame Patti has resolved to return
to London after the jubilee festivities to
give another concert at the Albert Hall,
in place of that at which she was unable
through indisposition to appear. The
concert is fixed for the evening of Tues
day, the Goth.
Paderewski smiled as the struck the
closing chord Of brilliant scherzo by
Handel. "Oh, dear, no." he said. "This
speed is simply nothing. You ought to
see me when I'm out on my bike and
run into tree, sail over the handle bars!
Nm m-m!"-London Morning.
Builders are busily at work on the
Opera Comique in Paris. and 1t Is ex-
pected that the new house will be ready
to be opened in the autumn. The theater
will be more comfortable than it's pre-
decessors, and the spectators will have a
good view of the stage from all the seats.
Fire-proof material is being used
throughout, and the laws of 1888 in re-
gard to theater-building are being rigid
ly enforced, all the more in view of the
recent Partisan catastrophe,
The death is announced, at Lemberg,
of the eminent pianist Charles Mikuli, at
the age of rs. He was, perhaps, the last
surviving pupil of Chopin, and while his
own compositions are mere limitations of
his masters, he has done the world a
useful service by correcting many errors
in the printed works Of Chopin by means
Of numerous autograph notes and per-
sonal remarks of his master. In 1858
Mikuli accepted the post az director of
the Lemberg Conservatory, which he has
held ever since.
Few of the social functions Of the same
kind in American cities are as elaborate
as the musicales given in London. At
one London house last month, Calve,
Eames, Planson, Van Dyke, Holman
and Wolff appeared, and Melba and Pad
erewski have already been the en-
tertainers at several houses. The Amer
lean musicale that boosted the services
of one of these performers would be re-
garded as very fine. Such groups are
never heard together here outside Of a
performance in the Metropolitan, in New
York.-S. F. Argonaut.
Few American singers have enjoyed
such a remarkable career as Marie Bar
ma. She studied in Europe only a few
years, and last winter sang in some OF
the most important theaters in Italy
| One of her greatest roles was that Of
Mimi in Puccinis LA Boheme," which
she sang in Barcelona seventeen times
She received some very flattering let
tiers, both from the composer himself and
the publishers, Messrs. Ricordi. After
Mr.. Wolfsohn heard her he made con.
tract with her for a number of years
and Perfected the engagement with the
Damrosch-Ellis Opera company. Nine
Barna will appear in such roles as Aida
Valentine, Elisabeth, Elsa, Ortrud ani
the Brunnhildes in "Siegfried and Got
terdammerung."
After innumerable sensational report.
about RosenthaPs marriage had beer
circulated in the European and Ameri.
can press the artist published the fol
lowing letter in Vienna morning pa
per: "Quite surprised regarding my
matrimonial engagement with the or.
phan of millionaire, beg to refute this
fairy tale, which was the product of thu
mind of demented California reporter
of which was informed after my arriva
in Europe. Allow me to express my pri
vate opinion, that the parents of m.
'millionaire's orphan died-childless
AS far as I am concerned I shall return
to my first love-the piano-and hop
that our mutual affection, interrupted
by an involuntary six months separa
ton, has grown even stronger and NOR
sincere"
The oldest music publishing house II
the world, Breitkopf G. Hartel Of Leip
sic, has added another monument of en-
terprise to its already large list. 1t /
the now completed publication in fort,
stout volumes of the complete works o
Schubert Among the 1014 numbers il
these forty volumes there are many hith
erto imprinted pieces, including 1876 song
for one voice. Brahms and other mu
steal scholars supervised this new edi
ton. Lovers of music will find in thi
collection many unknown treasures, jus
as good and as new as if they had bee
composed yesterday. There are man
weak things in Schubert's works; h
wrote over thousand compositions i
about sixteen years, and he often wrot
hastily, and nearly always without re
vision; yet even in his weakest piece
there is spark of genius on every page
and his poorest things are better tina
the best of many popular composers @
our day.
London has had a chance to hear Rich
ard Strauss new symphonic poem
Thus Spake Zarathustra, before Me-
York, but did not go wild over the per
Torrance of it. One of the critics say
that "as the work, which is divided int
; numerous sections, each bearing its ow
title, has no fewer than fourteen differ
ent themes, and the score is one of tn
, most complicated in the whole repertor
of music, it would obviously be absur
to venture ON an opinion of it after on