The San Francisco call., 1897-10-14

music.lovers learned Herr Lohses determina-
tion to make New York his permanent abid-
ing place.
Jean de Reszke constant bids fer Wag-
merriam support are getting to be de-
cdedly wearisome. Not a summer passes
without the polite Pole permitting
himself to be interviewed for the sake
OF telling "his dear public" how Frau Cosima
is burning with anxiety 10 have him sing at
Bayreu tn, and how he himself feels that life
Is to him hollow mockery without an ap-
pearance at the Wagnerlan shrine. Still he
never seems to take the fateful step, which he
claims 10 regard as just the thing to set the
crown of Immortality on his brow He looks
sanctimonious, promises devoutly. and puts
off the glorious moment from month to month
and year to year. Jean de Reszke is power
ful smart joliier," but he will probably never
sing Al Bayreuth for glory while he can sing
elsewhere for dollars.
Nine. Calve is another of the great artists
who has taken it into her head that in order
TO continue successful as Carmen, Santuzza
and such like Franco Italian heroines, she
must announce her intention OF taking up
Wagner and singing at Bayreuth. Now, if
there ever woman unsuited by voice
and temperament to undertake Wsgner1an
in "Parsifal." Nothing could be more alb
surd, and Nine. Caive is too clever a woman
not 10 be perfectly aware that her vocal limit
ations are such as TO preclude the posi- pility
OF her singing this part. Nine. Calve is unique
in her line, and she needs no fictitious Bay
reuth support to maintain her hold on the
public estimation.
Brahms wrote on Nine. Strauss fan q few
bars of the Blue Danube adding, "Not by
Brahms, / regret to say" ana Felix Mottl, the
great Wagnerian conductor, SAYS: 81 prefer
Strauss waltz to a thousand of the erudIte, es-
tima5le works of our modern classicists, be-
cause music is IN art which, for me, must ap-
peal TO the feelings" There are. or rather
were, four Strsusses-Johann, Viennese COM
poser, who wrote many good waltzes and who
died in 1S49, and bis three sons, Edouard, Jo-
hann and josef The latter composed waltzes
and an operetta and died In Russia, where he
was much loved Edouard is a composer and
conductor OF the famous Strauss Orchestra in
Vienna, which he brought to America in 1890,
but Johann is the famous waltz king" He
visited this country in 1872.
The Emperor of Russia has authorized the
erection at Warsaw of a monument TO Mickie-
vieZ on the occasion of the one hundredth an
niversary of the celebrated Polish poet. NJ.
Leon Idzikowski, II music publisher at Kiev,
rubles (1000 francs), for the best composition
of a solemn march for the occasion of inaugu-
rating the monument Only Polish omposers
may axe part in this competition. The march
must be composed for piano, solo or duet and
must also be arranged for orchestra and SYM
phony. Competit must be in before Feb
ruary, 1898.
They are working night and day at the
Opera, Paris, in order that Waguer's "Meister-
al AIlA -
Gailhard is under deed of agreement to pay
Nine. Wagner 10000 francs If the opera is not
produced before that date, and she has no,i-
fed him that in case of delay she will exact
the money. And only two or three years ago.
when Wagner was introduced into Paris the
police and soldiers had to charge crowd, cry
ing. "A bas les Allemandsv other times other
manncrs!
On the strength of the advice OF a nun Der of
eminent specialists Moriz RosenthaI, the
pianist, will not come TO America this season.
1t Is their opinion that his nealth must be
firmly established before making another
trans-Atlantic voyage. Writing 10 his man.
ager he says: with deepest regret, dear
friend, am forced to write to you that am
not suficiently strong as yet to undertake
protracted tournee this coming winter, as l
have again been i'll and am now suffering
from great nervousness and insomnia"
The Berliner Fremdenblatt speaks of a new
profession for ladies, which it recommends:
"0ne of the most curious female occupations
in the capital of the empire is that of dummy
musician (Geigenstatistinnen). The business
OF these young ladies is TO appear in ladies'
orchestras and pretend TO play their instru-
ments with grace and conviction by means OF
a soaped bow, and 10 follow the music on the
paper, bey ond which they need know nothing
| about il. At this play they gain from 20 TO
% marks q month";
The French are nation of soldiers, and in
order to be SO they must all render themselves
at the call OF duty, however inconvenient it
may be. The Figaro says M Clerment, the
tenor OF the Opera Comique, is doing his
| twenty-elght days service in the Twenty
| eighth Infantry. Also NJ. Sylvestre. director
| of The Folies Dramatiques. May the discipline
| be light"
! French paper announces the death of
| Count Granla, son-in-law to Wagner, but this
l is a mistake, Wagner only had two chill
| dren, Eva and Siegfried, both unmarried
! Nine. wagner's other daughters were by her
Rrst hus sDand, Won Bulow
AT the Opera ComIque ''Sapho'' is making
rapid advances. Besides daily rehearsals,
Massenet every day coaches two or three OF
| the artists. Nine. Calve will be prima donna.
| Mile. Cecile Simonnet is making her return
to the Opera Comique, Paris, this season, in
| "Manou," afterward in "Traviata" and mig
non." This excellent artist created Saint