The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-07

pleasure and comprehension of the ma
jOrity Would we say that the works
of a Dante, Goethe, Victor Hugo, and
a host of others shall remain sealed
books without translation, because,
forsoOth, there are a relative few who
can read them in their originals?"
1t is we'll known that for several
years Handel gave all the Messiah"
receipts, amounting in all to $35, 900,
to the London Founding hospital He
also gave it an organ and became one
of the curators. The Messiah" per-
formanceS given at the hospital were
very fashionable; at one of them 800
carriages drove up. When Handel was
looking forward to death, the other
curators begged him to help insure the
hospital a monopoly of Messiah" per
formances by an act of parliament.
But Handel retorted angrily: tie del
vel! for wat sal de founding put mein
oratorio in de parchment? TIE deivel!
mein music sal not go to de parle-
ment." AT one of his concerts the bass.
who had to sing Il Am an Israelite,"
came in at the wrong place. whereupon
mo, you are not, you are one great
beaStr'
Although Mascagni's last five or six
operas have been dead failures, and
his one success, "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" has proved only a seven days
wonder, he is in no danger of sharing
the fate Of great composers as regards
the comforts of life. The publisher
Sonzogno pays him a sort of retain
err" of 5000 month, pledging him to
give him a monopoly of all his new
operas. Besides this the conservatory
of Pesaro of which he is director, pays
him at the rate of SIS a day, also fur
nishing him with a palatial residence
He seems to enjoy life there, is getting
fat, does not burn the midnight oil
any more, and is much devoted to his
wife and children.
The concert programme to be given
at Conover Music hall at $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon, promises a treat. The
artists are William Mertens and Olaf
Halls. The musical menu is as follows:
March-"Stars and Stripes Forever .Sousa
Overture-''The Escape from the Ser
Vocal-"The Toreador'' Garment. .Bizet
William Mertens.
a. "Andante-religioso'' ..............T home
b. Hungarian Dance" Brahms Joachim
Olaf HAS.
Waltz-"Dream of the BALI Lumbye
Characteristic Dance-"Elves at
Air de Baiiet-"Daphne' .PueTnep
Vocal--"oh! Thou Sublime Sweet Even
ing Star" TannhauseD. ............. Wagner
William Mertens.
Selections from De Koven and Smiths
Rob Roy"
Madame Blauvelt, who will sing here
Tuesday, Nov. %, under the auspices
of the st. Paul Choral society, goes
first to Dakota, where her divorce suit
iC n hQ 90 o1ooo tod Tow IoT M
who was her teacher Is unwilling to
have her sing in opera and as she has
signed a three-years contract to sing
in Partisan opera, and has engage
ments also in opera and concert work
in Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and st.
Petersburg, a separation seemed to be
the only means of obviating the diff
Guilty.
A large and appreciative audience,
composed of the members of the Wom-
ems Musical clubs of st. Paul and Min
neapolis, gathered in the Grand opera
house Tuesday afternoon to listen to
the lecture of H. E. krehbiel, on Erich
ard Wagner and His Art" If any went
there with prejudices against Wagner,
because of his massive harmonies, they
came away not only without prejudice,
but with a deeper, broader and nobler
idea of the ethics of music. The lee
turer helped his hearers to look at
music through Wagners eyes, regard
ing it as a language, not limited to one
phase of expression, but subtle versa
tile and powerful, holding within itself
all the varied colors of human thought
and emotion, but always breaking up
into its several hues when passed
through the prism of human expert
ence. Mr.. Krehbiel enabled his hearers
to follow him much more easily in his