The herald., 1897-07-11

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solo, by Mrs. j. T. Newkirk. Evening a
1880: Opening, 20 Lamb of God" b!
George Earnest Lake; offertory, "Out o
the Depths" by G. w. Marston.
Stray Chords
Massepet has just completed a new
fantasia for pianoforte and orchestra.
Nine. Sofia Scalchi will sing mex
month at Keith's theater, Boston, How
have the mighty fallen! Keith's In Bos
ton is like the Orpheum in Los Angeles
May poor Scalchi meet with more decen
treatment at Keith's than Guile die
here.
London is loyal to old favorites, ant
Patti is to give concert this week a
Albert hall. She will not appear agair
in public this season.
Mr.. Henry Wolfsohn, the well-knowr
American manager, has engaged the fol.
lowing artists for next season: Mr.. ant
Mrs. George Henschel, Mr.. Ffrangcon.
Davies (for his third tour), Miss Lilliar
Blauvelt, HenM Marteau, Julius KLEIN.
gel, Nine. Bloomfield Zeisler, M. Rosen.
thai, besides number of other artists
including Madame Barna and possibly
Miss Thudichum, but has not engaged
Mile. Chaminade, as has been reported
She is in delicate health and not suf1ic
iently strong to undergo the hardship!
of an American tournee.
In anticipation of the Forthcoming
birth-centenary of Donizetn at Berga
mo, Italy, a publication has just beer
issued, containing articles devoted tt
the composer by Parmento, Orsini, Sar
tori Valli and other well-known writers
as we'll as representation of the monu
ment to be unveiled and other illustra
TORS.
Suppe, the composer of "Fatinitza.'
has had posthumous honors thrust upor
him. His remains were transferred to &
Vienna cemetery, next to Harbeck's
grave, and a monument has been erect
ed to him.
French musicians are becoming
alarmed at the increasing number o.
foreigners Chiefly Belgians and Ital
ians) who find places in the Partisan or.
chestras. A protective society has beer
established to counteract the dreadful
evil.
The London Saturday Review berates
Hans Richter for not bestowing on the
performance of Relationships PA
thetic Symphony" the same care that he
does on a Brahms symphony or set OF
variations. 1t declares that "if the Pa
thetic Symphony is not worth not only
these variations, but all the Brahms
symphonies thrown in never let it be
played again. Tchaikowsky
was not very far beneath Brahms in the
matter of technique, and was infinitely
above him in point of beauty, originality,
freshness of atmosphere and pungency
of expression"
Mr.. Anton Seidl conducted the orchee-
ira at the production of "Siegfried' at
the Covent Garden opera house, London,
on the night of the 26th ultino, and left
for Bayreuth the next day for the re-
hearsals of "Parsifal." He will reappear
in London at intervals until the end Of
July.
Madame Nordica sang at the triennial
Handel festival at the Crystal Palace,
London, on June 18th. She will take a
holiday in Switzerland, returning to
America in August. She has signed with
r. E. Johnson for forty concerts in this
country, beginning next October. The
report is that she is to receive $50, 900 for
the series.
Marie valeska Pfeiffer. the singer. has
invented musical printing outfit that
proved so successful 1t has been taken
up by the Oliver Ditson company, who
are putting it all over the country. 1t is
on exhibition this week in the woman's s
of the mueic teachers ma
tional convention, also in the Ditson
exhibit.
Says the Musical Age ingenuously:
zone Mr.. r. E. Johuson-all honor 10
his adventurous sout-proposes bringing
Madame Marchesi, the we'll known
Partisan vocal instructress, to thie coun-
try for exhibition purposes. What
Madame Marchesi has to say in the mat
ter, we have not yet heard. 1t may be
one of those cases where, as the vulgar
saying goes, Man proposes, and the
woman says-'Nit.' Madame Marchesi,
if she has taught even a small per cent Of
the people who claim her for teacher,
must be nearly too old even for exhibit
ing purposes, but it is said she even con-
templates teaching while che is visiting
America.
After half a century of neglect Paris
is to honor the memory fChopin, who is
buried at Pere la Chaise cemetery. A
tablet will be placed on the house in the
Place Vendome, where the great mu-
sician died in 1S49, and his name given to
a square, not in Paris itself, but in the
suburb of Passy. The committee to
erect monument to Chopin is at work,
under the presidency of M. Massenet. 1t
has chosen site for the monument in
The Pare Monceau, and intrusted its
execution 10 M. Froment-Meurice.
American composers are among the
new names on Conductor Neuendorff's G
programs at the concerts of the Metro
politan Permanent orchestra at Madi-
son Square garden.
The following Americans were heard
in concert in Berlin during the last sea-
SON: Miss Adelaide Kellogg, Miss Leo
nora Jackson, Miss Celeste Greeneveit,
Mr.. Van Eweyk, Miss Augusta Cottlow,
Miss p RoL Miss Jessie Shay, Mr..
Carlos Sobrino, Miss Agnes Miles, Miss
Mary Forrest, Miss Lillian Sanderson,
Miss Marion Bear, Miss Rose Ettinger.
Miss Madeline Peck, Miss Florence
Fraser.
Under the auspices of the National
Musical Academy life of Carlos Comes,
the Brazilian operatic composer, author
Of II Guarany," has just been published
from the pen of Senior Ernesto Vieira.
to which are appended a number Of eu-
logistic verses by Bulha PATIO, Thomaz
Lopez de Mendonza and other