The Saint Paul globe., 1898-06-05

heroic powers. He has Travelled every
where as vituoso, practically com
posing anew for the piano the works
which his deformity did not allow him
to play as they are written. The story
Is taken from an old Hungarian legend
dealing with the story of knight, who,
feeling himself unworthy the love of
either of two women, goes to the
Crusades and returns to find that.
thinking him dead and themselves de-
serted, one had killed herself and the
other become num- He Is then mur-
dered by gypsy. Count Zichy's libret
to belonged to a period somewhat too
antique for the lover of modern opera,
and his music, although it was plainly
aHected by the methods Of Wagner.
created no other impression on his
hearers than respect for his intentions.
The prize offered by the German en-
peror to the best of the amateur sing
ing societies will be awarded by the
kaiser himself, who has decided that
the competition should be held in the
summer Of 1899 at Cassel The festivi-
ties will continue for two days, and will
be held in the early part of June. Only
| societies Of 100 singers will be allowed
to compete. The societies will be ask
ed to sing a work composed for the
purpose that will be submitted to them
six weeks before the contest, and an
other simpler song is to be given to
the society an hour before it Is to be
sung by them, and the third they can
select for themselves, so long as it is
unaccompanied, contains no solos and
does not continue for more than twenty
minutes. No society will be allowed to
select song with which it has pre-
vious1y won prize. The prize given
by the emperor is a medal, which is to
be worn on all festal occasions by the
head of the society. It will take three
victories to make the possession of the
emblem permanent.
The kaiser will select the committee
of judges, and it is fair to surmise that
he will be among them.
Nevada after several years of abb
sence, recently made her reappearance
in Paris as the Brahmin princess in
Delibes' 'Lakme." She was given a
most cordial welcome, and her efforts
were received with prolonged and hear
ty applause. Marie Van Zandt whose
successes in this role have served to
Identify her with it, was on the same
evening quietly married to a Russian
lawyer.
The New York Post grieves over the
fact that Greater New York. with its
100000 inhabitants is not going to
have one hrst-elass conductor next sea-
son, while in Europe a small cttv like
Karlsruhe, with only 5000 inlhabitants,
has been made one Of the art centers
of Germany through the labors of Fe-
lix Motif. But, unfortunately for Karls-
rufe, Motif has accepted a very adyan-
| tageous offer from Munich.
The Paris Figaro tells the story that
Verdi gets rid of the hand-organ plague
| by renting all the instruments in his
vicinity, and at one time he had nine
ty4five of them in his house. If this Is
| true, 1t ought to provide business for
some enterprising hand organ manu-
| facturer.
Still more unpublished manuscripts
| Of compositions by Beethoven and
Schubert have been discovered, this
| time in the archives Of the Peterskirche
| in Vienna. There is a choral work
| with full orchestral parts by Beethoven
and nine songs, complete mass. a