The record-union., 1898-05-29

The photograph craze IS becoming
epidemic Recently in Baltimore the
photos Of the various members or the
Lyceum Theater Stock Company were
distributed as souvenirs. The demand
was so great that the police were called
in. Over a thousand of William Har-
courts pictures found a place in the
hands of young ladies, while Miss Ken
marks picture was sold by spectators
at higher prices than the admission Zee.
San Francisco Music and Drama:
Olive Oliver will be w. H. Cranes
leading lady next season. She has been
doing good work with Richard Mans
field. Although a Californienne. Miss
divers appearances in this city have
not been frequent She was last here
with Fred Warde, Rose COghlan, Her,
bert Kelcey Effie Shannon and the big
stock company that appeared at the
California Theater during the summer
Of 90.
DR.. Hans Richter will next year COM
plete his term of service at Vienna. be-
Ing thus entitled to pension for him
self for life and for his widow and in
fant children after his death. 1t is
possible he may then fulfil long-cher-
ished plan of visiting the United States
as a conductor of Wagner concerts, but
the rumor that he will take part in the
Jean de Reszke opera season in New
York next winter is, says the London
DAILY News" quite out of the ques-
tion, even if the war allows that sea-
son to take place at all. in any event,
the arrangements which may eventually
be made for an American tour will ap-
ply only to a winter season, and will
in no way affect the Richter London
concerts in the summer and autumn
London is to have a visit from the IA
nous Scala orchestra of Milan. La
Societa Orchestrale del Teatro ALA
Scala was founded under Verdi's au-
spices in 1879, the conductors being
FacciO, Mancinelli and Bolzoni. The
enterprise has had a checkered career.
Faccio conducted in 1888, Martucci in
1S90-93, Lamoureaux in 1894, Vanzo in
1895, Toscanini in 1896 and Mascagni
last year.
Has Italy a new musical genius? The
London Musical Times" hears from
Venice that the oratorio 1.-The Trans
figuration," recently produced for the
first time in connection with the Milan
Congress of Church Music, has been
performed there no less than six times
during the last few weeks, with enor-
nous and ever increasing success. The
composer, the young Able Lorenzo Pc
rosi, who conducted, has had numer-
Gus applications for the production of
the work in various parts of Italy.
AT Linz, Austria, an Anton Bruckner
fund has been established for the pur-
pose of giving biennial performances
here of the neglected masters works.
The first of these took place on March
10th, under Herr August GOllerich's di-
rection. and created an amount of en-
thusiasm far exceeding any apprecia-
tion of the masters works during his
lifetime. The works produced were the
Symphony, No. l, in c minor; the Ave
Maria for mixed choir a capella. and
the Grand Mass in T minor for sOli
chorus and orchestra.
At the Theater de la Monnaie, in
Brussels Miss Brema has been much
applauded in the part of Dalila in NJ.
Saint -Saens' Samson ct Dalila," and
has signed a fresh engagement for next
season. The one hundredth perform
ance of Massenet's "Herodiade' was re-
corded there on the ID of April.
The letter recently published by the
Berlin Wagner Society, and addressed
by Wagner on June 10, 1897, to Messrs.
Schott, the publishers, seems to have
had an amusing sequel. Wagner had
offered Schott his pianoforte version of
Beethoven's Choral Symphony, but they
had refused it. Wagner, therefore, in
- AEr- Il r.,~.r
in return four orchestral scores which
they published. Messrs. Schott sup
piled them, but the Wagner arrange
ment of Beethoven remained in their
pigeon holes thirty-five years, until in
1872 they returned it to the Meister as
a birthday present.
Beethoven's unpublished letters fro.
the Jahn collection, recently presented
to the Royal Library, Berlin. contain
some amusing features. In letter to
Won DomanowecZ, a Viennese lawyer,
Beethoven wants to know if he can get
rid of a troublesome man servant with
out paying him a fortnight's wages. In
another, the irate composer writes to
Nanette Streicher: Il thank you for
your sympathy for me. To-day I had
lots of trouble with Nanny, but I flung
half dozen books at her head New.
Years Day."
The first concert exclusively devoted
TO British music ever given in Bologna
was conducted by Signor Martucci a
few weeks ago The programme includ-
ed Sir A. Sullivan's Tempest" music,
DR.. Stanford's Irish" symphony. DR..
Hubert Parry's symphonic variations
the intermezzo from Sir A. c. Macken-
zie's Rose of sharon, and Mr.. Cow
ems In Fairyland'' The concert is
said to have been immensely success
full.
A number of compositions by Herr
Arnold Mendelssohn, a relative of the
great Felix, formed the programme of
a concert given in Berlin last month
by Herr Nodnagel, with the co-opera-
tion of Professor Schmidt-Kohne and
DR.. Ludwig Wullner. They consisted
of excerpts from the music-dramas
"Elsi'' and Der Barenhauter'' and
cycle of songs, which were welcomed
by the critics as being replete with in
dividuality, imaginative qualities. and
thorough musicianlike workmanship.
The death of Nicolini. coming as it
has before that of Adelina Patti. says
the New York Times" probably means
that a large share of her fortune viii
fall TO American heirs. Nine. Patti has
few living relatives. Her nearest kins-