Arizona republican., 1898-02-06
MUSICAL NOTES.

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 I am given to understand that the band ball was a success financially. A great many were prevented from tripping the fantastic tee owing to the inclemency of the weather. But all these who did attend declare there was never better dance music played in Phoenix.
 Miss Nab Ava Messenger made her debut before Phoenix audience on Tuesday evening last to a crowded and fashionable house. The opera house was tastefully decorated for the occasion, as it always is when the ladies have the management. Miss Messenger plays very sweetly and has delicate touch, but we should enjoy hearing her in selections which would give her more opportunity to display her executive powers. However, we trust this is in store for us at a. fu- ture date. The Treble Clef hardly sing as well as we are wont to hear them. But on the stage they were bevy of beauty.
 The Elks' ladies social to be given next Tuesday evening promises to be quite bright affair and as usual with the order nothing will be spared to make it a success in every way. The following is the programme: Over ture, Feuerstein-Peralta orchestra; recitation, Mrs. Frances Field Cas- tella; guitar solo, From Earth to Heaven," Prof. M Mango; scprano solo, "Incontrice," Mrs. W. A. Freeze; harp solo, "Il Trovatore," Mss M. Ava Messenger; tenor solo, MT w. E. Deity, piano, Mrs. W. E. Defy; so- prano solo, ''L- Estasi," Madame Isnac- ia Gillardo; guitar and mandolin cub, Misses Gieges, Boyd, Layson, Corn ing, and Masters Long, Porter and Rose nberg.
 'fWagner's Skill-Sensatsonalism in Music," is the heading of a criticism by MT. F. c. Woods. Wagner wrote tionalist, but one in the best and highest sense. His themes or melo- dies were as entrancing as Liszt's were crude and feeble. He used every effect known up to his time ard every effect that he could think of himself; but he was not so shallow as to sup pose that effects were of any real avail unless they had some music be- hind them. The Venusberg music and the Ride of the valkyries were pieces of undenia ble sensational: m, but behind that there was extraordi- nary power of freshness of theme. The death march of Siegfried was one of the most sublime compositions ever thought and penned. Orchestra tion was really only the handmaiden of design and invention; orchestral effect without excellence in eiihcr was destined only for a nom ent's enjoy ment No amount of orche rrat on could turn "a bad article into good one. Yet there was a section of the public that believed orchestral on formed three-fourths, if not the whole of Ehe music. Meretricious ar result ed from playing to this falacy, and 1 such art was never so rife as it was at that time. Neglect of the mezzo- i tint, patchiness of color without ref erence to design and tricks on indi- vddual instruments were among the | chief objectionable sensationalism ot i the day. There was a sensatiOnalism in execution, but the dfgnif1ed school of Joachim still seemed to produce the best violinists and that of Stern: dale Bennett, the pianists mos. pleas ant to listen to.
 Soft Music at His Tomb.-A dis patch from Saratoga Springs says { cemetery with daily concerts In it! receiving vault is an attraction tha
 Saratoga now offers to the world, II addition to it's mineral springs ant great hotels. The town would neve have been able 10 do this had no
 the late Rober: Ireland, before hi'
 death, made the request that aftel his body was ent ntombed there be musi, of some kind in the sepulchre ever!
 day. In carrying out this request {
 woman who Inherited Ireland's for
 tune, and who says she is his widow
 has placed a Swiss music box in tht
 receiving vaulf of Greenridge ceme
 tery, where the body Is. Every day
 the woman visits the vault, winds III
 the box and, taking a seat beside it
 softly weeps while the favorite airs O.
 the departed Ireland are played.
 The above is Outdone by an accoun from Paris lasc year: The Farisiani
 have found a new sensation The ain
 of music has hitherto been supposed
 to be to call up pleasureable feelings but in these. fin de siecle days, ever
 music must be made to minister tt
 the worlds wild desire for novelty a
 dHy pINt. AuQ so they nave had
 concert in the ca,acombs. Some fo-ty
 musicians and rather more numer
 ous audience assembled in those
 gloomy vaults the other day and in
 dulged to the full their taste for tht gruesome. The listeners sat "or damp chairs, which had been placed at one end of the crossings of tht intricate and interminable galleries lined on each side with sku1lS anf human bones" The place was dfmly