The record-union., 1898-07-31

Milton Mobiles will stick to vaudeville
another year because it pays sure and
there's no worry about it. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mobiles begin next season at Keiths
in Boston August 1st.
Minnie Seligman has deserted the
vaudeville boards for the open air. She
has been doing Merry Wives of Wind
sor'' out in the open at st. Louis, and
with her are Edmund Lyons, Lawrence
Hanley, Frank Losee, Henry Jewett,
Nellette Reed and Marion Elmore. The
venture is said to be a paying success.
San Francisco Music and Drama:
Lizzie Vigoureux, the accomplished and
talented actress, will shortly begin a
starring tour with a fine repertoire of
first-class plays and supported by
select company of experienced and eff
cient players. Miss VigoureuX, a strik-
| ingly handsome young woman, is a ma
tive Californienne, made her first ap-
pearance at the Grand Opera house in
this city in June, 1885, as Amy Robsart
and scored an instantaneous success.
The lady has many natural and acQuir-
| ed accomplishments, is possessed of
more than ordinary intellectual ability
and gifted with rare vocal and elocu
tionary powers.
| NJ B. Curtis appears to have entered
| the show business again, this time as
| manager for Dante, the magician,
whom he has had down at Honolulu.
Dante is Salt Lake product and has
achieved a good reputation in the inter-
mountain country, as we'll as through
the Northwest, where he recently
closed.
The tenth season of "Ole Olson" will
! open August 14th. The tour is booked
solid for thirty-five weeks and Manager
Jules Murray feels sanguine of its sue
cess. Arrangements are now being con-
summated for its production in Eng
land during the spring and summer of
| '99, when the entire American COM
pany will appear.
The Chicago Record" says that some
time ago young organist secured per-
mission to practice on the big organ in
the Auditorium. An elderly man
walked in and took a seat few rows
| away from the musician. The young
organist noticed him, and was encour-
aged to "show off, and do few tricks
of playing for his audience He rambled
on for an hour, and the elderly man sat
there, apparently impressed. The
young man tired at last, and was about
to lock the organ when the elderly man
| approached him and said in broken
English that he wished TO play for a
| few minutes. "They don't allow any
one but an experienced organist TO
touch the instrument" said the young
| man, loftily. With a little gesture,
suggestive of meeknesS and humility,
the stranger presented his card: Alex
andre Guilmant Paris" Then it was
time for the young organist TO swoon.
He had missed the chance of his life.
For an hour he had been entertaining
the great master with home made
drivel
Musicians have been in the habit of
looking down on the so-called gypsy
scale as a mere piquant curiosity in
music But now comes German theo-
rist named Werker, who proves in a
short but erudite book, Die Theorie
der Tonalitat," that that scale is the
scientific basis of music. Liszt's music,
obviously, is the music of the future.
Robert Froberger has published an
arrangement for pianoforte, two hands,
of what is at present the most popular
of all symphonies, Tchaikovsky's Pa
thetique. The first and third move
ments had to be shortened somewhat,
as there were a few places too compli-
Gated to be managed by two hands.
Great enthusiasm has been aroused in
| Munich by the revival Of THE Magic
| Flute" in its original form, according
to Mozarts manuscript, in which form
the score was published by Breitkopf
| & Hartel in 1870 In the course OF
century both the libretto and the mu-
sic had suffered considerable alteration
and mutilation, so that the revival al
| forded much that was new and delight
full to veteran opera-goers. Berlin Is
going to follow the example of Munich
| by bringing out cycle OF mozart
| best operas. But while Mozart is thus
! honored in the opera-houses, his con-
cert music is neglected though there
is SO much Of it-43 symphonies, -
sonatas and 81 concertos for piano, 70
| Quartets, etc.
Professor Joachim played a romanza
| by RudOrff at one OF tIle COilCeItS Will
! which Stern's Vocal Society in Berlin
| Iatelv celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
| sary Of it's foundation. Forty-flve
/ years ago Joachim played Beethoven's s
| violin concerto at a concert of this So
ctety. Music teaching is supposed to
he one Of the most exhausting and
nerve destroying Of professions, but
| Joachim has played and taught all
these years without suffering any more
than did Spohr or LisZt, who also reach
ed an advanced age in harness List,
however, did not play in public the last
forty years of his life, except at an oc-
casional charity concert.
1t is a pity that the task of trans
lating Wagner's prose works has not
been undertaken by a better writer than
w. Ashton Ellis. His versions are open
TO many objections. The London "Aca-
DENY" says justly that ''he has one or
two of the worst vices of journalistic
English, and forces those vices into hor-
rible prominence The split
infinitive' is carried to nightmarish
lengths"
Cvide Musin will come to New York
to open his violin school on August 1st.
Rosenthal is rusticating in the Tyrol
and preparing for his American tour,
which he will open on October 26th with
a recital in Carnegie Hall.