Arizona republican., 1898-01-16

carry the exercises still further. Do you feel this thick muscle in your back? Well, if you could have stop ped the blood supply to that muscle in Rubenstein's back no one would have known much of him as pianist. , Here's a very good story told by Handel: He and Dr. John Fountayne, sat down to listen to the music and after yime the doctor proposed that they should move. Its not worth hearing; its very poor stuff," he said You are right doctor" replied Han del, Cit is very poor stuff. I thought so when I had finished it."
 One of the great faults of the piano has always been it's inability to sus- tain the sound in passages where sven and prolonged tones were required, and many attempts have been made to overcome the 'percussive" effect caused by the blow of the hammer on the string. In one of these modified -tions a revolving cylinder was made to press against the particular wire to be vibrated. The result was a pass able imitation of the long drawn out melody produced on the violin and cello. The instrument, however, never appealed to musicians, for the life and expression which only the artists bow can produce were lacking Much more satisfactory results are said to have been made possible in a piano on a new principle, which has been invented in Germany. The strings are stretched across the sound ing board as in the ordinary piano, but the entire hammer mechanism Is absent. The pressure of any of the keys puts in action magnet, which automatically attracts and releases the wire, thus producing vibrations with out the metallic stroke that accom- panies the sound in the common type The result upon the tones is described as remarkable. The notes resemble those of an aeolfan harp and the mid dle and lower notes suggest the music of the cello or the organ. The instru- ment responds readily to every varia- tion in power and in expression prompted by the performer, and note can be sounded for several min utes without any percepible varia- tion in quality.
 A correspondent writing from Ser lin under date of Dec. 19 last says that in the royal opera house on Saturday the six hundredth representation of Weber's 'Freischutz" was given The first performance in Berlin was on June IS, 1872. Saturdays perform ance was seized by the musical peo- pie to do honor to the memary of the great composer, without whom, say the critics, Wagner would have been impossible. The emperor was present and the audience was in evening dress, something quite unusual in Berlin. The opera was preceded by the over ture to "Euryanthe" and by a Pests piel written by Herr Ernst von Will denbuch, the great grandson of the composer, and one of the best hfstori- cal dramatists in Germany. The F5s- tspiel, entitled "Hosterwitz," repre- sents Weber and his family circle in their picturesque Elbe village discus chutz was to assume.
 Reading a great teachers memoirs, 'Marchesi and Music,' we cull a few names of the distinguished artists who studied under her: Muska, Gabri- ellie Krauss, Anna d'Angeri. Tremel1i, Caroline Lalla, Gerster, Emma Ne vada, all of whom became very noted.
 Later in Paris comes Emma Calve
 
 Sanderson and Frances Saville, each of whom Madame Monchesi recalls much that is interesting. When Rubenstein visited the Ecole Marchesi to hear the Russian pupils and was offered flow CTS, he pushed them aside saying Flowers are for women, not for men, I dislike such demonstrations"
 A very wealthy Russian lady car ries coiled up in the masses of her sof, blonde hair, a. large green lizard, which, when she. sits at the piano for she is great musician, and the lizard a great lover of music-crawls out of it's dainty nest among her tresses and gently takes up a good point of vantage on her forehead, winking it's bright little eyes and wag- ging it's emerald-hued tail.
 A musical paper tells the world that it keeps a deaf and dumb boy "who is at times sent to concersta which the critics cannot listen to without the risk of incipient insanity" Happy boyi Happy critics, to have such considerate editor!
 A paper claims that the ~states" have done more than any other nation to swell MT. Paderwiski's bank ac- count. A characteristic way of putting it.
 Three distinguished musicians have just reached this country. They are Ysaye, the violinist: Poe Plancon, the basso, and Pugno, the famous French pianist They will give concert tours in the United States during the com ing season.
 The best cure for stage nervous ness is to thoroughly know your piece