The record-union., 1898-12-11

six weeks engagement in New York,
comprising sixty-seven performances,
was $79,642 In Albany, Washington
and Providence the takings were cor
respondingly large, and the grand av-
erage for sixty-seven performances
since the first production of THE
Christian" by Charles Frohman was
81, ,501.17.
New York Tribune: DR.. Paul Klengel,
the new musical director of the Lied
erkranz Society, was born in Leipsic
in 1854, where his father was Pro-
fessor. He received a good education,
and entered the Leipsic Conservatory
at the age of IA, studying the violin
under Ferdinand David and the piano
forte under Reinecke. AT his gradua-
tion he gained the first prize for play
ing the z fiat concerto of Beethoven.
After completing his musical studies
he was graduated from the Thomas
Schulz in 1873, and entered the Uni
verSity, where he continued his studies
till 1876. The degre of Phi. d. was con-
ferred on him for a dissertation on
musical esthetics. Then began his re-
ally artistic career, and he appeared
as violin virtuoso in the concerts con-
Quoted by julius Hoffman. In 1881 he
was elected director of the Euterpe,
where he worked with success till 1886.
Accepting a call to Stuttgart, he filled
the position of director of the Royal
Musical Society, and conducted the
grand opera as well as the subscription
concerts of the Royal Musical Society.
Under his leadership Wagner's "Meis-
tersinger,' 'Rheingold" and "Gotter-
dammerung'' We're given in Stuttgart.
In 1891 he resigned his position to re-
turn to Leipsic and accept the leader
ship of the Singakademie He was
also director Of the Arion Society, the
Leipsic Liedertafel and Leipziger De-
menchOr.
Mozart's Don Juan" has had
strange fate in Paris. The first per-
formance was given in 1904, but was
an utter failure, because of the barbar-
Gus manner in which the opera had
been mutilated. In 1911 another at
tempt was made. In 1884 the Grand
Opera produced it for the first time,
but though the singers were excellent,
the work did not appeal to the French
taste of the time. In 1866, on the other
hand, no fewer than three Partisan
theaters gave the opera at the same
time.
An extraordinary record has lately
been made by an Adjutant of the Sal
walton Army, according to a London
paper. He has achieved the marvellous
feat of singing fifty-nine hymns in
fiftyeight minutes. The occasion on
which this record was made was called
a singing battle" He began with II
VIII Follow Jesus" and hymn af 'er
hymn followed swiftly. When he reach
ed the doxology, after. singing eight ex-
ira hymns, he was two and a quarter
minutes ahead Of the stipulated time.
When ne finished he shouted, Bless
the Lord, I've broken the recordn'
An operatic storm seems to be i'm
pending in Vienna. The London DAILY
MALI prints this gossip apropos: 1t is
an open secret in Vienna that Dr.
Richter has left that city owing to
the competition of Herr Mahler the
new director of the Imperial Opera
house. Herr Mailer, for racial rea-
sons. does not appeal to the anti
Semitic party; nevertheless, he has
power behind him. He is an extremely
excitable person, and rarely gets on
well with anybody for any length of
time. He did not get on with DR..
Richter, nor does he with several o1
the prominent singers-two of whom,
at least, are likely to leave also There
is a project on foot to establish a per-
manent operah house in London, where
the great Viennese artists will most
assuredly have a better field for the
exercise of their art than they have at
present under Herr Mailer
Pianists will be more than abundant
this year Leonard Liebling, writing
in the Philadelphia "Etude," utters this
timely wall:
The preliminary managerial an
nouncements and bulletins promise ST.
lott, Sauer, DAIbert, Carreno, Rosen-
thai, Georg Liebling, Sieveking, Zelden-
rust and Madeline Schiller. What an
imposing array of mighty names! What
a vista of .supereminent musical per-
fo1mances! What a boundless per-
spective of--empty benches! One of the
first principles of political economy has
it that the supply should not exceed the
demand. 1t were advisable that the
perspicacious purveyors to our musical
needs study we'll that law. Allowing
for the proverbial optimism and the
heated fantasy Of managers, even
though we strike several names from
the list of our prospective visitors, yet
our hospitality would be nightly over
taxed. 1t should not be forgotten that
also our native players have prepared
for the coming season. OF American
pianists who always have concertos at
their fingers ends there are Joseffy, Co
dowsky, Sherwood, Baermann, Fanny
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Lockwood, Jessie
Shay, Calico, Jonas, Florence Terrell,
Julie Rive-King, Spanuth and Josephine
Hartman. 1t looks as though the spoils
OF the new season were to be divided
into very many small parcels.
The Spanish actress Maria Guerrero,
who is said to possess great powers,
is to be seen in London. She has the
very highest testimonials from Mes
DANES Bernhardt and Duse, but then
those ladies can afford to be generous
to a sister artist who is never likely
to be a competitor. It is about time
for new male actor Of distinction to
appear. but nothing is heard of him
outside of certain vague rumors from
Italy of another Salyini.
Griegs music has become so popular
in London that the Norwegian pianist
Nine Hanka Schjelderup found it a
good policy to open the. season at the
new Erard Hall with recital devoted
entirely to his music. She played ff-
teen of his works, including his con-