Arizona republican., 1898-02-13
MUSICAL NOTES,

i Above all, says standard author on voice production and preservation, | avoid highly spiced meats, sausages and the like. But we hear of a new tenor possessing most brilliant, flex- ible and sympathetic voice who has just been discovered at a desk in the office of his father, one of the leading sausage manufacturers of Carlsruhe. This young man. Herr Heinrich Hen sel, recently sang on trial at the Frei- ling Stadt theater and we learn that he was at once permanently engaged by the impresario who discovered him. It may perhaps be said in vindication of the authority we have quoted that Herr Hensel carefully abstained from any consumption of the paternal pro- duce.
 Richard Hoffman was born in Man chester in May, 1881. He arrived in America when 16 years old and has lived there ever since. His early ar- tistic life was passed under rather adverse conditions. He toured with Jenny Lind as solo pianist and also played with Gottschalk and devoted himself to teaching. In 1854, Mr. Hoffman was elected an honor ary member of the New York Philharmon- ic society. For a long time he held i. the position of being the only high class pianist in New York. He has a large professional following and is dis tinguished as a pianist, teacher and composer. His powers of sight read ing were phenomenal, he being able to read anything put before him, eith- CT in print or manuscript. He gave some public demonstrations of this power, playing at short notice and without rehearsal difficult ensemble music in leading concerts.
 Mrs. Newealth-And how Is my daughter getting on with her music, professor?
 Professor De Capo-Remarkably we'll. The only difficulty I find is in making her observe the rests.
 Mrs. N-Oh! But she must; she has plenty of time.
 Patti is quoted as saying that only Christine Nilsson and she are left of "the old school of cantatrices." Sing CTS are now turned out in dozens, she remarks, like oysters on the half shell; have too much straining and anxiety for quickly made voice, and then af- ter transient gleam of glory lose it all.
 A good story used to be told of Wagner's barber. The great mans
 hair was highly prized by his admir- l CTS and when he was about to have 1t cut enthusiasts were always on the
 lookout to get a lock- On one occas- ion the shorn locks were disposed of
 in advance; but unluckily Madame Wagner had promised some of her
 husbands hair to certain friends, and 1 so the barber was placed in a dilemma, Presently the tonsorial artist remem-
 bered that his butcher had hair ex- actly like Wagner's. He therefore persuaded Marrowbones to have his head shorn and the Wagner enthusi- asts were sent away rejoicing. Now I Wagner is dead and other mementos have to be thought of. At Bayreuth it seems that new souvenirs are being an enterprising pottery manufacturer had the idea of engraving on the lids of the quaint tankards peculiar to Ba- varia a few lines written by Wagner and addressed to his editor, Louis Heckel. The result proved so satis- factory that another. manufacturer followed suit. Thereupon the Wagner family, MT. I1eckel and the first manu- facturer bounced upon the imitator with grievous complaints about in ffinged artistic and literary copyrights and according to the last report the case was to be heard before the su- preme court of Germany.
 John Abel1, the seventeenth century vocalist, was on one occasion terror ized into singing against his inclina- tion. He was in Poland and it is re- lated of him that on refusing to sing before the king at Warsaw he was seized and suspended in a chair over a bear pit, when the threat of being lowered into it's midst compelled a dis play of his vocal powers. The inci- dent is suggestive Singers who de- cline to respond to encores might be tried with the hear nit