The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-25
HISIC AND MUSICIANS.

The summer night concerts to Oe given IN
the st. Nicholas Rink will not begin on Tues
day as originally announced. The difficulty oil
getting the hall ready is said to he the cause
Of the delay. Franz Kaltenborn will conduct
an orchestra OF forty musicians when the con-
certs begin IN popular and classical selections
In the meantime Somsa aud the Tree c9ncr r
must sa,sty he mhir dsmaMu IoT II, uS'r or he
United states closed II. convention In 81 LOUIS
IN SATURDAY. Herr Franz schalk say. that ,is
Wagner operas AT the Metropolitan was not duo
to any Disagreement over terms WIN Maurice
Grau. tut was the result Of his INABILITY :" Re'
leave OF absence from his duties as third con
uuctor AZ the ROYAL Opera In bsr.in' II" SAYS
thar no is 70" young man 70 nhSE.y mNC[
terms and appreciates too much the Naue OF
assonIaIirn with company ike that at the
Metropolitan To Interfere with his iutnte con
question Of salary 1t hs hro Ike mis- contract in
Berlin il would be impossible Tor him 10 con
duet III any of the German o3era houses: 30
he will remain in Berlin until ne gets peTlhls-
sion to leave.
The published Programmes Of the Bayreuth
festival performances call attention to the
great superiority OF the casts heard last winter
in the same works at the METROPOLITAN Opera
House Some Of the most notable performers
in them will be heard q, the Bayreuth theatre.
Tor among those engaged are Anton Van hooY'
Ernst Krauss. Ernestine Schumann- Hslnk'
Muka Terniua. who makes her FIRST appear-
anve at Bayreuth. and Rosa Su"hcr. This
practically completes the lis: Of wel-known
names. OJto Briesemeister OF bresIau. Tor IN
stance is TO succeed Heinrich N9gl ana Ernst
Van Dyck IA Lore in "Das Rhelngold." lie
may be as good as either Of his predecessors IN
the part. although Tor the public the invest
ment Ia blind one. az the tenor Is entirely
unknown even to the fame Of his own country.
NM Burgst aller and Srhmedes are somewhat
better known, os the former was introduced
at: Rayrouth at the Inst festival after course
NJ tuition under Nine. L'osima Wagner. His
only: appearance outside Of Bayreuth was
made recently Mt Hamburg, and the result
could MT have been entirely satisfactory
either 10 the Young tenor or the public. -
nudge by the reviews OF his work. VI,
Schmedes was formerly baritone, but retired
about two wears aGJ and made his reaupcar-
ance later as a tenor OF the lmpetial opera ~
Vienna. He was ~ Dresden during his bari-
tone DAYS Rosa Sucher has practically -.
tired from the stage. owing to the condition OF
har voice. aud she 10 to begin teaching next
winter in Berlin. II was a. Sieghnte that she
VAS most successful during her American tour
NJ Porovici will be remembered here rs the
baritone Of the Walter DamrOech Onera Com
pany during its second season. Nine. Mottl
Is TO sing Fra. and aG Henriette Standhauner
before she married the distinguished conduc-
I n. she was little more than mediocre singer
the DAYS Of tho old German regime. Marion
Weed Is the only american 10 he engaged IN
the performances this year. she was u pupil
II LIN Lehmann. Elem Gulhrans"n. who Ia
10 sing hIpi ''d and BITnuhlid". Is q ScAndi-
naviHn who has arPeared before at linyTeuth
grammes show tha' many ot the best knoTn
hayreu singers have hssn dropped from he
casts this year. Mime Wagner may have felt
thlt new talent was needed. although " might