The record-union., 1899-02-26

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Invitations are out for Tuesday
evening of this week, at the Sixth
street Methodist Church, for Miss Rose
Mosina Woolf's first piano recital. The
young woman is native SacTamentan
who during twelve years of music study
has battled against adverse circum
stances and conquered success, spurred
by native ability and honorable ambi-
tions. Miss .Woolf is the pupil of Miss
Evans, Mansfeldt and finally of Otto
Bendix. Her program presents Bach,
Brahms Rubenstein, Verdi List, Hen
self, Mendelssohn, Gounod-Liszt and
Mcdowell, numbers certainly a sur
prising array for a young girls debut.
Such as Bach and Brahms ON a young
debutante's program suggests misplace
ment and error of judgment, but Mr..
Bendix is authority for the statement
that there will be no disappointment;
that his pupil grasps perfectly the deep
philosophical undercurrent which per-
vades Brahms and that makes dear
to the true musician, and that she has
a distinctly musical temperament and
artistic equipment. The program is one
Of eight regular numbers.
The New York Times" correspondent
pronounces Iris superior to "Caval-
leria Rusticana' in dramatic action,
continuity of inspiration, and finished
workmanship, and agrees with the
Musical America" correspondent in
tracing it's superiority to Mascagni's
study of Wagner and other masters of
the northern school.
lie MenestreI' announces that a
committee has been formed for the
erection of a monument to Beethoven
at Baden. near Vienna, his favorite
summer resort. 1t was here that he
wrote some Of his greatest works.
Perosi's oratorio La Resurrezione Iii
Lazzaro," which has met with great
success in Milan Rome and Bologna, is
to be given shortly at the Berlin Royal
Opera-house. This will be the first per-
Torrance of the work in Germany. The
composer has been invited to conduct
the first performance. At the Roman
performance the Basilica was used,
with the Pope's permission though it
cost 10000 lire to convert it into a
concert hall. Everybody is now singing
and whistling his melodies. which are of
the simplest and most naive description.
It is rumored that his next subject will
be the Song Of Songs
During the holidays Goldmarks
Queen of Sheba' was performed at
the Teatro Argentina in Rome, and re-
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm.
The audience included the Queen, and
the performance was conducted by Mas
cheroni. The opera has won popularity
in other italian cities.
t A Viennese journalist relates that one
day he accompanied Brahms to a con-
cert by an unknown singer, whose pro-
gramme contained number of little
known songs by Brahms. AN unprac-
teal fellow!" exclaimed the composer.
Unknown singers Should begin with
Known songs"
Ernst Won Dohnanyi, the new Hun
garian pianist, is only % years old. He
is said to be an excellent performer on
the violoncello, too. His father is
Professor of Mathematics and physics.
The Spaniards have taken to import
ing German conductors in place Of
Italians. Among the latest who have
| received invitations to Madrid are
Zumpe of Schwerin and Dr. Muck Of
Berlin.
Verdi recently wrote to a friend in
Milan that the four sacred pieces which
he finished last year would form his
final work in the way of composition,
and that he had nothing further to
say
At the fourteenth annual conference
of the Incorporated Society of Musi-
clans, held at Plymouth, England, dur
| ing the first week OF January, and at
tended by about three hundred mem
bers, DR.. F. G. Shinn read paper on
The Training of the Ear" in which he
complained of the purely mechanical
results of harmony examinations which
only tested a head knowledge of har-
mony. He urged a more thorough sys-
tenn of ear-testing in all examinations,
and a resolution in favor Of this view
was unanimously adopted.
New York Post: Another attempt
has been made in London to present
THE Messiah" as it was given in
HandeTs days, without Mozarts or
FRANKS additional accompaniments,
and with a band consisting of thirty
eight violins, twelve violas, twelve
cellos, twelve double BASES, twelve
hautboys, six bassoons, two horns, two
trumpets and one pair of kettledrums.
Such a proceeding. however, does not
do justice to the oratorio, for it is we'll
known that Handel, at the perform
ances, used to enrich the score with
varied harmonies and figuration-tha
very thing that Franz tried to repro
duce. The "Athenaeum' says, apropos:
"A complete restoration of Handel's
Messiah is impossible, and the purists
who clamor for it must, we suppose, be
forgiven, for they know not what they
ask. Even written copy of the addi-
tional accompaniment which Handel
himself supplied were discovered, there
would still be obstacles in the way of
such restoration. This serious attempt
to revivify the past was profitable in
the extreme. We do not for a moment
think that this presentation of the pop
ular oratorio will gain general accept
ance The composition of the orchestra |
has radically changed since the days
of Handel, and modern color and mod |
ern methods have gained too strong a |
hold on the public for them to appre-
ciate-far less enjoy-the peculiar COM
pound tone produced by strings and
woodwind. The dull tone caused
through absence of flutes and clarinets,
and the sparing use of brass and in |