The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-29

Are resurrected by the air she plays
And rise again, to torture and delight.
Those slender fingers, delicate and pure,
| Can cczen forth such wondrous har-
monies
That it seems strange scarcely can en-
The sight of her, with downcast. droop-
Caressing, with her soft and rounded chin,
Her violin.
0 SLIM insensate disc of FURNISHED wood,
On which her cheek is reverently laid,
You sing obedient to her every mood
Yet fill my soul with envy. I'm afraid
For l can onlyl listen and deplore-
Absorb the music and despise the view,
Because my heart with jealousy is sore,
Wishing that it were 1 instead of you
Stealing caresses from that rounded chin,
0 violin.
Musical America.
English Illustrated Magazine: Half
| English. half Spanish looking, with
| blue-black hair and brown black eyes
shaded with the thickest of lashes. Of
medium hight, with a vigorous physi-
| que, merry laugh and a smile rarely
absent from her lips, a vfvacity all her
own, and a spirit which never flags
that's Melba! when still a mere child
I was taught harmony" said Nine
Melba. land I learned, too, to play the
organ. 1 advise all students to begin
with the organ. TITS a capital foun-
dation. Now I have no difficulty in
mastering the most intricate scores A
good ear is a blessing. And facility is
mine. no doubt. My maiden name was
Nellie Mitchells, and as Nellie Mitchells,
oh! how incessantly I workedl At
length the time came for my father to
bring me over to Europe, and I was
then put under the care of Nine Mar
chest of Paris, the first authority on
tho art of singing whom we have now
adays." And your first appearance
in opera?" "Ah! I shall never forget
the excitement of that night--the night
of my debut as Gilda-how I threw my
heart and soul into every motel The
applause which greeted me at the end
was splendid I entered the theater a
timid girl left it years older in feel
ing, a triumphant womani Then fol-
lowed London. The first character
assumed was one sympathetic, I i'm
agined, to an English audience, the
Bride of Lammermoor. The audience
proved all kindness and cordiality At
forwards I sang in Paris. at Monte
Carlo ST. Petersburg, Palermo and Mi
Ian. 1t is more difficult than you can
| imagine to please the Italians. Don't
| laugh when tell you that I have kept
all my Italian notices q don't despise
newspaper criticisms like some other
| artists. Yes, have kept them, every
one"
Mr. HenschePs new invention of a
pianoforte with raised keyboard is
now on view in London The keyboard
is SCI raised that singers and others can
now, while singing, play the piano in
a standing and upright position, thus
seeing and being seen.
italian papers are complaining that
there are only forty-six theaters to
open this season, and that fourteen of
these play French opera. At several
opera houses the oratorios of the Able
Perosi are, moreover, to be performed
and at the Milan Scala they announce
Verdi's .Pezzi Sacri" In vain the news
paper I'll Trovatcre" protests that "our
theaters are being turned into church,
es.' The oratorios pay. and that is suf-
ficient. Other composers will also in
evitably follow the Able Perosi AL
ready a new oratorio is announced by
Signor Parcdi, and a Marriage of ST.
Cecilia by Signor Tebaldini.
In England, if the London Truth"
speaks truthfully, "the value of music
publishers business depends little upon
name or good will, and almost exclu-