The Indianapolis journal., 1899-12-10

Musical Notes.
Among the recent song publications are
two by Roy L. Burtch entitled ''Why l
Love YOU" and THE Little Room Where
Baby Used 10 Sleep"
The third annual entertainment of the
athletic association of the Indianapolis
High School will be given Friday evening
in High School Hall. The programme will
consist of musical numbers and recitations
by the best local talent in the city.
Miss Hariett Hosmer, assisted by her pu-
pills, gave a piano recital at her home on
assisted We're: Anna Frieberg, Dora Itch
entin, Winnie Mundel Velma Clark and
Ruth Culbertson.
Paderewskis concert In London in behalf
of wounded soldiers was one of the biggest
affairs on record. All the seats were sold
in advance and some were sold for as
high as $25. The great pianist will open
his fourth American season on the after
noon of Dec. II at Carnegie Hall, New
York.
An elaborate Christmas programme is
being rehearsed by the quartet of the
soprano; Alice Fleming Evans, alto; =.
F. Miller, tenor, and Louis Dochez, bass,
with Charles L. Hansen, organist. At the
evening service selections from Handefs
Messiah will be sung, together with two
elaborate quartets.
new cakewalk, entitled "Impecunious
Davis" by Kerry Mills has recently been
published. Mr.. Mills is well known from
popular played. Some of them are ''Whis-
tling Rufus" ''At Georgia Camp Meet
ing" Happy Days in Dixie and 'Ras-
tus on Parade" 1t is said that the ad-
vance sale of this new cakewalk has
reached $4,000 copies.
a grandson of Joseph jefferson is ac-
counted one Of the most promising of
young English composers. He is Harry
Farjeon, the son of the novelist. He has
won several Of the most valuable prizes
at the Royal Academy of Music With
his sister his librettist, he has written
a successful musical play, and is now
working on a light opera. while he has
written some variations for orchestra
that are serious music.
Perhaps fewer men-and women-would
be ambitious to become composers If they
realized how often nearly everything that
can be said Except by a creative genius
of the highest order) has been said before
them. One German firm alone-Breitkopf
& Hartel-have printed 1000 pieces for pia-
no, $500 songs and collections of songs,
1850 pieces for violin, 1.350 scores, 1880
orchestral works, 4,50O choral compositions,
2,120 pieces of chamber music, etc.
A Chicago paper says Liza Lehman's
new music for 'In Memoriam," heard there
Iog fba frcf nd
by Mr. Bispham, calls for all the art of in
terpretation of which Mr.. Bispham il
capable; nor is he at all disappointing. The
musical phrasing is fully as lofty and in
spring as the lines. The composition will
not be received with the same favor as
was accorded the Persian Garden" set
ting, but few will be inclined to deny its
artistic merits. Dreamy delicate and
dramatic in turn. it is as changeful as the
poets moods. Nothing more POLITICALLY
artistic has been heard in this city in many
seasons" the paper adds.
Cincinnati is considering a project for a
performance of Wagner's four Nibelung
operas on a grand scale, with Mr.. Van der
Stucken as conductor. Bayreuth conditions
are to be reproduced as far as possible-a
hidden orchestra, trumpet calls to assemble
| the audience, beginning of the perform
ance In the afternoon at o'clock, with
long intermissions for refreshments. In
| the cast are to be included many of those
| who were engaged in recent Bayreuth fes-
| tivals-Ternina, Nordica, Brema, Schu-
mann-Heink, Van Dyck, Dippel. Van Rooy
| and the baritones Fredericks and Breuer,
| who are to be brought over especially for
| the Cincinnati performance, besides
| Edouard de Reszke.
Some years before his death Rubinstein
| conceived the plan of having an opera
| house specially built for his sacred operas
| or secular oratorios. A year or two ago
| ii appeared to Bungert that it would make
| him like Wagner if he could induce his
| for the performance of his Homeric tetral-
ogy-or sextalogy-a Ia Bayreuth. And
| now comes ltalys latest seven-day wonder,
the Abbe PeroSi, with similar plan for his
puny and commonplace oratorios. A Mi
Ian paper declares that a syndicate has
been formed in that city which has rented
| for that purpose the old church Della Pace
for twenty-five years. Its name is to be
changed to Salone Perosi The nave is to
| be transformed into an amphitheater hold
| ing 200 persons, at an estimated cost of
| $4,000.
Madame Calve steadfastly refuses to
make any effort in the Wagner operas Two
years ago it was her intention to go to
| Germany for the summer months learn the
| Siegiinde Last summer she went to Bay
| reuth to hear "Parsifal," and was pro-
foundly impressed with the role OF Kun
| dry. II lay awake at night thinking about
| it." she said, land determined that must
| sing it, But soon as L sat down to the
/ piano and played the music / said TO my
| self Immediately: .Ah, no. That's not for
you 1 have not the voice for the Wagner
| roles, nor am l certain that l have the
| temperament. / enjoy immensely thinking
| what L would like to do in them, but they
are not for me; nor am l certain they are
| for any French artist. love to sing Schu-
| mann and Schubert for my own amuse-
| ment, but in public never. There is one
| thing that America must never expect Of
| me. That is to sing Wagner" Nine. Caive
| nevertheless, once learned Elsa in French
| for a production contemplated at the Opera
| Comique in Paris. 1t never took place, and
| she never attempted the role elsewhere.
| =:
Concerning the nationality OF eminent pi-
anists, Mr.. Honeker thus discusses in the
Musical Courier: Mozart was an Austrian.
| and played the piano in the Italian or Scar
| latti style. Handel and Bach were not pi-