The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

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promise OF success. The building 10 well
suited to its purpose, the orchestra good one,
| and Mr.. Kaltenborn well qualified Tor his share
| In the enterprise. The programmes are To
have the advantage OF variety There will be
Wagner nights. symphony nights, solo niRhts,
singing society nights and other features to
| keep the progra mines free from monotony. II
| the public does not patronze this attempt to
provide good music In summer at chean prices
! 10 will certainly look as II no demand for that
form OF entertainment existed here There
have bean many loud assertions that the pub
lie Is looking for Just what the Kaltenborn Or
ohestra is providing SO we'll In Sixty-hfth street
near the Boulevard. The German Kaiser is
| to give medal to tho victor In the SaenRer-
bund contests in Brooklyn next autumn The
last Cincinnati festival Is said TO have resulted
In loss OF 100000, 1t is to be met by private
terestlng 10 view OF this discouraainR result
to see that classes are to be formed among tho
6s e9 Sat that they h. aS to Se.
ink clubs In The middle Westa s." i'm m srSteh no
longer sends the necessary material to keep
likely to have its effect gu the character Of the
yiye SO strongly in the second generation
The music teachers at their recent sonyentlon.
dor stneEse as '' the h' eonduetor Of Amsrcan
com positions to be given at the Paris Exposi;
tinn next summer. he Is now conductor OF
Of Of the college Of Muse' I Elsa Rueese T who
used to be Il child 'cellist, has now grown up
and play. She began to appear at the age OF II
In Brussels, and won q first nrtZe there at the
as an infant prodigy in oher European cities
before that time Report SAYS that she Is an
artist She L an !oSkinS girl and
In a photograph. Teresa Carreno. who will
not return to the United States next year, has
- civ In fnla In SnIs
Nine. Marcella Sembrich will sail for this
country In time to sing at tho Maine Festival Of
Sent ~ and 81 and will then start across the
continent to appear with the Maurice Grau
Opera Company in San Francisco during the
first week in October. She will remain in the
United States until the middle OF June to
fll concert engagements. Nine, Schumann-
Heink will Sing at the Worcester Festival in
September. Nine. Melbn. ss THE SuN an
nounced last winter. will remain in Eur5pe
next yeur Connection with the Maurice
Grau Opera COMPANY proved too difficult.
Nine. Melba will sing In st. Petersburg where
she appeared In the earlier days Of her career,
In the Riviera towns and In some OF the Ger
man cities 1t is said that she will go to South
America next spring. Comma Bellincioni Is
singing there now. Few great women singers
go to South America nowadays. as tho demand
magno tyne. When IL great tenor comes with
plenty OF high notes and no Hhyness in using
them, the Inhabitants pawn their pianos, to
hear him. That IL tho customary method Of
raising money to indulge in the costly pleasure
OF opera In south America; Nine. Melba Is
sd to be to take long h rest a,eT epf
through the Vest singing more frequently In
the small towns than she Is accustomed to a.
near in the large opera com anies. This year
In London she has sung chiefly la private
houses; She has already sung the mad scene
drawing rooms and tho end is not yet Nine.
Lehman sang four times during ak operate
rebelleL not only on account Of the evident
strain on her voice. put also from their desire
to hear less OF the came singers Nine. Leh.
included Jean and Edouard de Reszke and
Nile. Bauermeister. who always delighted
the London critics, gave them an especially
agreeable sen;a:i,p IN Norma" in which she
sho TIC and
her from Hamburg to London to study music.
Albert AWARE is not to sng at Covert Garden ar
Iuired In Paris during the summer perform
ances. His leave Of absence will come earlier
New York. Tor a certain number OF representa-.
tons during the season. He sings only IN
R"" a ap the MeysFb.sr heroes ss arg He sang
last season with the Ellis Mslba company. NJ.
salnza has proved so successful in these roles
then them. Aware Iva and II. SalSza are tho foremost
Of French tenors. F rnst Kraus will probably
10 engaged for the German roles in case u; Dc
rather a curious detail Of Nj. Aivsrez's appear
ance at the Metropolitan that he refused to
NJ de ResZke was member OF the company.
The London season Will cone , to an end with
clined at the last moment to MI her engage;
mont there. on the ground that sl.e needed
Aalary offered Was probably not enough to in.
duce her to cross the Channel for few repre-
One singer described the sta ltion In those
words Last winter whom the question 0. an en-
there for 1 six 500
London for ouch sum? would eat II up be-
fore | left
Emma Calves appearance at the Opera In
Paris aroused great enthusiasm, because the
French look upon her as their represen tative
singer now, in spite Of the fact that she was
born In Madrid. The contrast OF her talents
with the mediocrities that cuItomarily appear
there must have been notable. One OF the
best-known singers in the company is Mile.
Lucienne Breval. who made her debut several
years ago there and recently sung for the first
time In London She selected Valentine in
Les Huguenots," and had to have parts OF the
duet with Marcel in the third act cut out be-
cause she was unequal to singing them. Mile.
Calves voice is said to have been scarcely
equal to lllng the large auditorium. but the
story Of her triumph Is easy TO believe. She
may sing next summer at the Opera Comique
in lie Nozze di Figaro" with Maurel as Figaro
and Fugere as AMorjrn. Don Giovanni Is
also to be revived there with Maurel. She is 20
sing Chnwbino here next winter. Ia Car.
mete," by RaynaldoH Hahn AMI Catuille Mendes,
is q musical comedy" in three acts to be pro-
ducsd next season at the Opera Comique.
Leoncavallo's II PagIlacci" will be heard
there for the first time next summer as a part
OF this programme arranged for the visitors to
the exposition. The third opera company in
Paris 10 TO be continued at the Renaissance.
and viii begin ita second season with Leon.
Of the same story was highly successful at the
old Opera Comique. The new building is 10
stage is concerned, That ls SO little ADAPTED
TO the purpose as.to oblige tho singers tore
main in their dressing rooms until they Step
hubs Joseph was recently sung there with
ont tine recitative, and the experiment WAS so
successful that the work will probably be
dropped from the repertoire Of the Opera and
given exclusively to the Opera ComQue. saint
Suens's "Dejanire" is to be revived with even
greater snlendor next summer in the arena at
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