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| T. B. Harms & Co., New York, have
published in sheet form, to piano ac-
compartment, the song Love Letters -
as sung by Mabel Gilman of Sacra-
mento in ssThe Rounder," at the Casino.
New York The title page has a good
portrait of Miss Mabel, who has won
her way to front place in light opera
| and commands a generous salary and
| high praise from the critics.
| Herbert A. Kidder, concert manager,
! of this city has been engaged by the
Stanford University Glee Club to man
| age it's tour for the south counties,
which will cover some three weeks and
likewise two weeks advance work Mr..
Kidder has already entered upon his
work, but will complete it in time for
his January concert here.
A red haired singer, whose identity
is kept secret, but who is supposed to
woman, has been successfully exploited
on Western vaudeville circuits under
the title 1.-The girl with the auburn
with red hair have been admitted free.
Francis Wilson has changed his mind
and instead of performing the opera
"Cyrano de Bergerac" only, may be
seen in revivals of 1.-The Little Cor
poral," 1.-THE Merry Monarch and Err
mimic" Marie Celeste has temporarily
taken the place of Lulu Chaser, who
has a throat trouble.
The subject and a glimpse of the plot
of the new Savoy opera by Captain
Basil Hood and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
They are Persian-founded on a Per
sian story-and both composer and au-
thor have endeavored to give to it a
genuine Oriental atmosphere. The opera
is not "topsy turvy" in any sense of
the term. In accordance with Savoy
custom, no title has as yet been select
ed, but it will probably be one of the
following: THE Story Teller ga Per-
sian Story Teller" "Mahmoud of Per-
STA, - 1.-The Wives of Hassan' or Sui
tan Mahmoud.' The piece is in two
scenes-the first, the courtyard of the
house of Hassan, the merchant and
the SECOND, the audience hall of the Sui
tan's palace. Though sentiment has its
place in the story, it has not been al
lowed to displace humor, and the idea
of the author. may be-sumned up as an
lattempt to give a theatrical represent
alton of what may be termed the ro-
mantle realism of the Arabian
Nights" The cast, which includes the
old Savoyards, Mr.. Passmore, Mr.. Lyt-
ton, Mr.. Evett, Miss. Owen and Miss
Ruth Vincent, will be strengthened by
the advent of Miss Ellen Beach Yaw,
the American sopra ndS and Miss Louie
Pounds.
The famous Partisan conductor Co
Tonne was asked the other day by a
German journalist Whether France
possessed so great singer as Lilli Leh-
mann, and he answered, with a sad
smile and movement2of the head: sShe
is, in my opinion, The greatest of liv-
ing singers In reply to the question
whether German music was honestly
appreciated in Paris, he&replied: Most
decidedly; especially Wagner. There
| was time when Parisians refused to
hear him; now they adore him. I
know no composer who is such a ia
vorite among us as he. He has also
exerted a great influence on French
composers, not always to their advan-
tage, as some of them try to go be-
yond him in direction which is his
own. Are the young Italians appre-
ciated in Paris? Not in the least, Puc-
cini excepted The older Verdi, of
| course, is a favorite stiIl''
S. Coleridge Taylor, the negro com
poser, whose work is attracting much
attention, wrote a new overture for his
work, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" for
its performance in England. The Man
chester Evening Mali says: His
"Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is to be
performed this week at Norwich and
three weeks later at the North Stafford
shire festival. 1t is in the winter pro-
gram Of the Peoples Palace choir. also
in that of the Bermondsey settlement
choir, and in that of the Highbury
Philharmonic Society Two choirs in
birmingham have it on their respective
lists AT Manchester the vocal society
promises it, at Liverpool a similar So
ciety has it in hand, and South Shields
awaits it, as well as Newcastle That
is pretty well for one work, but the
young Anglo-African has written a
companion to it, 1.-THE Death of Mime
haha, as yet unpublished and upper
formed. This will be heard for the first
time at the North Staffordshire festival,
yet already several societies have made
ready to take it upon trust, among
them the Peoples Palace choir and a
Sunderland musical institution. Coler-
idge Taylor is now engaged upon a
third composition-"Hia Depar-
ture"-which, with it's two fellows, will
be given at one of the forthcoming con-
certs of the Royal Choral Society.
Dohnanyi, the Hungarian pianist and
composer, who is to visit America this
winter, is only % years old His piano.
forte, for which he received the first
prize at a competition in Vienna, was
played by him at a recent Richter con-
cert in London and scored a great sue
cess, although it lasts forty-five min
utes. 1t is eminently national music
which, as one of the critics asserts,
could hardly have been written by any
but Hungarian"
Alexander Petschnikoff, the Russian
musician, is the son of a soldier, and his
grandfather was a serf, who first gave
evidence of the family talent for the
violin. He began his studies in Moscow.
and met with no opposition from his
family. as he was too frail to take UP
the work of a day laborer which would,
in all probability, have been his career
He obtained admittance to the Royal
Conservatory in Moscow, and studied
first under Hrimaly. For awhile he
was q member of a theater orchestra