The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-16

Faderewsh is making concert tour
of Europe, and is meeting with remark
able success. After his first recital in
Moscow he was encored SO many times
that it was nearly midnight before the
hall was emptied.
If the reports in recent Berlin papers
nay be believed, it would even be pos
sible to introduce a novelty in the
Magic Flute Professor Rudolph
Genee has secured from an amateur at
st. Gallen, Switzerland, copy of a
Mozart manuscript which contains
duo composed by Mozart for the Magic
Flute" but never printed. This duo be-
tween Papageno and Tamino is written
out in a manuscript score of the opera
which originally belonged to the Theater
an der Wien Several experts have ex-
amined it, and they agree that it must
be by Mozart.
DR.. Heinrich Pudor intends to give in
London an invisible concert"-that is,
a concert at which the performers will
be entirely out of sight. He writes:
The program will include two pieces
for orchestra Zone of the classic school
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of chamber music, as we'll as vocal and
instrumental pieces, in order to be able
to judge thoroughly if the suggestion as
to invisible performances is practicable
for every combination of musical in
struments or not. I trust that the Eng
lish public will regard that trial, not
as a mere curiosity, but as a serious at
tempt to make musical performances
from them everything juggling, One
often hears it said abroad that artists
will be the more appreciated in England
the more they are showers of tricks,
the longer their hair. the more charm
ing their smile and behavior. But that
belief will be falsif1ed if England will
bring warm interest to the first at
tempts to adapt the idea Of invisible or
chestras to the concert room.
The English composer, c.. Villiers
Stanford, has sent a long letter to the
London Times in which he pleads for
a gift of $4,000 from the Government
o. private benefactors for the establish
ment of a national opera He points
out that masterpieces. which are the
daily bread of all European nations, are
for England an expensive luxury,
known only to the wealthy few; and all
for the want of sum of money which
is only twice that which the Govern
ment gave for one picture in the Ma
tional Gallery-the Anisdel Raphael.
But the Raphael gives employment to
no one save, perhaps, an occasional
copyist, an attendant, and buster; and
the opera house wouldtgive employment
to small army. For lack of this Lon
don is in worse plight than little Ger
man Weimar or Dessau, than even such
little French provincial towns as Poi
tiers and Angouleme. Mr.. Stanford also
notes that the State now hopelessly
wastes $500, COO year in paying for
singing by ear in public schools The
sum he wants would suffice to give good
opera FIVE years at prices within the
reach of all. After that he believes the
institution would be self supporting. He
says 'it takes the average Londoner the
best part of three years to find his way
to new theater. He contends ID that
England is the only great country in
Europe which does not possess such an
institution, and CD that all other Eu-
ropean countries look upon dramatic
music of a high class as an essential
factor in the refinement and cultivation
Of the people