The record-union., 1899-04-02

Next Wednesday evening at the Clu-
Zie Opera House the Arion OrcneStra
and the Native Sons Band. in all n1ty
performers, will give concert Bull
are popular local organizations VI
young people studying music with hne
spirit and unusual assiduity. They VIII
be assisted by Miss Daisy Cohen, So
prano, and E. J. Stark, baritone, potn
of the choir of the Temple Emanuel,
San Francisco and the 9o quartet
of this city. The promise is for a merl-
torious entertainment.
Rosenthal. the eminent pianist, Is to
appear at the Clunie Opera House very
soon. His success on the coast thus
far has been something phenomenal.
The music loving public will be
pleased to learn that the Bostonlans
will play an engagement in Sacramento
in a short time.
The Cincinnati posts reviews Of the
Ellis opera performances there We're
written by Professor John S. Van Cleve,
a blind musician and writer, who knows
more than many critic that can see.
The Maine Music Festival of 1899
will not have Nine Melba~ as one of it's
attractions. Negotiations for the en-
gagement of the great soprano had
been pending for a long while, but
Nine. Melba has now decided to make a
tour in Europe during next fall, and
will not come to America before the be-
ginning Of the opera season.
In his history of Aquitaine, Bouchet
says: Louis XI. of France, hearing
one day company of hogs making as
much noise as if they were possessed
of all the devils of the Gergesenes, or
dered the Able de Baigne, who had a
taste for music, to contrive an. 1nstru-
ment by which these grunterS might
bemade to produce harmony. The Abbe
accordingly collected an orchestra OF
such performers from the thin treble OF
infancy to the bassoon grunt OF old age,
and inclosed them in line OF stalls
under a pavilion. An instrument like
a pianoforte stood before the entrance,
it's surface divided into keys, each key
connected with one pig. When the
Able struck the keys, prong set IN
motion produced the required note, fiat.
or sharp, according to the force of the
blow, and the whole resulted in mus
icar' performance, which greatly de-.
lighted the King and his court
A Mozart cycle is almost certainty
for next season. The interest in the
recent performances of Don Giovanni
and .'Nozze di Figaro" have suggested
that it would be a profitable expert
1nent. OF course ''The Magic Flute
would be included 1t is many years
since this work was sung in New York
With the present members of the Grau
Company it could be cast to perfection.
When Berlio was spending some un-
happy years at the Paris Conservatoire,
he took one of his compositions to the
grabbed old director, Cherubini, one
day. for a criticism. What is that?"
asked the old man, indicating two
measures of rest. "I wished to produce
an effect which I thought would best
be expressed by silence replied the
pupil VERY good. Suppress the bal
ance; the effect will be better still, y
was the biting comment.
The Omaha Bee says kindly: What
preciated parsonage an accompanist is!
The accompanist bears the burden and
heat of the concert, and receives but
little of the glory. Noticed only when a
mistake is made, and ignored usually
by the audience. In fact, the accom-
panst is much like the coxswain of a
college crew; if the race is won, the
crew gets the credit; if the race is lost,
the coycvyair erafS tha hi
Edward Lloyd has attained q success
In concert singing almost unprece-
dented. He has lately bought a large
estate in Sussex for breeding cattle.
The purchase money is said to amount
to figure that would astonish many a
peer. He is now planning a final tour
through Great Britain, which begins
Immediately after the Norwich festival
The tour will end about June, 1900, at
farewell, which will take place in
Albert Hall. If he sings at the Birm-
irgham festival in 1900 he will then
have completed a career of forty-five
years, during thirty of which he has
been beyond question the only great
British tenor on the concert platform.
New York Post: There will be much
interesting reading in James Huneker's S
collection of musical papers, now in
press The pages ON Chopin are looked
forward to with special interest 1t was
Mr.. Huneker who wrote the following:
! believe l have been criticised for as
serting that in Chopin's later works is
to be found the germ of the entire mod
ern harmonic scheme 1t was not in the
use of the chord of the tenth alone that
Chopin was path breaker Even in
his first book of studies may be found
a melodic and harmonic scheme with
out which the whole modern apparatus
of composition would not be as it is
now. Does this sound daring? Come,
put it to the test, That wonderful up
ward infection which we look upon as
Wagner's may be found in the G sharp
minor part of the c minor study in
opus 10. Look at it! Sift its signifi-
canoe, and then revert to "Isolde's
Liebestod." Ha! have 1 pricked you,
you champions of the mighty? There
is the nub of the entire system of mod
ern emotional melody. Take all the
etudes and what treasures do we find !?
The lovely Fantasie-P Polonaise, op. 81,
has an introduction which is marvellous
and which will sound new a century
hence. There is a kernel of figure
that will surprise the Wagnerite who
knows his Ring" L speak of a triplet
figure in sixteenths in the introduce