The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-02

had with her, by her desire. after the
first part of the concert, she was so
kind that was really quite touched.
These two, the Queen and Prince Al
bert, were the first people in ENGLAND
who dared to speak in my favor openly
and undisguisedly, and If you consider
that they had to deal with a political
outlaw, charged with high treason and
wanted" by the police. you viii think
1t natural that ! am SINCERELY grateful
to BOTH"
Emil Paur has been appointed musi-
cal director of the National Conserva-
tory He will next season conduct the
four concerts of the conservatory or
chestra, preside over the classes in en-
semble playing and composition and be
one Of the judges in the sixth COMPETE
ton for the best symphony, best over
ture and best pianoforte or violin con-
certo, for which money prizes are of
fered
Adele Aus der Ohe will make a short
tour in this country, beginning in jan
uary. 1900. She has already been en-
gagged for concerts of the Boston Sym
L
natl orchestras. Mime. Bloomfield-Ze
Ter will not play in America this season.
She has been engaged for a European
concert tour, and will leave this country
early in the winter. While abroad she
will play in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and
London
Paderewski has been enjoying tre-
mendous success in England and Scot
land lately breaking all records In
Glasgow he had an audience of over
1900, and in London at his last con-
cert the receipts were over $4,000. In
Paris, too, he beat the record, with
500 francs. He will spend the sum-
mer in his Swiss villa rewriting parts
of his opera. He will sail for America
in October. and will dispute the honors
of next season with the Grau opera
Already dozens Of requests have been
received at Schuberts music store for
tickets for all the concerts he will give
in New York.
In an article by Mr. Elson on the
Evolution of American Music in the
May "Etude,' the following paragraphs
occur:
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed
at Plymouth, they brought with them
only five tunes, not printed, but ira
ditional; and as they held all secular
music to be a snare of Satan, these
melodies were the entire music of the
colony at the outset. Among these
tunes we're old Hundred and York
A conference of the Rev. Thomas Weld,
John Eliot and Richard Mather led
to an extension of the art and to the
printing of the Bay Psalm book in 1910
Even the slight advance made by this
early colonial book was regarded as
hereto and sacrilegious by many who
held that sacred matters ought not to
be tempered with The old tunes were
regarded from religious and not from
an artistic stanpoint, and the Puritan
always DOTTED his cap when he heard
the melody of any one of them. 1t
is not SO long ago that there was a
contemptuous English saying which
Gueried, Who reads an American
booax?' Yet to-day Longfellow, Bret
Harte, Lowell Whitman, Mark Twain
and hosts of other American writer's on
the most diverse topics find as enthus-
iastic a hearing on the transatlantic
shore as upon this side. In a similar
manner the present writer can remem-
Der time when Reinecke inquired Of
him about American music, knowing
nothing of the subject, when Gade
wished to know if there was any earn
est musical study in our country; and
now the works of some Of even our