The record-union., 1899-05-14

company ever assembled anywhere,
Ccnstantinople has got as far as Wag-
ner's "Parsifal, :" Tffieh not long ago
was produced there in concert form
by local musicians under Professor Paul
Lange, and evoked great. enthusiasm.
The Sultan alone is it is to be feared,
Bcstonian; that is, he pretends to like
music, but doesn't care for it i'm his
heart of hearts. He has a habit of
having famous soloists play for him.
ard then sending an Adjutant with a
bag of gold ($500), which must be placed
before the artist and picked up by him
to make sure that he got it, Then he
inquiries how much the artist would ask
fer a permanent engagement-bu what
ever the answer, nothing more is ever
heard of him. The latest virtuoso 20
submit to this process was M. Cesar
Thompson He got his bag of gold,
and when he was asked what his terms
would be, he answered $4,000 a month
which, by the way, would be about
$4,000 a year more than the Grand
Vizier receives.
| One of the novelties at the Hans
Richter concerts in London will be the
overture to Siegfried Wagners comic
opera Der Barenhauter." Among the
works new to these concerts will be
Glinka's La Jota Aragonese," Glazou-
now's sixth symphony, Rimski- K orsa-
kow's "Snegourlahlsa" Suite; Svend-
sens legend for orchestra entitled
.'Zorahayde," and Tchaikovsky's fanta-
STA overture, Hamlet" and ''Voyevode''
ballet Another novelty will be Mr.
Cigars orchestral variations, OPP. SO.
fourteen numbers in all, intended, as
the composer has said as sketch por-
traits. or, rather, Mr.. Elgar has looked
at the theme through the personality, if
not the spectacles, of thirteen other men
and women"
The "Menestre1' announces that two
manuscripts of Wagner have recently
been sold al Vienna. The one, of six
pages, contains the first violin part of
| the overture "Polonia,'' the other of
three pages, the cello part of the over
! ture Columbus The autograph parts
of these two youthful works of the mas
! ter, the "Menestrel'' continues. re-
manned in Paris until after the war,
and there were then returned to Bey-
reuth. E. Dannreuther, in his "Wag-
neer" article in Sir G. Groves "Po-
lonia" is at Bayreuth; of Columbus
he states that after it's performance at
Paris in 1871 score and parts disap-
peared and have not been heard of
SINCE
Paderewski recently spent a few hours
in Berlin on his way from Warsaw to
London. The fixed dates of his English
engagements prevented the prolonging
of the stay in Russia, where the great
pianist's success increased from concert
! to concert so immensely that he could
have been glad if his time had per-
mitted of his giving some twenty or
! thirty further concerts. Paderewski
seemed in the best of spirits, and
/ looked in the best of health, despite two
days and nights spent in the cars on
the trip from Kew to Berlin About his
American plans Mr. Floersheim of the
| Musical Courier learned that he
would not begin his next tournee before
the premiere of his opera had taken
place. This, to him. all-absorbing and
all-impOrtant event is now definitely set
down for the end of September or the
/ beginning of October next. 1t will take
place at the Dresden Royal Opera
house, and Court Conductor Schuch
holds now PaderewskYs definite promise
that in June he will be in receipt of the
completed score. In Germany Mr.
Paderewski will play only in two cities
this spring, viz, Cologne and Frank
furt, and he will take Brussels on the
way. He may touch Berlin again in
April, as he wants to lake counsel with
his publishers to prevent the further
reprint Of Paderewskf's compositions in
Russia. The pirate system of reprint
ing without remunera ton is still in
vogue in the Cars empire, and no less
than twenty-seven piano pieces of Pad
erewski have so far been published
there without benefit to him or his Ber-
lin publishers.
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The Philadelphia Musician prints an
article on Irish music, from which the
following is clipped:
TT is a somewhat strange fact that
the countries which are richest in ma
tive musical spirit are comparatively