The record-union., 1899-08-20

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Al new music comedy by Stanislaus
Etange and Reginald De Koven, en-
titled "The Five Little Sisters Barrett"
will he seen next season.
John Philip Sousa owns more or less
goed-sized example of the musical
manuscript of every great composer
since the time of Bach.
At a certain charity concert in aid of
church funds a woman singer was
down to sing "Ora Pro Nobis," but at
the last moment she changed her mind,
and said he would sing 1.-THE Song
THAT Reached My Heart" instead. The
dignified elder who was acting as chair
man read the note containing the in
timation and spoke as follows: Miss
Blank will now sing Ora Pro Nobis,
which, being translated. means The
Song that Reached My Heart
Another American singer who has
been taken up by musical people, but
this time in Berlin. is Nine. The. Dorre,
who was accepted as the first American
to sing Carmen" and "SantuzZa" in
the German capital. Nine. Dorre has
taken her name after her mother, who
was a noted singer. She has spent
much of her time abroad, singing at
Covent Garden in London, then in
Milan, and finally at Bayreuth. Her
reappearapce in America has been de-
layed until the season after next, when
she will be a member of Maurice
Grau's company.
Daniel D. Emmett, the author of
Dixie" is living, at the age of 50, the
life of a hermit. He spends most of
his time within doors, and is seen on
the street only when taking his Sunday
afternoon drive.
The wonderful dance music that gave
Johann Strauss the title of Waltz
King was written in an erratic and
impulsive way that is strangely in con-
trast to the pulse-like rhythm and con-
tinuity of the Blue Danube Waltzes."
Musical impressions. themes, combin-
ations in harmony, came into the
musicians head al the most unexpected
time and place And Johann never let
them escape. No matter where he was
or what he was doing, the inspiration
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melody was written down almost as
soon as conceived by the brain, on
whatever material was at hand. This
happened oftenest to be the composers
cuffs; and when they were covered, his
shirt bosom. Often and often after his
linen had gone into the wash, Nine.
Strauss would be startled by frantic
appeal for a shirt or a pair of cuffs
that held some musical fragment jotted
down in a moment of inspiration and
now lost to the despairing composer
who had forgotten to copy it. The most
famous of all the themes he wrote,
THE Blue Danube" was first jotted
down on his cuff with a pencil, and
might have shared the fate of other
inspirations had it not been for the
sympathetic care and devotion of his
wife Mrs Strauss entered into her
husbands erratic moods with infinite
tact and care. Instead of being irri-
tated at his uncertain and inconvenient
methods of composing, she did every
thing to help him. He wrote on any
thing, books, papers, pictures, in what
ever room he happened to be. His
wife had pens and paper scattered all
over the house so that wherever he
went he should find them. She had
a piano in every room that her hus-
band used, and never let bit of his
linen go to the laundress unless it
were perfectly clean. as far as musi
cal scores were concerned. 1t is owing
to her wise sympathy that many of
the composers best loved dances are
known to-day. In common with most
great men, Strauss loved a garden, and
often worked in his. Nothing seemed
to stimulate his musical ideas like
wedding or hoeing.
He would often drop his hoe in the
middle of a row of turnips or jump
UP from the absorbed wedding of
carrot patch, rush into the house, seize
the first sheet of paper he saw and
dash off a bar or two of melody to be
afterward elaborated into a tone-poem.
This impulsive quality is probably
what gives the dance music of Strauss
it's vibrant, and living quality. 1t
sweeps the dancers along like river
and appeals to emotions as old as hui
man nature Strauss belongs to no