The record-union., 1899-03-26


of it; with what, then, are you famil-
iar?" Il know some of the Hungarian
Rhapsodies and the Rigoletto F'anta-
sic. This is in no sense overdraWn,
but may be made a matter OF frequent
and actual experience. Neither IS II
true of List alone 1t is sort OF
indignity to which all composers OF
ability are subjected. People ana
musicians are not exempt from thls-
hear an infinitesimal portion OF COM
poser's work, and then promptly form
a comprehensive-and often sweeplngiy
acknowledgements
Achilles in Petticoats" is the title OF
an opera produced in London in 400,
and Riemann's Opera Handbucn
mentions about thirty other operas re-
lating to the Homeric hero, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean," During the
first two centuries of Italian opera
| most Italian nbrettos were, indeed
based on subjects taken from Greek
mythology. After Gluck these supJects
gradually went out of vogue, out Wltnln
a few years, by a curious colncloeiice'
there has been a Homeric revival In the
operate field Bungert having written
a Homeric tetralogy, Chabier a BITS
els" and Goldmark an opera with the
same name as the heroine, and Whlcn
would have been named after her hao
not Chabrier been in the field rev
months sooner in consequence OF Wnlch
Goldmark called his opera die kneSs-
| gefangene" (The Captive Woman). FMS
opera was produced in Vienna on Janu-
airy 18th, and won big success IN spite
of it's antique subject and the rather
unsatisfactory character Of the libretto.
The industry of the Italian composers,
according to the New York Sum-, is
always remarkable enough when one
considers the few works that survive
more than one or two performances.
Scarcely week passes without its new
opera in one town or another. The dra-
matte and musical season really com
mences in Italy with the Christmas hol-
idays, although some performances are
given previous to that time. Maseagnl
Iris was of course, the principal
event of the present year, and the ru-
NOR is that already he is at work with
Gabriel D'Annunzio on a new opera. In
the meantime composers are heard of
day after day. One-act operas are still
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for the place once filed by "Cavalleria
Rusticana" None of them, of course,
survives Turin, Milan, Venice, Flor
ence, and many small cities have all
heard their new operas this season. In
the principal cities Massenet's "Roi de
Lahore" and "Manon'' have enjoyed a
new vogue, and Goldmark's 1.-THE Queen
of Sheba" has been produced with
| no
dropped for some time out Of the roper
toire.
| PadereWski is much annoyed at the
false report which was recently pub
lished broadcast to the effect that he
has married again, and this apparently
is one of the reasons why he has led
such secluded life for the last few
months says the st. Paul Pioneer
Press" There is, however, another
reason, and surely more potent one.
The pianist has a crippled son, and on
this luckless lad the father lavishes all
his affection. Mainly for his sake he
has decided to abandon the great world,
which would so gladly welcome him,
and to spend his days on a large coun-
try estate, which is on the borders of
Russia and Poland, and which has re-
Gently come p, to him through inherit
ance. Here he will interest himself in
practical farming and in otherwise i'm
proving his property. He has already
| imported large herd of thoroughbred
cattle from England, and he has also
laid out vineyards and stocked his lakes
and ponds with fish Of various varie-
| ties. ,1o'
| Goltermann, the 'cellist, of great rep
utation, and composer of note, re-
Gently died at Frankfurt, in his seventy
| fifth year.
| Samuel Kayser, formerly manager of
the Chicago Conservatory, has been Sc
lected as director of the musical divi-
sion of the American Department at the
Paris Exposition. - *.
The Boston Transcript" says that
the Italians consider opera solely in re-
lation to their sensuous emotions; the
French as producing pleasures more or
less akin TO those of the table; the Span
iards mainly as a vehicle of dancing,
and the Englishman as an expensive
but not Improbable way of demon
strating financial prosperity. In other
words, the Italian might be said to
hear through what is euphemistically
called his heart; the Frenchman
through his palate, the Spaniard
through his toes, the German through
his BRAIN and the Englishman through
his pocket.
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