The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-04
MUSIC AND
MUSICIANS
Music is almost all we have of Heav-
en- on earth. Addison.

| en- on earth."-Addisor
| Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the
earliest admirers of Miss Leonora Jack
son, whose performances on the violin
are now winning so much approval in
Europe and America. When she last
in Boston January, 1890 prior to her
final departure for Europe, he had her
come several times to play to him quiet
ly in his study without accompaniment OF
piano. He said one day that he had
once studied the violin for some time but
added quickly. mot because | thought [
could ever play 1t, but because wanted
to know its difficulties and see just what
vfolinist's muscles are called on to do.
When Miss Jackson last took leave of
DR.. Holmes, he wished her GodspeeG and
every success with her violin studies and
then broke up a set of his besc-hounj
works in the library and gave her d copy
of Over the Tea Cups with ~. inscrir-
ton consisting of q verse and the words
with kind regards arG best wishes OF
j her listening and adrnirirg friend. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Boston, January 4. ;sa:i. :
| New York Evening Pest.
The Society of German Composers as
serts that about 10000 persons in Ger
many earn their living in connection With
music. There are $50 solo sirIgers 10
pianists, 100 violinists, ESQ orgaais.s. 1850
orchestral players. 1900 conductors. 80
Conservatives, $40 amateur orchest.as,
G,5Sl singing, societies. t.s?1 concert ha.!s,
273 publishers, and SO
After the American tour Paderewski
| and his wife will go to England tor a few
concerts. and then take a rest at the
new estate he has bought n a valley of
the Tatrn Mountains. bataecu Cfa-S.a
and Hungary. The place. he says. IS az
most as primitive when it was first
conquered by the Emperor Trai4n. and
his own estate is upwards of 5000 acres,
largely hill and woodland. but with q
chateau surrounded by q park, and inter-
sected by two rivers.
He has laid the scene of his opera upon
this estate. 1t deals with the ardent
love of q Gypsy hero and Slav heroine, at
q. period when the two peoples We're In
deadly feud. 1t is tragedy. and NJ.
Paderewski believes the music TO be quite
in the modern style In the first act.
there is a Hungarian ballet Gaction. last
ing upwards OF half an hour.-SIusical
Age
Slxty-nine new operas (oratorios are In
cluded In the official list were produced
in Italy last year, but none, it seems,
with any special success. None OF the
leading Italian composers. such as Mas.
cagni, Puccini. Leoncavallo, nor, OF
course, Verdi and Boito. were represented
at all.
Iilli Lehman is as versatile and as
liberal In her taste as ever For the
present concert season in Germany she
has as many as seventy different songs
In her repertory.
Donizetti Is not forgotten In Italy. His
LINDA di Chamounix" was lately revived
in Spezzia with Signora Raspisardi In the
title<role. Boccabadati was the great re-
preventative of the part in the years gone
by. In this character she was what Grisi
was in Norma Lucia and 'Fa-
vorita'' are among the operas OF the
present season at Cagliart. Lucia
f, hourishes again at Carrara-
Miss Estelle LiebIsng. an American girl
OF eighteen, has been engaged as color
atur singer at the Dresden opera
The reason why Brahms refused all the
Invitations to come to England and be
..doctored'' Is out at last It was his
hatred OF the swallow-tailed coat and 9th
err conventionalities OF English life. DR..
Widmann has given an amusing account
OF Brahms home life. his early rising
to make for himself a cup Of cofrse In a
| Viennese machine, the coffee berries be-
ing sent in prodigtous quantities by a
lady admirer OF Marsetiles. his work un-#
der the veranda at Thun, and his dinner
in restaurant garden. where he could
| wear a striped flannel shirt and no collar.
with in colder weather a brownish gray
/ shawl thrown over his shoulders Wild
mann was the German librettist of
Goetz's Tanning Of the Shrew. and in
his company Brahms conceived the idea
OF writing AN opera Brahms seriously
suggested Gozzis King Hirsch, and
Grimm's Faithful John" Brahms oc-
casionnlly reverted to the subject. down
to 1885, when he wh!nns.caliy declared that
he had finally resolved ito try neither an
opera nor marriage. Brahms pretended
to be the husband OF Widmann's tiny
daughter Johanna. and when the Wen
! nese ladies' twftted him upon his solitary
!, state. he caustically replied. .'It u my
| misfortune stiIl 70 BE- unmarried, thank
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