The age-herald., 1900-12-30
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harp; later the soft brass assists in en- riehing the tune mass" and so on. The wonder is that work so tender and beau- tiful as the Kreutzer sonata had not been orchestrated long ago.
 Just a few more words, and I will drop this theme Tolstoi evidently knows noun ing of music, or he would never nave Wrlt- ten the eroHe novel he did under lhe uIle of "The Kreutzer Sonata" An unmuslcal person or one unacquainted with the so- nata would have imagined that Beethoven had composed music suggesting evil deslIe -unholy passion-when just the contrary was true. The Kreutzer sonata Is heaEeh- inspired It is in a singular degree splIlt- ual and uplifting, and every refined sym pathetfS musician who listens to it must feel the better for it.
 Concerning Leonora Jackson, It will be of interest to Birmingham's musical set 10 learn that Oliver Chalifoux met and heard the word-famed artist play the Nlolh when she was a little girl. It was In Chi cago in 1888. MT. ChalifouX was living In Chicago at the time, earning his living as a professional musician. He had recently come from Paris, where-he had won non ors at the Gonservatoire, and was gettlng B a lesson as a violin teacher. Leonora came to him to see about taking lessons. She played a little piece by David, ana played it with uncommon taste and skill 1t was understood that she would return to him the following week for lesson; out Nr Chalfoux a day or two after the child's visit, received and accepted nat tering mercantile. offer, which took him away from Chicago, and he has not seen Leonora Jackson since. 6
 Of all the rich sacred music sung in the United States on Christmas day, the hnest programmes were heard in the Baltimore cathedral The cardinals choir is noted for it's artistic work. F. X. Hale Is the director, and he has under him between fifty and sixty highly trained singers. on Christmas he had, in addition to the organ accompaniment a large orchestra to sup port the voices. At the 5 o'clock mass Gounod's ''Messe Solennelle" was sung-the same work that was sung in St. Paul church, Birmingham, on Christmas-and at the late mass at the cathedral, Cardlnal Gibbons pontifcating, the professional was the Hallelujah from Beethoven's Christus, and during the services Beethoven's mass in c, the greatest and most difficult of all masses, was performed in Its entirety. The "Gregorian Proper of the mass was sung by a choir of three hundred young men from St. Mary's Seminary.
 There are larger orchestras in many of the playhouses in the North and East than that at the Jefferson Theatre, but not all of them make better music than the little band directed by Fred l.. Grambs. Cal man, MemOu ana other eApetleHcsu III cians are members of Grambs' orchestra. One of the most thorough artists amongst them Is Rudolph Richter, the tympani play CT. Richter was for a number of years a drummer in Sousa's band and he frequent ly manipulated the tympani in Seidfs or chestra His coming to Birmingham was a decided acquisition to our musical contin- gent. He was born in Frankfurt-on-tne- Main, and comes from a noted stock of trumpeters. His father and his grandfather and his uncles were army musicians, and Rudolph Richter himself served his full time as a musician in the German army. His father rose to the position of band master
 The tympan, or kettle drums, on which Rudolph Richter now chiefly performs, are musical instruments, and no drummer without an acute musical ear and a keen sense of rhythm can use them. The ordina- ry drummer cannot even tune them. Mod ern composers often write for sets of three,