New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-16

that h the year Of grace 1890 staid newspapers IA
Europe tell how a Spanish child three and half
years old, without word o: instruction plays
classical music Il modern plaDororte ta!s Nttlc
hands can span only five keys and he refuses - he
taught technique) and who at four and half rtiu
refusing instruction Che leaves the instrument and
goes off his toys in high dudgeon whenever one
wishes 10 teach him); yet he plays air he hears
harfnonIzes st. putting In accompaniment and
introducing variations IN different keys" Read
this: He knows nothing Of life except that It IS
unpleasant DE denied cake be made To take
cod liver oil yet into HIS notes he throws a
sigh of tender melancholy, now burst Of passion
now a vein Of reverie." And he has composed
military march and dedicated It the King OF
Spain. Al the age at which he began these Won
derful things poor Mozart satisfying his must
cal cravings by finding thirds and other pleasing
concords the old cavichorI spnct. But
wager that the reporter who wrote the account Of
the little Spaniard had little intellectual likeness
with the Hon. DANES Darlington who reported
on little Mozarts precocious genius to Matthew
Maly NJ D., Sec r. S, and printed IN THE Phio-
sophical Transactions" for NO Likewise having
reputation prophet TO lose wager
button that will ever hear OF Pepitc Rod
rgues Ariola In connection with such absurd
stories again.
This IS the pleasant manner in which The Must
cal Times" Of London, speaks OF the production
Of Professor Parker's 'TIora Novissima' ut the
recent music festival in the ancient town Of
Chester
The remaining features Of a well arrange. pro
gramme were more or less familiar One. Of the
American composer Professor Horatio W. Parker
which. after suffering in this country neglect
last year an II is work distinEutsbad Inv TnmCb
,neIo5tc charm a refined sense Of proDortion and
finished workmanship, and these qualities seemed
ing, 1t had the more than nominal advantage 81
the oomposer's direction, for Mr. PaLker IS both
level headed ana inspiring ms conductor, ana has
no difficulty in getting exactly what he wants
pressiye beat This was. indeed quite one Of the
most enjoyable things in the festival
An open scholarship. giving free musical educa-
ton for less than three years. the subject
be composition and the scholarship be called the
George Grove Memorial Scholarship has been
founded by the Royal College Of Music at Ken
sington In honor of the late Sir George Grove who
the first director Of the Royal College. The
estate of Sir George. by the way, has been mp
praised at about $4,000 It is bequeathed in trust
to Lady Grove and, subject TO her life interest
her three sons-Walter Maurice, julius Charles and
Arthur Stanley Grove.
II Richard Wagner deficient in business in
stincts (Which do not believe), they are amply
represented in his widow and Court
Theatre, called the Prince Regents Theatre. has
been opened in Munich and the Royal Intendant
applied for permission 10 produce Wagner's works
under the usual conditions. Wagners heirs, how
ever, made a condition on which they would
grant the right. that none of his works should be
produced during Il Bayreuth festival either the
new theatre the old Court Opera Considering
that the heirs have already drawn royalties
to the tune Of $l23 400 from Munich. and that the
debt OF Wagner to the Bavarian Wittelsbachers
fills pretty big portion of the poet-composer's
life story the Court Intendant disnclined 10
look amiaby upon the refrigerated proposition
from Villa Wahnfred There is another delight
full Illustration of how anxious the widow and
are promote the masters art. The director
OF the theatre a Elberfeld recently produced an
act Of 'PsrsifaI' in concert form, having
Quired that right, the Court held when Wagners
heirs sued him, under his contract of purchase
! from Wagner's publisher Schott. Having been
defeated law. widow and have threat
ened to withdraw from the Eberfeld director the
right TO perform any OF Wagner's operas.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has written his
name high in the list of the writer's OF NONSENSE
! cal musical rhapsody. Observe-he is describing
| the music at the Hofkirche in Dresden:
The organ. for some minutes. alone. discoursed OF
Goa, ana the SOUL and the eternal world but the
| moment when ii could tremble with softer vox
humana ana thunder with no louder diapason, from
the galleries rolled up and rolled down the sound
OF strfnged instruments. whole orchestras of per-
/ formers drawing bows of enchantment across bass
Viols OF inspiration, under swinging batons that
commanded perfect harmeE-. sad than there came