The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-24

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Mr.. Hobart, president Of the Cincinnati
May Music Festival Association, recently
said that las long as Mr.. Theodore
Thomas lives he will conduct the Gin
cinnati festivals" He receives for his
personal services $500 for each festival.
and brings along, besides his eighty men.
! thirty-tive extra players from Chicago.
| says the Musical Age. These thirty-tive
| extra men excite tha wrath of local pro-
fessionals. who declare they ought TO be
| hired in Cincinnati.
| The largest sum for the briefest SER
! vice recently received by the most Ito
I orally paid of all professionals, the prinna
! donna. was given Nine. Nordca on the
/ occasion of her appearance in d concert
| at the Metropolitan Opera-House. New
! York. several weeks ago. says the Sat
! urday Evening Post For two songs.
| which required five minutes each to sing,
| she received $1O10. or at the rate of 500
! a minute The songs were Griegs Swan
| and a "Serenade" by Richard Strauss.
I The occasion was the first American
| appearance OF Herr Won Schuch. conduc-
! tor of the Royal Opera. Dresden
|
! The opinion that Londoners care more
! for singing than for operas is not shared
J by Mr. Runciman. who writes in the Sat
! urday Review: In England Gas I believe.
, in spite of the bad signs 1 have observed
| at Covent Garden this season. the opera
! remains the principal thing: and even a
! N1elba, who persists in remaining an evil
| artistic influence, when she might be one
! making for artistic righteousness, cannot
!: stir the British public to any surprising
! enthusiasm over such balderash as La
| Boheme.
The seventy-seventh of the Lower Rhine
, musical festivals. which took place Lass:
! week. is said to have been unusually sue
! cessful in every way The conductors
were Richard Strauss and Schwickerath.
! There were especial novelties, Liszt's
/ Christus being the most important work
! presented.
Edward Elgar, who is looked on as the
; most promising of the English composers,
i; has a new composition for the Birming-
| ham Musical Festival. 1t is a setting OF
! Cardinal Newman's Dream of st. Geron-
thus which was published in 1868 in
| Verses on Various Occasions.
Tom Moore's harp is now in New York
! city, says the Musical Age 1t recently
arrived from Dublin. and is now the pro-
perty OF Marie Glover-Aliller the church
Mr.. Buchanan is one of the delegates
to the National Democratic Convention.
a close friend of Professor Glover Mrs.
! ALiller,s grandfather, who was one of the
! well-known family of Giovers, musicians
and composers The harp which is now
about 125 years old. was used by Moore
in the composition OF his famous Irish
Melodies.
Boosey, of ballad-concert fame. believes
that there are in England musicians capa-
BILE of writing a suite for full orchestra
and backs his belief with money He
has offered prize of 500 for the best
work submitted to him by July LIST The
judges are Puccini. Messenger Of the Paris
Opera Comique, and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
The widow Of Johann Strauss has
decided TO present to the city OF Vienna
everything that he left in the way of
unfinished compositions and sketches.
There are, among other things. four large
volumes containing hundreds of motives
for dance pieces and operetta Songs. sew
erai nearly-comp!eted waItzes number
OF melodies intended for future operettas
songs. choruses. quartets, &c, which only
need a good lioretto 70 make them avail
able. The ballet Cinderella" which he
left almost completed. will have its first
performance in Berlin.
Safnt-Saens tells about the Partisan
debut OF Rubinstein in his new volume,
PORTRAITS ct Souvenirs:
Suddenly there appeared on the walls OF
Paris small, elongated poster, bearing
the name of Antoine Rubinstein. Not a
soul had ever heard of the man uD to
this time, for the great artist despised
all kinds of advertising with a contempt
which might almost be called coquettsrn
and he Rad not permitted that a word
concerning him should appear in the news
papers before his concert. He effected
his debut in the Salon Herr before an
audience Of deadheads. Next morning
Ruuinstein was famous. and. the public
fought for tickets for his second concert
This concert I attended. AT the end Of
the first half-hour I felt myself CONQUERED
oyerthrown, enthusiastic. bound 70 the
triumptal chariot of the victor I did
/ not neglect q single one of Rubinstein's
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opportunity offered for me to get
acquainted with Rubinsten I held back
in fear. In spite Of his youthfuiness-
hs was then twenty-eight years oid-in
spite Of mis- mueh-lauded amiability. a
boundless timidity filed me In the pre-
sence OF his genius Not until the next
year, when he came for the second time
/ to Paris. did I seek an introduction. The
Ice was quickly broken, and from that
day onward we were united by a. lively
| nlHtua. ssTnoathg. Ny naive and hsHssi
| adT.lres:ta had .nHehet' ;'i-,, We were
nfte-7 together and OTTER PLAYED a aua,re-
mains without regard for the strings of
the pano-forte or the nerves OF the lis
teners; we made music for the sake OF
/ making music, and truly we never nads