Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-01


 whether school keeps or not, or wheth- CT the Vaudeville Managers associa- tion play her or not. She is the part owner of a gold mine in the Philip pines which is paying at the rate of $30OO month. Miss Redding is also interested in d foundry in Newark, which is also paying q good dividend. One of Miss Reddings brothers is working the gold mine. and another brother is running the Newark foun- dry.
 Clyde Fitch's Barbara Freitche' was presented for the first time to q southern audience at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, yesterday. The play was greeted by a packed house. Fife EllSler. in the title role, worked hard, but her support was very weak, which greatly detracted from the perform ance. The strong southern sentiment was to the advantage of the present ing company. and each mention of 'rebef' was vociferously applauded, while the word Yankee called for prolonged hisses Fife Ellsler beauti- fully portrayed the part of q charming Fredericksburg maiden, whose hand was given to q federal officer and whose love Surmounted sectional bit
 
 her hero in blue to the hour of death.
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 Sir Arthur Sullivan. the famous con- poser and of the firm of Gilbert X Sul- Gvan. died in London last Thursday morning. The distinguished composer had been i'll for some time. but q trip to the south of Europe somewhat re- stored his health. He was. however. confined to his bed at the time of his death. The Savoy theater in London. the home of all Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, was closed from the day of his death until after the funeral Both Doyle Carte, manager of the Savoy. and Mir Gilbert are at present upon the sick list Sir Arthur Sullivan had long been famous as d composer. He had won varied acknowledgements in all fields of musical composition, although his success in comic opera was greater than in any other field. and with Johann Strauss and Offenbach he was probably the most popular writer of light music that the world has ever known. The Operettas which resulted from his collaboration with W. $. Gil bert form a distinct school in that art. It is as the composer of that almost immortal series containing HI. NJ. s. Pinafore," now at the Metropolitan opera house, "The Mikado' and Pa tience' that Sir Arthur Sullivan was most widely known. The series began with Trial by Jury in 1875, and the other works written in collaboration with W: S. Gilbert came in the follow ing order: HI. M. s. Pinafore,'' . ''The Pirates of PenZance.' Patience" ''Io- lanthe." Princess Ida The Mikado." '.Ruddygore.' "The Yeoman of the Guard" ''The Gondoliers,'' Utopia Limited'' and 'The Grand Duke' It is to these operettaS that Sir Arthur Sullivan's reputation in this country is due, although some of his serious work is well known and ''The Lost Chord" Is as popular here as in England The composer was born in Chelsea, London May 14. 1S42. His father was pro- lessor at a military training school for military musicians and had taught his son the rudiments of music when the boy went to the normal school attached to St Marks college. At the age of 12 he became a chorister at the Chapel Royal under Helmore. His first song, published when he was 13, was a set ting of the anthem, Teach Me. O Lord, the Way of Thy Statutes.'' The song was submitted to the Prince Con- cert, who gave the youthful composer $50. After that early beginning Sul- aI S1lSel as tl NolD lJoSCl hltitlc easy and proved almost uneventfully prosperous. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Bennett and GoSS and was in Leipzig conservatory from 1858 until 1864 when his masters were MoScheleS Hauptmann. Richter Plaidy and others. He returned to England for q while in 1S60 when his ''Ialla Roohk" overture was played for the first time under his own direction. In 1862. his incidental music to ''The Tempest was publicly performed but it was not until his cantata 'Kenilworth'' had been sung that his rank among British composers was fixed. He conducted many series of concerts at different times and among these were the London Phil harmonic and the Leeds Festival or chestra. He was principal of the Ma tional Training school of music from 1876 to 1881 and was also professor of composition there. He received the degree of doctor of music from Cam bridge and Oxford, and was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1885,. He was also made a member of the Legion of Honor and had received decorations from Germany and Italy, Sir Arthur Sullivan's choral works are not so well known here as his compositions in other fields. His best known choral compositions are ..The Golden Legend ,'' '.The Martyr of Antioch,' "The Light of the World'' and many religious and liturgical selections. He composed the pallets ''The Enchanted Isle'' and '.Merry England.' He made in Ivan hoe QS8S) his only attempt to write a grand opera. His last operetta, written in collaboration with Arthur Pinero, was "The Beauty Stone" Two years ago the cantata ''The Mar tyr of Antioch was sung in Edinburgh in operatic form. Some of his earliest dramatic works are Box and Cox" .'Thespis," a burlesque, and Contra bandista," later rewritten and sung as 1.-The Chieftain.' Sir Arthur Sulli- vans fruitful collaboration with w. s. Gilbert was not always harmonious and was ultimately interrupted by a bitter quarrel, for which the librettist was held chiefly responsible. They were reconci1ed for their own interests, although the subsequent union pro dpced no work equal to the best of the former series. Sir Arthur Sullivan s last comic opera was '.The Rose of Persia" written in collaboration with Basil Hood and sung here at Daly's