The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-11
MUSIC AND Al .
MUSICIANS.

T PHYSICIANS !
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Nine. Sembrich's song-recital at Car
negie Hall on Tuesday afternoon, March
18th, will be historically as well as ar
tistically interesting The great4aAmerl-s
can exponent of the Italian bel canto5
will begin with songs of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. by Buononcini,
Scarlatti, Purcell and then pass on to
representatives of our century-the 1tal-
ian Mancinelli and Sgambati, the Ger
man Schubert, Schuma mn. Brahms, Men
delssohn, Taubert.s the French Gounod.
the Russian Tchaikoysky and Cu1, the
Polish Moniusko and Chopin 1t Will De
| a most interesting recitaL-New YORK
Evening Post.
John F. Runciman writes to the Bos-s
ton Musical Record that England has
four composers:
| First, there is Marshall-HaIl. who by
birth, blood and breeding is an English
man He has buried himself for a pal
l&try couple of thousand pounds per an
mum in Australia Seeing that all the
| academies combined to prevent him
earning two thousand pence per annum
| in England, his acceptance of the post OF
| professor of music in the University OF
| Melbourne was perhaps natural Some
| day he will return; meantime pieces OF
| his are given from time to time with
! ever-increasing success. fDeltus,s II not
altogether English by blood, Is Ensnsh
| BY birth and instinct, and, although he
| endured his musical training at SLeipslc,5
| his music is peculiarly English, mas
| much as it is peculiarly his own, wholly
| an expression of his own feelings, which
| are wholly English. MacCunn Is, OF
course, a Scotchman. who. after q bril-
| liant beginning, has: come under the IN
fiuence Of German aristocrat1c TRENDS,
| and gets members of the royal family
| to nut together librettos for him. Still,
I have hopes for him. Some day. fer
I5vently pray, his royal friends Will chuck
him: and then he Will recomnence VIII
| ing real music. My fourth man, EIgar.
| is the composer In whom the critics In
! whom I have any faith at all most place
their trust. The little of his music
have been able to hear shows that he is
a genuine artist, trying honestly to ut
| ter what he has in him.
The Musical Age says that Edward r.
! Aver, trustee of the Newberry Library,
/ Chicago, ILL.,, has announced that chi
! cago Is to be the recipient of Theodore
| Thomas valuable collection OF music
! when the famous conductor resigns the
| baton, or at his death PROVISION mas
| been made by which the library shall re-
ceiye the scores and manuscripts and
1.-the complete musical programmes now
| the property of Mr.. Thomas.
The collection Is virtually priceless,
! though for business or utilitarian pur-
! poses valuation of 900 has been
I put upon it. Aside from hundreds OF
/ valuable scores preserved during Mr.
/ Thomas, musical life in this country,
I the most interesting part of the collec-
4 ton is the series of programmes OF
1 concerts which date as far back as 1870
1 These programmes show the evolution
! of music in the United States, and Will
be a treasure mine to the future his
torian Of music in this country.
The late Johann Strauss at the time
Of his death lett a ballet entitled sClnoe-
+ rella,'' which has now been prepared ZOE
! performance, and is about to be produced
/ at the imperial Opera, Vienna. Some OF
| the music is said to date from the great
l dance composers earliest and freshest
I! period, particularly a. waltz which nrst
/ appears IN .Cinderella's Dream. a1ter-
/ wards in more-developed form, furnishes
the music for the maiden and Prince
Charming at the ball, and finally. IN YET
4 another form, is the theme OF the lnesl-
l table Intermezzo which precedes the last
\ act. and is entitled Return from the
! Ball. This Intermezzo has recently
i been produced at conservatoire concert
i at Vienna, and it was, of course, en-
i cored
Mr.. Henry T. F'inck, writing In the
4 "International Monthly on Opera IN
1 America and Europe, says: Much nom
j sense has been written regarding the ex-
i cessive emoluments paid to great opera
/ singers. It is all question OF supply
i and demand. Mr.. Grau does not gruoSe
Jean de Reszke 81. 500 or more a night,
i because he has found that his receipts
average $1,000 more when the Polish Ten
or sings in a particular opera II ne can
i get a $4,000 audience to hear'.Carmen Z
i when Nine calve sings, and only hall
as much when some other vocalist "a Aes
i her place. why should he refuse TO pay
i what seems an excessive sum Tor a ie"
5f$hours'&work? The supply Of sen1uses IS
limited, and that's why they come h lla
like diamonds and gold
The New York Evening Post says:
THE growing demand for musical ed
ucations In this country is indicated py
4 the fact that the New England Conser-
i .vatory Of Boston has had since 5lSsS Inc
number of 80 600 pupils. me aNerase
i term registration exceeds III soI s -lss
number about 800 young women are pro- 70,
i Conservatory building On the two low
5erz floors are situated forty class-roo1ns..
i offices and concert halls. The total re-.
1 c eipts OF the above period exceed S4,poO
600 The greater part of tn large. hooy
Il ofspupils to prepare sor|
i Among the students now IN attenaahce
there are Is from British North Amer
.l5fca. from England. Q irons Mexico
from Turkey and I from q fr1ca ~