The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06

/! on all the pFima donaas this season.
characterization has made the most money
/: her earnings being nearly so5,eco Nine
I INordica made something like $4,000, ard
| Nine. Eames did not fall far behind that
| figure. Calve, ar a much higher salary,
| would have topped all the rest in income.
! but her illness interfered with wealth.
| and probably the French woman does not
| carry home more than $4,000.
| Waiter Darnrosch's engagement as con-
] ductor of the German operas al the Met
/ ropolitan next season depends now on
! Ernst Won Schuch's willingness and abih-
/ tv to accept the offer made by Maurice
| Grau. says the New York Sun, Herr Won
tSchuci1 naturally desires more salary thar
Mr., Grau is willing is pay him. He be-
| gan by asking SIS coo for the season. but is
| said to have reduced that 10 S2o,0eo- Mfr.
F! Grau has never been willing TO pay more
| than three-duarters OF that sum and .s
is probable that the Dresden conductor
| will agree to his uItimaturu in case as
can get permission from the authorities
in Dresden to be absent for the five
! months necessary IF these arrangements
| prove impossible. Mr.. Damrosch Will have
| the leadership of the German works. In
any case he will in all probability be
one of the conductors.
| Mr.. Arthur Won Holleben. the German
! Ambassador at Washington, has received
/ from Berlin, Germany, the prize which
I! the'Germau Emperor has donated for the
| celsbra ton of the nineteenth national
| singing festival and the fEtfeth annlver-
[ sary of the Northeastern Sanserbund, to
| take place simultaneously in Brooklyn
| during the first days of July next. Mr..
| Won Hoileben will retain the prize until
| a short time before the festival, when a
| delegation OF singers will go to Washing
| ton to receive the gift. After the festival.
[ AR. S. X. Saenger. the President OF the
| United Singers OF Brooklyn. and a dele
| CATION iof prominent members Of the
! Bund will cross the ocean for the purpose
! of thanking the Emperor An audience
| has already been promised them. Emper-
| or Williams gift consists OF a statuetts
| about three feet high. Many of Germa-
| ny's most famous sculptors had been re-
| uuested to submit models, and finally the
| one now in Washington was chosen as
| most appropriate for the purpose II con-
| sists of a bronze column = little over
foot high, on which stands the figure OF
| wandering minstrel wrought In solid
| silver One side of, the column bears j
| likeness Of the Emperor IN bas-rciIsI-
| surrounded by American and German
, flags On the other side appear the spread
| eagle and the heraIdic bird of Prussia,
dedication The statuatte represents
value of about $1,000. No society can
| come into outright possession OF the tro-
phy other than by winning at three con-
| secutiye sangerfes ts.-Comrerct Aiver-
tiser.
a.iIi lehman began her engagement ar
| the Vienna Opera House the other night
| as Aida. II used to be said here that the
prima donna had refused TO appear again
| IN this opera because it required the use
| OF so many feathers.
There were f,342 performances OF Was-
ners lyric dramas in German in the
| year beginning July l. 1898. against l-22'2
| In the preceding year "Tannhauscr''
| was given 80 times, "Loheugriu "a.
The Flying Dutchman'' 16S Die MsEs
| tersinger'' 236. Die Wa!Eure'' f26 ''Rhein-
| gold" IS. ''GotterdammerUng" 7a. 'SieE-
fried" Il. .-Rienzi'' 81. Tristan and Is
olde'' Il. and the entire NtbeEuns tetraloCT
| 40 There were 1SS performances in other
J languages. most of them in French Ber-
| lin gave * performances, Hamburg So.
| Dresden Sc. Vienna 80. Frankfort 81, Graz
81, Leipsic and Munich Il each. Breslau a.
Wiesbaden IS. Prague -, Cologne =.
Carlsruhe, London and Mayence "A each,
The Incorporated Society Of Musicians
U
| bill into Parliament for the registration
! of qualified teachers OF music, with the
| e-iew TO exclude the Char!atau and the
| incompetent an object in which parents
are as much interested as the professors
| themselves. In order, however, that the
| Incorporated Society. which already COM
| prises most OF the leaders o. music may
/ speak with authority. the committee de
| sire to include in its ranks the majority
| or the profession in the provinces with
| this object in view, Mr.. Cummings, Prof.
| Prout and Mr.. Chad7eld propose, the
| London DAILY News learns, to spend
| portion of their holidays in addressing
series OF meetings in various parts OF
the country.
L. .renestrel of March 18th. announces
! that three important musical societies
| from Vienna will give concerts In Paris
! during the E1xposition-the Philharmonic
| orchestra. under the direction OF Herr
| Haher: the Maennergesans Verein and
| the Schubertbund-
| New York is not the only city that
| needs a great conductor. The manager Of
| the Munich Opera recently tntimated
| plainly that none of his three conductors
| FISCHER, Roehr. Staveuhagen) was COM
petent to properly interpret schitifnS
new opera. and he wrote 70 Zumpe. II
need you urgently This caused the
| three conductors to. threaten TO resign
The outcome is not yet known.
Herr Angelo Neumann. who first intro
duceG Der Ring der Nibeluusen' %
London in 1852. and is now director Of the
| Opera House Prague. is about 70 under
take the mana cement OF the Theatre ar
der Wien. the Viennese home OF light
opera.
..Ths Chimes OF Normandy" under
| which name the operetta Les Cloches de
CorneviIIe" has become famous here, hai
had as many as 1,SH0 representations in
Paris. And now comes the shocking news
that the village Of Bonneville has no
chimes. and that quite lately suhscrEp-
ton was started 10 provide a set,