The sun., 1901-05-12
MrSIC AND MUSICIANS.


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The decision to use the Metropolitan as
music hall during tho eleven weeks to pre-
cede the opening OF the opera season on the
third Monday In December Ia victory Tor
the Maurice Grau Opera company over the
stockholders OF the Metropolitan Opera and
Real Estate Company. who did not want 10
see the building used for such purpose.
But rs these directors would not release
Mr.. Grau and his company from giving tho
required season OF opera. and consented 10
modify the contract only 10y reducing the
required number OF weeks. the Maurice Grau
Opera Company took advantage OF It's priv
ilege to rent the building 10 any tenant
who could pay the rent This latest attempt
10 utilize proftabiv the large auditorium
will be- regarded with interest, An EnglSl
opera was once formed Tor thN purpose, anu
now ballet and spectacle are To be trled on
large scale II il difficult TO ma the rlght
kinds Of occupants for the theatre else one
enterprsing manager never would nave Ni.
ranged a prl2eiight there ior the lamehteu nu1
terrib le Turk
The Bach Festival at Bethlehem, Pa. prom.
ises 70 be complete success. ne rale ol
seats has already been large enough to JUSTIFY
the enterprise Of the ChQirS that are 70 ,ake
part The soloist, will be Sopranos, Mary
dc Moss. Sara Anderson and Marie thinner
mann. tenor. Nicholas DOuty, ana bhsses'
ii q Scott and Arthur Beresford
Andrew Carnegie, who accepted the Presi.
dency Of the Philharmonic Society before
sailing for Europe, was formally elected last
week His election Will make no change in tho
policy Of the society, which has no Intention
of giving concerts in other cities. ana VIII
at the utmost increase somewhat It's num-
Der Of New York concerts 4 + Hyde, who
resigned. was the President of the society for
thirteen years + Bergner, who has been on
the Board OF Directors for fifty years. resigned
in favor Of 6. Dannrcnther, The other 9ni-
GERS elected were Richard Arnold. Vice;
President; August Roebblen, Secretary, and
+ schultz. Treasurer Emil Paur was OF
ing majority. josef Hoffman will be the
soloist at the flrst concert next fall
The Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate
Company reelected its Board Of Directors
George r. Baker. George $ Bowdoin, George
g Haven Adrian Iselin, D Juillard, Luther
kountz, D O, Mills, J P Morgan, II 4 c.
body Wetmore and William c. Whitney,
Emma Eames's refusal to create one Of the
roles in he new Shakespcarian opera byVilliers
Stanford has been criticised. but the prima
donna feels that she has done her duty by
young or inconspicuous composers and does
not think that she should be expected to study
works 10 be sung two OF three times NJ tho
utmost Mime Eames has indeed sung in a
number Of new operas. as glance az her
repertoire will show The fact that she
sang most of these untried works az the
beginning Of hor career when She probably
could not help herself does not damage the
authenticity Of the record The second role
She ever sang was Coioube in the first pro-
duCtion of Sant-Sa-ns's "Ascanio." She
followed this with the title role in NuK's
"Znlre OF course neither Of those roles
has been Of the lenst use for her since that
time, nor has the part Of the heroine In Bach
The Lady Of Longford which she sung
during her first London season. Another
l.. g.f hA IL ind
10 create in De Lara's opera Tho Light
Of Asia" the part Of Yosodhard, which she
will in all probability never sing again. Nine.
Eames studied for five months tho leading
opera two or three times at Monte Carlo.
In New York she sang for the first time Choir
lous in "Werther." Mrs Ford in "Fastaf"
and Fro in "Ero and Leandro So the Ameri-
can soprano seems to have done her duty
in tho matter Of new operas although they
do think in London TINT she could have
sung Beatrice In Much Ado About Moth
ing" Nine patti never in her life created
any important pnrt in new opera and always
refused 10 do so Nine Sembrich never Gre
ated but one role in her life and her one ex-
The attempt Once az Monte Carlo. in 1884
she sang Amy Robs0rt in De Lara's opera
Of the same name. Nine. Melba has added
10 her repertoire fcw new roles in unknown
operas She sang ~ Covert Garden in n
revival of Goring ThomaS's "Esmeralda"
and in Bomberga Elaine. which she re-
peated here at the Metropolitan
LII Lehman has recently been sin ging In
-Fldelio" at private theatre in Berlin and
her voice is said TO be remarkably fresh and
sonorous Emil Fischer wns the Rocco
Nine Lehman used 10 be an admired Mar
cCllinc NJ the ROYAL Opera years ago. Marie
Renard who retired from the Imperial Opera
i'm Jenna last autumn, ~ TO marry the Count
kinsky who has been devoted tn her for years
lie has just been divorced from his first wife.
a Hungarian Of noble family Albert Stritt,,
well known here in the days OF the Seidl
regime has been for some years stage manager
at the ' Jenna Opera and il now 10 retro and
teach operate acting in Dresden Nine
vent Garden for the first time She will he
heard in Tristan nd Isolde" with VI Van
Dyck Her husband is barytone In the same
company Angelo Nenmnnn Ia giving Verdi
cycle with her ompany Of Italian singers at
his theatre AZ Prague strauss postum
nous ballet" Cinderella, has just been given in
az Berlin
Georges IIue's opera. The King OF Paris I"
has just been sung at the opera in Paris
twenty-five yenrs after it was written. II
was in 1874 that VI Hue won the PriN dc Rome
md nothing NJ his beyond a OnC-aCt operetta
sung ia 1881 has hitherto been performed in
public. VI Hue has had better fortune than
some Of his colleagues. VI Bourgnult- Du-
winning the prize before his first opera was
sung Hue new. work made little impression
and waa dismissed with the customary phrases
ot pOlitrnc~S II is in three acts and four
tHblruuN The scenery and costumes came
iu for more praise than the work Of the COM
poser or lbrrttlSt Alfred Brwueau's "EOu-
rngau' hu- AZ last been sung az the Opera
Commune, and ~ spite oi a complete failure Of
parts of the lhlrd net, the oycrn IA whole
made deep impression The "NeSsdor OF
Bruucau and /ola was sung the Oiher day IN
Frankfort, the first time In Germany lts
success, was not sufficient to make IL sccm
probable that th" Work will be- frequently per
formed