The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-17

arrange his programmes OF music as tns
amateur might think. One number that
he selected for his present season OF con-
certs illustrates the difficulties with which
the conductor has to contend.
He wanted to play for tho first time IN
this country, the overture TO a VERSION o.
"Edipo a Colono,' by Antonio Maria Gas
paro Sacchini This opera. produced first
In 1885, was regarded as his masterpiece
II was sung as late mt 1884,, but the music
could not be obtained In this country.
Mr.. Frankie sent TO Europe for II and
even there no arrangement OF the overture
for orchestra was in existence. so IL was
necessary to transcribc the music from
the score In the Lenox Library:
Nine. Nordica began her recital tour
in Scranton on Thursday night and Will
20 az far West IA San Francisco on her
Journey before returning here TO sing.
The Prince Regents Theatre in Munich
has announced the full programme Of its
Wagner festival to be given next summer.
OF tho twen,y-one performances eight
! will he devoted to die Meistersinger Won
Nuremberg FIVE to .Tannhaepser four
Isolde The rumor that a cycle OF the
Nibelungen Ring was to TO sung proves
! unfounded.
The casts, 40 far as tho women are con-
last year. Milka Tcrnina, LILLIAN Nordica
and Anna Won Mildenburg of Vienna, are
TO be among the women singers. other
! singers will be Mines. Frembstadt. Beeetti,
Blank, Morena, Bettaquc, and schef
and NM. Antilles, Bauberger, Bertram,
Bucksath, Feinhals. Farschhammer,, Fuchs.
Gels, G~erhaeuser, Heidkamp, Kleepfer.
Knote, Manga, Mayer. Reichmann. Sieglitz
and Walter.
The Bayreuth festival is to begin on
July 20 and will comprise twenty perform.
ances. OF these, seven vii! be devoted
10 -Parsifal" and five to der Fliegende
H~ollaender." There will be two cycles
Of the Nibelungen Ring which are TO begin
on July rs and Aug. IA. The festival will
close about Aug, 20. No announcement
as to the personnel Of the company has been
made.
Teresi,a Carreno, a daughter of the
greater Teresa, has just made her first
appearance as a professional pianist in
Germany.
Felix Mettl, who performed recently
in Carlsruhe for the first time Nerdi's @Rigo-
letto,- has explained hat he takes modern
works even though they live only a short
time in preference to the older operas
because the present style Of singing in
the German opera house is better suited
To very modern compositions h 70 the
music Of such masters rs Verdi.
Eduard Colonnc too his Paris orchestra
70 Berlin and met there with complete
success. The third "Leonore' overture,
a symphony by Saint Saens, three pieces
lin the Italian style by Carpenter, the
Venusbcrg music from ~"Tannha"user,
and numbers by Massenet, Berlioz and
Ialo made up the programme. There
was no comparison with existing Berlin
orchestras but the tone of criticism was
friendly and fattering even to the notice
OF Carpenters music.
The Marquis Souza who disdained all
a.. - ., IN thn xsa ttHaNnlln thantTaa
here, has recently been singing at the
Winter Garden in Berlin, where he is said
TO receive nightly 500 for shaking the
~rafters. He would have been able TO COM
mand more here.
Princess Adolphe De Wrcde. the interesting
titled singer who was in this country two
years ago, and has been singing in the
Paris music halls. is shortly to appear in
London. She will sing at Queens Hall.
Nine. Piatti. widow of the well-known
Italian '%cellist, did not long survive her
husba nd. She died the other day in Eng
land. Her father was Thomas Welsh. the
basso who wa disco vered by Richard Sheri-
dan and brought to London He was also
famous in his day as the best known of
English teachers
Rosa Olitzka IL TO sing in London to-mor-
row night at the concert To be given by
Angela Anderson. She has tecn en-
"a ed for the Wagner performances
in German in Paris next spring. TIN
others who will take part are Felia LtvinEe.
Marie Brema. Anton Van kooy, Ernest
Van Dyck and Ernostine Schumann-Helnk.
Geraldine Ferrar, the American soprano,
who was ged for the Royal Opera
House in Berlin, has according TO the Ger
mar press. met with the same difficulties
that Alma Powell encountered from the
artists IN the company. They have put all
he obstacles possible in her way and II
r. nain- TO be- seen IL like Mrs Powell. she
will le O. mIelled to resign.