The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-03

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at the Kubelik concerts in the cities
mentioned. The story Of his reception
| and decoration recently by the Pope
| has also caused considerable comment
! In European papers In fact, this young
man seems to be creating a stir ant
more talk in musical circles than any
| other artist has for some years, anC
! American concert-goers are already
commencing to take great interest II
| his coming tour. For his American de-
! but, concerts Will be given Monday
evening, December 2, at Carnegie Hall
assisted by Mr., Paur and his orchestra
I and Miss Jessie Shay. also on Satur'
day afternoon, December Z, at the same
| place (his first recitaD--an orchestra
concert will be given at Symphony Hall
Boston, December 4, with Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington to follow
The entire month Of December will bt
spent in the East. and early in Jan
uary a few Western cities will be Wis
tied.
Vienna music teachers would like
more American pupils, 50 1t is said
| Perhaps Vienna teachers don't Offer
sufficient inducement In the way OF
| promises to provide careers as well as
! manufacturing voices.
The master minds in music were, with
very rare exceptions small men. Most
Of the great composers were thin aswell
| Fat has ever been a foe to genius
| Dear, lazy Rlssini must be singled out
| for he grew fat in his later days. List2
was tallsh. but he was thin, and that
saved him. Wagner was short. So was
Schubert. Chopin was delicate. Mo
Fart was frail Weber was thin and
delicate. and like Schubert, Mozart and
Mendelssohn, died young. Musical
Courier.
The following paragraphs from Sci
ence siftings are Of interest:
How to learn singing perfectly-A
well-known singer, Suzanne Adams,
has a novel method of practising. BY
the piano stand two graphophones.
She sings into one of these, while her
husband who teaches and accompanies
her, plays into the other. The song
finished they sit down to rest while the
graphophones are turned on, and out
pours the air with piano accompani-
ment I'm this way" says Nine.
Adams, I'VE get the effect, and can tell
whether we want to do II that way again
or not. 1t is great fun, too, aside from
the help in practising. And one has Ia
DO so much practising and study of
parts which possibly one may never
sing"
The music of light.-At the recent
Royal Society Conversations, Mr.. w.
Duddell succeeded in. drawing musical
sounds from the electric arc light This
was done by supervising alternating
| currents on the direct current through
the arc the result being the setting up
| OF vibrations producing a musical note.
! The pitch can be varied by altering
the capacity or self-induction and a
tune can be played on the arc by this
mean. 1t was found during the even
ing that the tunes played on the ex-
perimental arc were simultaneously
produced In the arc lights In other parts
Of the building and in the street II Is
to be hoped that no practical jokers
viii get at" the public lighting plant
Popular songs are all very well In their
way, but we do not want them all
down the street.
Les Barbares," the new opera by
Camille Saint Saens. with words by
Sardou and Pierre Gheusi. received its
first performance at the Opera in Paris,
oct 49, The libretto deals with the in
vasIon OF Italy by barbarians in the
first century before Christ, interweav-
ing the love of Marcomir a barbarian
chief, for Flora, vestal virgin, who
sacrifices her vows and accepts his
hand and heart Marcomir saves a
town from plllage and massacre, the
opera closing with a superb march
Of the departing barbarlans and antique
| dances expressive Of the joy of the cit
liens at being relieved of their pres
enCe.
| Gable dispatches say that the music
which is on the whole Of the Wagner
| ian order. contains many harmonious
| and beautiful passages, but did not
| seem to excite the enthusiasm of the
! fashionable audience. which included
| President and Nine. Loubet. The crit
! les Of the morning papers say the opera
was splendidly staged and finely inter
/ preted by NM Vaguet and Delmas and
/ Mines. Hattie and Heglon In the prin-
cipal roles. Concert Goer.
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! Ellison Van Hoose the tenor, has
! been engaged for six concerts with the
| Boston Symphony Orchestra as follows:
Boston, Nov. l and 2; Philadelphia,
Nov. and 6: Baltimore, Nov. 8, and
| New York, Nov. 7. These concerts will
consist of selections from Wagner, with
/ Fraulein Ternina as the other sololst
1 Mr.. Van HOSES share in the program
4 win consist of the tenor part in the
duet from Act 1 OF Die Gotterdam-
merung," the first act Of "Tannhauser
! paris version,) the prize song
| from die Meistersinger" "Siegfrled's
Death" and the last act of Die Got.
| terdammerung." Some other engage.
ments Of this young singer are, Yer.
DIS Requiem" at Providence, Nov
| 10, THE Messiah" Brooklyn, Dec
10; Bach's Christmas Oratorlo." ST
Louis, Dec. &c; and THE Messiah" a
| Philadelphia, Dec. 30.
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Miss Augusta Cottlow. the pianist
will be her professional headquarter,
| hereafter.
If l had to live my life again,
| would have made II rule to reaC
some poetry and listen to some masi,
at least once every week, for perhaps
the part of my brain now atrophiet
would then have been kept activ,
! through use. The loss of these taste
is a loss Of happiness and may possibl,
be injurious to the intellect, and NOR,
probably to the moral character, by en-
| feebling the emotional part of our ma
ture.-Charles Darwin.
Miss Elsa Marshall, the soprano from
| Cincinnati. has been appointed sol
| soprano in the First Church of Chris
Scientist. in Boston. This is the Moth
| er Church Of the sect. The congrega
ton is wealthy and important in Bos
ton social circles.
Mary A. Walsh, So years old,
| domestic was arrested at the Wor