The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-11
Music Notes.

The long musical vacation has COM
menced. Many Of the singers and play
ers have gone to Europe, but even there
the dog days are given over to rest. it
is to be hoped that after t1:cY have had
their rest the musicians will set them
selves to the task Of learning some new
pieces and songs, says the New York
Evening Post. Programmes are getting
to be terribly monotonous. IL is the
same in London, according to She cor
respondent OF the Musical Curter, who
writes concerning the concert slvers:
To Judge by their programme, che YOU'D
imagine that the world contdiHri 1ortS
good songs, and about half as many piano
pieces; that Wieniawski and Fiextemps
were the only two composers who ever
wrote for the violin, and that BavldoiI
and Pepper stood ii the same IniG,;e po-
sition with regard to The Violoncello
Schubert wrote over six bundled songs
most of them beautiful, We. one rarely
hears more than half a dozen Of them
sung; Clara Schumaan's edition or her
husbands songs extends to four volumes.
from which, apparently, most Vocalists
choose .JVidmrng' THE Two Grena-
diers" and one or two Of the "Dichterlie-
be-" as the only songs worth singing.
Brahms wrote a great number OF very
beautiful songs; the familiar "standchen'
and "Sapphische Ode put in an appear
ance in nine out OF ten concerts given
by musicians with any pretense TO classi-
cal tastes. but where are the rest? 1t Is
the same with the pianists
Media and Nordica, according to Paris
correspondent, have buried the hatcnet
finally, thanks to the latter's husband.
Herr Dohme, who pleaded alternately
with the rival songbirds for several days
until they consented to meet
Perhaps the most astonishing part OF
the ceremony was the presence Of Jean
de Reszke, Nordica's former pet aver
sion, as the fourth person at the lunch
con at which the American and Austria
liam prima donnas exchanged the his
torical kiss Of peace Media went to
London Immediately afteIward
The opera season at Covent Garden,
London, commenced on May Sth. In the
scheme, as at present arranged, 1talan
works stand first; in addition TO those
usually performed, there will be Two re-
yiyals, Verdi's .'Un Ballo in Maschera"
and Donizetti's 81 Elisir d'Amore." Wag-
ner's ."Tanntauser,' "Lohengrin. Die
Walkure,'' "Siegfried," Tristan" anG
.Die Meistersinger' are announced; also
Beethoven's "Fidelio'' and Humperdincll's
ssHansel und Gretel.'' OF French operas
the following will be given: Faust, !"
Carmen" Lies Husuenots, Romeo
and lie Roi d'Ys.' At present British
art is only represented by one work
viz, Mr. Herbert Bunnings La Prin-
cesse Osra,'' the libretto of which, based
on Anthony Hopes '.The Heart of Prin-
cesse Osra,', is by NJ. Maurice Beranger.
The work will be performed in French.
M. Andre Messenger will again be stage
director.
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Mines. AIelba and Suzanne Adams are
TO have the lighter roles during the Co
vent Garden season Of grand opera. while
the bulk Of the Wagnerian, work viii
fall on the shoulders of Mines. Nordica
and Ida HiedIer, Of the Royal Berlin
Opera House (who is to be heard IN Lon
don for the first time)
One Of the visitors to the Schubert ex-
hibition at Vienna was an Old man OF
eighty-two. Captain Edouard Traunl-
werer. who knew Schubert and had heard
him and Yogi, who was the first to sing
Schubert's songs. Captain Ira umWeger
relates that Vog1 never sang the last
words of the ..Erlking, "Das kind war
todt,'' but spoke them with wonderful
expression. g.
Munich has moro than $50 Mannerchore
z.-choruses made up Of men alone--while