The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-20
Music Notes.

Music Notes.
The most interesting choral perform
ance OF the whole musical season will be
that Of LISTS "St. Elizabeth" at the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music on April .
by Mr.. Water Henry Halls Brooklyn
Oratorio Society, says the New YORK
Evening Post.
The season of the Maurice Grau Opera
Company in Chicago was rather success
full than otherwise. The largest audience
Of the first week was drawn by II
tlauto Magico'' and that represented
$1,000. Mime. Gadski appeared as Pamlna;
otherwise the cast was the same as here,
with Mines Sembrich and Ternta in the
leading roles.
The next largest house was gathered
by Carmen" and next to that was the
aualence that listened to PadereWsk1s
Manu-"
Commenting on the production Of PAde-
rewskis opera, the Chicago Tribune re-
marked:
A new grand opera and a. large audi
ence! The combination is one so strange,
SO unheard OF in the opera history of
Chicago, that doubt as to its Genuineness
IS almost unav oidable. And yet this COM
hination actually was met with at the
Auditorium. 1t was an audience more
than uually fashionable in complexion,
eminently musical in quality, and before
the evening was ended, heartily and un-
reservedly enthusiastic in disposition.
Could Mr.. Grau but stipulate that the
composer of every new opera he brings
out should have previously made Pad
erewskian success as an artist, the nov
elty-produoing problem would be hope
fully near solution for him.
The Mendelssofn Clubs last concert OF
this season, to be given at the Academy
Of Music on Thursday evening, May sth.
will offer an uncommonly interesting pro-
gramme including some new choral
pieces. Of particular interest will be the
first hearing of DR.. W. w. Gilchrist's
part song setting to Rudyard Kipling's
"Recessionar' which DR.. Gilchrist has
Just published.
The first production in Philadelphia OF
the great Bach Mass in B minor at the
Academy on Wednesday evening of the
past week was one of the great musical
events Of the season.
On the evening of Monday. April 81. Mr..
George Riddle will give, at Mendelssohn
Fall, New York. the first public reading
of Tennyson's '.1Inoch Arden" with musl-
cal setting by Richard Strauss. Mr.. Rid
dle will be assisted by Mr.. B. J. Lang,
pianist, of Boston
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It is said that Richard Strauss was
recently invited to come to New York
and take his place at the head of a local
orchestra, but that he declined the In,
vitation; he finds his time occupied moro
profitably in Berlin than it. ever could
be here. Unless the conditions are rad-
cally changed, New York will not be
likely to have any noted conductors in
the near future says the New York Sun.
In August last the Worshipful Com
pany Of Musicians, on the suggestion Of
Mr.. 4. L Southgate. offered a prize of
fifty guineas for the best orchestral
march of a festive character, and suit
able for the celebration of the Kings
coronation. Nearly 200 compositions were
sent in, and submitted to three musical
knights-Walter Parratt, Frederick Bridge
and Hubert Parry-who were unanimous
~ of opinion that Mr.. Percy Godfrey, a
professor at the Kings School, Canter-
bury, had submitted the finest work. Mr..
Godfrey, therefore. takes the prize, and
with it the freedom of the city Of Lon
don.
Among the singers who will take part
in this years season at Covent Garden
are Mines. 81 Nordica, Melba, Adams,
Calve, Fremstadt, Paccini, Garden, No
relli, Kraft, Friche and Doenges and NM.
Saleza, Van Dyck. Plancon, Van Rcoy
Rea, Dufriche, Klopfer, Caruse, Mare
a . md n
AS usual, a. new work by an English
composer will be performed. It was
Stanford Villiers' Much Ado About
Nothing last season. This year it is
to be an opera founded on one Of. An
thony Hopes stories by Maurice Bcrang-
err, The music has been composed for
the work Of Herbert Bruning, an Eng
lish musician and composer. who COM
pleted Goring. Thomas posthumous work
1.-THE Golden Web, . when the opera was
sung at the Lyric Theatre several years
ago. s. 5SS
| Ignace Padcrewskis 'Nanru"sfis soon
to be sung in Dutch in Rotterdam. An
! other recent novelty there was karol
Weiss version of lie Juif Polonais,'
| which has been successful in all the Ger
man cities that have heard the work.
Jean de Reszkes theatre and conser-
yatory Of which he spoke threesyears ago
are once more the subjects Of discussion
It is now said that his friends and adj
| mirers have subscribed 800, coo francs with
which to build the new theatre In a con-
venient part OF Paris. The conservat tory
1 will be connected with 1t.
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Editor of The Times:
"a Sir Dr. Cecil. in his excellent sermon