The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-02

1927. The Bishop of Dion has raised So
900 for the purpose.
Music Notes,
The programme for the sixth week of
the opera season at the metropolitan
sembrich. Eames, Ternina. Homer, Misses
scheff and Bridewell. Messrs. DIPPED,
campanari. and I'd De Keszke; Mnas
Gadski. Homer, and ADAMS. Messrs De
March,, Gourmet, Scott. and De ResZke
Fridayot1slo Werdp M ang
Saturday Afternoon-.Carm Mines;
Ca1ve and Adams, NIessrs. Salignac and
Gourmet.
Messrs. De March, and Scott.
Alexander de Bandrowski. who comes to
sing the title role in 'Manru." belongs to
a noble Polish family but does not use IN
his professional work ,ne prefix de = NJ.
de Bandrowski was born about forty-tWo
years ago. studied at the University In
Cracow and when he decided to adopt the
stage as a career, went to Milan and cul-
tivated his voice under San Giovanni and
later under Salve, says the New YORK
Sun.
He sang first at Berlin on his return to
Germany and has been for several years
the first tenor at the opera in Cologne
prepared in ali the German cities. He sings
the Wagner repertoire as wen as the
He is well known in England and Ger
many as a singer of oratorio. FIe was the
only tenor to sing the title role in Tlnei S
..Franciscus' and has sung in The Dam
bat Mater" and other oratoros.
Nine. Lehman's farewell concert az Car
negie Hall. February Sth. promises, to De s,s
her farewell TO the city IN which she was
for many years such a dominating hSure
in music. She it was VINO first Incarna ted
for New York audiences the Wagner he
roines and since her day nobody has ever
quite filled her place. Nine. Gadski. Lii
liam B!auvelt and Jan Kubeliil are TO be
other participants in the concert
With reference to the exhibition of Mu-
steal Literature now open at the LenoX
Library. New York. the music critic OF
Two English publications of great value
form an exception to the rule limiting
the exhibition to the literature of music
They are copy of the 1000 or 1853 edi.
ton of .sParthenia. or the Maydenhead Of
the first muscke that ever was printed
for the Virginalls. composed by three ia
Bull and Orlando Gibbons. Gentlemen Of 4
His Majesty's most Illustrous Chappell.'
This was the first book printed in Eng.
land CONTAINING muS nd ror ha,, bfss si
the Rimbaut sale. So also was copy
of a "Parthenia Inviolata. or Mayden NM {.
sickle for the Virginalls and Bass VOL.
which was printed soon after the tlrst
edition of the other 'Parthenla (1bll).
with these verses on its title page:
All you professors of this arte divine,
So strive your earthly agents 10 renne,
TO Angeles ayres. and Saynts most molly
AS ali Your u1usique sound your Makers
will.
Then is there true compoSure OF the parts
hearts.
And that that the sacred concords be SO even
AS here on earth you strike the same with
heaven. -.
Violns and nandolins of porcelain are
the latest things made in Germany
well-known manufacturer OF porcelain Or
iifacture of violins and mandolins from
clay Some violins have already been COM
pleted, and the inventor has appiled Ior
letters patent in different countries. Under
this process the violins are cast. and
every violin is guaranteed success ana
to be excellent for producing heautllul
tone The latter quality constitutes pre-
cisely the chief value Of this invention.
The porcelain body, it is claimed, is pet
ter able to produce sound than Woooeh
one. since it eo-operates IN IN. aef nd fuI
The mandolin IS also MADE OF porcela W !;
and the musical sound of tins instrument
is likewise stated to oe i.lpl ersct TN ~
tation of the wooden instrument. but, as
the porcelain violin is , very s .ha Die for
decoration it Is very LIN, heif IA e aaad doS fnE
aa IS the case with the okar,nas it's
serted that the porcelain xiolins possess possess
nnes that they are TOTALLY insensible to
the influence of the weather. That the
porcelain violins are liable to breakage
ands that they are heavy. appears to have
hae,, left unconsidered. They are made
in the earthenware factory, Sornewitz.
| The london Musical Times for January
contains a long 14d interesting account
IF the music at the coronation of Queen
Victoria. A listSof the performers shows
Of ess. and 1t is pretty plainly limited in
the newspapers of the period that Sir
George Smart sold some of these places;
to spectators ignorant of music. Both
band and chorus next Sune will certainly
be smaller. One of the few survivors of
the chorus Is Mr.. Walker Macfarren. who
gives an interesting account of the coro-
ia ton The performers had to be In their