The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-09
rEE IndEs: RIGHMoNlo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 1902


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Juliet'' Carmen. tsjs and Mesa.
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Kubelik, the famous xiolinist, has been
5reaping a harvestsin the Western cities
IN Chicago he drew SO 600. St. Loui-
md Chicago each gave INN a TRACTION
ever S, Geo for q single concert ~.
NO comic opera launched upon the
American stage within recent years has
weakened the preliminary interest which
centars about 1.-THE Sultan Of Sulu,,
George AIDES new Filipino satire, which
will: be produced tY the Castle Square
opera Company at sthe cicse Of the Chi
ago season of grand opera In March.
says an exchnge. The author of II ables>
in Slang has q large following! through
OUT the country. and managers every
where are. bidding for THE Sultan OF
Sulu.i
Camilla Urso the yiolinist, who died
recently, maintained through her ionsS
career place in the first rank of he
profession. ~ native of France, st.
: .ived Almost her entire life in America
sfeaTS iL<1li iiol
become: the Mecca Of. the. worlds Great
musicians, Nine. Urso represented til
highest phase of the yiolinists art Sh
was q. pupil of the Paris Conservatory.
AR. SVulf Eric, the well-llnown Boston
yioloncellist, who: is within three years
of eighty, and who played in public as
late as last June, recently received
letter from Edward 8Grieg, q facsimile o..
ls-Y>.. Nf,1cf
Record and Review, and which reads
II, too, anil. Allow me therefore, to eN-
press myself briefly; ,and-in Norwegian,
which 4 litfe you still understand. Un-
fortunately have written nothing what
ever for cello since the sonata in a
minor. What has appeared OF mine.
later than that, for this instrument is
arranged by. the late GolterInanu. me!
are chiefly. small pieces. publisher: =.
E. Peters. in Leipsic."
In IAN Interesting article on Icnalko-
vshy, printed in >the Contemporary lie.
view, Ernest Newman declares that o.
all composers, Wagner "alone is master
of every note of passion, of pathos, OF
grief, of despair, and of humor.
At a recent meeting of tho Woman's
Philharmonic Society of NewYo rk, Ami
Lankow remarked. that presupposlnSs; d
good vocal method, it is far easier 10
sing the italian masters like Rossln
Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, than Bach
Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart. wagner,
consequently these masters VINO NAY
written the creates works nave us
mandcd OF the artist the greatest skill
and art in singing. She also called into
question! the belief that the old itailah
voice builders were so much greater than
those Of to-day, and the voices they
tt ained so much more lasting. She men.
toned O. number of famous singers Oh
the Italian and French schools who lost
their voices at an early age, among then
Pasta, who was a vocal wreck at thires-
six; Tamburii1i, at forty-pne; GrasslHi,
at thirty; Nourrit, at +th1rty-seFeh; al
con, at twenty-siN,@ etc.
Competitors for the SonzoSno prize OF
$4,000 for the best one-act opera must
have their work at Milan before the ist
: of next january, when the competitions
close. The three works that the Judges
pronounce best will be three times per-
formed in Milan, and the public Will be
asked to give it's opinion as to which is,
the best of the three.
Since the death of Verdi, one year ago,
his operas have dominated the stage in
Italy moro than they ever did. and the
contemporaneous Italian composers are
said to have disappeared almost entirely
this year in favor of Verdi.
Saint-Saens has gone to Egypt to com
pose his new opera, which has q. Persian
subject. The libretto was written by
Nine DieuIafeu and is based on one OF
her novels. The action is placed in the
time of the wars between ArtaSerAes,
NTnop,ou aud f,.-rJIS