The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-13

the works have been produced The
losers in any case VIII have the salts
faction Of having had their works wide
~ discussed and advertised OF the
three one halls from Paris. one from
Turin and one from Naples. "A mass
Of 2SS operas was submitted to the
judges. who were the Italian composer
Cilea, the Frenchman Massenet the
Danish-American Asgery Hamerik. the
Spaniard Breton, the Flemish Van
BloclIx. the German Humperdinck. and
the conductor Campanini Of Milan. The
terms OF the competition required that
the operas presented for she prize
should embody the latter-day develop
ments Of music and should be written
to sensible text.
Alfred c.. Robyn has just completed
and placed with his publishers. NJ. Wit
mark & sons a new song which prom
ises 10 rival in popularity his famous
ballad, Answer" the refrain Of which
swept the whole country a few sea-
sons ago. This new composition is
entitled It's All / Ask" and il is in
both lyric and melody, a charming
type of the imprisoned love song at
its very best, and in its most effective
{ style Many Of Mr.. RObyns singing
I friends are already programming 20
with gratifying success
One after another the German opera
{ houses are adopting Wagner's plan OF a
lowered and invisible orchestra. Des-
sau being the latest instance. The only
/ objection to this procedure is that
while a lowered orchestra is an ad
vantage IN the Wagner operas. with
their rich orchestratiOn, 10 is a disad-
vantage in the operas Of Mozart and
others of the older masters. If has
therefore been suggested that there
should be an arrangement making Il
possible TO lower or raise the orchestra
at will to suit each opera.
! Arrangements have been completed
/ for the tour of Madame Calve through
/ America in 1905 She will begin her
/ tour in October, visit fOrty-two cities.
! and appear, in all, sixty times. She
} IS 70 receive. Robert Grau says, 81 900
4 a concert She viii not appear in the
/ concert portion proper. but viii be seen
/ IN the operate division, which VIII
/ comprise twO-thirds - the entire pro-
gramme She viii be seen in Car
I men,' an act from "Cdvalleria Rusti-
/ cana" and in the entire opera of Ia
/ Navarraise.' The tour, which will be-
/ gin in New York, VIII include a visit to
Havana.
/ The Oldest music master in the Ger
( man army, GOidschmidt. died lately IN
/ his eightieth year, at Leignitz. where
a few years ago ne was director of the
music Of the garrison.
A work by Berlioz. never vet per
formed, was given in London on the
I 18th inst, on the occasion of the Ber-
lioz Centenary It was the dramatic
scene, for soprano and orchestra. "CIeo-
patra." BerliOz composed the work
which has never before been played ii
public, in the year 1920.
Pietro Mascagni after his many trib-
| Ulations in and out Of Italy, is again
/ anchored, this time in Rome He hae
been installed as director Of the Scuola
! Musicale NaziOnale, formerly the mu-
nicipal school of Santa Chiara. His
predecessor greeted Mascagni warmly
on the occasion of his induction and
predicted a fruitful era in the history
of the venerable institute. Professor
Parini, speaking for the faculty, pro.
claimed their JOY over the accession OF
the famous composer to their ranks
that the institute would speedily take
it's place among the first Of the music
schools Of Italy.
Sir Frederick Bridge. the Gresham
professor Of music and Organist o.
Westminster abbey, is about to publish
his lectures on Samuel PepEs. The di
artist was a clever musician and com
posed several songs. One of them II
Is Decreed," he mentions several times
Va very fine soEg, 1t seems to me.