The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-12

Brooke and his Marine band. at the
Coliseum Garden in Chicago.
In his new book on Musical EduCa-
tiOn," Professor Lavignac of the Paris
Conservatory comments very senSibly
on the fact that the art of singing
cannot be taught in the same manner
in all countries. "A German Lied be
comes as ridiculous when we sing it in
the Italian style as would be a cava-
tina of DOnizetti's translated into
German" He does not Overrate the
&c of the bel canto. AT that time,
he writes. the ideal singing was an
almost instrumental virtuOsity an in
credible agility. comparable to that or
the flute. trills. rOuladeS. chromatic
scales, arpeggiOs. ornaments of every
kind and gOrghetti which SkillfU,
singers did not hesitate to introduce
. into the score of the composer. even
in the most dramatic situations. even
to the extent Of disfiguring it and rem
dering it entirely UnrecOgniza with
the sole and frankly avOwed aim OF
setting in relief their pTOdigiOus ability
and showing off their most beautiful
notes"
Conried is carrying on negotiations
with Jean de ReSZke for next season,
and the tenor. besides insisting upon
all kinds of money. demands a place
for his brother EdOuard. who has mad
| money and "A name fOr himself WIN
the DusS concerts. He will return next
year to this organization. so it does
not matter very much whether he gets
the opera engagement or not.
The siren voice of Duss. Offering an
all-October concert engagement to
Nine. Schumann- Heink. has been re-
sisted bv that business-like contralto,
who viii prOlOng her regular summer
stay abroad. singing in Germany ana
Russia. until next January. when she
will return to America as usual.
Nine. Norma Romano. an American
protege, it is said. of Nine. Melba, who
heard her sing in Chicago eight years
ago and helped her TO study in Europe
has lust returned from abroad to sing
with the Castle Square Opera company
in Kansas city She is said to have
sung'i in opera in Italy.
Emil Paur. who not long ago was
! conducting symphonic and operate
concerts in New York is making a
tremendous success at the Madrid
opera He conducted "LOhengrin"
with much approval. and the Spanish
critics proclaim him as one of the
greatest conductors Of the day.
A cable from London announces the
engagement of Francisco Maria
Guardabassi by Heinrich Conreid for
next season at the Metropolitan opera
house Signor Guardabassi is a young
Italian baritone who has sung with
some success at private musicales in
New York and Newport. Born in Car
pento, the singer was originally pOr-
trait painter At one time In his ca
reer he painted a picture Of his god
father. Pope Leo XIII.
Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield eisler is one
of the not very large number Of pro-
fessional musicians of the first rank
whose domestic life is akin 10 that OF
persons who do not come before the
public. She has a home and il is in
Chicago. Her husband. Siegmund
Zeisler. is a lawyer Of reputation. and
Il was his sudden and severe illness
that caused her inability TO appear
with the Boston symphony orchestra
last month.
W. S. B. Mathews of Chicago has
made a great discovery. which he ex-
PLOTS IN the columns Of the Philadel-
phia Musician. When we inquire he
says, whether we have among our
(American) composers any one person