The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-28

seems to have been designed to illus
trate COrneille's Cid"
Hans Won WOlzoSen, in a late ad-
dress to a religious society, expressed
a hope that the connection between
Bayreuth and "Parsifal would on May
i, 1913, the hundredth birthday of
Wagner. be legally made indissoluble.
Public opinion on the whole, however.
still is that a work OF the power Of
''Parsifal" ought not 10 be confined to
one little spot. but allowed TO be per-
formed wherever and whenever a
proper performance can be assured.
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The hereditary prince of Anhalt is
one of the few German princes who
take a serious interest in art He de-
votes much attention to his theatre.
and spends hours in experimenting
the mounting of new works.
Isadore Rush, for many years leading
woman with Roland Reed and last sea-
son the Lady HOlyrood with the road
company of "FlOrOoOra." has returned
70 this country Miss Rush said that
she had enjoyed her short trip abroad
which she began May 3. going directly
to London to witness the production
which she is to appear as Miss Bettner,
the leading female role. when Fisher
& Ryley present the piece next season.
The lyrics are by Leslie Stuart and
the book by Owen Hall, both of whom
constructed '-Florodora" and the in
. cidental music by Sydney Jones.
On the same steamship with Miss
Rush was Mrs. J. p. Sousa, wife of the
rnrr
with her children June 13. Mrs. Sousa
said that when she left her husband he
was just finishing a tour of Germany
with great success. and was to SO to
Denmark. after which he viii return
to London for a brief engagement, and
then to this country. opening here at
, the Willow Gardens in Philadelphia,
He viii later so 10 Indianapolis. from
which city the band viii make a tour
Of the far west.
The interpretative musicians in Ger
many are in a quiver of excitement
over the Woo ~-' 7tugs of Leo Won
Jobrianski. a Russian from Odessa.
who appears ., discovered the
secret which makes the stringed in
struments of the great Italian build
ers so desirable and valuable. An &C
cOmplished acoustictan, the pupil Of
KaUlbars and Helmholz, and a clever
violin maker. he holds that the various
parts Of a violin must be proportiOned
to certain rules which the Italian mas
tiers grasped by instinct, but which he
now lays down with scientific accuracy
To produce the fullest and ricnest
sound each part must be proportioned
to the whale and arranged so that the
waves are concentrated and issue in
their roundest, fullest form He Iikens
a violin TO the human chest. He DEM
Onstrated this before musicians. scien-
tiic and otherwise, and astonished
them by the accuracy Of his state
ments-
Marie Week. the sister of Clara
Schumann. has published a protest
against the work lately issued by Ber-
tbOld Litzman. entitled Clara Schu-
mann. An Artist Life. From Journals
and Letters" She blames her niece.
Clara's daughter for having supplied
the material in an unfiliaI fashion.
Such a publication was contrary to
Clara's wishes. and the letters, written
Immediately after her marriage with
Robert Schumann, give a wrong i'm
preston of the character of Frederick
Week. Within year Of the mar
riage the young couple were recon
cIled with Week and lived on friendly
terms with him Week was one, Of
the first to appreciate Chopin and
Schumann.
CiotiIdt Kleeberg celebrates this
year her artistic jubilee. At the age Of
y she left the conservatory, and in
the same year made her debut at the
PasdelOup concerts. producing a great
sensation IN BeethOven's G minor Con-
ceTto, receiving, according to the
Figaro of the day, an unparalleled well
come. Since 1879 Madame Kleeberg
played at all the great Paris concerts,
and in 1884 appeared in London with
brilliant success. Her performance OF
Bach's "Fantasie Chromatique" at
tracted the notice of Hans Richter,
who engaged her for the Vienna Phil
HARMONIC, society. In 1887 she was
he>rd in Germany, where Buelow
greeted her as CLARA Schumann H.
Since that time she has been heard in
all the cities of Europe and always in
triumph. She married the Belgian
sculptor, Charles Samuel
The first production on any stage
OF comic opera entitled The Sigh
ing Dutchman' was given in Philadel-