The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-17

of it, yet his whole appearance, his car
riage and bearing, had in them some
thing distinguished His voice was
gentle, his manners of the most perfect
/ pOliteness; from the first word and
! glance you knew you had to do with a
man Of the world who had moved in
society. Brahms was exactly the op-
posite. With his square, somewhat
stout figure, hOarse voice and slightly
sarcastic smile. he seemed to be an es-
pecial enemy Of so-called fine manners.
The Monde Musical of Paris publishes
some statistics of the opera fer the
: year 1902 There were 1S7 perform
ances. at which 1902. S37 francs were
realized. This is go, 693 francs more
than the receipts for 1901. The greatest
average amounts were for ''Siegfried, -
1873 francs a performance; Tam
hauser," 1857 francs; "LOhengrin,' H.
ST francs; Die Walkuere," 17,S15
! francs. Romeo and Juliet comes fifth
with an average of 1851 francs. and
Faust" sixth with 1875 francs. Wag-
ner realizes more than GOunod, and
I in Paris Has the musical millennium
Gomez
A novel feature of a recent concert in
Fantasia on Melodies of Our Indian
Empire" by E T. Jacques and J. NJ.
ROgan. The Athenaeum remarks in
regard to it:
Great composers made frequent use
of folk-melodies in their works. We
Der once borrowed a Chinese melody,
and Dr. Saint-Saens has introduced AZ
rican melodies into a concerto: but a
whole fantasia on Indian melodies is i
new and extremely interesting depart
ure. THE Hymn to Vishnu," with
which the fantasia opens and closes,
has breadth and dignity, while of the
other melodies some are slow and eX-
pressive. some lively and quaint. In
the excellent scoring there are some
characteristic local color effects. An
admirable performance by the band of
the CCidstream Guards, under Mr.. RO-
gan, led TO a repetition of the closing
section, in which a few bars of the
British and Danish national anthems
are combined with an Indian melody.
q am sorry to learn, writes the mu-
steal critic of the London Truth, that
DR.. Grieg, after all. VIII not come TO
London this year. He had intended to
do so, and in fact he will be in Paris
in May. But in the summer season his
performances would necessarily have to
be limited to London, while as to the
pens IN the winter, when his health
does not allow him to travel in Eng
land. I expect, however, il is more a
fear of NAL de mer than of the British
climate, for Bergen, where ne resides,
cannot be particularly mellow in the
winter. Grieg himself is practically a
Scotsman, and is grandson of Alex
ander Grieg and his wife, Anna Milne.
natives of F'raserburgh, who enigrated
TO Norway in the early part Of the last
century"
A new edition Of Groves great Die
tionary of Music and Musicians" is
being prepared under the editorship of
Mr.. Maitland. The first volume of the
original edition was issued twenty-four
years ago. Much has happened in the
meantime in the musical world.
The American composer, after all. is
not so much neglected as he would have
US believe The Musical Courier has
ascertained that during the past season
incorporated OrchestraS played in six
American cities ninety-five orchestral
novelties that had not before been
heard in those cities. OF these twenty
were German, twenty French. thirteen
American, seven (each) Russian. Eng
lish, Austrian. five Bohemian. four Nor
wegian, three Finnish, two Italian, one
Swiss, one African IColeridge-T ayIor).
PeaIs Of bells, tuned to a scale and
made of a material that will give out
the rare and beautiful quality Of tone
that is associated with a vibrant metal
are more frequent in England than in
the Latin countries, although in the
latter the carlton, that is the arrange
ment of scaled bells which are fixed
and struck by a hammer, ard which
sometimes embraces as many as fifty
bells, is more frequently found than in
the former country, where the peal of
bells, or bells that are swung is more
common. The carlton enables the per- /
former to play on them as he would /
upon an instrument, and many of the /
older organs have bells attached which /
are operated upon by keys. The caril- |
lon, OF which the hand-played bell is a /
form Of equal antiquity. can be traced |
back to the Chinese, who, during the !
period of 2255 to $50 B. c. held the play
ing upon bells to be a fine art the same 1
position being taken in the low couu- |
tries of Europe, where to play the /
carlton properly required an extended /
and thorough musical and executive /
education.
-
Before the end of this month the Ber-
liners viii have their first chance to /
hear Emma Calve-of course as Gar
men," 1t viii be Interesting to note
the result The Berliuers have a habit i
Of sneering at what the rest Of the /
world considers great They fancy that /
that proves their superiority" It is an 1
Did story. Heine made some sarcastic
about it in his day.
The difficulty OF getting professional
musicians interested in new music is
illustrated BY a story told by Adolf
Brodslly in the London Musical Times:
AT Vienna he played Tchaikovsky's
Violin Concerto" dedicated to him by
he composer; he had practiced II for a