The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-05
VI SIC AND MUSICIANS.

| JAMES T1UNEhfh
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w SIC AND MUSICIANS.
1
All doubts about the return of the adored
tenor, Jean de Reszke, have been removed
He will surely come TO America next year
! to wind up his glorious career by singing
under the direction of the Herr Director
Heinrich Conried in the rejuvenated Metro
4 politan Opera HOUSE. How is this de-
| lectable certainty made known? BY proc
lamation OF the intendan {? BY authority
! OF Brother Edouard through the smiling
mouthpece, Pan Thorner? Not at all.
The knowledge that the tenor called
| by the leaning ladies' Of chewing gum row,
| behind the orchestra rail. mir. NJ. Gene dc
| Resk." is coming back to these benighted
States next season arises from the fact
that he has suddenly begun to remember
his dear friends here. especially those who
are in the way Of helping the general public
| to ind out whether his voice. like the nag
| is still there. He writes afYectionate letter.,
to them. and he tells how he has had the
| grip again flor the twenty-seventh time)
| and has had to 60 to Poland TO rest. He
| says he has had good season.
There can be no doubt about that. He
and in a single night regained the loyalty
| Of the Partisan public. which he had lost
| some years 20 when he became the pet of
| London and New York. Well, he deserves
! II all: He il the most wonderful singer OF
| the day, and when he retires, as he soon
must, he will leave a gaping void
David Ffrangcon-D Davies. the plain man
from the hills the only genuine. simon
pure interpreter OF Elijah. is not coming
back to America just yet, but nevertheless
l. Ia hi l..a h.. Ia aa
afYectionate and more philosophical than
Jean. He says: Il often long to get back
to America, to which owe so much
in every way Certain reasons why he
can't get back to America are tn ,se en-
gagements: London Beethoven festival,
under weingartner. in May; London Rich
ard Strauss festival STRAUSS conducting).
in June; marlborough tYorkshire) festival
in the present month; Hovingham york
shire) festival in September, and the great
Birmingham festival, in October. In the
last Mr. .Ffrangcon-Davies will sing in Elgar's
new work, The Apostles
The letter contains some mighty interest
ing comment on opera as an art form. but
perchance the writer would not care to see
! his views in print. One thing. however.
may be quoted, for Mr. Ffrangoon-Davies
will stand by ito my thinking the world
/ Ik
Wagner The masses know nc thing about
him. As for singers, believe he will be
the means of developing finally a type
of vocalization transcending any that has
ever been. Vocalzation must finally as
sumo a literary flavor II II is to be a pro
the vocal Browning.
Frederic r. Gomez, he OF the Boston
! Symphony Orchcstra's business depart
ment. he of the name Of more versions
than folk legend, has assembled into the
-circumambient ether because Of jest
full paragraph in this department. Many
| a time and oft-not upon the Ralto-has
the writer of this column animadverted
and reverted as to the perverted rogramme
books used and abused al the concerts OF
the Boston Symphony Orchestra. People
insist on rafting the leaves Of the con-
demned things when Mr. Gericke is oper-
ating one Of his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ne
pianissimos and the eject h we'll nigh
maddening. The SUN recently said 1t
would be coed scheme to send these books
to the subscribers a week or two before
the concerts and let them 'bone up az
they say at Annapo lis. Mr.. &C NEE &C mes
back at TIE Sun in his best Harvard English,
thus: =,
A -
We've been doing this for fifteen years
and always advertise TO do this in all the
papers. Wake up. old man, and Ill have a
cold bottle with you the next time we meet
perhaps two.
Notice the deep susgestiveness Of the
iteration of the .this:" also Of the bottles.
William B. Tuthill. secretary Of the Ora
torio Society, writes In reference TO the
query last Sunday as to how many re-
hearsals that chorus had for Edward FL
cars Dream OF Gerontius.' He states that
the total number Of chorus rehearsals were
thirteen, OF which two were half rehearsals
The minimum number required of each
choruster for qualification was seven. The
rehearsals Of the orchestra alone numbered
three, and Of the orchestra and chorus to-
eether one In England the festival chorus
which produced the work studied IL eight
months. Surely this progressive
country.
The Richard Strauss festival, to which
reference Ii made In the story about Mr..
Ffrangcon-D Davies, Is to take place at st.
.Jamess Hall on the evenings Of June 3. 4, s
and and the afternoon Of June 8. The
! Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra is TO
be the instrumental body and the con-
ductors will be Strauss himself and William
Mengelberg.
The WORKS to be performed are Till
Eulenspiegel," -A'so Sprsch Zarathustra,-
sDon Juan Don Quixote.' Tod und
Verklarung,' Macbeth. Aus Italien' and
Elm Heldenleben.' together with songs
from the strauss rcperIory and excerpts
from -Guntram and ..Feuersnoth; :
Pauline Strauss-de Alma and John Harri-
son will sing, as well as Mr.. Ffrangcon-
Davies, and Wilhelm Bachhaus will play the
part Of the burlesque for piano and
orchestra.
The Prince Regent Theatre Of Munich
announces ~ performances OF Wagner's
music dramas from Aug. s to Sepf. IL.
The works 70 be given are Der Ring des
Nibelungen,H .TannhAuser,- .I,ohcnRrin.
Tristan and Isolde and Die Meister-
singer Among singers known TO New
York who are TO appear are Charlotte HUM.
formerly 81 the Metropolitan and now
OF Dresden; Nine. Nordioa- Nine. Schu-
| mann -Heink. Olive Fremstadt, katti Bet
taque. Theodore Bcrtram, Fritz Fried
richs and Ernst Kraus. The conductors
! viii be Zumpe, Fischer and Rohr. The
agency in this city for the Strauss festival
/ and the Prince Regent cycles Is In the hands
Of the. English music publishers Novello,
Ever 4 Co.