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


''un-Christian, and only after many
years was it permissible 70 play upon
the organ
Richard Strauss conducted in person
a few days ago a performance of Die
F'eUersnOth" at the Breslau opera
/ house. It was the ninth repetition OF
/ the work in the course OF four weeks
The composer-conductor was received
with enthusiastic applause by the
! Breslau audience
] The Paris Conservatoire has sent to
I Moriz RosenthaI. whose concerts were
/ the French capital. an invitation to act
/ as juror in the coming competition for
1 the Diemer prize. 1t is the first time
1 that a foreign artist has been asked 10
/ Oficiate in like capacity at this ma
tiOnai institute The Diemer prize.
which is bestowed only upon COMPETE
/ tors in piano playing. amounts to 1000
francs.
Those who have charge of the local
/ arrangements for the confederate re
union at New Orleans very properly
/ want music. and call for twenty bands.
/ The bands of the city all belong TO
/ union. and some of them are composed
/ of colOred people. To supply the twen-
! ty bands called for makes II neces-
I
| the negro artists. and this the local
| managers object to. They have been
/ notified by the union that unless they
! accept the negro bands along with the
\ white they can march without music
Where the objection to the cOlOred
/ musicians can come in we fail to see
/ They viii only be employed for their
I music and nothing more, and we ven
/ ture to say that they viii furnish more
really inspiring. heart-lifting music
! than all the other bands-composed of
! foreigners as they are-ever dreamed
! Of, and more reaching after the south
err heart.
Why, the southern negro melodies
I are the only distinctive American mu-
sic today. And when did southern
/ people cease employing the colored
/ band. string or footing instrument. or
both, for their strictly social functions
We have danced all night till broad
/ daylight and gone home with the girls
! in the morning to the inspiring strains
i of "Old Frank Johnson" and 'Pompey
( Long" and they have successors who
/ are quite as responsive to demands
upon them.
If our bellies and beaux can afford TO
/ step TO the music of cOlOred bands we
! old veterans can afford to march to the
/ strains of Dixie" or the "Mocking
| Bird or the 'Suwanee River" when
/ rendered by our own southern darkieS,
| and If anyone on earth ever threw his
! soul into his music it is our southern
negro when he is glOrying hallelujah,
/ touching the light guitar or footing
] familiar southern melody on a horn.
/ Let the committee on arrangements go
on with its business. The old vets are
willing for the sons OF their old planta-
/ ton darkies to make music for them
/ nywhere.-Raleigh Post.
/ What are we coming to, and where
are we standings a question that
many of US must ask in the face of
Z them: After next year in opera, and
a tour which has never been sur
/ passed by any singer, Schumann-
! Heink, the leading Wagnerian con-
/ traltO of the world, viii forsake that
/ art to become a singer of light opera,
buffOon artist, or anything you choose
! to call 1t. Time is long, and art IS
/ feeting-also Mammon is God, Art,
/ and everything Cold blOOdedly. there
I are three years with 100000 a year
! And there is no paper and no ink that
/ will hold the sort of things that some
of US think about it. How fortunate
! those great artists are who died be
/ fore such degradation was possible.
/ We can envy such as knew those who
! never fell from the mightiest pedestal
/ that art has made for them. There
| are great names in great inches;
1 names that represent the highest aims
/ and reverence for the greatest, the
I noblest Of arts. We can only be thank
full that these are left US to honor and
/ to revere, for the present commercial
! wave is washing away all those that
we would have loved to remember as
/ great and noble.
! Lillian Blauvelt made her debut at
/ Covent Garden this week, and cables
I that she made a charming Marguerite
! to Salignac's Faust and Plancon's
I Mephistofeles- She is said to be not
] one of the best of the American sing
ers. but very charming and prOmfs-
! ing. If she does not decide to go on
, at Weber & Fields, or to accept a
tour with DUss, BIauvelt should make
us proud Of her yet.
1t is definitely announced by Wolf
sohn that he has engaged Richard
/ Strauss for America in March. Strauss
/ will come without orchestra, of course,
and he will give a large number of
/ appearances.
Wolfsohn will also tour the great
pianist Alfred Reisenauer, one of the
/ List pupils, beginning in January
| Reisenauer will play the Everett piano.
/ Thibaud. the great French violinist,
/ will also be a WOlfsOhn attraction,
4 and he has several of the opera singers
under contract for song recitals and
oratorio; among these are Bispham
and Schumann-Heink. for whom the
tour is booked already.
Quite the most exciting thing that
has happened in or rather out of New
York for some time was the refusal of