The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-13


being announced for Christmas time
appears the Reformation OF King Kris
Kringle," an extremely bright and
popular cantata by Meredith, TO De
presented by the First NJ r. sun
day school, under the direction of
Professor c.. j. Nettleton, on NWcdnes-
day. Dec. p. There win also be other
attractive features. including several
orchestral numbers. making q very
popular programme throughout.
Mrs. Agnes Osborne has organized
classes in harmony, which viii meet
once a week for The winter beginning
tomorrow evening. She has secured the
services Of Herr Otto MajewsH 20 de-
liver addresses on musical history and
! Interpretation. The classes will meet
at her studio, AS South Main street,
and at each meeting selections, both
for the violin and the piano. will be
given by Mrs. Osborne and Herr Ma
iewsk.
Miss Ruth Eldredge, who is study
ing in New York. has written a dainty
little slumber song for which Mr.. Nc
Clellan has composed the music Both
words and music are given in the De-
cember number Of the Young WO-
mans Journal
Professor C. J. Nettleton, the musical
| director Of the First N. +. church, an
! nounces a sacred concert for next
most prominent musicians viii partici
pate Miss Aura Rogers is the solo
( ist this morning and Mrs. Bessie
/ Browning this evening.
/ The choir of St. Mary's cathedral is
preparing Cimmerosa's Military
/ Mass for the special Christmas uu-
\ sic. The choir viii be increased to
twenty-five voices and accompanying
them viii be four violins-
/ Miss Agatha Berkhoel Miss Esther
Allen and Miss Mary Olive Gray will
give a recital in Logan under the au-
[ spices Of one of the musical societies
there some time early in January.
The Harmony Glee club has re-
sumed work for the coming season with
the following officers: w. c. CastletOn,
president: A. Z. Brady, vice president;
J. S. Morgan, secretary and treasurer;
/ A. A. Beesley, conductor; Joseph Poll,
assistant conductor; G.. w. TempsOn,
librarian; J. ID. owen, business man
ager. They meet for practice Sunday
at the Beesley music store.
Last spring a German journal assert
ed that the Wagner family had re-
ceived $f15,000 in Royalties from the 1900
performances Of Wagner's operas given
in Germany in 1902. Mr.. Ashton Ellis,
the translator of Waguers prose works,
and an intimate friend Of the Wagner
family protested against this assertion,
and reduced the figure to $4,000. Even
that modest sum ought 70 enable the
Wagner family to have meat on their
table once a week. Then there are the
Bayreuth profits, averaging $4,000 a
year. which ought to pay for the but
ter on their bread. The two sums add
ed make S10S 900 a year. But there are
others. Two years ago 1t was an
nounced that since the production Of
"LOhengrin' in Paris in 1891, 1,000,O00
francs had been paid in royalties to
Nine. Wagner. In other words. she has
received $4,000 a year from the Paris
grand opera alonei Many others OF
the 300 annual performances of Wag-
ner's operas given outside OF Germany
yield royalties, so that a very conserva-
tive estimate makes Wagner's operas
worth more than 100000 a year, in
spite OF the fact that he squandeTed his
copyrights in many cities.
These approximate figures are of in
Z terest, not only as attesting the pOpu-
larity of Wagner's operas. but in view
of the persistent attempts, here anC
abroad, to excite pity for the poor
starving widow at Bayrcuth, whose
"Parsifal' monopoly is to be broken
So far as the copyright law is con
cerned, there IS no more reason why
: she should have monopoly of ''Parsi
far than of Tristan" Die Meister
, singer" and the four Nibelung operas
:
over, the fact that these other operas
draw as large audiences at Bayreuth a.
. ''Parsifal' does, although they are Civ
! en- in all the cities of Germany, al
, well as here proves that the DrOduc
r tiOn here of "Parsifal" win not hurt tn
Bayreuth festivals. AS a matter o
fact, Bayreuth is likely TO benefit enor
b mously from the vast amount Of fre
advertising IL HIS received since Mr.
! COnried's project was announced. I
4 is almost impossible to pick up a Ger
b man newspaper without seeing an ar
I ticle or paragraph headed q" 'Parsifal
b in New York" Future historians will
e therefore. name Mr.. COnried as one o
% the greatest benefactOrs of the Wag
D ner family, in company with List an,
70 King Ludwig H. Indeed, it would b
r a gracious thing on Frau COsima Wag
Y ner's part to suggest the erection o
e a Conried statue in Ee1lin-of course
= at Herr Leichner's expense.
p Simplicity seems to be the keynote O
7 I the popular song nowadays. The writ
ers are getting nearer to natures hear
; than formerly and are putting out lyI
\ 1 les which appeal because Of their yer
z absence of strain upon the hearer'
\ | thought tank. This IS probably til
: reason that 80 many spelling songs ar
now popular. We seem to be lapsin
into second childhood in this matte
the old folks enjoying with as niue
. / delight as the children the comic COO
song. "C-h-i-c-k-e-n. OATS De Way {
Spell Chicken" and "L-o-v-e Spell
d Love" a ballad of the same style an
Mary From Maryland, the refrai
OF which
% MARY. Mary, my Mary. from MARY
land.
II L-double-o-k like YOU love me an
YOU understand;
y Give give me. on, give me your heal
and hand .
Airy Mary, my duslzy fairy, frol
Is Maryland"
sets everybody In the audience to hun
:, ming when it is sung by Irene Bentle
u in The Girl From Dixie.
There are a number Of these nov
spelling songs In press which wi
II doubtless become popular before lon
y, ( not TO mention the pioneer Of this elias
Of songs, MARY" which has bee
revived and is enjoying a renewed SUI
= cess.
The tenth anniversary OF the death
y / Isrha ikOWsgy NOV. 81 has called