The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

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I sarily an alarming statement and the Ger.
man Government will not have to SEND
out a search party to ASCERTAIN what mas
become of the friend Of Gen. Miles and agent
| Of the deadliest OF firearms. When MI
Tauscher is not at Washington doing busi-
ness with the Secretary of War, when ne
, In not across the street from the opera house
doing business with certain choice ana
| master spirits Of this age, under the general
management OF Frederick g. Latham'
| in other words, when Mr.. Tauscher Is at
home, he Is the husband Of Nine. Gadski'
prima donna soprano.
Mr.. Tauscher Is just lost in amazement.
| OF course he will be found again. But
he has been wandering around for several
days like one in dream. The cause OF
II all was the performances o. o.. DOT no T,o.
last Monday night That is to say. it was
not precisely the 9oI G For two se
rebearsed her part in DER Wald.' Then
she went home and slept three hours. Mr.
And what do you think OF that perform
ance OF Don Giovanni in the circum-
stances?'
Mr.. Tauscher did not venture to state
what the circumstances were. but II was
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which Nine Gadski had for Don Giovanni
was that sleep. In a word, Mozart's opera
was performed without any rehearsal at
all That was an achievement which
would have been impossible IN any other
| institution than the Metropolitan Opera
House.
One OF the most popular persons In the
heart Of New York ia Hilarious Bell. He
is the owner OF an insurance company,
but he does not permit 1t to disturb him.
Just for his own amusement he Is a dra-
matte critic and q critic Of dramatic critics.
In the solemn discharge Of his duty he
went TO the Irving Place Theatre on that
eventful night when the Ferenczy COM
pany did not produce Der Suisse Maedel,
and he noticed that the men who write
about music for the morning papers were
not present.
for not attending TO business. They ought
to have been there so as TO get line on
the probabilities OF Mr. Conried's methods
Of conducting grand opera the following
wicked men, to be sure. did not 60 because
the telephone had warned them OF the post
ponement Others did not go because
they knew what seemed to have escaped
the humorous Hilarious, namely. that there
was no more novelty about the FerencZy
company than there IL about swallow
tailed coat and that the management
| of an operatta theatre has about the same
resemblance to that Of an opera house as
the direction Of crosstown car has 70 that
Of an ocean greyhound.
Ethel Smyth the author and composer
OF Der Wad." which was produced at
the Metropolitan Opera House on We'd
nesday night. is a woman OF strong per-
sonality. She super;nt ended the rehears-
als of the work herself and expressed
her ideas in language simple and direct.
But that was not astonishing She Is a
clear thinker and a woman Of intense earn
es,ness. OF her il would be easy TO say.
as German musicians say OF conductor
whom they respect, she knows what she
wants
habit OF carrying things her own way came
near to accomplishing something which
has not yet been accomplished AT the opera.
namely, the appearance of Conductor Al
actually dragged the unwilling wielder OF
the baton as far as the proscenium door
and forced him into the sight of the audi
ence. but then he managed To escape from
her iron grasp and He'd incontinehliy'
Edward Elgar. whose Dream OF Geron-
thus il soon to be performed here by the
!. Oratorio Society. has had the good fortune
; Of drawing high praise from Theodore
Thomas. who, like Mark Twain, is very
old and very wise The cantata was orig
inally performed at one OF the Birming
ham festivals, where IL came near TO meet
ing fate similar To that which nj first hefel
,, Wapner's Tristan und Isolde The choiI
,, had worked three months on II when Mr.
: Elrar decided to abandon all hope Of get,inf
the thing properly sung. But old Father
Hans Richter said II would lie all right ano
II was.
Elear's rise TO prominence has been one
. | Of the sviftest on record. In 1896. wrote
a London critic. che was comparativel,
UNKNOWN man To-day lI9o0l he stands
I in the very foremost rank OF Enghsi
musician Ths. Was good odd 70, he 49," t Ss
a Is the first OF English composers
His Dream OF Gerontitis' II a setting of |
Q sirhtly shortened version Of Carolina
Newmsn's poem depicting the s1perience
l. OF mans soul shortly before and just afte
|, death. He has tried TO represent IN
!. emotions Of q dying man and OF his spirit
= hisht 20 the presence Of It's Creator. Th
i subject II huge one and IL will lie interest
II ing 10 note how far this new composer Ia
. gone toward its realization.
). Pierre Ialo, q French critic. has beel
y paying his respects TO music IN Germany
I. He saws that Richard Stratus produc'
v nothing but eKAggera,ions Of the wors
= faults 81 Lss, He calls T-chaikowsky'
4 sixth symphony q foolish and mediocr
thing He also declares that Goldmarb
!, Greg and pvorsk are old and have nothin
more To say. while ~ for bach. iiayd
and Mozart, they lived before the deius'
. There IL nothing In Germany. Aoc.,rdin
~ 10 this s.iuts commentator, hks kitGn
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