The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11

'iSlloL DdiApaudIi Is resting az MS
country home near Stamford, Conn.
Victor MaureI has finished a book on
voice production which he has spent
many years in preparing. 1t viii be
published this month in Paris.
Is
Mime. NOrdica was singing in Munich
at the Wagner festival. She spent the
heated term in a cottage on the shores
OF the Chimsee, near Munich.
Andreas Dipple is at Gastein study
ing the role of ParsifaL He viii re-
turn 10 Vienna before coming to this
country.
Nine. Sembrich has been in Switzer-
land and is now in Marienbad, where
she VIII remain one week longer.
Jean de Beszle has left Nj. Dore
and gone to his country place, near
Warsaw, in Poland.
Paderewski is at home at Morges re-
vising "Manru" for its production in
Paris next fall.
At a concert given not long ago in
Santiago, Chilli, Massenets pianoforte
concerto was performed. the three
movements being played by three diff
ferent pianists.
At the funeral service held in NOtre
Dame, Paris, in memory of Leo XIII.
NJ. Widor, the organist. is said to have
played music by Bach and Handel, two
sturdy Protestants, showing that mu-
sic has no creed.
The threatened dismissal of the
kings band, an organization which
has existed for many years, has been
countermanded by the king himself.
who ordered the players to be notified
of his change of mind.
The value to operate managers of
gala performances has risen enorm-
ously in London within half a century.
In 1855 "Fidelio" was performed in
honor of Napoleon III by Jenny Ney.
Carl FOrmes and Tamberlik while in
the ballet following the Beethoven
opera "CeritO" made her COvent Car
den debut. The receipts were but STA
o0O which was doubtless considered
big money i'm those days. For the
LOubet gala the receipts were 100000
But the climax was reached last year,
when upwards of 100000 worth of
coronation. All of this had to be re-
turned-a duty which. as the London
Truth remarks, promised to make the
manager prematUrely bald. Maurice
Grau had better luck with Prince Hen
ry at the Metropolitan opera house.
The bread which was denied Albert
LOrtzing when alive, so that he starved
TO death, is to be turned into prOverbial
stone, for a red granite tablet with a
suitable inscription is to be placed on
the house in Vienna where he lived
from 1916 to 1913.
The Oratorio society. New York. under
Mr.. Frank DamrOsCh, Will give three
Carnegie hall concerts during the COM
ing season. Edward Cigars Dream of
GerOntius' will be sung on Nov 10, and
The Messiah on Dec. % 80. while at
the last concert, on March a. Brahms
German REQUIEM will be given, fol-
lowed no sarcasm intended by Bachs
"SleeDers, Wake The chorus viii num-
Der 20.
c. T. w. SiegeI of Leipsic has brought
out a new edition. twice the size of the
original of Wilhelm Tapperts Richard
Wagner i'm Spiegel der Kritik,' contain
ing a collection Of the amusing abusive
criticisms that used to be written about
Wagner and his works.
+. 2iegfeld, ir.. has. through his for
mBr manager. r. ID. Price. been negO-
tiating with Dennis O'Sulivan as prin-
ciDal baritone I'm Tine Red Feather
shortly TO be produced at the new
Lyric theatre. New York. but the par
ties were too much at variance to agree
upon terms. although Ziegfeld was Of
fered the highest salary ever paid to a
male singer in comic opera.
Caruso. the well known italian tenor,
will make his appearance in this cOun-
try next season. He viii be one of the
stars of Heinrich COuTeid's Metropolitan
opera forces.
Young composers often wonder why pub
fishers do not want their pieces, and why,
even when printed. they attract no atteu-
ton. An item regarding the British MI
scum library may throw light ON the SUBJ
iect. I'm the year ending March 81, 1903,
no fewer than SSJ5 musical publications
We're added 10 the collection That means
twenty-fOur new pieces of music every
dav i'm the year, Sundays included, and as
S19S OF those publications were received
under the provisions OF the copyright
act IL is obvious that this figure refers
chiefly TO new English music only.
Among the manuscripts acquired by the
British museum last year is Schuberts
so-called Fantasia Sonata. ON the first
PAGE the composer wrote: CIV. Senate
fur a. PianOfOrte ALIEN. oct. 1926. Franz
Schubert This title was. however,
arbitrarily altered by the Niennese pub
Usher. Haslinger TO Fantasia, Andante,
MeuuettO. und AuegrettO, and thus the
composition got its title az of Fantasia
Sonata. for which Schubert is not re-
sDonsible. Like many other MSS. this
one disUroves the legend that Schubert
never revised what he had written. IN
the anuante a page Is cancelled. The
sonata is dedicated to Spaun. TO whom we
owe the most vivid account of the per-
sOnaltv and the habits of one who now
ranks not only as the greatest Of song
writer's. but who wrote more Automatically
for the Dianoforte than his great con-
temporary Beethoven, and initiated the
natas. however. but with his short pieces.
These. once considered as mere pleasing
bagatelles. are now known to have been
eDoch-making.
Reginald De Koven, whose latest opera.
Red Feather with lbrettO bv Charles
Klein and lyrics by Charles Emerson
Cook. is to be produced at the Lyric
theatre. New York. ia the late autumn (
believes that the time is ripe for re-
turn to real comic opera. without the
horse play and nonsense into which that
form OF theatrical entertainments has
fallen i'm recent years. AT any rate"
SAID Mr. DE hoven recently Gin prepar-
ING the score Of Red Feather i have
aimed 80 combine music OF diCnified
quality with music Of a more catchy va
rletT- TT ] were to attempt a terss de-
sCrlptlon of what ] have tried to produce
] should call the new opera Robin Hood
that the score will be found I'm line with
the HbrettO by Mr.. Klein. which ] re-
gard as a fine piece Of stage conetruc-
uon. with 2 story containing a good deal