The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19

success Of esteem. The music is de-
scribed as noble. fun of genuine tenn.
permanent and far above the work OF
Mascagni and Leoncavallo. 1t is, how
ever. deficient in dramatic effect, in
spite of the cuts made since its earlier
production at Stuttgart.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has conferred on Edythe Walker, the
American contralto at the Vienna
opera the title of Hammer niger
in or royal chamber singer. This is
considered a great honor abroad. Miss
Walker had an audience with the en-
peror. at which she thanked him for
mally for his favor
r
The suicide of the young composer.
Leo Held. is announced from Vienna.
He was the composer OF several Oper-
ettas one of which, The Swallows.
had great success.
A young American. Miss Jane No-ia,
made her debut at the Paris opera in
Romeo ct Juliette." and is reported
TO have sung from beginning to end
sans aucune defaillance." lie Meme
strel. who does not like NJ. Gailhard.
director of the opera, declares that
such fact is very rare at that sad
establishment"
Raoul Pugno recently played in Lon
don u pianoforte sonata of his own
composition. which he has not disclosed
to New York. The four movements
are headed by notices. mostly from the
works of Charles Grandmougin, ind-
eating an elegiac mood for the work.
The piece seems to have won favor
able mention from most Of the review
ers
Stin another American musician who
has just appeared in LONDON. and with
apparently no success at all, was Rich
ard Platt. pianist quite as unknown
to fame in America as in England. He
played in an extra concert Of the
/ Richard Strauss Festival that has
been going on in the British capital
Beethoven's c minor concerto. and
group of Chopin selections.
Raymond Hitchcock of the king
Dodo" Opera company will play his
original part in the London production
OF Pixley & Luder's comic opera when
II. w Savage completes negotiations
for foreign tour of the piece. Strange
as it may seem, impresarios in Paris.
/ Vienna, Berlin and London are anx-
ious to represent translations of this
work, and, stranger still. a manager of
amusements in Japan has made over
lures for the piece with a Japanese
presentation in view.
To those who are not seeking a pro
| fessional musical life and vet take
their music seriously enough to intend
10 obtain all the beauty and happiness
possible in it and out of it. graduation
time merely marks one short mile upon
a long road. They know or should
know how quickly neglected practice
and relaxed interest will result in their
/ less OF the facilities of expression they
| have studied so devotedly to attain
facilities which if developed continu-
ously with even less assiduity than
prevails at school or college. are likely
to take on such enduring form as is
likely to place the amateur on reason
ably safe ground for life. This keep
/ ing in touch with music is the thing
| that tells The art that can so enrich
and beautify life should never be sur
rendered through temporary disap-
| pointment or the pressure of other
! things which have nothing equally val
liable to give US. For the graduate
who is entertaining the hope and in
tentiOn Of essaying the difficult path Of
professional life the lesson. in the
words of the great LiIli Lehman. is
| Inevitable: Il have to practice ard
study more than ever. At the end one
is just beginning. Musical Leader.
George Totten Smith, the we'll known
/ lyrist and librettist. has recently COM
pleted a number of new and striking
songs for the production of Mister
Pipp." in which Charles Grapewin will
be starred next season. Contrary to
the usual custom, the music for these
lyrics viii not be written by any one
I composer. but each song will be put
into the hands of a musician whose
work seems best fitted to bring out its
peculiar characteristics. Consequently,
each number. from the inevitable coon
song to the idyllic love ballad, will be
a perfect type of its kind.