The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-18

from a tune TO an OrdlOflO.
Kate Douglas Wiggin had won
most enviable TenOwn as an authoress
before she achieved distinction as a
musical composer. She has written d,
great deal of music for kindergarten
use. and all her songs for children are
especially winning and melodious. Her
most artistic and ambitious work, how
ever. is series of nine ballads
Mrs. Emma Marcy Raymond is one
of the very few women who have COM
posed the entire music of an opera and
! lived to see it produced Under the
management Of ]. c. Duff some years
ago. at the old Manhattan theatre, was
produced her opera, 'Dovetta- 1t IS
as a song writer, however, that Mrs
! Raymond has won her most cOnspicu-
Gus laurels. Much of her music IS
high class and many of her songs nave
been repeatedly sung by famous OPP
cratic artists.
The New York Tribunes Paris CORE
! spOndent sends the following account
| OF the first production of Hams OPERA
| THE CarmeIite": The most interest
/ ing musical novelty of the season is
the production at the Opera Comique
of La Carmelite," lyric comedy IN
four acts, by Catulle Mendes, music by
! Reynaldo Hahn The Carmelite," as
may readily be surmised, is Mile
! Louise de Ia VALERIE, whose tragic
! idyl with Louis XIV furnished ma
terial for Alexandra Dumas to weave
/ a picturesque but historically inaccu-
rate novel, and induced Arsene Hous-
save to write a volume treating of the
love and suffering sustained by the
frail beauty who. as Louise de la MIS-
ericOrde, ended her days in an austere
Carmelite convent
It would be interesting to see the
cold and selfish character of Louis
XIV in the poetic garb of the lyric
hero. 1t is said, however, that the dra-
matist has succeeded in producing an
ioperetic work of oYerpoWering splendOr,
and the gayety and brillianey Of the
opening chorus have created furore-
One act is so delightfully."- wicked that
it was tanned down after the first night,
/ The plot deals with an infatuation OF
the monarch and introduces the ladies
OF the court attired as goddessesi
nymphs and shepherdesses who chat
and sing of their love affairs.
The king, concealed by roses and TAU
rel leaves, takes keen interest in the
situation, but the dramatist brings him
to the front Of the stage, where the
ladies pass BY with smiles and WIN
some chances. Each sings coupl2S
and the last to pass in the long pro-
cession is Louise de la Valiere, VINO
has never seen the king. oh" eN-
claims the monarch. 1T is you who say
such nice things. ] recognize you by
your delicious voice" The girl in hcl
confusion falls on her knees in shG ne
The infatuation which develops during
the succeeding acts is destroyed bS
, magic art, and the young Louise j.
/ eventually abandoned for the brilliant
! 10 /
en- hearted. retreats TO the convent
, and the brilliant romance goes on wiki
out her, until she meets the queen II
, the last act. The unloved queen alit
. Louise embrace, and when the duee1
passes out of the convent. Louise dis
: appears forever. Nine. Emma Ca Y,
sings the part of Louise, and this sea
: son she is said to be in exquisite voice
! When the handsome little blond
Italian maestro, Emilio Riveia, cam
TO America a year or so ago. his ONLY
knowledge of this country had been Oe
tanned through studying our music. /
: he had heard dim echoes of our hurrl
and hustle. they had conveyed no yer!
definite idea of our outstanding char
acteristic as nation; for no soune
: had he set foot unOn our shores thai
: he began a crusade against our spIri
of onward march. He had never hedr'
that pathetic little ditty,
! backward. turn backward,
Time in thy flight;
( Make me child again
4 Just for tonight,
: bat he came filed with its sentiment
: for the first thing he took exception
$ TO was our city clocks In Rivela'
! mind city clocks should be relegated t
the inferno and used as means &
r torture for unregenerate Germans VIII
scorn Italian music. In an easter citN
4 recently, the town clock had the CT
frontery 10 strike nine during one q
Rivela's delicate pianissimOs- His rag
4 was fearful to witness. He flung ,.OT-
q / the baton and demanded satisfaction
\ The clock must be stopped instantly g
n the concert could not proceed A. tn
: ! mayor. who was present "a rOrun
. ! worthy weighing nearly 500 pounds
: evinced no wild desire to DO the 'cuf
: few shall not ring tonight aSt, NJ
Ellery was obliged to calm The lsade
in the best way he could and III
music proceeded. Later in the even
: ing, however. Rivela was seen to loo
Z AT his watch, and then, instead of tab
( ing ND his baton to conduct the opel
. attic fantasia, which was the next nun
!. Der on the programme, he settled hin
q self comfortably in a chair and tWirle
: his little moustaches. Ellery who oil
; not know what new madness had seize
his prima dOnna,s made anxious IL
: quiry After a few lightning passes
n Italian gesticuIation, he received tt
: needed suggestion, and stepping fol
Z ward announced that, as it was no
I 9:45 o'clock, and as the next number @
Il the programme would take seventee
, minutes to perform. Signor Rivel
! would not begin it until the tow
l. clock had struck So the vast asseu
:, bly, sat in a silence as of the gray
z waiting for the stroke of 10. 1t
: safe 10 say that no oratOrical spell
binder was ever listened to in sue
: aWed silence as that city clock Whe
/ ii did finally peal out its ten hour
: When it had subsidized, Conductor r
! vela, all smiles, continued the PR
e gramnae.
d Alexander de Bandrowsld, the Polls
q tenor who came last year to this coul
n try to create the title role in Igna,
PaderewsIfs opera, zdanru." has ia
won out in his struggle sTith the &c
man courts.
ri Like Georg Antilles. formerly