Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-06
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Miss Emma Ramsey will begin a con- /
cert tour through Southern Utah on /
June q. appearing first at Manu dur |
ing the Teachers institute ut that |
place Other Salpetc cities Viii hear /
her Immediately after From there
she VIII 20 to SaliiA, itlhheld, Monroe /
and Beaver terminating the tour 40 .
Nephi with grand performance on
July a. Next FcdaS evening ne WIZ
| be heard at Payson, hel original nome
| town. The date of her Ogda per-
| Torrance has not yet been decided up- !
| on but II will take place some tne bc- /
fore she starts Oh her southern TRIP T.
Miss Agatha Berkhoe Of this city has
| Just carried of the h0nors Ia the grad /
uating class at the Chicago Musical |
College, by winning The medal for eX- /
celence I'm singing. Miss Berkhoel has |
had a very successful year IN Chicago, /
being sOlost at Woudlawn PARK Con I
gregatlonal church. and singing az /,
many musicales and concerts she has /
Just signed contract with the Cana |
dian symphony Orchestra TO be vocal y
sOlOist with that organization on It's |
forthcoming tour of Canada and the 1
United States ending May J. 1904.
The rumors from Paris stating that |
, Madame Melba was suffering from q |
throat affection are erroneous, since the |
famous singer is In perfect health.
Paderewski is suffering from acute /
h.. lII
gagements for the next three months /
and Is resting at his home in Switzer-
land.
Perhaps the most remarkable band
ever known at any court was that al
Henry VIII, In 1926, for the mueh-mar-
ried monarch balanced fifteen trumpets
and ten sackbuts Tor trCmbOnes /
against two ylols, a fife, a harp, three
each of lutes, rebecks and taborets,
with four drumslades. Indeed, Ii was
not tin the stuart times that the prl-
yate band began TO be more modern,
and Charles II brought from the court
Of Louis XIV the dinner band, which
soon became popularity known as the
-Four and Twenty Fiddlers' The Pri-
yate band also played at the Chapel
Royal until the two duties We're, Tor the
Improvement Of sacred music, separ-
ated by Mary, queen Of William H.
viii s. Monroe of Westield writes
some interesting things about the
opera singer, Sibyl Sanderson whose
recent death has been noted He says:
Miss SandersOn was a very beautiful
woman-more beautiful before her apo
plcctic stroke than any other prma
donna Of modern times She dressed !
with consummatc taste. Her voice,
never large or powerful, was singularly
sweet and flexible, and the excellence
Of her upper register CO I'm alt) gave
her commanding rank as a lyric artist
Richard Strauss opera 'Feuersnot"
appears TO be a genuine success. 1t Is
frequently sung in Berlin, and the 9th
en- day, as Mr.. FloeIsheim reports in
the Musical Courier. Struass conducted |
It's ninth performance in one month at
Breslau,
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots' recent
ly had its one thousandth performance !
at the Paris opera, but there We're no
special demonstrations on this occasion,
such az there would have been II this
event had occurred twenty, or even ten
years ago. The first performance Of
this opera was given in 1896 The only
opera that has been sung oftener at
this theater is Gounods Faust But
according to the latest figures, Wagner
is ahead In Paris Of both Gounod and
Meyerbeer. ,
Time Is flying. and we hear nothing
more regarding the visit Of Nordica
and Edouard de Reszke. Their tour Of
the country has begun as the following
from a New York paper indicates;
Nine Nordica and NJ Ed0uaTd dc ,
Reszke win be the s0loists at Madison {,
Square Garden tomorrow night, when
Mr. Duss vii open the season Of We
nice I'm New York with the Mctrupol-
tan Opera house orchestra. II viii be
the farewell performance of these sing
ers De Reszke viii sing The Palms
and THE Two Grenadiers Tor the first
time In New York and Ma lame NorI.
ca win be heard In Rus5inis "lnlam-
matus' with chorus OF one thousand
voices and In GouroIs ave Maria
with violin, harp, and organ obllgatO. q
Ogden music lovers are TO have an !
opportunity OF hearing The gifted sing.
en- Miss Emma Ramsey. week after ,
next. Prof Mcclellan, who acts as hey /,
business manager. and MI Joseph Bal ,
lantyne. leader of the Tabernacle choir
IN ogden, are arranging for the event !
Before that, however she viii give a
concert In her home town. Pays0n.
Mr. Squire Coon. the well known b
musician. has becn visiting his friends q
In Salt Lake during the past week lie {
has been in quit Ioor health the last I
several months, and LETT Europe earlier p
than he would have done otherwise. In |