The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-13
OUT OF TOWN MUSICIANS

Judging from the large audiences
the season of italian opera. which has
Hbeen 1naugurated this autumn at Cow
sent Garden theater, London. promises
s 10 pe Hnanclal as well as an artistic
success, and there is some probability
that the directors of the syndicate
(which provides the opera during the
London season proper may be induced
sto follow in the steps of Henry Rus
sen, to whose initiative the coming of
BIhe san Carlo Theater company to
London was due.
Sig. sCaruso has been a wonderful
drawing card. and on nights when he
appeared good proportion of the seats
could have been booked twice over.
and Sig. Eiachetti also has scored
great success.
1 Alice Nielsen has pleased the critics,
ealthough 1t was recognized that in es-
Ssay1ng the role of Mimi in LA
Boheme" she was counting the newt
Eablet comparison with Melba, who made
the part her own since a short time
hafter the introduction of the opera into
England.
The musical critic of the Times said
isof Miss Nielsen's performances: 1T is
not perhaps high praise to say that her
s1tailan pronunciation and acting are
quite as good as those of a more emf
@nent singer, but it is only right to say
That her execution of the music reach
ed good deal nearer to Melba's level
sthan was to be expected, and, of
course, the charming freshness of her
igvoice made the effect interesting"
The Oratorio society, of New York,
Shas begun rehearsals, under Frank
DamroSeh's direction, for. the first con-.
acert, to be held at Carnegie hall on
Thursday evening, Dec. /. The pro-
Tgramme will comprise Brahms "a
German Requiem" and Bach's cantata
Sleepers, Wake" The Oratorio socie-
5ty gave the first American performance
of the Brahms "Reqiiem," March Is,
1887, and sang 1t again in November.
1881. This work is one of the chief
monuments of its composer, and its re-
svival after an interval of thirteen years
will be an event of great musical inn
sportance,% So far as the records show,
there has been no public presentation
mere aof Bach's cantata "Sleepers,
Wake, in recent years, if at ALL The
annual christnastide performance of
The Messiah" will be on Dec. 80 and
81, while the final concert of the sea-
sson is set for March IA
There is a well-known story that
in September, 1853, nearly all the let
sters or Chopin to his relatives and
friends We're destroyed by soldiers who
sacked the palace of the Count Zamoy-
ski, at Warsaw, in which the COM
poser's sister lived. All the biographers
9of Chopin have accepted this story.
and now 1T turns out to be a hoax.
which the owners of these letters new
Ser took the trouble to expose, probably
Ito escape premature attempts to secure
and publish these precious documents.
:At last, however, they have been made
accessible in print, both in Polish and
Freneh, karlowicz's volume having
been done into the Partisan fdiom
by I.auga Disiere and published
In this language by Welter. The let
ters were written during the ten wears
or Chopin's intimacy with George Sand.
'There is also good deal about the
trip to England and Scotland. The
material was SO abundant that the
Polish editor found it necessary TO
eliminate much that seemed of sec
ondary interest. Some of the letters
the relatives of George Sand would
not allow to be published In France.
They are, however, included in the
Polish volume and In the French orig
inals.
Coleridge Taylor the negro compos-
er OF the "Hiawatha" trflogy, which is
SO popular, is to direct the Coleridge
Iaylor Choral society in Washington.
ID. c., In three concerts. two of which
are to be held in Washington on Nov.
40 and IL. and in Baltimore on Nov. Is.
he mas composed for the society three
chorai ballads, the texts for which are
by Lonsfellow. They are from the
slavery poems and consist of BESIDE
the lngathered Rice He lay 1.She
Dweit, by Great Kenhawa's Side" and
Loud He Sang the Song of David
Inc new works viii have their first