The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

He remains calm, for he says that IN
fifty years he VIII be master Of the mu-
steal world" 0s5s.)
THE Concert-Stuck, played by List
with the passionate impetuOsity he al
ways put into it, created a furore, and
], carried away by enthusiasm, was
idiotic enough to embrace him on the
stage, q piece Of stupidity, fortunately
condOned by the audience" GS3S-)
Chopin could never bear the re-
straints Of time, ard I think, carried
his independence too far; he simply
could not play in time Ernst while
employing rubate, kept it within ar
tistic limits. retaining always a digni-
fed sway over his caprices." qS46.)
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When q singer is up before an au-
dience, he or she can ten whether the
effect Of the voice is pleasing or not
by watching the countenances Of the
listeners says Thomas \. Edison, ia
Popular Mechanics" When, how
ever, one sings into dead instrument
Ike the photograph, without the
slightest recognition as to whether the
voice is properly tuned and pitched,
the singer becomes rather nervous.
know some very capable singers who
can sing splendidly before an audience,
but when it comes TO getting their
voice into the monograph, they are
dumb. L have brought people of great
note out to the works and paid them
handsomely for their vocal efforts. only
TO find, when 1 came to reproduce
that the records were utterly worthless.
these attempts were utterly worth
less One must have. indeed a TegU-
lar monograph voice in order 10 make
a good record. Some people can sing
well into a monograph who could not
get up before an audience TO save
their lives; and, again, as I have said,
some people can sing before persons,
but they cannot perform before
photograph.
In the Berlin National Zeitung Gus
tav karpeles makes public a page Of
hitherto unknown henderson, history.
J. p. Lyser, Wen known as a poet. nov
elist and caricaturist (the well known
Beethoven picture in which the short,
stumpy figure Of the composer is shown
with hands behind him and his tall hat
tipped back on his head, is By Lyser)
met Mendelssohn IN 1888 shortly after
the performance of the "Hebrides"
overture and took q great fancy to him.
He paid his merits a glowing tribute
after his death. But on MendelssOhnis
request that he provide him with text
Tor an opera, LySer wrote the book Of
an opera 'IsOla," based on ROmOhr's
story, The Last Savello.7 In a week
after receiving it -Mendelssohn returned
it with a letter in which he said: st
have fought a bitter battle with myself
Your poem is beautiful, the verses are
50 musical as 1 could wish them, the ac-
ton sustained and finely carried
through; well composed, the opera is
certain TO make great impression, but
I cannot compose il and that is your
fault. Why do you send me a book
whose contents brighten and depress
me and disturB my sense Of propriety2
Do you not recall Don Juan whom the
devil carries on and no one feels sorry
for him, while one does have pity for
your SavellO. who is killed By an out
ragged husband. But I shall tell you
that I should never have selected a
Don Juan text or anything like it. My
whole nature rebels against it making
use Of the plague of indecency, and I
would consider IL the greatest adulis-
sion of partially to this condition were
I to compose to such d text as yours:
il would pain Mccullough you may
laugh mockingly at .me-but cannot
do otherwise and do not desire to do
otherwise, and when I reflect on this
I doubt If even could compose a stS=
cessful opera" As events proved Men
delssOhn never completed an opera. his
''Loreley," fragment that it is, not hav-
ing dramatic force such as is called for
in a work that hopes to endure on the
stage.
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A recent number of the Lustige BIat-
ter is headed "BayFeuth hummer" and
contains some very amusing illustra-
tiOns. The front page is a cOlOred pic
tuTe entitled Oneten-DammeTung. -
II represents Frau C0sima Wagner and
ner son SiesfTied seated at a table.
counting piles of coupons and gold
coins with an ecstatic mien, while
waiter IS just bringing in another big
trayful OF golden mark pieces. 1t is
well known that this millionaire fam
fly, or their friends. are trying to con-
vey the impression that they are pau
pers. Accordingly It is suggested on.
another page that nickel-in-the-slot
machines be placed everywhere, SO that
lovers Of Wagner's- music who are not
rich enough TO go 10 Bayreuth may
help along the good cause in their num-
bic way.
The Beethoven house at Bonn has
been enriched lately by an interesting
collection Of manuscripts OF the mas
ter. namely, the famous Beethoviana,
so long in the possession Of the firm of
FIR Cohen. Among them are the first
sketch of and many additions To the G
minor sonata, and Of his last piano
sonata, variations TO an air from an
opera, an autograph copy of part Of a
Mozart trio, the whole score Of the
trio Cop. 116) in q strange hand, with
autograph additions and alterations.
In addition 2 whole number of letters,
some professional, some domestic, a
lot Of contemporary writings about
him and his work, and a series Of let
tiers from or about his relatives and
friends.
The present age, SO prolific IN wonder
children, can now boast an extremely
juvenile composer. His name IS Max
Derewski, who at the age OF wrote a
waltz. entitle lie Reeve" performed
with much success in England. Two
years ago he wrote a valedlctory song
in honor OF the family cooks husband,
who had been ordered to South Africa.
This informal was gained by 2 jour
nalist IN an interview with the little
composer. He Is thus evidently making
acquaintance betimes with the most
up-toydate customs
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The musical strife over. orchestral
matters goes meFFiIy on in Chicago. y
contemporary says:
Musical people In Chicago are in
something of d quandary at present
over the outcome of the struggle for
preservation which is again going on
in that city in connection with the
Chicago orchestra over which Theodore
Thomas yields the baton. II had been
hoped that when the appeal for sub
scriptons to a fund to erect a home
for the orchestra had gone abroad and
had been seeming successful. that all
worry was over, but now again are
heard ominous utterances that many
OF the subscriptions cannot be realized
one. and that the future Of the Orches-
ira Is as much in doubt as ever. On