The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15
MUSICAL NOTES.

closing May 81 in Cleveland.
MUSICAL NOTES.
Isabel Irving is to appear in London
next April under the management or
Charles Hawtrey. He will send over
the entire production of THE Crisis"
with a company of American actors.
Nine. Lillian Nordica is at Ossining.
N. Y. getting ready, vocally and
physically for a hard winters work.
She will sing Kundry in "ParsifaI' for
the first time THANKSGIVING night, ana
is said to look upon the task as one
of the most important in her career.
letter from Buda Pest has been
received by Charles B. Dillingham; in
viting 1.-THE Little Princess" to be the
guest of a Hungarian nobleman's fam
ilv at Lanfalu on the Danube. While
on a visit eighteen months ago to
friends in Washington, the eldest
daughter of the family. who was re-
ceiving an English 5rss edg ift1e Prn saw
which Mr.. Dillingham; was presenting,
and the play made a deep impression
upon her.
is being doomed as possessing the
widest ranged voice in the world, ana
who is to make concert tour OF TINS
country commencing on october "a IN
sisting of the following singers and
observation-disclosures: Elaine De Sellem,
contralto; George w. Jenkins, tenor;
Anton Hegner, 'cellist; Maurice Kaun-
mann, violinist; and M. Payans' nutlsl.
Yvette Guilbert will appear in New
York in October, 1905, in a musical
comedy. She will play in English
which, it is said, she speaks with
slight accent
Mime. Johanna Gadski will open her
concert tour in America lea with a re re
noon, November 10. Her success IN
the Mozart and Wagner festivals at
Munich this summer resulted IN mex
re-enga cement by Director Won F Hoi31
again sing the Countess in The Mar
riage of Figaro" Senta, and for the
first time Isolde.
Prof. H. w. Parker, head of Yale's
musical department, is writing incl
dental music for THE Eternal Fe1nl-
nine" the play in which Margaret
Anglin will star this season. All honor
70 the managers, Messrs. Liebler &
Co.. who had the artistic perception
to secure a good composer for this
task.
At last there is a London conductor
courageous enough to limit the length
of concerts to one hour ana three-
quarters. He is Henry j. Wood. ano
the concerts are to be those OF tne
Queens hall orchestra. One obstacle
to shortening London programs 70
sane proportions has. been the hlgn
prices for tickets. Hearers VINO pay
ten shiIlings and sixpence for seat
hours of music, as only their money
worth. Prices in New~4 ork are moi :
sensible, varying from so cents to 5 5o
for most concerts, though at. Re"
Mr.. Woods list of novelties for the
Queens hall series includes Hugo
VOLTS symphonic poem "Penthesl!ea'
Strauss Symphonic Domestca,
"Hexeniied," and Joseph Holbrook' s
symphonic poem "Ulalume," based on
Edgar Allan Poe's poem of that name.
LISTS Faust symphony, Whlch mas
not been heard in London for some
time, will be given, also one or Lalo
two ''Namouna" suites.
Young Italy continues its operate
conquest of foreign lands. Not only
does Mr.. Conried announce Puccints
sManon Lescaut" for the coming sea-
son. as well as his ''Tosca" and La
Boheme," but these are to be the
backbone of the experimental autumn n
season at Covent Garden, London, to
begin October II with the composer
present and Caruso as star: The san
Carlo troupe from Naples VIII also give
there, as novelties, AOTlenne LeCOuN-
rer," by Francesca. CiIea, an opera
produced at Milan in 1902. and ''An-
drea Chenier,'' by Umberto Giordano,
given in Naples in 1895, and in New
York in the same year.
Rudolph Friml, the young Bohe-
milan pianist, who came here first
with Kubeiik, is to have a concert
tour on his own account this season
under the management of Charles F.
Tretbar.