The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-31
GOSSIP OF MUSICIANS
AND MUSICAL PEOPLE.

which is being widely used throughout
this country, and this last composition
is of the same merit as much Of his
| former works.
Mr.. Julian Walker, in whom every
one in Savannah is interested, has
been receiving great praise for his
work this season. He is said to be
singing better than ever and besides
| many engagements in and out of New
York for oratorio and concert work,
he has recently been assisting in
"Parsifal' musical lectures, in which
he has received ovations. Mr.. Walker
is said to possess a voice like which
there are but two others known, and
with a continuance of his present
progress he will, without doubt, soon
work his way to the top rank.
Monday night Donizette's Lucia di
Lammer Moor was the the second
time this season sung at the Metro
politan in New York, and judging
from the audience which heard it
and the manner in which it was re-
ceiyed, the Wagner operas are not the
only ones which attract interest in the
present day. AS a matter of genuine
pleasure and enjoyment to the greater
number of those who attend the operas
at the Metropolitan Donizetti Verdi
and Rossini in reality attract more
a fad with the fashionable set. In the
case of 'Parsifal," which starts at
o'clock in the afternoon with an in
PERMISSION of an hour at for supper,
the fashionable New York woman will
not go to the opera until s o'clock.
She does not care to dress early in the
afternoon. Even after arriving many
of the smart set spend more time con-
versing among themselves than they
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the opera they must go. With the
ushering in once more of the Italian
operas, there has appeared much more
genuine interest on the part of this
set than has been displayed at the
Wagner operas, and certainly the gen
eral public has enjoyed them more.
At the performance of Lucia" there
was the largest audience of the sea-
son at the Metropolitan save for the
performances of "Parsifal." The en-
thusiasm was great and the sextette
was repeated to quell the small tumult
which it had created. Nine. Sembrich
was Lucia, with Caruso as Edgardo,
Campanari as Eurico and Gourmet as
Raimondo. The German operas are
very beautiful and wonderful crea-
tions of music, but Donizetti Verdi
and Rossini should not entirely be put
aside for them, and Mr.. Conried has
done wise thing in again bringing
forward the old operas in which Patti,
Scalchi, Campanini, Nilsson and other
of the great singers of the past made
names for themselves which will never
be forgotten.
A recent musical organization in
New York Is the Russian Symphony
Society organized for the purpose of
advancing orchestral music and to af-
ford a liberal education in the writ
ings of the new school of Russian
composers. On Thursday night the
second of the series of concerts ar
ranged for the season was given at
Cooper Union Hall, where a large
sized audience was gathered. Mr..
Modest Altschuler conducted, and it
was very evident that he and his or
chestra were animated with a spirit
of genuine enthusiasm. Between the
conductor and players there apparent
ly exists a thorough sympathy, and
this goes far towards the successful
work of an orchestra. The programme
included Tschaikowsky's first SYM
phony in G Minor, a phantasie, 1.-THE
Cliff" by Rachmaninoff, heard in
America for the first time, and Glin-
ka's "Kamarinskaya, and Mr. Nh
chael Svedrofsky, violinist, played
Wieniawski's Souvenir de Moscow"