The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03


Your majesty has certainly not forgot
ten your promiss. for rulers never for
get; but permit me TO remind you that
7 am getting old ana that a my age
TO time is 10 be lost" An equal dis
regard of the fear which is supposed 10
hedge royalty Was shown by List.
who had been asked 10 play before
Emperor Nicholas ! When List was
Playing the ear began q conversation
with his adjutaHt- List stopped play
ing, and when the car inquired the
reason. the intrepid musician an
Swored. When the emperor speaks all
others must he silent" The ear took
the hint good naturedly and kept stIlI
during the rest os The artists perform
ance.
That Thibaud the French Violinist.
has won tbs hearts of the New York
music lovers goes without saying He
has also captured the musical folks o.
Boston aud Philadelphia Las. Friday
ana Saturday ne was the soloist with
the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra.
directed by Fritz Scheel. ana he was
listened to by audiences that net only
occupied every seat n the Academy Of
Music there, but filed every inch OF
standing room and 0gerfioWed into the
lobby. On Sunday evening last ne was
the Metropolitan opera house Sunday
night concerts, and certainly its star.
he was what Fritz Schsff would call
the The" Of the concert The charm
Of his playing won him the complete
admiration of a large audience. He
first played the Mendelssohn Concerto.
which heightened into four numbers
before his delighted listeners would let
him 60, and on his second appearance
him up ali night White he was gen
erousiy obliging in responding TO the
general hunger FOR more" he seemed
to play in almost utter forgetfulness of
his audience. To all appearances he
was lost in his music which was almost
entirely of the soulful dreamy class
yet he was refreshingly free from man.
neFisms. standing most of the time as
erect as q soldier and handling his bow
with no fiOuTishes whatsoever. Tall
and slender, he walked on and off the
stage with the light, dainty grace Of 4
woman, swinging his bow as a dandy
does his stick. There is no doubt but
Thibaud has arrived 50 far as New
York is concerned. A new Violin king
has come.
The National Conservatory of Music.
founded by Mrs Jeanette NJ. ThuTber
States government in 1891. has received
three new scholarships to be awarded
at the nineteenth semi -snnUaI entrance
examinations. which will be held d ( 12S
East Seventeenth street. New York, to-
morrow. One of them is for voice, one
for the piano and the third for the viO-
lin They will be given to students who
have no means. but whose talent prom
Uses distinction as artists. One of the
~ h.
public-Liliian BlauVelt-was d holder
of one of these scholarships
Puecini has delivered the. second act
of his Madame Butterfly. fully
scored. to his publisher in Milan, and
it is expected that the first performance
of the opera will be given at Milan
early in the spring.
Those Salt Lakers who heard the
scholarly lecture of Mrs. Rhodes last
season-sgiH read with interest the fol-
lowing from an eastern writer in re-
gard ts her work in expounding the
themes of Wagner's operas.
All New York is agog over the dar-
ing OF Mr.. Conried III taking Par
STAR out Of the home designed for it
by its composer and presenting IL on
the stage of the Metropolitan opera
house. Numerous handbOOks have
been written for the enlightenment Of
a public which is 20 attend and wit
ness the performance. but none Of these
viii be more interesting or written in
more reveTent spirit than that
which / have Just received from the
author, Mrs. Helen Rhodes. whose
Wagner lectures have interested so
MANY here in the past. In her bro
chure Mrs. Rhodes first makes cIeaF
the legend of the Holy Grail and how
it obtained its symh0licai significance.
referring 10 the scriptuFal source OF
that which. through the ChristianizinE
of Britain and through its weaving in
10 ArthUrian romance. has been passed
down by Mape CTetign and Won Esch-
enbach I'm the beautiful. poetic fable OF
which Wagner finally reared his great
aHegoFy Of the C5uileless Fool. The
plan Of Wagneris musical drama is
fully exploited. and in manper that
viii make the story clear to every
reader,
There II some possibility of securing
she appearance of young Edwin Grasse. /
the blind Yioiinist who has so taken
New York by storm, in this city. Mu-
sicisns in the east are going into ran=
lures over The wonderful power Of the
young man. whe has mastered the very
best and most difficult in violin music
without the seemingly Necessary sense
o. sight. OF his first appearance a
New York critic says
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