The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-06
MUSICAL NOTES.

Mr.. Henry ]. Wood in circular just
issued, states that as conductor of the
from 100 to $50 instrumentalists each year
in private and he has been struck with
orchestral players, although most excel
lent performers on their respective 1nStru-
chestra. i 70 ' remedy the state of things
Mr.. Wood is starting an orchestral socle-
necessary training Rehearsals are to be
held evening each week, ana Ia
f dnn are 50 M gWood IS Of that
the day is not far distant when lady vio-
linists and 'cellists will be given engage
ments in our paid orchestras.
Felix Motif. says the Musical Courier gsai.
and so vehemently regarding his ''revis-
ion of the operate scores of Peter Cor
necessary to make a public answer to the
arrangement. Motifs defense will be
printed in the August number of the
Sueddeutsche Monatshefte, and the mu-
steal world is awaiting his say on the
subject with much more than ordinary in
tereSt.
Babes in Toyland" will be produced in
Vienna early in the autumn at one of the
leading theaters in the Austrian capital.
Glen Mac Donough in collaboration with a
weN known German playwright, and Vic
@th soRe new M
reputation as a composer is international
already been heard in Vienna
The Bureau of Music at the worlds fair
has issued a statement calling on the
band contest which was to be held at the
exposition September lily. The reason as
signed is that the expectations of the
bureau have not been realized and that
the number of bands signifying their de-
sire to compete is so small that II mas
been deemed advisable to dismiss the con-
test entirely.
Schumann-Heink must have been proud
of her welcome at Ocean Grove, where she
appeared in concert on Saturday, July %.
The audience contained fully 5000 people.
who applauded the great contraltos sing
SO appeared as chief soloist at the Saen-
gerfest which was held in Milwaukee dur
ing the week just passed, her success be-
ing of the customary magnitude.
According to dispatches the opening per
Torrance of 'TannhauSer" at the Bey-
reuth festival on Friday of last week was
remarkable for its excellence. The great
brilliant festival ever held at the famous
Festspielhaus seems certain. With Bay
formances of the Wagner music-dramas,
''the music of the future" has evidently
arrived for certain
Masca gni's new opera, AMIGA will be
s stan q MancinelI has also just com
pleted his opera: Francesca Paolq'
which will be given its premier at La
Scala. in Milan. next season.
A Paris judge has decided IN 1avor OF
the three young men who created a dis
turbance at a Chatelet concert by hiss
ing when any artist played a concerto.
1t was explained that the demonstration
was not directed against the artist or his
performance, but was a protest against
the inclusion of a concerto, which the
disturbers considered a false form of art
in a Chatelet programme. 1t is singular
decision. The young men knew what the
programme contained, and, viewed from
this side of the water, it would seem as
if ali the rights which law and equity al
lowed them were summed up in the priv
ilege to stay away from the concert. If
the judge was right, they should now
proceed in their campaign of artistic re-
form by putting stop to all concerts
which fail to meet the standard of their
censorship. or organizing to kill the en-
joyment of all persons whose tastes diff
fer from theirs. Then, they might go a
step further and make a business of be-
slowing their approval for a considera-
ton A new industry would thus be OPEN
ed to blackmailers. who could levy -tri-
butte unless satisfied with the color of an
artists eyes the cut of his clothes. the
length of his hair, the make of his in
strument the taste of his printer and a
hundred things more