Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-29


opera company giving their final per-
formance last night in Los Angeles,
and with Nordica, Scott, Alien ana
Reiss due in town tomorrow, the opera
tour OF 1905 is ending. The first arrivals
win have wild western stories to tell
ON Broadway before this week is out
The news dispatches have shown that
the farther they went the greater was
the desire to hear them In San Fran
cisco the box Office measured the Pre-"
yailng musical taste in six figures
Except Nordlca, who will remain here
for the present and Games, who Is 10
sail about the middle of May, the inter-
national opera singers Will all be quit
ting America within a fortnight Reiss
and Alien are booked for the Lucanla
on saturday. De MacChl, Rossi ana
Conductor Nigna have their passage Tor
Italy engaged Oh the Lombarda, sailing
ON "Wednesday next. The Deutschlant
on Thursday, April o. Will take SEM
brch, Scott ana Caruso'
The cumulative prosperity OF giahi
opera, when westward the stars OF
,lnpire took their way Is not gong
to give Heinrich Conried any sleepless
nights for a time, AT least The man
aging director has yet to give out his
exact figures. Indeed, II IS more thah
likely that they viii be known only 10
the stockholders when they cut the
melon" and divide up ut the annual
meeting before the impresario goes
abroad In May.
Official figures thus far are limited TO
the Boston engagement In the public
N,s.,v Ieas
era, II leaked out that the receipts for
The week ~ 20 about $4,000, Theatl-
cal managers, after a bad year. found
dt hard to pity any company that
earned that much money in week.
r I'm time to time, the reports Of the
ives ward progress were telcgraphcd TO
New York. As they appeared I'm print
they showed that Plttsburg ana Cincin-
natl together raised Boston's ante
somewhat and paid $50 900 for practical
~ the same eight performances. chi
Cago reported over $4,000 for a dupli-
cate of the Boston week. Somebody
figured the receipts up to $4,000 for
the fourth week, divided among Minnr-
apolls. omaha and Kansas city, Then
Salt Lake had a sacred concert ana
San Francisco began The last straight
week IN the Pacific metropolis beat even
Chicago by paying $4,000 for six nights
and two matnees, The total for II per-
formanCes there, the papers said, was
$l2OO79.
This last amount It was pointed out,
made a record, Maurice Grau got his
Sl4l sos from san Francisco I'm 1900 for
- presentations Of opera, and SlI9l25 I'm
the following year for a season of 30,
"Parsifal" drew the biggest houses Of
the present tour, playing to $1,000 IN
Chicago and $4,000 I'm san Francisco.
New orleans, which is to hear the work
on Easter Monday. had already SUD-
scribed 5000 week I'm advance, "Glo-
c0nda" played to $4,000 I'm Chicago,
The all-star "IIuguenots" was every
where drawing card. Caruso's last
appearance at Los Angeles was in
Lucia"
Dull an dstale, perhaps. but not UNI
profitable, Is grand opera that blooms
in the spring. with Dallas and Hous-
ton New Orleans, Atlanta, Birmingham
and Nashville yet to hear from, It ro-
IRE the receipts Of the opera tour at
100000 and over.
Esayc is coming next month and the
whole musical Fraternity is agog with
expectancy. Naturally Willard Weihc,
who is an old friend Of the great Vlo-
linist, Is taking most active interest
i'm his visit Since he was here seven
or eight years ago, Nsaye has gone ON
steadily advancing, ana now 1t is not
too much TO say that he has left every
other yiolInist in the world FAR
I'm the rear lie Is now I'm his prime,
having celebrated his forty-nrst birth
day not long since, Those who remcm-
her the dashing violinist Musiu, win
be interested TO know that Nsaye and
Musin as boys, competed IN the Brus-
sells conservatory tor tho head prize,
and that though Nusln was several
years the senior, the Judges were un-
able 10 decide as TO their respective
merits, and the prize was divided be-
tween them The best authorities say
that Paganini NieuNtemps, and Wien
iawski We're the equals Of Ysaye, and
probably the first named was HIS SUI
periOr, but that there Is no one now
living who dare dispute his supremacy.
The new quartet Of the First Congrc-
gational church is ~ follows soprano,
Mrs, Schaufelherg, cOntralto, Miss Ed
Ia Cohn; tenor Fred Graham; basso,
DR. J. w. Davis organist Prof, Thomas
Radclin,
The First Baptist church choir will
repeat selections from the Easter pro-
gram at the next Sunday services.
The Easter musical programs win be
repeated tomorrow, iu st. Marks ca
thedral, with the exception Of the CONF
union service, At the First Presby-
terrain church the Easter music win
also be repeated aud Miss Wolfglng
VIII sing az the morning service, ABIDE
with Me- by Liddcl,
The appearance Of Prof Rubin Cold
mark next month I'm Unity hall win
surely prove a red letter occasion with
the musical community Of this town.
His visit here last May was so deeply
appreciated by local music overs that
his lectures were largely attended not
withstandlng the number OF entertain
ments and attractions elsewhere dur
Ing the evenings he was here, Prof
Goldm8rk lectures ON Che Wagueriau
dramas, giving Illustrations ON tho
piano as ne lectures so that the themes
are the better understood. lie l9 not
only a scholarly musician, but q muse
81 scholar, ana a recognized authority
IN his Speciality
A feature at this weeks meeting Of
the Scottish Rite Musous I'm this city
was the fine music each day, II was
furnished by vocal quartet composed
OF Mrs. Nellie T.. Moore, Miss Agatha
Berkhool Fred c. Graham and Willard
Squires, with Prof. A, II, Peabody Of
ST. Marks cathedral AS org lnist. The
quartet has been permanently organized
md Will be known as the Masonic
quartet
Miss Emma Ramsey has written to
her folks In this city that she has left
Chicago and gone to New York where
she expects TO secure an engagement
Local music houses report business
Increasing and collections fair TO very
good. Many pianos, including grand
pianos, are being sold, and not a few
cabinet organs.