Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-15
completing the studies she made under
Felix Muttl

completing the studies she made under
Felix Motif.
Henry w, Savage can point with
pride to his success In developing ma
tive voices for prima donna positions
in his English grand opera company
This organization now affords the only
opportunity for ambitious young sing
ers to appear in grand opera I'm Ameri-
ca without first learning the roles I'm "a
foreign tongue Accordingly, each year
he receives applications from hundreds
of candidates, Thus he is able To select
the very best talent the country affords,
Is the supply Of good players Of wood
wind Instruments unequal 10 the de-
mand? Complaints are not unfrcqueut.
~ heard I'm this country on this score.
and Berlin seems TO be I'm the same pre-
dicament. In commenting ON a recent
Philharmonic concert under NikisCh IN
Berlin, Dr. Leopold Schmidt Of the
Tageblatt said that the wood-wind In.
struments sounded SO hard and so much
Out-of-tune, that no one could have
failed to notice it, What's the mat
ter?
L,ondon's opera season IL 10 begin on
May T. There are to be three novelties,
Puccini's Madame Butterfly" Gior-
dano's andrea Chenier" and Leonis
THE Cat and the Cherub," The list Of
singers is by no means as remarkable
az Mr. Conrieds, II includes Caruso,
Scott, Miss Destnn Miss Kurz, Maui
rel, Gilbert, Bravi. Miss Bosettl. Nine
Melba, suzanne Adams. Mime. Knupfer
Egli, Agnes Nichols, Miss Parklna,
Nine. Reinl, Bella Alien, Nine. SobrIno,
Nine. Witch, Mime, Kirkby Lunn, Ed
ma Thornton, Burrian, Herod, Relss
Krauss, Goritz, Van Rooy, Journet, and
Sooner.
Here Is n hard nut for those to crack
who say that LISTS music Ia nothing
hut dazzling technique, Seventy years
ago Thalberg's compositions for plano
We're as much In vogue as LISTS. He
made up whole programs Of them and
they became Immensely popularity. But
they were nothing more than dazzling
| technique, and have for that reason
become entirely obsolete IL Lisat' 3
compositions had been like them, they
would have shared the same fate IN
stead of which they are becoming more
and more popular, II Is this gradual,
hardened popularity that proves genius
and gives Immortality List is shar-
ing the fate Of Bach, chopin and Wag-
ner with whom he has 80 much in
common
The London Times Of March Is do
votes three columns 10 an account OF
the celebration Of the hundredth birth
day OF Manuel Garcia, the famous sing
ing teacher and inventor OF the laryn-
goscope, No fewer than 10 laryngolog-
teal societies from an parts OF the world
We're represented among those present
at the festivities. Dr. Botela, OF Mad
rid, as the official delegate Of the Span
lsh government and Of the Spanish
Layngologlcal society, said, among
other things, that before the discovery
OF the laryngosCope the sense OF touch
was the only meaus Of knowing Of tho
existence Of numerous gOwths IN the
larynX. The invention Of the laryngos-
cope had opened immense horizons to
science, had put within It's range many
diseases the existence Of which could
never have been suspected had made
possible their treatment, and had saved
from suffering and death numberloss
lives.