Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-18

Pantaguel" lie must. however finish
the third part Of "The Apostles" which
Is quite another thing, for one OF the
autumn choral festivals in England
The well known opera, TPaglaccl,
has been put ON the London stage IN
dramatic form, Charles Warner APP
pearing as the mountebank Tonic and
Mrs. James Brown Potter being tho
faithlces wife Media. The play had It's
first American presentation In Brook
Ign last week.
William Withers, en- aged musician, Ia
dying at hie home In Mount Vernon,
n, " Of pneumonia. He was the lead
er OF the orchestra at Ford's theater I'm
Washington on the night that Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated and In
endeavoring TO stop the escape of thy
murderer iwas stabbed in the shoulder.
Many Of Wagner's letters have never
been printed in book form, but ara
scattered In musical periodicals and
daily papers. Breitkopf "a Hartel have
now issued volume by DR. Altman
which not only classines all the known
letters according to date Qncludlng
some still IN Ms), but gives brief In
dicatlons Of their contents.
A well known lawyer was induced the
other day 20 attend one OF the New
York orchestral afternoon concerts that
are usually monopolized by ladies'. on
being informed that one Of the move
ments of the TChakovsky symphony
on the program had i've beats to the
bar he retorted That's queerl Usu-
ally I'm New York, there are five bars
to a beat"
Reginald De Koven and Frederick
Ranlen have formed q partnership
which In the coming five years, expects
to furnish many complete musical
plays. For years Mr., De Koven has
elaborated with Harry r. Smith In
the construction OF musical productions.
A new musical play for De Wolf Hop
per, to be presented early next season.
as well as a musical fairy spectacle,
to be produced by William A, Brady,
are two Of the first offerings of the new
partners.
"Lohengrn" had It's first performance
at the Grand Opera I'm Paris I'm 1891.
Others OF .Wagners opera followed n
few years later In the last fourteen
years five OF his operas have had
over ZOO performances, or just one
week the year through. The average
receipts on Wagner nights being about
$4,000 this means that IN these IA years
the Porislans have spent $9,S00000 to
hear Wagner's operas; and inasmuch
as Cosma Wagner gets 10 per cent, her
income, from Paris alone, has been
S2sO,O0O, or $4,000 a year.
Cincinnati will be the first American
city TO hear Mahers new (lfth) SYM
phony; Mr. Van der Stuclen VIII con-
duct it on March 2i-25, IL had It's first
performance not long ago In Cologne,
and was requested two weeks ago I'm
Berlin. II lasts an hour and 20 minutes,
or Just twice as long as amy orchestral
work should last. The performance,
under Niklsch, must have been n mar
vel, yet there were Kisses mingled with
the applause. The FIRST movement,
funeral march. Of melodlous, quasi
italian character seems 20 have met
with more approval than the others I'm
which, apparently, there IS much more
technical skill and ingenuity than In
ventiun. The last OF the movements
contains "reminiscences OF the proceed
Ing ones and eliminates I'm what ono
critic calls n truly Internal din"
Coerdge Taylor. the English COM
poser, who has negro blood In him. has
been spending the winter I'm America.
for the most part IN Washington and
the south. Of course, he has been
asked his opinion OF the coon songs"
that pass for negro melodies, and ne
gave Il frankly: THE worst sort of rot
In the first place. there " no melody,
and I'm the second place there Is no real
negro character or sentiment I'm these
coon songs, However, ! VIII not OBJ
iect TO the term coon songs they may
be that: but they are not the negro
melodies Few negro melodies have
ever been heard In this country or IN
England, for that matter. or all the