Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-20
SHARPS and FLATS.

Munich is to have another Mozart
Wagner festival next summer. Mo-
2arts operas viii be sung from Aug. .
to u, and Wagner's from Aug. 13 to
Sept. Is.
Henry w, Savage has sold the rights
for South Africa for the operas Prince
Of Pilsen' and King Dodo' to James
Nelson, o manager of johannesburg,
who recently arrived IN New York ana
viii probably engage American sing
ers.
George EdWardeS has called the new
owen Hall-lvan Caryll musical comedy
THE Pet of the Public" following the
suggestion conveyed In the title. THE
Catch OF the Selson.' The Prince of
Wales Theater, London, saw It's first
performance last week.
Caruso like many others. has been
struck by the fact that there are no
American operate tenors. The phe-
nOmenon Is the more noticeable In view
of the remarkably large number Of
American women who have succeeded
In rising to Metropolitan eminence.
Mabel Mckinley has recently COM
nleted an Indian interme2zo march and
two-stcp called Feather Queen" which
has been accepted as the ballroom
dance by the International Dancing
Masters association. Miss Mckinley
Is a f;lyorite in vaudeville.
After practising his part In Strauss
new opera "Salome." for three months,
one OF the leading volinists In the
Dresden orchestra said that he could
not whistle single phrase Of It from
memory. So II Is his orche-traI play
ers. as well as his audiences that
Strauss sometimes bewlders,
Nine Nordica's h unnhilde Is a note
worthy achievements The New York
Evening Post said OF her performance
last week; "OnCe more she made one
feel patriotic pride in the fact that an
American woman should now be indis-
putahly the greatest impersonator of
Wagner's grandest character"
Richard Strauss opera "salome." on
Oscar Wilde's play Of that name, has
made a sensational success IN Dresden,
where II was produced with great
cast, "a fine chorus and an orchestra
OF ITO. "Salome' Is the greatest of
Wilde's poetic works. which are the
literary fad OF Germany at this time.
New York heard a rare thing a few
days since at a Philharmonic concert
new concerto for violoncelo that re-
spects the limitations Of the instrument,
Is content to make II sing, and does not
try TO turn II agile. Unfortunately
there was little In 1t for the cello to
giun Inngnps "a Rplniap Nyrata 10 and
Gerardy played IT.
Burgstaller the German tenor, who
was heard In New York last week, APP
peared as Tristan In Wagners opera
for the first time on any stage at the
Metropolitan opera house. The review
ers generally praise him for the power
Of his singing IN the first and the third
acts and the lyric uuality of II I'm the
second. There were even moments Of
dlgniiied Illusion In his acting,
II confess frankly that love those
musicians more who move me than
those who astonlsh me-" These words,
written by the eminent French COM
poser Couperin, nearly two centuries
ago, one cannot help recalling, IN face
OF the orchestral antics INDUCED IN by
| Strauss. He astonishes everybody;
but has he ever moved anybody II Is
the function of the circus to astonish:
| of music to move.
sidney Homer, the composer, is work.
| ing out worthy conceptions of art, and
his published songs include settings OF
verse by Browning, Tennyson, Thomas
| Hood. Longfelow, and Robert Louis
Stevenson. Lawrence Gilman, writing
| Of him In The Musician" says that
The is making u distinctive place for