Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-13

o''NE W ttIt DtfltO'1f llSt anu Will AD-
pear In 10 performances.
| Nine. Joanna Gadskl has announced
her intention Of leaving America at the
expiration of her concert tour In the
! spring, not TO return. This deternina-
ton Is said 10 be due to her dsap-
continent at not being engaged for the
I metropolitan Opera House--a difference
( In the ideas OF salary between the sing
er and Director Conrled, being the
! cause.
The joint tour which Loudon q.
Charlton has arranged for Elsa Rueg-
ger. the Belgian 'cellist, and Marie
Nichols, the Boston violinist, win bring
together two young women whose fame
Is widespread, Both. In fact, have won
honors such as seldom come to the
woman instrumentalist. their European
regulations being quite as great, II not
greater, than their fame IN this
country. For several weeks Miss Mich
OILS has been on tour. and her work has
been warmly praised.
Madame Maconda tells n funny story
about her appearance last year at the
Maine festival. She had been billed as
q "co'oraIura" soprano, and the good
burghe"s Of Bangor were expectant and
slightly puzzled But one old lady
waSed Indignant. and meeting Mr..
Chapm9n. the director, the day before
the festival, opened, she asked him noint
bank DO you mean to say, Mr. Chap
man. that you are going to bring a
eolored singer to perform at these con-
certs?'
In Newark, N. j. they have already
began 10 discuss plans for the trien-
nal music festival OF the Northeastern
Saengerbund. The festival Will be held
the last week In June, 1905 Singing So
cieties within an area Of $50 miles from
New York will participate. The grand
chorus Will number 1000 male voices.
Newark was the city where the festival
was held 10 years ago-1S9l, Since then
this great congress Of singers met in
New YORK 0S9D, Philadelphia UsSO,
Brooklyn $1,000. Baltimore Q9O3)
There was rejoicing umong the dele
gates In the Central Federation union
at the announcement that a union for
opera singers has been organized, and
that one for ballet dancers was I'm con-
temptation, says the New York World.
William Barry. organizer of the Actors
announcement. "None of the big oper-
attic stars vino receive princely salar-
les he said, ARE members of the
union, but those who get small pay for
hard work, | mean the young women
ana men who sing In the chorus in
operas"
Andrew Carnegie Is thought to have
got from Montague, the great French
essayist, whom he admires, the Idea OF
peing awaked every morning by strains
OF splendid pipe organ played in his
New York house. II Is said that in
reading one OF the essays ne came
across the passage where Montaipne
tells how his father would let no one
rudeiy arouse him in childhood, but al
Ways had him called In the morning by
Tue sweet music or harp or a flute.
70 TINS method Of his fathers Mon
,aighe ascribes no small proportion of
his Intellectual keenness.
me new comic opera by Victo~ Her
pert, Mile Modesto" which has baen
favorably received In Boston and Chi
ccago, and more lately In New York. on-
JOYS the advantage of having a llbret-
10 on the same artistic plane as the mu.
S''i i'ti ptit Tells II story OF Max
bruch' one of the most interminable
ana dull OF modern composers. Bruch
showed the bulky manuscript of 40
relief to Hans Richter and awaited .Not
Worthy's opinion. lingering II long
and carefully, Richter at last lifted up
MS beard and slightly tapping the Mss.
ne queried with loving interest: MAX.
where do you get this excellent manu-
script paper?" Max Bruch faded away.
There Is striking difference between
the Italians In New York and those I'm
Italy From Bologna, for instance.
comes the announcement that the two
great operate successes of the season
are Wagner's "Siegfried" and Humper-
dincks "Haensel und Gretel." In Rome.
for some years, Wagner has been the
fashion, and Milan has produced most
OF his operas with great success. But
in New York. who ever sees an Italian
at the Metropolitan at s'Wagner opera
or at "Haensel and Gretel?" The ltal-
ians OF New York go only when Caru-
so sings; they are intense ohauvin,sts.
and chauvinism Is not exactly n mark
or superior culture. However, II is
never too late to mend. Now that Ca
russo Is going to sing French role, our
Italian citizens will go to Paris for
his sake, and by and bv who knows?
they may go to Bayreuth," even with
out Caruso. Possibly he may learn to
sing Lohengrin. Why not? Campanini
did II. Ns Caruso so inferior to Cam
panini that he cannot sing either Lo-
hengrin or Manrico In III Trovatore?'