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NOTES or MUSIC IN EUROPE.
GERALDINE FARRAR MOST POPU-
LAR or AMERICAN SINGERS.

Infant pheaomsna AbPoad-ce1P
duotors Vito are NOW Actiye-Some
Long LIVED TeaCherS-Ternfna NJ
Thomas SaHsnaO, who used to ohirp
Atmapis0 end The o~elorature parts at the
Metropolitan, is now a more serious tenor.
Ha has lust sung the role Of q blun old fisher
man at the Opera Comique In Widor's THE
Fishers Of St. J~acauss.' N. Selignao, who
used 10 wear only silk tights or satin breaches
ovar here, disRuises himself With q beard
and q very aertous looking fsher's costume.
He was q SUCCESS. and % was the. opera,
which was not the only new work rsoentiy
performed thsre. Henri Cain wrote the
tett OF thip opera.
It was 'The Death Of Tintaeillea' that
furnished the inspiration for the second
opera based on O Mnsterlinok play. The
leading role was sung by GeorBette Leblanc,
wife OF tho poet. 1t was not q very striking
success.
Operas frotn plays become more popular
every Soason, and now only a short time
t~ntervanes. hatWeen their dramatic and
oparatio introduction. IL was only o year
ago that DAnnunzi0ls "The Daughter OF
Jorio" was acted for the frat time. Baron
Franuheth. has. already. set the story, to
music, and the opera was sung the other
night In Milan. 1t met with an enthusiastic
rec~eption-as all operas do at La Scala
Whsh they are heard there for the first time.
The popularity Of D~'AnnunEio's play 10
o~ufiofent to insure II o certain vogue. OF the
contemporary composers In Italy PuccinA
10 overwhelmingly the most popular.
Viyien Charities, who is one Of the most
popular OF the infant phenomena now
appearing In Europe, 10 the daughter OF
Anita viyanti Charities, the novelist and
writer. Miss Charities, who IL only Q, 10
said to plRy the violin very remarka bly,.
Infant arttsts are still mitch more popular
hore than In Europe. The faoile little
Won Veoeey boy has just appeared again IN
Berlin after q year Of absence. and aroused
and technioue. In all musical raspecse
bis development Is said to pc arrested.
Mischa Elnan, his Russian rival, ID thought
10 grow more mature every year.
Geraldine Farrar, who 10 coming TO sing
at the Metropolitan Opera House next
winter, has recently been at Monte Carlo,
and then went to Paris to take part In the
new opera by Caprul. She was this year 90
successful % on her previous vista to Monte
Carlo, which Ia the only place in Europe
TO be compared with the Metropolitan 90
far as the number Of stars engaged 10 con-
cernod. No other American singer in
recent years has made such a SUCCESS
abroad as Miss Farrar, who seems to a n
in the GLASS with Clara Louise Kellogg,
Annie Cary and Emma Eames. 1t Is re-
markahle that Miss Farrar should he es-
pecially noted for her acting, which has
never before beer the strong point OF her
compatriots. Miss Farror''s contract With
the ROYAL Opera House IN Berlin Gomez
receive q life pension for her Ave years
Aino Ackte Is just now the singer who
Ia receiving the greatest. praise IN Ger
many. She has appeared in all the eadins
II rarely happens that. German audiences
Weloome singers Of other n~atiofalitaes in
the Wagner operas, but Nine. Aokt1 has
been especially praised for her peTfor-
manoes as Elea and Eiisa5eth. In Ham
fore audiences that filled the opera house,
IL was declared that 1t remained for a Finn
TO reveal the poetic beauties Of these ole
from the Wagner repertoire. Nine. Ackte
is going back 70 Paris ip tie spring, ,..n
received with great enthusiasm since her
return to Germany and her song recitals
In Berlin and Hamburg were heard by large
audiences. Some Of the opinions held that
she had become American in her way OF
HlDRluh. ~ IhBht
become German In her way Of singing.
Wasfh saionon has just resigned his
place In the Imperial Conservatory OF
Music at Warsaw and never expects 10
return there. His successor 10 Sergei
Raohmaninoff, who Is also to come here
next winter. II any committee OF women
offers him S25. 900 q season to conduct or
chestra concerts in New York it will be
necessary to select another conductor for
Moscow.
For the frat time in almost twenty-fiv
years Luigi Mancinelli is not to be one OF
the conductors at Covent Garden this
summer. His place as first conductor will
be taken by Cleofonte Campanini, who Is
coming here TO be with Oscar Hammeretein.
SiRnor Mancineli has nearly completed his
opera based on the story of Francesca da
Rimini. II used to be said that Emma
Games was TO create the leading role:
Arthur Nikisch has just resigned bis
post as conductor OF the Municipal Opera
operatic conducting, with his work with
the symphony concerts in Berlin
Leipsic, was too much. He also travels Tor
a while every season as a star conductor.
Richard Strauss, who ia anxious to re-
]oonduotins some Of his compositions in
the German cities. He is more successful
as a composer than Felix .Weingartner,
who to devote himself entirely to
composition and writing in the future.
Vienna has just refused definitely. 10 pro:
duoe Strauss's "Salome' at its Imperial
Opera House. Berlin came TO- this view
some time ago. The opera will soon be
sune In Cologne. The opera house there lie
not q royal institution and the ~prejudioes
OF monarchs are not 30 important in deter
mining its repertoire.
Mathiide Marohesi has just celebrated
bar eightieth birthday. Music teachers
seem to last well. Manuel Garcia. who
was loi the other day, recently went to a
concert. Joseph Joachim, who Is now
rs, has been before the public for sixty
eight years. Both Mime. Marchesi and
Joachim are still active In their work.
Mrs. Morris Black. the Cleveland con-
tralto, who used To be we'll known In New
York, 10 now singing In Europe IA Nine.
| Cahjer. She has been most successful
In Getmany. One OF the recent engage
ments at tie Loipsio Opera Rouse is Mrs;
Jennie Hannah OF Chicago. She Is a.pupil
| OF Roea Sucher, who went down from Berlin
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