Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-22

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Professor Pickering says he will sig
nal to Mars American composers wish
! him to find out what chances they
would have there. Il. TIA
If ever Congress passes a pure must
cal food law prohibiting authorizations,
as it passed a pure food and drug law,
what will become of the piano tran
scriptions by Bach. the List arrange
| ments of Schubert. the Strauss para
: phrases, and all the adaptations of
operate and orchestral nusic?-Co
Ter.
1t would seem that operate things
are In a. bad way at Naples The San
Carlo Opera House has made a num-
Der of artistic failures this season
which have gone some way to lower its
prestige. There has been, however, a
more serious deficiency in the finances,
and the present manager will hetake
himself into retirement to ponder over
the uncertainties that are ever In the
paths of those who labor in the SER
vice of a caprlcious public.
Schumann-H eink has arrived in New
York after a lengthy stay in Europe,
where she won signal honors and un-
usual distinctions. She sang with
many of the best orchestras, gave In
temnestra at the premiere of Strauss
Electra and was the guest of the
German emperor and empress at their
palace. The great contralto expressed
herself as being delighted at her re-
turn to America, and says she will not
go abroad again until 1911. Schumann-
Heink's hurry to reach these shores
at this time stands in striking con-
trast to the other opera, singers, who
make no secret of the fact that they
can hardly get away from here quick
enough.
Piapists who revere Theodore Les.
chetizky as their deity, and, no less.
those who worship att the slrines of
other gods and goddesses. may find it
worth while 30 ponder these words
from the remarkable old man of vi
emma. This continual playing Of a
piece over and over again is not what
/ call study. When want to learn a
new piece | do not keep the notes in
front OF me on the music rack throw
them ever it back on the top Of the
instrument. so that i have to get up
every time to look at them. After the
image of the passage to be memorized
is we'll in mind / try to reproduce it.
Perhaps it doesn't. so the first time.
Then ] get up and take another look.
This time | make a more strenuous
to stand up once5more. This call in
5telligent study. Learn n passage just
once; afterward only repeat it."
From the forge to the opera house
has been the evolution, not of a man.
but of II woman, strange as it may
sound. The living proof of such a
strange transition is Anna case, the
soprano who was recently engaged for
next season at the Metropolitan Opera
House. Miss Case is the daughter of n
mechanic who makes a speciality of
blacksmithing in South Branch. near
Newark, N. ]. At the age of 10 the
girl began sEoeing horses. While at
work she sang snatches of songs, with
the wheeling bellows as accompani
ments of the ringing the hand sledges
on the anvil Friends became con-
WINGED that she had a voice worthy of
cultivation and advanced money for ed
ucatioll. Andreas DIPPED heard her
sing at concert with the above result.
She is now only 20, Her voice is a
high soprano.
The lack of new operas composed for
the lyric sopranos is one of the rear
sons assigned by Nine. Sembrich for her
retirement from the operate stage.
1.-THE taste Of the public has advanced
beyond the repertoire Of Gildas, Lucas
and Traviatos, and an artist cannot
live now on such, she says. The
composers are writing nothing new for
the lyric sopranos. The last new role
/ created was Mimi. in La Boheme,
and Immediately after writing that
only the dramatic roles. When first
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