Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-02
SHARPS AND FLATS

Notwithstanding his eighty years
Goldmark continues To- compose. lie
spends the greater part Of each year
az Gmundon, where ne is now at worl,
uu new opera, based on MadaCh's
Die Tragodlc dcs Nonschen"
Nine. Nellie Media is TO be heard in
grand opera in New York and Chicago
next season. The news viii delight her
thousands of admirers who. since she
last appeared I'm the Manhattan
opera HOUSE, two seasons ago, have
asked many times why she was not
sought by the Metropolitan Opera COM
paay.
Mr.. Runciman pays his respects to
liuyTeuth and it, rulers. "Nugncr has
been y years dead, and during all
those y years a clique Of half-wittel
humbugs at Baireuth has abored hard
To destroy his reputation and all tho
time his reputation has widened, and
today in England ana Germany and
even France, a Wagner program is the
surcst Of draws TWpnty-seVen years
h. the grave, and still remcmbe rcd q"
II has begun 10 look pretty likely that
some Of the high salaries paid grand
opera singers win be chopped down in
America uetN season Andreas Dlppel
Z
that the pay OF singers has gone be-.
yond reason. II was reported that
palmores would receive $50 600 for his
work here next year. but Mr. DIPPED
said Dalmurcs must be content with a
fraction OF that sum.
In Europe, the Tooth anniversary Of
Schumanu's birthday was celebrated
by many musical organizations In this
country, musicians are silent in the
month Of June Che was born on June
s. lSlO); hence there was no one To
honor his memory In the concert halls
To make amends, both Of our excel
lent educational musical periodicals.
the Etude and the Musician. have de
voted their June numbers TO him and
his music.
The story of Mascagni's new opera
"Ysobel." which is 70 be produced for
the first time I'm any country in Amer
lea next fan by the newly organized
Bessie ABBOTT opera company, Is taken
from the legend OF Lady Godiva, the
oldest known version OF which dates
back 10 the thirteenth century, but
which Is most familiar through Tenny-
sons poem. The action is set In the
town Of Coventry, during the eleventh
century Luigi lllica. the librcttist,
who was also responsible FOR the libret-
Il OF "Tosca'' and several other stand
ara operas. has departed from the or
iginal legend In many Instances.
Leo Slczak was greatly Chagrined be-
cause a cold prevented him from TAX
ING part in the performances In honor
OF Goldm irk at the Imperial opera In
Vienna: partly because he is a great
admrer OF that octogenaran, i1a
partly because he feared that tn
Jiennese nieht consider him carric-
ious. knowing that. during his whola
season In New York, he was not once
prevented by indlsposition from sing
ing when announced II IL amusing ~
md this great tcnor-who. when Ia
came TO New YORK was so afraid Of
our climate that he hardly dared leave
his room-now saying to a Nicnnesc re-
porter: "An artist who has become tn-
accustomed TO the climate OF Vienna Is
bound to pay IL a tribute"
When Goldmark was is years old, his
studies at tho Vienna Conservatory
were interrupted by the closing OF that
Institution, owing TO the outbreak Of
the revolution in 1s4S. He then went
TO Raab (Hans Richter's birthplace),
where he taught himself various or
chestral struments-clarinet, horn,
hassoon. and oboe His life was en-
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