The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23
CURRENT TOPICS
 ARE DISCUSSED AT
 MUSIC STUDY CLUB

At each meeting of the Music Study club some one gives five-minute talk on the current topics of the musical world, and for the benefit of the general public these current comments will be published and offered to The Age-Herald after the cluh meetings
 Miss Sara Mallam presented these notes at the meeting last Thursday:
 There is so much to report on current events, at the present time, that it is hard to know just where to begin. The winter with all its musical attractions is before us, so many concerts of every de- scription, that it is almost impossible tc tell what will be of the most interest to you.
 However, I have taken the orchestras and operas of the leading cities.
 To begin with, the Metropolitan vii open it's season on November 15. Three novelties will be given this year. the frs of which will be Borodine's Prince Igor The other two will be Bizet's "Percheur, de Perles." Two acts of this opera wer, given 20 years ago for a benefit fol Madame Calve but it has never beer given in It's entirety.
 "Goyescas" one-act opera by Enrique Granados, will mark the first time Span ish performance ever given at the Metro. politan, and will be sung in it's origina text, the leading roles being taken b, Lucrezia Bori and Andreas Segurola. The libretto by Fernando Periquet relates ar incident in the life of famed Spanish painter, named Goya.
 Arthur Bodansky, who has studied under Gustav Mahler. has been secured to replace Alfred Hertz, as conductor oi the Wagner operas, and as he thinks il is criminal to make the performances toe long, will probably cut the operas in order to have the performance close as near l, O clock as possible.
 The auction sale of seats for the Bos ton symphony orchestra was 25 per cent greater this year than last.
 The Chicago Grand Opera company wifi have a 10-weeks' season beginning No vember 15 One cycle of the Ring des Nibelunger'' will be given on four sue cessive Sundays. The Ring" has not beer been produced in Chicago for 25 years.
 The twenty fifth year of the Chicago Symphony orchestra had It's opening con cert of the season on October 15 for whicf MT. Stock, the conductor, composed g festival prologue which is planned fol an augmented orchestra and which he has dedicated to the orchestra in the ma ture of a twenty-fifth anniversary gift He wrote this while on the Pacific coast last summer.
 The Philadelphia orchestra. besides it. 25 pairs of concerts, beginning on Octobel l5 and Is, will give the first performance in America of Mahler's Eighth symphony with chorus of 950 and an augmented orchestra of 13O. The 950-voice chorus will be composed of the Philadelphia or chestra chorus of 400 singers and second chorus of 400 voices composed of the Phil adelphia Choral society, the MeDdels sohn club. the Fortnightly club and z boys chorus of 150.
 The soloists for this performance will be Florence Hinkle, Inez Barbour ant Adelaide Fischer, sopranos; Margare Reyes and Susanna Dercum, contraltos Lambert Murphy, tenor; Reinald Werren rath baritone, and Clarence Whitehll bass. This will be one of the most i'm portant musical events in the countr, which has taken place for many years.