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Musical Courier 1900-10-31: Vol 41 Iss 1075, 1900
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1FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
3Professor Halir will next month commence a tour in England and Scotland.
5The libretto which D'Annunzio has written for Puccini will bear the title "Giorgio D'Ascoli."
7The national opera "Halka," by Moniusko, will soon have its 500th performance at Warsaw.
9Don Lorenzo Perosi is going to Palma de Majorca and Barcelona, Spain, to direct there his own oratorios.
11Busseto, the little town where Giuseppe Verdi was born, has celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of its foundation.
13The High School for Music, at Mannheim, established last year with twenty teachers, had 130 pupils in its first season.
15There lately died at Lucerne Gaston Arnold, who is said to have been the first to play all the Beethoven sonatas.
17The new Polish theatre at Lemberg was opened October 4 by a performance of the newly composed opera "Inka" by Wladislaw Zelenski.
19The conservatory at Athens, with twenty teachers, under Director Nasos, had in its last school year 304 (122 male and 182 female) pupils.
21On October 20 Puccini's "Bohème" was given for the first time at the Royal Theatre of Brussels with great success. The author was present.
23An operetta entitled "Beggar and Prince" has been performed with success at the Magyar Theatre at Budapest. The composer is Cornelius Sziklai.
25During the month of September the City Theatre of Leipsic gave twenty operatic performances of sixteen different works. When will New York see sixteen operas in a season?
27In Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam has been celebrated the eightieth birthday of the great Hollandish musician Heinze, Mendelssohn's pupil. Queen Wilhelmina has presented him with the Cross of Knight of the Or- ange-Nassau Order.
29The management of the Scala Theatre, of Milan, Italy, announces the following operas for the coming operatic season: "Tristan and Isolde," Wagner; "Le Maschere," a new opera by Mascagni; "Mephistopheles," Boito; "La Bohème," Puccini; "Queen of Sheba," Goldmark, and "Messalina," De Lara.
31Alberto Gentili has written a one act opera, "Christmas Night," which will be presented for the first time during the coming December at the Royal Theatre of Opera of Monaco. Mr. Gentili is a pupil of Martucci, of Bologna, and at present orchestra director at the Imperial Theatre of Wiesbaden.
33Saint-Saëns' opera "Phryne" was produced for the first time in Germany in Elberfeld. In spite of the charming music and the impersonation of Phryne by Susanne La- valle, the piece fell flat owing to the weakness of the li- bretto.
35A comic opera, "The Elephant," had its first performance September 30. As both the composer and the librettist be- long to Darmstadt, it evoked an outburst of local patriotism, and everything was done to make it a success. But the piece lacks action and comedy, and the music has not a trace of individuality.
37The young Danish composer August Enna has just finished a one act piece, "The Little Match Seller," on a text from Andersen's "Fairy Tales," which is to be given at Bremen. Another work of the same composer, also based on Andersen's tales, "The Princess of the Green Peas," will inaugurate the new theatre at Aarhus, in Jutland.
39The Kingdom of Saxony, in addition to the royal conservatories at Leipzig and Dresden, possesses 21 private schools, with 163 (104 male, 59 female) teachers and 1,990 (839 male and 1,151 female) pupils. The conservatory at Dresden has 116 (75 and 41 teachers) and 1,210 (459 and 751) pupils. The conservatory at Leipzig has 37 teachers and 668 (311 and 357) pupils; of these only 189 are Saxons.
41Cleofonte Campanini is in Madrid, where he will re- main during the whole winter, having been engaged as orchestra director for the coming season at the Royal Theatre of that city. The following operas are announced: "Ugonotti," Meyerbeer; "Bohème" and "Tosca," Puc- cini; "Barbiere di Siviglia," Rossini; "Meistersinger," "Lohengrin," "Walküre," "Rheingold" and "Siegfried," Wagner; "Werther," Massenet.
43Leoncavallo has been commissioned to write a great funeral mass in memory of King Humbert. It will be performed on the anniversary of the monarch's murder. His opera "Zaza" will be produced for the first time at Milan on November 10 or 12. He will then be able to devote himself to completing "Roland," which is already half done. He expects to finish it by the end of next year, when he will go to Berlin and present it to the Emperor.
45A relic of Richard Wagner is for sale. It consists of the bill of fare for a dinner given in 1881 after the conclusion of the first Berlin performance of the "Ring." The dishes comprised "Hors d'oeuvre à la Wagner, Filet de boeuf à la Materna, Faisan roti à la Vogl," &c. On the back are inscribed the names of the guests, Pauline Loewy, H. Vogl, Angelo Neumann, Amalie Friedrich Materna, Therese Vogl, and at the bottom "Oh, Pauline! Your loving Richard Wagner."
47Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" has been revived at Vienna. It had a great success and will soon reach the hundred mark. Since its first performance in 1790 it has been played ninety-five times. The new rotary stage was used for the first time on this occasion. The recitations were accompanied on the piano, as in Mozart's time.
49The stage consists of a disk, about 50 feet in diameter, moving on a metal axis, and contains thirty sections. The scenery for all the acts of a piece is arranged on these sections, and the change of scene takes place in twenty seconds. A single electrician can manage it. It requires, however, a whole hour to fix on the stage and the same time to remove it. The scenery is only 24 feet high, a size which reduces expenses. It will be used for all opera comique performances.
51Sousa at the Metropolitan.
53HE audience that last Sunday night filled the Metropolitan Opera House to the very doors, and was incessantly enthusiastic from the moment the "March King" stepped upon the stage till the last number on the program had been played, was a remarkable tribute to John Philip Sousa and his band. It evidenced the fact that Mr. Sousa's popularity, instead of waning, is always increasing; that his abilities as composer and conductor are more justly appreciated now than ever before. The series of regular Sunday night concerts had been concluded, and this was, as the bills stated, "an extra." An exceptionally good program was presented, and was given with extraordinary spirit. It is doubtful if Sousa's Band ever gave a better concert in New York. This was the program:
55Overture, Carneval Romaine…………………………………………..Berlioz
56Cornet Solo, The Volunteer……………………………………………..Rogers
57Walter B. Rogers.
58Suite, The History of a Pierrot (new)……………………………Marie Costa
59Soprano Solo, Dolce Amour……………………………………………..Pizzi
60Miss Blanche Duffield.
61Grand Scene, The Knights of the Holy Grail, from Parsifal…Wagner
62Waltz, Morgenblätter…………………………………………………….Johann Strauss
63Dervish Song (new)…………………………………………………….Sebek
64March, Hail to the Spirit of Liberty (new)………………………..Sousa
65Violin Solo, Ballade et Polonaise………………………………………Vieuxtemps
66Miss Olga Schmoll.
67Scenes from La Bohème…………………………………………………Puccini
69Marie Costa's new suite, "The History of a Pierrot," and "Dervish Song," by Sebek, proved delightful novelties. Doubtless they will figure frequently on programs in future. As usual, Sousa's latest march, "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty," evoked unbounded enthusiasm and had to be repeated.
71Miss Blanche Duffield never sang more effectively. In the florid and difficult "Dolce Amour," by Pizzi, her pure intonation, correct phrasing and altogether brilliant vocalization won the admiration of the audience, which insistently demanded an encore. Miss Duffield beyond doubt is one of the most promising of the young American singers now before the public.
73Mr. Sousa and his band will take a two months' rest, and then will start on the longest tour they have ever undertaken.
75Buck-Riesberg Recitals.
77Dudley Buck, Jr., and F. W. Riesberg, pianist, will give an invitation recital at Knabe Hall on the afternoon of November 16, Friday. Mr. Buck will follow the plan developed by himself in the forty-one concerts he gave in the West, of making them lecture recitals, giving a short analysis from the popular standpoint of each song he will sing. He does this in most delightful fashion, as the press notices from numerous Western cities show.
79E. Ellsworth Giles, TENOR.
81Returned from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Festivals.
82Management: CHAS. L. YOUNG, Studio Address: 81 Fifth Av., Townsend Bldg. New York.
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