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He promises as novelties Giordano's "An-
drea Chenier" and Leoncavallo's " Bo-
heme," in addition to Gluck's "Armida,"
Spontini's " La Vestale," Donizetti's " Bel-
isario " and other operas of the old school.
In the way of finances he estimates his ex-
penses for six months at $213,500, and his
receipts at $340,000, leaving a nice little
profit of $126,500. And London papers
are mean enough to be incredulous.
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JV/I ARK TWAIN'S youngest daughter is
' " * now in Vienna under the care of a
famous teacher. She has developed a fine
voice, and it is said that she is ambitious
to go upon the operatic stage.
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J- LANG is to give a series of five
*-*'
concerts in Boston next season.
The proceeds of the concerts will be used
for the purchase of orchestral scores for
the Ruth Burrage Library, to be used for
home study by young musicians and stu
dents. At each concert at least one con-
certo will be played upon a Paris copy of
an old Erard harpsichord.
tenor, Sims Reeves, is to
T HE have veteran
a testimonial benefit in London.
T T is said that Maurice Grau has engaged
* Sembrich for his next operatic season.
Eames and Calve will also be members of
Mr. Grau's forces, together with the De
Reszkes, Plancon, Bispham, and other
lesser lights. The season will open at the
Metropolitan Opera House about the mid-
dle of December.
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|\yi R. and Mrs. Emil Paur will pass the
' * * summer months up in the moun-
tains of New Hampshire.
The poetic
Sunset Hill is their post office address.
*
R. and Mrs. Richard Blackmore, Jr.,
will be in New York city the begin-
ning of October to fill engagements. Dur-
ing the interim they will enjoy the sum-
mer at Waverly, N. Y.
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ME. GIULIA VALDA, vice-president
and secretary of the Lamperti
vSchool of Music, read a valuable and in-
teresting paper on " T h e Kingdom of
Tone " at the M. T. N. A. Convention. It
was expected that Mme. Lamperti, widow
of the great Italian master, who for more
than a quarter of a century was president
of the Milan Conservatory of Music, would
have been present, but it is announced,
however, that her return from Europe will
be delayed until the early fall.
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T would seen from all reports that there
will be no dearth of violinists in this
country this fall. There are still some
remote European countries to be heard
from.
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1T is said that Josef Hoffman has taken
* back to Europe with him as the result
of his American tour, $30,000 in good
yellow Yankee gold. It would seem as if
Josef could indulge in his little idiosyn-
crasies without another tournee in the
near future.
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Liszt, Weissheimer
tells an amusing an-
ecdote. One evening, after
the two had imbibed a
bottle or two of Rhine
wine at a tavern, they
started to go home. It
was late at night, but
they had so much to say
to each other that for full
three hours they kept on
escorting each other home.
Of Bulow's memory we
are also told some as-
tounding things. He not
only conducted w h o l e
symphonies by heart, but
remembered all the letters
placed in the score for re-
hearsing purposes. Thus
one day, when he was
rehearsing Liszt's Faust
symphony without a score
before him, he called to
the hornist to sharply ac-
centuate the notes at E
flat.
ALRERT GERARD-THIERS.
f ^ H A R L E S FROHMAN has tendered
^-^ his resignation as a trustee of the
Actors' Fund. Harry Mann received it
from London, and immediately forward-
ed it to Louis Aldrich, President of the
Fund. The action is due, it is said, to
the fact that Harrison Grey Fiske was
recently re-elected a trustee. As editor
of the Dramatic Mirror, Mr. Fiske has
waged a fierce war upon the theatrical
syndicate.
7WI ADAME GIULIA VALDA, of New
***• York, in speaking of " T h e Lam-
perti Method," said: " T h e idea of this
singing-method was not so much Fran-
cesco Lamperti's, as it was God's. Bend-
ing his ear the closest to nature's mode,
to the tone-bloom from the throats of the
birds, Lamperti learned his secret for
successful song."
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HE organization of Lieutenant God-
frey, known as the British Guards
Band, will follow the Banda Rossa, at the
Lenox Lyceum. The band gets its title
from being composed of some fifty men,
picked from bands of the Royal Horse
Guards, the First and Second Life Guards,
the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards,
and the Grenadier Guards. The band will
arrive here on Saturday, and will open its
engagement on Sunday, July 3.
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T H E life of Schumann is to be written
•
for the first time in detail. Until the
death recently of Mme. Schumann it was
impossible to publish many of the parti-
culars connected with the composer's sad
end; but these and other fresh matters
obtained from Mme. Schumann will now
be made public. Prof. Niecks has already
shown his fitness for this work by an
elaborate life of Chopin, which is, however,
extremely unreliable in its critical por-
tions, owing to the difficulty the Teutonic
mind has in grasping the essence of Slavic
genius.
In the Schumann biography
Niecks will not be hampered by this diffi-
culty.
T H E prize offered by the German Em-
*• peror to the best of the amateur
singing societies will be awarded by the
Kaiser himself, who has decided that the
competition should be held in the summer
of 1899 at Cassel.
The festivities will
continue for two days, and will be held in
the early part of June. Only societies of
100 singers will be allowed to compete.
The societies will be asked to sing a work
com posed for the pvirpose, that will be
submitted to them six weeks before the
contest, and another simpler song is to be
given to the society an hour before it is
to be sung by them, and a third they can
select for themselves, so long as it is un-
accompanied, contains no solos, and does
not continue for more than twenty min-
utes. No society will be allowed to select
a song with which it has previously won a
prize. The prize given by the Emperor is
a medal, which is to be worn on all festi-
val occasions by the head of the society.
It will take three victories to make the
possession of the emblem permanent.