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participated in by such clever singers as Miss
Edith Ellsbree, Miss Louise Ainsworth, Miss
Helene Wetmore, Miss Bernadine Parker,
Miss Dorothy Cole and numerous others, was
a most delightful one.
On Music.
Many love music but for music's sake ;
Many because her touches can awake
Thoughts that repose within the breast half dead,
And rise to follow where she loves to lead.
What various feelings come from days gone by !
What tears from far-off sources dim the eye !
Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play,
And melodies swell, pause, and melt away,
Mind how at every touch, at every tone,
A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.
—By Walter Savage Landor.
is at present even more satu-
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rated than New York with what may
be called the Teutonic and the Slavic, as
against the Latin appreciation of music.
Saint-Saens and Colonne, the French musi-
cians, who have been among the visiting con-
ductors to handle the baton at the London
music festival, have made no great success
with Queen's Hall audiences, if various
newspaper accounts may be trusted. It is
not surprising, for Colonne is a man with no
great amount of magnetism to Anglo-Saxon
hearers, though his band performances at
the Paris Exposition last summer were much
applauded by audiences from the French
provinces, from America and from all the
world. Yet even then, the man seemed to
lack positive power.
A J. GOODRICH, who will visit the Con-
' * • vention of the New York State Mu-
sic Teachers' Association, to be held at Glens
Falls, N. Y., June 25th to 27th, will prob-
ably spend the summer with Mrs. Good-
rich in that charming locality. This affords
a rare opportunity for young musicians to
utilize their vacation studying with this pro-
found and scholarly teacher, who is to-day
recognized as one of the most advanced of
living writers on the theory of music. Our
most eminent authorities have pronounced
Goodrich the greatest theorist now liv-
ing, and his works have found their way
into the highest circles of musical art at
home and abroad. Ambitious writers who
desire to perfect themselves in their art will
find an acquaintance with Mr. Goodrich of
tremendous importance to their future suc-
cess.
ETTA EDWARDS, the distin-
M RS. guished
teacher of Boston, closed the
musical season on Wednesday evening with
a pupil's recital which was one of the most
notable affairs of the season. There was an
orchestra of symphony players under the
direction of Emil Mollenhauer which afford-
ed the pupils a splendid opportunity for sing-
ing with orchestra accompaniment. It is
needless to say that the recital, which was
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NEW YORK.
C IR ARTHUR SULLIVAN'S posthu-
^
mous Irish opera, "The Emerald Isle,"
has achieved an unequivocal success in Lon-
don. Of the production the London World
says: "The new opera at the Savoy is, as
everybody knows by now, one of the most
successful that has been seen here of late
years. It is also artistically one of the best.
In spite of the merry mood into which it
charmed everybody, one could not remember
without sadness that these were the last
words of the master who had left his work
to be finished by another. Mr. German has
at once made our regret more poignant and
brought us comfort. He has thought him-
self into Sir Arthur Sullivan's style so skil-
fully that we are reminded of him all through
the evening more than we should have
thought possible; he comforts us because he
shows us that there is one ready to fill his
place worthily. Capt. Basil Hood's libretto
of the 'Emerald Isle' is almost more Gil-
bertian than Gilbert. Of course Ireland is
by nature a quasi-Gilbertian country, and
that, so far, made his task easier. The story
which Capt. Hood tells rests, of course, on a
solid basis of impossibilities. And that is
precisely what we want." Let us hope that
New York will be given an opportunity of
passing judgment on "The Emerald Isle" in
the fall.
' T H E Philadelphia Orchestra, an organi-
zation composed of competent musi-
cians, who have recently completed a suc-
cessful concert season in Philadelphia, with-
out being sustained by a guarantee fund,
have formed a permanent orchestra in that
city. At a recent meeting of friends of the
orchestra for the purpose of considering the
future of the organization plans were
outlined for a body which will be known
as the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
The sum of $20,000 was subscribed toward
a guarantee fund for a term of years, and
weekly concerts on Saturday evenings, pre-
ceded by public rehearsals on Friday after-
noons, was decided upon. Fritz Scheel will
be the conductor, and prominent soloists will
be engaged to assist in the concerts.
A DESPATH from London says that the full
^ s c o r e o f PurcellV'FairyQueen," which had
been missing for 200 years, has been discov-
ered in the library of the Royal Academy of
Music. It was among a pile of manuscripts
bequeathed to the academy by R. J. S. Ste-
vens in 1837. "The Fairy Queen" was re-
garded in Henry Purcell's lifetime as one of
the finest of his works. It was an opera, an
adaptation of "Shakespeare's "Midsummer
Night's Dream," and was composed in 1691.
Johann Strauss's posthumous ballet "Cin-
derella" was recently given at the Royal
Opera House in Berlin and is said to contain
much characteristic and attractive music by
the lamented composer, although none of it
is to be compared in melody and inspiration
to the writings of his earlier days. The
score was completed by Josef Bayer.
At the concert given last Tuesday evening
at Knabe Hall by Mrs. Lulu Eggleston, pi-
anist, she was assisted by Miss Susan S.
Boice and Mrs. Lucie Boice-Wood whose
singing of an extremely interesting program
was heartily and deservedly applauded.
Arthur Nikisch is making a triumphal tour
through France with the Berlin Philharmon-
ic. He has been decorated by the French
Government. He is said to earn in Europe
more than any other conductor received, and
his income from Leipsic and Berlin is more
than $25,000 a year.
In compliance with the request of many
of her pupils, Mrs. Henry Smock Boice will
spend the greater part of the summer in
the city giving lessons as usual at her stu-
dio, 138 Fifth avenue.
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Ernest Mitchell, Mme. Melba's brother,
who is now at the front in South Africa, is to
make his professional debut this summer.
He is a tenor and has studied in Italy and
Germany.
It has been decided not to erect a bust of
Sir Arthur Sullivan in the crypt of St.
Paul's Cathedral. The memorial will take
some other form.
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