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ELGAR'S ORATORIO "THE APOSTLES."
7VYUSIO T R H D E
PRAISE FOR MRS. PARKER'S PUPILS.
L EDWARD ELGAR, the English com- POURING the recent visit of a noted con-
poser, whose cantata "The Dream of •*-"^ cert company to Gainesville, Fla., the
Gerontius" will soon be performed by the pupils of Mrs. Ankie Green Parker, whose
Oratorio Society, is writing an oratorio for fame has spread beyond the confines of Flo-
the next Birmingham Festival, to be called rida, were asked to play. The artistic work
"The Apostles." There will be no orches- of Mary Clayton Connor and her sister Rosa-
tral overture, but a choral prelude will take lie, Harry Linwood Pearce, Christine Rich-
its place. There is said to have been a con- ards, and others who participated, compelled
siderable competition among the publishers without exception the most enthusiastic com-
to secure the publication of this work, and the pliments from the visiting musicians.
firm who obtained it is said to have paid the
Mrs. Ankie Green Parker's successful ca-
largest sum ever given to any composer for reer as a teacher and originator of a practical
an oratorio.
and helpful kindergarten system has been
much discussed recently and she has been in
A MID-SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM.
receipt of many communications asking her
/VA ENDELSSOHN'S music to Shakes- to locate in New York. Mrs. Parker has
peare's comedy " A Mid-summer established such a large following in the
Night's Dream" is. to be played in its entirety South that it will be impossible for her to
comply with these requests, which must be
considered unquestionablv in the nature of
a high compliment. Meanwhile it is not un-
likely that some one of Mrs. Parker's pupils
may take up her work in this city at no dis-
tant date.
MONARCHS AMD MUSIC.
DAVID BISPHAM.
when the second performance of this work
is given in Carnegie Hall to-morrow
evening. The numbers to be performed
are: Overture, Scherzo; Elfin Song and
Chorus; Intermezzo; Nocturne; Wedding
March; Funeral March; Dance of the
Clowns; Finale. Frank Damrosch will di-
rect the orchestra and a chorus of ladies and
two well-known sopranos are to assist. Mr.
Bispham will read the play.
l\ A USIC has always had charm for reign-
* * ing monarchs and royal Princes, and
many of them have coupled their names
with songs, dances, berceuses and hymns.
The House of Hohenzollern can point to a
very respectable record in this department
of art ever since the days of the Great Fred-
erick, and the tradition is being honored by
several of its representatives to-day. Prince
Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, the second son
of the Regent of Brunswick, says the Lon-
don Telegraph, has now determined to come
forward in the character of a musical com-
poser. For some time past he has been known
to be engaged on a ballet, to which he has
now given the last finishing touches. It is
called "The Miracle of Spring." The work
has already been seen and accepted on its
merits by the director of the Theatre de la
Monnaie, in Brussels, where it will be
brought out in the course of this year.
ROSSINI WAS A "HUSTLER."
THERESE MALTEN TO RETIRE.
of the race of earlier Wagner singers
who belonged to the time of Amalia
Materna has decided to retire from the stage.
This is Therese Malten who, since 1873 has
been a member of the company at the Court
Theatre in Dresden. She has sung almost
exclusively there, except for a few perform-
ances at Bayreuth and Berlin, and a season
in London. Her specialty has been the Wag-
nerian heroines, although she made her first
Dresden appearance as Pamina and was a
splendid Santuzza when "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" was sung in Dresden with Georg
Anthes as Turiddu and Schiedemantel and
Mme. Schuch were in the cast.
She made her last appearance in all prob-
ability, as Isolde two weeks since on the
twentieth anniversary of Wagner's death.
Her contract with the Dresden opera ends
in June and as the singer is now forty-eight,
it is not to be renewed. It allows her four
months leave of absence and as this is to
begin on the last of the present month, she
will not be heard again in the theatre with
which her fame has always been associated.
BASKING IN PRIMA DONNA SUNLIGHT.
/VA MES. NORDICA and Sembrich are in-
* *• veterate "matinee fiends," to use the
popular expression. Whenever they are not
singing on Saturday they are likely to be
found at the opera. Both of them have many
friends among the boxholders, and they are
usually the guests of some of those members
of society who like to bask sometimes in the
glory of prima donna sunlight. It may be
added that their costumes and their jewels
are subjects of careful study.
LOCAL MUSICIANS FOR THE WEST.
D R O F . STANLEY, of the University of
*•
Michigan, who fills the chair of music
there, has been in New York for several days
engaging musicians for instructors. He has
closed with several, the best-known being
William Hoffman of the Damrosch Orches-
tra. Mr. Hoffman is to have charge at Ann
Arbor of the orchestral and violin depart-
ments of the university School of Music.
D O S S I N I wrote his "Barber of Seville"
BAXTER RECITALS.
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^ in thirteen days. The average time de- p \ A V I D BAXTER, the Scotch basso, has
voted to his operas was a month. For "Sem- *-^ returned from Detroit, where he appeared
iramide" his manager allowed him forty days, in joint recital with Gabrilowitsch. Mr. Bax-
and he did it in thirty-three. "But that," ter gave his second recital in this city last
Rossini once wrote, "was the only one of my evening at Mendelssohn Hall, Howard
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Italian operas I could allow myself to write Brockway assisting. The program was un-
EDWARD LLOYD'S TOUR.
in
a leisurely way. For 'William Tell,' on usually interesting.
C DWARD LLOYD, the eminent English
the
other hand, I needed an eternity. So, at
*-^ tenor who sailed for Australia from
On March 10 and 24, Mr. Baxter and Miss
least,
it seemed to me"—five whole months! Leila Livingston Morse will give two song
London on the 13th ult., will extend his fare-
well tour from Australia to the United States. This opera I wrote in the country, in the recitals at the Astor gallery of the Waldorf-
He will then probably return to the anti- villa of my friend Aguardo. We had high Astoria under distinguished patronage. The
podes and visit New Zealand. He is ex- times there, and my special fad was fishing. program for both concerts is especially
pected back to London in about eighteen I remember one morning having the con- choice.
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months. Mr. Lloyd is accompanied on his spirators' scene all ready in my head while
A rumor was current lately and is now de-
tour by Miss Jean Newman, the Canadian I stood on the bank waiting for a bite. The
soprano, Miss Emily Foxcroft and Mr. Pe- ecstatic state of mind produced by the nied that Richard Strauss has resigned his
thought of Arnold and Gessler lasted until position at the Royal House in Berlin be-
terkin.
a big carp carried away my rod, which cause the Emperor had said, apropos of the
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Daniel Frohman has arranged with H. H. brought me back to consciousness. The ease opera "Feuersnoth," "I have no use for con-
Wetzler and his orchestra for a concert of with which I composed astonished all the ductors who compose."
French and Viennese music to take place at world. I deserve no credit for it; it was a
The last subscription night of the Maurice
Daly's Theatre on Monday afternoon, March natural gift. Just as little ought I to be Grau Opera Company in New York is an-
9. Hugo Heerman will play a violin con- blamed for having stopped writing when I nounced. It occurs on March 21. Sembrich
certo by Saint-Saens, and Emilio de Gogorza felt that I had lost that faculty of easy com- in "La Fille du Regiment" and Alvarez in
position."
will sing French songs.
"I Pagliacci" will share the honors.