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ANKIE GREEN PARKER IN NEW YORK.
T" 1 H E strides which the new manner of
teaching music to children have made
into the old methods are really remarkable.
In the smallest town as well as in the great-
est cities in America and Europe, the sub-
ject of teaching children in an intelligent
manner has become one of utmost import-
ance at the present time.
That children are able to assimilate what
would seem most difficult to a mature mind
is due to the remarkable and complex ma-
terial out of which the child-mind is form-
ed. Not less surprising is the degree of
reasoning and no one will question the emo-
tionality of childhood.
Working from this basis, Mrs. Ankie
Green Parker, of Gainesville, Fla., has
evolved thoughts upon this matter that in
results show remarkable qualities. Mrs.
Parker is at present in New York, making
her headquarters at TO8 W. 49th St., where
she will remain for an extended visit. With
her are two young girls, the Misses Mary
and Rosalie Connor, whose entire musical
education has been under Mrs. Parker. The
amount of learning that these two young
children show is not less than astonishing
and no further proof is necessary of the ef-
ficacy of Mrs. Parker's work.
Besides the influence upon the intelli-
gence of her pupils, Mrs. Parker's person-
ality and her own high ideals are distinctly
stamped upon them and the benefits of in-
tercourse with her are manifold and appar-
ent.
GUARANTEE FUND FOR PATTI DEPOSITED.
depositing $40,000 with the Roths-
B Y childs
of London, through August
Belmont & Co., Robert Grau took the final
step in the financial arrangements for the
tour of Mme. Patti through this country
this season. The contract with the singer
stipulated that this amount should be de-
posited to her credit before she sailed from
Europe. The sum secures the payment
for the last eight concerts of her tour.
Mme. Patti will sail for New York on the
Etruria on Oct. 24. The first concert will
take place in Carnegie Hall. Nov. 2. a
matinee being scheduled for the same place
Nov. 4. A public auction sale for seats will
be conducted, but the t details of this have
not yet been completed. Patti will travel
in her own private car, built for her by the
Pullman Company and named Craig-y-Nos,
after her palace home. Another car is be-
ing built and will be occupied by the other
principal singers.
SARDOU'S PLAYS IN OPERATIC FORM.
COREIGN musicians who have been
looking for librettos are utilizing the
plays of Victorien Sardou to splendid ad-
vantage. "Tosca" proved in the version
made by Signor Illica for the use of Puc-
cini an admirable book and Giordano found
"Fedora" as made into libretto by the
same Italian very serviceable. His opera
was successful in Italy and South America
and was introduced into some of the Rus-
sian cities by Italian companies.
Only a few weeks ago it was given in
Berlin for the first time by an Italian com-
pany, or rather a German company sing-
ing in Italian and headed by that interest-
ing operatic personality, Franceschina
Prevosti, who is English by birth, sings in
Italian and appears almost exclusively in
Berlin. She was naturally the Fedora.
The opera was a great success artistically
and Giordano was praised for composing a
score that suited well the very interesting
libretto that Illica had made out of Sar-
dou's tawdry old melodrama.
Hitherto the French composers have not
utilized the Sardou plays, probably be-
cause they are entirely out of fashion in
France, where Sardou and all his works
are regarded now as good only for export.
But the difficulty of finding librettos is so
great that one of his own countrymen is
to write the music to a libretto founded on
"Theodora."
That ought to provide a role for Emma
Calve, who would be an excellent Sardou
prima donna. Xavier Leroux is the com-
poser who is to supply the music.
"Tosca" is making its way through the
European opera houses. It will be given
this year at the Opera Comique in Paris
and is announced for production in some
of the provincial towns. It failed when
first given in Germany because the part
of the heroine at the Dresden performance
was intrusted to the light soprano of the
company, who was also quite without ex-
perience. Of course the opera could not
survive such treatment as that. But the
work is announced in some other cities.
The most liked of the modern Italian
operas are founded on French librettos.
"La Boheme" made out of the play that
Barrere wrote from Murger's novel is the
most popular work in the modern Italian
repertoire. Two Italian composers have
recently selected Marie Antoinette as the
heroine of an opera and Scribe's old play
of "Adrienne Lecouvreur" last year inspir-
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ed one composer to write an opera which
was very much praised when it was sung
a few months ago. Puccini's "Manon Les-
caut" is also a popular opera in Italy,
where the Massenet opera on the same
subject is little known.
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MASCAGNTS NEW OPERA.
CIGNOR MASCAGNI, the composer of
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"Cavalleria Rusticana," authorizes the
announcement of the intended produc-
tion at La Scala, Milan, this winter of a
seven-act work, entitled "Marie Antoin-
ette." After it has been heard at Milan,
the opera, if successful, will be available
elsewhere. The libretto is by Messrs.
Schurmann and Illican, and it is composed
of seven tableaux, representing Vienna
with Maria Theresa, Versailles, the ar-
rest in Varennes, Marie Antoinette before
the convention, the imprisonment, the
revolutionary tribunal, and finally the ex-
ecution. Here is opportunity for a highly
sensational kind of treatment. Mascagni
is said to be working on it to the exclusion
of the other three operas he has under way,
to which allusion was made here the other
day; and the publisher Ricordi has already
secured the rights to it.
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THE MUCH DISCUSSED WAGNER STATUE.
HP H E Wagner Monument in Berlin, over
*• the dedication of which there has been
so much wrath aroused in Germany, is a
sitting figure of the master carved in Gre-
cian marble, upon a Roman pedestal of the
same material. The pedestal is decorated
with figures on all its four sides; on the
front is Wolfram von Eschenbach, on the
left side, Tannhauser; on the right, Briinn-
hilde by the bier of the dead Siegfried; on
the rear, Alberich and the Rhine maidens.
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OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM.
HP H E Navy Department has issued an
*• order declaring "The Star-Spangled
Banner" the National anthem, and direct-
ing whenever that composition is played
all officers and men shall stand at attention
unless they are engaged in duty that will
not permit them to do so.
It is required that the same respect shall
be observed toward the national air of any
other country when played in the presence
of officials representative of such country.
Mr. Aronson announces that Siegfried
Wagner and the Strauss Orchestra (now
conducted by Johann Strauss III.) will vis-
it America next season under his manage-
ment.