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He chuckled over this considerably. The song Is
No. 1 in the collection of eight songs, opus 47.
Having gotten his hand in, as it were, he fre-
Henry C. Gilbert, One of His Pupils, Tells Some
Interesting
Facts
Regarding
the
Com- quently wrote both the words and music of his
songs thereafter."
poser's Exceedingly Popular Indian Suite.
The composer with whom MacDowell was most
Some very interesting recollections of Edward sympathetic was Grieg. Mr. Gilbert often heard
MacDowell, by Henry F. Gilbert, are printed in him say that he "almost felt as if he were Grieg's
the New Music Review for November. Mr. Gil- brother."
bert was one of his pupils; he helped to copy the
orchestral parts of his first suite, and tells some
WAR CHANGES OPERA LIBRETTA.
interesting facts regarding the sources of the com-
position of the Indian Suite. Mr. Gilbert remem- Slavs in Paris Object to Balkan Soldier Being
Ridiculed in "The Chocolate Soldier," So
bers the occasion of the first performance of the
Persians and Liberians Are Substituted.
symphonic poem, "Hamlet and Ophelia," by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra: "It was rehearsed all
the week and we were anticipating a treat. But
A dispatch from Paris states: Because the
on Friday, the day of the first public concert, the story of il The Chocolate Soldier," the Oscar
first horn player of the orchestra 'having decided
Straus opera, adapted from Bernard Shaw's
that the psychological moment had now arrived play, "Arms and the Man," is laid in the Balkans,
for severing "his domestic relations, took the 2 with military officers playing the parts of buffoons,
o'clock train for New York without telling any- a protest has arisen against its performance at the
one. As the concert was at 2:30, this left no time Apollo Theater and Mr. Straus and Pierre Weber,
to adjust matters. MacDowell was naturally con- who collaborated with him in the libretto, have
siderably upset. At first he was all for getting a been obliged to alter the map as far as the scenes
lawyer and stopping the performance. He cooled of the work are concerned. They have promised to
down finally, however, and heard his work executed turn the Bulgarians and Servians into Persians and
(or possibly murdered) minus the first horn."
Liberians. Slavs in the audience have objected to
the ridicule of Balkan soldiers, who have been
On another occasion MacDowell had composed
fighting
so heroically against the Turks.
three songs, one of which was a poem by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich. "He was quite pleased with them,
and wished to publish them in his next set of
ANYTHING BUT MUSIC.
songs. But permission to use the words of the Al-
drich songs was somewhat impolitely and rather An Anecdote Illustrating the Keen Sense of
firmly refused by Mr. Aldrich. MacDowell was
Humor of the Late Jules Massenet, the
certainly indignant enough, and, after a few pic-
Composer.
turesque but uncomplimentary references to Al-
drich, sat down then and there and wrote a poem
"I often met the late Jules Massenet in Monte
of his own to fit his own music. The original Carlo," said a Newport woman. "The great com-
words of Aldrich began:
poser had a keen sense of humor.
'The blackbird sings in the hazel brake,'
"At a hotel in Monte Carlo an English woman
whereas the MacDowell words begin:
once gave M. Massenet a tea in her sitting room
'The robin sings in the apple tree.'
overlooking the blue Mediterranean. She brought
RECOLLECTIONS OF MACDOWELL.
out her daughter in the middle of the tea, and set
her down at the piano, and the girl sang, in a
voice as slender as a cotton thread, the mirror
music from "Thais." At the end of the song the
hostess said:
" 'Tell me, frankly, cher maitre, what do you
think of my Emily's voice?'
" 'Madam,' said Massenet, 'I think the young lady
has a brilliant future in—sculpture or painting.'"
WORDS FOR WALTZ SUCCESS.
Adrian
Ross
Writes Lyrics in English for
"Un Peu d'Amour.
One of the instrumental successes of the season
'has been the clever little waltz number by Lao
Silesu, entitled "Un Peu d'Amour." So successful
has this number been in its instrumental arrange-
ment that it 'has been decided to have a vocal ver-
sion, which has now come from the press. The
•song .has English words by Adrian Ross, and h
called "A Little Love, la Litle Kiss." Chappell &
Co., Ltd., are the publishers.
MAGGIE, HOW_CAN YOU?
Maggie Cline, the Irish Thrush, now sings rag-
time! Her song hit last season was "Nobody's
Got Anything on Me!" This season she's sing-
ing "Hitchie Koo!" and "Waiting for the Robert
E. Lee."
The harp that once through Tara's halls,
It's soul of music shed,
Has canned "McClosky," and, alas!
Twangs coon songs now instead
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