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THE 7VIVSIC TRRDE
orchestra will include four flutes, four oboes,
two oboi d'amore, two English horns, two
bassoons, two French horns, three trumpets,
one pair of kettle drums and campanella.
MRS. WAGNER AGITATING.
JV/l RS, CO SI MA WAGNER is evidently
using every influence to prevent the
performance of "Parsifal" in this country.
A rather characteristic communication was
recently received by the wife of Hugo Heer-
mann, the well-known violinist who has been
REVIEW
tholomew's is one of the most noted in this
country, and the solos were sung by Mrs.
Theodore Toedt ; Mrs. Stein-Bailey, Leo Lie-
bemann and John H. Duffey. Will C. Mac-
Farlane was at the organ and Mr. Warren
directed the work.
A CLEVER AMERICAN SINGER.
We clip the following from the Hanauer
Zeitung regarding Miss Mary Neuendorffer,
the clever daughter of Carl Neuendorffer,
widely known in musical circles in this city,
who is winning quite
some fame in Germany:
The star numbers on
the program were the
songs rendered by Miss
Mary Neuendorffer, of
New York, a soprano
singer of very sympa-
thetic appearance, who
called forth continued
and repeated applause
merited by her marvel-
ous voice and superior
interpretation. Also due
credit must be accorded
Miss Maja Schwekow-
ski, who accompanied
Miss Neuendorffer on
the piano. Miss Neuen-
dorffer's selections were
"Schwanenlied," and the
ballad for Loewe's "Tom
der Reimer," Schubert's
"Standchen" and "Friih-
1 i n g s g 1 aube," "Hoff-
nung" f r o m Reichardt
and Rubinstein's "Asra."
RUSKIN ON MUSIC.
T T ERE are some quo-
*• * tations from Rus-
kin's works which should
interest all musicians.
HISSEM DE MOSS, SOPRANO, AT THE BACH FESTIVAL.
Speaking of the ideal education of child-
playing in this country for the past few
months, from Cosima, in which the following ren he says: "And in their first learn-
passage occurs: "I shall be pleased if Mr,. ing of notes they shall be taught the great
Heermann makes it known everywhere that purpose of music, which is to say a thing you
the proposed performance of 'Parsifal' in mean deeply, in the strongest and clearest
America would be against the wishes of its possible way; and they shall never be taught
creator. The publishers Schott will not de- to sing what they don't mean."
"Perseverance in rightness of human con-
liver the orchestral parts, and I have written
duct
renders, after a certain number of gen-
to Damrosch to ask him, in case he has used
erations,
human art possible ; every sin clouds
any in concert performances, not to give them
it,
be
it
ever so little a one, and persistent
up. I expect of the artists who have sung
vicious
living
and following of pleasure ren-
at Bayreuth that they will refuse to take part
der, after a certain number of generations,
in such performances. I should be greatly
all art impossible. Men are deceived by the
obliged to Professor Heermann if he would
long suffering of the laws of nature. . .. .
talk about this matter in my name with the As for the individual, as soon as you learn
different artists."
to read you may know him to his heart's
ELGAR'S "LIGHT OF LIFE."
\ 1 7 HEN Elgar was presented to us through
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the medium of the Oratorio Society
who gave "The Dream of Gerontius" we did
not know that this was soon to be followed
by another although a smaller work. On
April 21 and 22 Richard Henry Warren
gave a beautiful performance of "The Light
of Life" by Elgar and the work is rife with
beauties.. The chorus was admirably trained
as it is well known that the choir of S t Bar-
core, through his art. Let his art gift be
never so cultivated to the height by the
schools of a great race of men, it is still but
a tapestry thrown over his own being and
inner soul."
"CYRANO DE BERGERAC."
H E R E is some prospect of a production
next winter, either at the Metropolitan
here or at one of the opera houses in Ger-
many, of the opera written by W.. J. Hen-
derson and Walter Damrosch, founded on
Rostand's ''Cyrano de Bergerac."
T
W. II. RIEGER, TENOR, AT THE BACH FESTIVAL.
MELODIES OF INDIA.
A NOVELTY at a recent concert in Lon-
* ^ don was a piece entitled "Grand Fanta-
sia on Melodies of Our Indian Empire," by
E. F. Jacques and J. M. Rogan. In regard
to it the Athenaeum remarks: "Great com-
posers made frequent use of folk-melodies in
their works. Weber once borrowed a Chin-
ese melody, and Dr. Saint-Saens has intro-
duced African melodies into a concerto; but
a whole fantasia on Indian melodies is a new
and extremely interesting departure. 'The
Hymn to Vishnu,' with which the fantasia
HERBERT WITHERSPOON, BASSO, AT THE BACH
FESTIVAL.
opens and closes has breadth, and dignity,
while of the other melodies some are slow
and expressive, some lively and quaint. In
the excellent scoring there are some charac-
teristic local color effects. An admirable per-
formance by the band of the Coldstream
Guards, under Mr. Rogan, led to a repeti-
tion of the closing section, in which a few
bars of the Rritish and Danish national an-
thems are combined with an Indian melody."
MRS. ETTA EDWARDS, Vocal Instruction, Steinert Hall
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