Show 1 1 IE It THAT T HAT MATH HAnt M NS MIMIC I IC IM N 4 It ItO IP I N O i s MOT OT or WITH WIT or s IUND Is Is I PIT 1 RAT A 6 CM SAND AN O S OILS C the appearance of Mrs Kr Krc Irs S c W Rhodes Reds to In the early Y Ys s put of the tbs week there has been a s I treat at I of criticism aI regarding her bel lecture In a s didactic sense aenas It tt Ita waa W Wa a worthy wo and ad Meritorious effort Scarcely anyone a oM will dispute that It i placed Wagner in a new light and gave cave ve both the composer and hi b hil works work a grandeur which bleh had not DOt surrounded them in the minds of many man They un understood understood the he noble character better when hen the lecturer finished ed and aM they the learned learnt d something of the impressive theme of which they the may have bave been b ignorant before and lack hick ck of which may mY ay I have ha e robbed the graver ver productions of charm for them thee But would not DOt a little more IDore regard for the thea laws la a ws we of elocution have bave enhanced the effect rr ct of the delivery Besides this the speaker speak made assaults tapon upon Pon the theUs Us lit 11 of for tor which bleh there wes was wua absolutely a no excuse The lecture too deserved a more imposing Impo lne display of illustrations Some of those tho shown not only lacked artistic strength but many maDY of tit them were extremely ly crude sad and andi Ad i the effect upon the mind There was wu an incongruity between the pictures and the lecture which marred the th pleasure of the entertainment It detracted from Its Ita artistic art tlc worth orth It left Ifft upon the artistic mind an effect to that which would be pro produced produced duc ed If It cambric were substituted for silk ilk Hk In staging xa a showy alloW spectacular performance The accessories should always harmonise barmo with U the rest t of the tile entertainment but it cannot truthfully be said that this harmony existed in Iii inthe I Ith the th Wagnerian exposition The Tb grand themes of ot the trilogy trUo gave opportunity for some impressive pictorial work but the pictures shown tell fell far short of I the th theme and aDd this fact is sa to be re regretted regretted Mrs Kra TL Rhodes Rhode has u a work that thatis in is j too artistic to be marred by these e shortcomings it 0 itMa Ma will not DOt cove come to Salt Lake Like City The TIle composer had batI ha remained on ont the t h coast cout longer than han was irit Intended R nd has hu decided to 10 hurry east and take the steamer Reamer for Italy The occa ocea Ion tIon for tor the great t musicians rush is ia not made clear but he is I anxious to set get home hOIDe It was hoped that Mascagni and Kocian the violinist t could be in induced to visit Salt 81 It Lake at the tha u same time It would have been worth the price Irlee of several concerts to have the great grea t artiste meet mitt in ba Salt Lake if only to repeat that Chicago hug and nd hear har them exclaim Ab Ah Kocian An Ah Maestro It would nave bave given Salt Lake residents re u a ahan chance ChanCO han to In on Os the chorus with Ye gods C CIa or Zwei eU or 01 something else i classical and show Ow the artists artiste that we are not back numbers even if It we do live between the th mona moun mountain tain tallu Augusta August Holmes Irish composer r and pianist who recently died never for tor forgot forgot got that her mother claimed descent from the and sad OBrien OBrie of She Shiest set t up at the outset to be a person who had bad ancestors No doubt she abe had bad but the mistake lay in thinking them socially speaking a feather fea in I her h i cap Still they might have been an advantage had ad the second empire maintained its Ua position M Wagner agner In the CDs burned incense be fore tor Augusta Holmes Hol Her friends expected that be he would bear her off as a bride to Germany and be believed they were betrothed The few survivors believe so still aWl He probably aw saw N W In m Mme Mine BuloWs BuJo French brother inlaw the coming man IDD of the second empire destined to supersede as vice emperor and in ba her a first dau 1 business bum helpmate who would drive hard bard bargains with publishers and better than any one else to his money m ney affairs However Hower this 1 may be Wagner disappeared from tAe te cir circle cit cle cl of or Augusta Holmes in whom he be had haI seen a young you Aurora with a spies splendid did future in I view His influence on her ber compositions compo cannot be overlooked She at t one time took concert rooms ooma and fashionable drawing rooms aye and n 1 studios by storm as AI a beau beautiful beautiful prodigy Her portrait in a paint ing Inc by Heart Henri Regnault Re bad had the same earn effect t on those who went to see It at the Ute Ecole 1001 des 11 I She certainly had beauty sad and a masical talent taint But she be lost iset t herself in I trying to shine lIbi De simultaneously I as a beautiful person la ba 1 society sad and the tile gilded Bo Be i hemia to which she aIM belonged and aa sa a musical genius C A correspondent t at Rome writes writes ThI seems seema ma to be a time of great ac among amon fan composers Mass Maes Maestro II tro J t h 11 u composer of assures in Ill that hi In r W next his hla new fIrl oi i FL i i 1 toy by 1 y the t I he empero 1 r Germ will ill i I I be given H at the I op opo t In Berlin BeTtin i A tso so hai ha Ill n ira read ready o he havi I ail ailor mm a aae aa for or v r rhin thing and set act the Mad u Butter 1 Mr MrA r I Belas o to m mt A few t day dy j h hm ho howen west went t to San iI m I to implore pore Mme Mine Calf to amur he h principal rote role but the result of pi I avers ayra is a as yet un uni unknown Unknown kno known m The Theas S i ot or oratorio are areas as u Ilive as a F r th o the stage tage ta e Father Hart Ban HartLa s g it at his hili La taSt t Supper Dom im IM si is j la Laboi boi bol n t night and u til 11 nv n r tn th riP s eh ehi choir as he is I to make his hi first arat firsti apt PI i ranee tint with them th 1 since he h under I toe toc U e sole lole dir tion n ii Saturday A At Agil gil t I malte wul wiil h tJ heh in Inin om Qi m in ration ratin rali Or f th t ent h aunt ve v c of the d dath ath of or Pius IX I C it C Concerning Richard Strauss and his I T I Death and Transfiguration tion t Philip Hale writing in the Roe Boa Boston RoeM ton M Symphony book quotes Q s Strauss recent tribute to Alex Alexander andes ander Ritter whose test teat the music ic il II illustrates Ritter Bitter was exceptionally well rend read In all aU the philosophers an ancient cleat sad and ad modern and a man of or the highest culture His HI influence nce was in inthe Inthe Inthe the nature of a storm torm wind Ind He urged me on 0 to the development of the po poetic poetic the expressive in tu Ic ac as a ex cx exemplified in the works of LIat Wag Wagner Wagner ner ncr and My symphonic fan fantasia teals taM Au Aus Italics Italien is the me connecting link between the old and the new methods method Mr Hale himself goes on to say MY that the poem poID by Ritter is after alter all 11 the most moR satisfactory explanation of the musk music lc to those thoR that seek eagerly ea a clew sad and lid are e not content with the title The analysts have been busy with this tb as well welt as the others of Strauss Mr Wilhelm Mauke has written a pamphlet of twenty pages lag 8 with musical illustrations and made a delicate distinction be between between tween No 1 and fever theme No 2 1 Reimann and Brandes have been more moderate Strauss Strains himself hlf on more than one OM occasion has made merry Jests Jean at the expense et ense of the grubbing erub analysts and aDd who bo knows what be Jae meant t when he be told a Lon LoII don oD reporter that his next would illustrate a day in lila his family life ute It will wUl be partly lyrical partly humorous a triple fugue fags the three subjects representing papa a mamma and the tile baby bal y C Paris Pam is trying very con firm Arm Itself in the delusion that it has baa now freed treed itself from the ue German in influence influence fluence on French FreACh music It quietly appropriates its Ita two Gluck and Meyerbeer as Frenchmen and aad then asserts a erta that its own young school of composers is free tree from the Teutonic taint The Mercure de 4 Francs France which has baa been investigating the sub prints a number of from leading leadill French musicians and aind ad writers in which the greater num aum ber bet while admitting the influence of OIl German music in years yeara past put assert that the Wagnerian effect has baa worn off But Rut those e who speak more InON sen llen sensibly sibly are composers comP lers like lUte dIndy and Albert Burneau who recognize recognise re the salutary influence of German music for centuries and believe beneve that the th mu musician sidan will always al turn tuna to that source uree for tor aid as have bave Berlioz Berlios Gounod Binet and the other greet great eat creative cUve musicians of France Franc A Midwinter MId Nt Dream or to ia the title Uta of a sew new Finnish opera m In one act b by de di Brack ck which ISM he Just JaR seen been sung la in Antwerp rp An se comprised of twenty harps and ad two pianos of which bleb the theco conductor co and ad all aU the thi players are wo we men from front the south uth of ot Italy is Ia I the latest tri freak flak novelty which widell la is about to make mahe a tour of Europe rope and Amer AmerA ica C A great t deal of interest is being beJna felt feltI in I the musical and ecclesiastical cir ch circles chelse else cles c of Rome over the proposition of the Abbe the new musical di director director director rector of the Sis Sistine tine chapel to ap a point young boys boy to sing in the Popes Pope choir when any vacancies occur in the rub rank of the world famous mur mu I deL stel lel Of course oune it is II claimed th t jt the tM wonderful tone of the choir can cannot not nt t be reproduced at all by hp the boys boy voice but public opinion of ot the con cen tury tory is fa entirely on the side of the who is sa bitterly opposed op to the creation of new DeW mUllet Another question that the tile new DeW director has bu been MeA called upon to decide is whether women shall ahall be allowed to sing in the chapel eba el It is said that since me met this t question has come up ap the abbe has baI received thousands of letters letten from women singers opra who are an desirous of a position in is the chapel and nd how bow the I question will be N Bedded remains remain to be beIt been seen en It to ii Interesting bate to note not in this connection that the Abbe aa as aam musical m director of the chapel receive Mel the tM JD t salary of 12 iS francs f a month monthA 0 A A house will be he erected in by b the JIt society t to ron eon contain ronn lain tain n the relics reU of the pOser r which it has in Its it 1 L The arrangements for foe the tile forthcoming I lug ing 1 Beethoven cycle In which symphonies les and avid other important com corn compositions positions by Beethoven will be given veD f b i L i series of at five concerts by the thel l ni orchestra under the di diron ron n Il jf Mr Scheel have hav been corn com completed comI I plated pitted 4 Alfred piano virtuoso is Ii isso so 80 highly spoken of in Germany that it seems that nothing has been said of bringing brin ng him over and Boris Ibor a youthful violinist from St Petersburg seems s ms to have aroused swe xoe IDe interest at a recital given ven in Ber Berlin BerUn I IUn Un lin I IA 0 II I I A letter from Louis Loul James Jamn brings the information that the th second coast tour this season of the James Jamet Ja mft Warde combination in The t i anti and other ether standard plays is i h non unity successful arul Mr James Jame says ays sa Mr Warde Ward and I have appeared In n these cities many times s and always alway to lar larg audiences but this trip is ia the most wonderful in the matter of ot n mi receipts re that I 1 have ever eer In many o Of th the towns town all of ot the tho th sat ol bett jt out our arrival at i ad advanced d prices it Is III simply great and i neither M Mr Is I II r or yours Y enI truly I finding least lea t bit of fault tault C I I E S B Willard writes write concerning his bis bl project for a dramatic academy in London Lou Lon Loudon don donA A rood good deal des of misapprehension n ap appears appears appears pears to have hav gathered gath re round m my an announcement nt of or the fact tact that I was read ready to gl give u the rest ret of my life Ute to the establishing of a theatre which t should be devoted to the t development of the art of acting c n rather than to the enlargement of ot any aDy individual bank benk account Some people have han pooh h j the th si scheme heme altogether h hIs t Is an easy way of ot dealing deaUn with any anything anything I thing others have talked of my m being I in search of a millionaire others othera have hae spoken of my ITty scheme echeme as aa an appeal This last suggestion I should like IOIe to dispose of ot at once I am not an ap appealing appealing pealing person Nor N is Ie It U right t to sup suppose suppose pose as U some lOme have done that I do donot donot donot not anticipate ate success lC in my attempt to seure fure funds for tor the enterprise I hope as a matter matt r of fact to convince I sceptics later that the project is I not so 0 hopeless as an they appear to think that in truth there are plenty of plays to be found and plenty of ac actors actors actors tors to play in them When the whole scheme is ill In a fit and proper shape it will be submitted to those thoM who I believe will be willing to put money into It U Should ld It however not appeal to their business sense as an under undertaking undertaking undertaking taking likely to return a percent percentage percentage age ace on the outlay I snail shall retire from the field altogether leaving Ivine its Iti ex cx exploitation to others ra 00 Tim Murphy knows of a little girl 1 named Helen Hel n who Is I afraid of the dark and aDd who being beiDa basted babied led when she Ibe was waa small continued to insist even eYen A PROMINENT PR YOUNG VO UNG SOPRANO 1 n I Miss Kiss Helene Shepard is a soprano of or Salt Lakebo Lake ho gives much prop of the future Charles Charlea Kent her teacher is I enthusiastic over ver the success she ib has hI made She has hu a voice of remarkable sweetness e and purity and it ap sp pears to be under perfect control A critic would be particularly attracted by b her lower notes which are strong clear and well rounded She has ha a good range and one ODe very ve admirable feature Is II her perfect enunciation In many voices otherwise e accurate and pleasing this trait Is 18 absent abeen and it is a fault that in I operatic a work werk Is often ott the source of harsh criticism m Miss MIa Shepard is la a young woman of attractive personality as a young 70 tody lad dy of 5 G years yean that she abe shebe abebe be accompanied to bed by hr her mother and a light lightOn On one on occasion there Utere was wu company eomy at Helens Helen house h when the usual die dis dispute 41 put pate as u to the reasonableness of ot be being belne lug ing afraid of the tile dark occurred be between between between tween mother and aDd daughter Finally the little girl was wu taken t eft to bed Met and aDd shortly mother returned to her guests ta smiling I sweetly Its so to handle children if you yon ou Just know bow how I told her there was wu no reason to be afraid that the dark was warn w filled with an ts all watch watchIng lug Ing I over her Mr Now she ebb Is to quite con content content tent teat to be left alone and Mamma Mamma piped a small faraway voice at al this thu point nt Please come quick The ne angola angels are biting biU me Colonel John JobA S a Flaherty manager of the Majestic theatre was WI tolling telling about mon men who |