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Show I . ; New York Musical CHat j WHAT UTAHNS ABE DOING-. ; Special Correspondence to The Tribune: 'NEW VOTCK. Feb; I.--A great audi- i once assembled in the Metropolitan opera house on Saturday night to hear ! Mine. Sonibrii'h, Mr. Uoiiei, Canipaunri laud Chaliapine sing " Don Giovunni. ' ! I This .splendid combination is always an iissurancc of a line performance. Sem- brica was in fine A-oice and spirits, and snug suin. iblv. Pol I'lnnoon inade his first bow this season lo a grout houee full of subscribers subscrib-ers at the Metropolitan on Friday evening even-ing ,ns "Mepnisto" in -. Gounod '5 " Faust," with lianics and Caruso, Plau-coii, Plau-coii, with his magnificent bass voice aud his debonair impersonation of the famous fa-mous dovil, was given a right roynl welcome. wel-come. ITc says this is positively bis last year in America. The recent death of Edward Mac-DowoU Mac-DowoU has caused a. spirit ot saduess j to predominate in most of (ho concerts I given since his last. At n recent concert con-cert of the Philharmonic orchestra, tho Beethoven Funeral March was played as c memorial. Tho New York Symphony Sym-phony changed its rjx-m. concert programme, pro-gramme, aiviug MacDowell 's "Sea Pictures" Pic-tures" a; a n.emoriul. I' rs suit.-! was also plavvil bv the Metropolitan orchestra orches-tra at ita Suudav uighteouce.4!.. The death of MacDnweil ha.; caused a groat; revival of his inu3ii, both vocal and instrumental. throughout all America. Rarely a-programme is given anywhere without having on it the name of MnVDowcll. Mme. Schumann-TIcink was given a rousing welcome on her return to opera on Mouday night. Tt was the first time sho has sung "Azuoena" .in America. She used the German tongue, and clung to (he German traditions. A big, splendid, splen-did, heroic figure she made of the old gypsy. 'rhe audience called her out eight times after the scene iu the gypsy camp. , "The Waltz Dream.'" a uow operetta from Yienna, is scoring a tremendous success in New Yoik. The work is similar simi-lar to "Tho Merry Widow," aud contains con-tains much good music, with a very effective ef-fective waltz tuncThe tenor. Mr. Johnson, John-son, well known as "a church and concert con-cert singer, adds much fo tho artistic performance by his rarely beautiful voice. " ' K Mr. Louis Farnsworth of Salt Lake arrived in New York early this week, and on Tuesday mot Mrs. Farnsworth and children, who have .spent the sum mer abroad Afler spending a week at the' Manhattan hotel, they will return to Salt Lake, visiting cu ijoute. Joseph Siegol of Salt Lake arrived in New York last week, -and will remain until late in February. Ho is stopping with his mother ai tho Manhattan Square hotel. 'i The Western friends of George Bar-rat Bar-rat will hear with pleasure of his continued con-tinued advancement along the lines of illustrating. Mr. Bar rat is. now on tho regular art staff of Life, to which ho contributes regularly carbon drawings, lie also ha3 had a number of his .black and white sketches reproduced in Harper's Har-per's magazine. " Thcoo latter are largely large-ly political in character, and are selected se-lected because they represent original ideas along the lilies of politics. Mr. Bar rat has a charming homo studio at 1053 Southern boulevard, in the Bronx. Closely associated witli him in his artistic ar-tistic work is Clyde Squires, another Salt Laker who is achieving success as a magazine artist of value. 1 Miss Nora Eliason of Logan has as J her guest for a week hor sister, Miss llilda Jijiasou, also from Logan. Miss Nora Eliason is a student of vocal music mu-sic under Signor Cornson. She hones next season to go abroad to continue her studies. v Snllie Fisher is having the greatest success in her career as leading lady in "A Knight for a Day," which is playing play-ing to packed houses at Wallack's theater. the-ater. The dramatic critics laud Miss Fisher to the skies, and pronounce her the best comic opora star on Broadway. Sho continues to improve with each new I production. 4 leadiug critic, after a re- ! cont performance of "A Knight for a Day," said that Miss Fisher is fast becoming be-coming better than Fritzi Scheff at, her best. The Messrs. Maltese, also well known in Salt Lake, are winning much success late)' in musical comedy in New York. |