| Show N N N NI I SHARPS and FLATS John long Identified with light opera abandoned the stage to become associated with a aNew aNel New Nel York Jinn of oC bickers It IH III announced that The Hed Hel I la 18 to 10 be revived revive with Cherl Cheri In the role originally played by Grace Van on Awl And now the London ondon of ot lire beginning to call Richard Strauss hackneyed It 1 has boll been played there frequently of at late Richard Strauss 8 Salome Is 9 to be he produced In Berlin after all If It the th Hoyal Opera refute to mount It the Dresden company will visit and present tho 1110 at another theater Cesar Thomson will sail for South America In III tl for tor a months concert tour lour There la Is n a possibility that ho he may III visit the United States before ho returns t Ui I A leport cornea from Berlin that Carrono the Iho pianist who la 18 still In the maturity of her powers Is Isto Isto to make an nn American tour next yell This winter In Germany at sho has hns been heen playing one of ot concertos often oft ell Mme well 1111 known tn this country as ns an all opera singer Inglr of exceptional talent Is her health through special treatment In Switzer Switzerland land milt exp ct to get Iet Into active nolO work again alln before long Th audiences nt n t the regular concerts of the Chicago Orchestra have Wen Well HO KU largo lare and eager thero Id 18 to be he u 1 supplemental y of concerts through April 11 ch more morp moreover over oer Is to take his band from Now York to Chicago for tor the summer fritz l the great Jf violinist t whose who e recent performances In Berlin have enthused even een the burdened crit critics critIcs ics of ot the German will be he heard In London In May Them Is no likelihood of Ills his coming to coun country country try until the tho of 1907 If It then Alexander tho famous violinist last hut tour here about eight Ight ears ago ngo IH Is still li Is lito to 10 return tn tl tho States under uller the management of ot Henry Of late lale years has hns confined his tours toun to Germany Austria and ahll In which ho he Is known l own n the Poet of ot tho Violin Countess ill II Miranda long known to the lyric singe ai ns Christine tho Swedish nightingale Is 18 nn Inveterate gambler Shu has a n beautiful villa via near Mentone but spends a 1 great deal deul of ot her at nt Monto Carlo gaming at nt which N eho sho has lost 2 OOOO this season Another A addition made male by hy Frank director of tho Institute of Musical uri art Nev ew York to tn th Institutes faculty IH II Mme NI of ot Berlin Mme has hn worked for years yearl In Berlin un under der 11 Mrs aerator Sho will wi ar arrive rive here next week Mme MII Lillian Lilan barely hel escaped Injury on thu tho stage of tho Met Metropolitan tet Oper House nt ot tho matinee March 10 when whon Just after tho of ot the tho third act n t In the tho II I a 1 of fell fel so 80 coso to her heras herni as ni to dash a n tram from her Iler hands and a splinter Into her arm has become nn sarlo and formed forr d an ni la for tor forthe the sole ole purpose of hU his lat latest lit litell est ell work Leoncavallo will wi take his company to Vienna next month and conduct performances of or his opera at nt tho Jubilee Theater This will wil bo ho thu tho representation of either In Austria or In Germany German Tho I of l Coalina Wagners Income may bo be guessed at from the tho tact fact that she Iho demands demand royalty simply for tor a series of performances of ot the operas o to be given In Mr Ir Is trying to 10 Interest 10 cities In thin project and ho hI has hi bagged six It I I I esti estimated esl mated that th scenic outfit will 1 cost or n good Ko d less les than Wag nerl widows share of the Felix lell has been to direct clec two concerts nt the Grand Opera Oler In Paris nt at the end 1111 of April Apri tho con concerts COl to he ho under the auspices of ot tho des tf Grande IURI Tl j do Kroner and had hM been to Incorporate In the tho pro Iro grains 1 Beethoven symphonies among them being boll tho Ninth Tha ho flu In cst amonI singer BInger In Franco and ni Germany German will wi with wih him to mako these concerts the tho success they deserve to tobe tobe be Ignace nun hUl fully fUl reco ered erM from the stroke of paralysis from which he In the tho United S his last Int tour lour and nil 1 mako his hl Hist appearance then at n 1 recital to 10 bo given at Bilbao Spain the mid middle mil dle of next month Should Khol d he 1111 that ho has i his hil former there Is II every eler likelihood that he will wi In b heard In the tho United State next lext season Tho biennial music festival of the Scandium fco n 1 11 Inn Singers association will wi take pIn In s o WIs on July Ju 6 7 and 8 preparations aro under way war to 10 Inko the tho event a 1 memorable In III the one ol organizations history The Hinging socie society ty t a local branch brach of the association will wm entertain the tho big army of dele delegates gates Ies that will wi attend the tho series serle of ot concerts concert Mme upon her ar nr arrival rival In Hamburg found her nn anxious representative of ut the Paris Grand Orand opera who her hel la 10 ap appear pear p nr in II the special production of La L She accepted and Ild will wi Tides In French She will wil sing sine this role In German In productions at Prague and aie In III French at nt Mino rl Schumann last sang this role In French In Ina Inn a n production nt the Metropolitan with Alvarez as IU the tenor An effort Is II being made to hae hR Con Congress gress pass s a II bill bl for the tho of the Ih Washington Wn Auditorium company cOlpany a 0 project that has hus been on oat foot for tor some som two years or more and for which th thaid the aid und ant Influence have hn been secured of ot Homo people prominent In II musical cir circles circes cles ces and ald In other linen ilci of ot life At th pre ont time and with wih the tho single ex exception of tb t theaters y dl h can cal only on bu b on nights the tho season there IH no 11 good auditorium In Inthe the city and ald the need neet of ot such luch a n build buildIng buildIng Ing has long been felt N 01 long ago there t wu HB a concert of ot otIa Max Ia Inu ll In III Munich or of ofas as I much mich of or It as M could bc bl heard hearl In hI the tha din his partisans und Ind his hil opponents raised nt Intervals throughout the At the end of at tho concert a afew aW few W ardent youths I Re He Reger HeGer ger at his house hOlse and then mn went on to that of a n revIewer win wh has ha bitterly hiter con COl the composers compo ela music lu lc There they tooted tin horn und rattled kettles to their hearts heart delight Next day It IL R the reviewers turn with thin para pum paragraph graph I wish to express my lY cordial cordia thanks to In those members of ot the tax Max Hener HeiEr wh delighted me with witha a 1 serenade In which BO KO tar far as I I could coult 1111 out fragment from the masters master wore played In a C high characteristic manner malner Last David Ill covered over HOJO miles Ills of or territory In over concerts In America N Nut season ellon Mr Ir expects to tl produce the of If a a light ro roo romantic mantic opera In three acts le founded on Oi Oliver Oller Goldsmiths story the book nn by 1 Lawrence Houseman author of ot the tho Lovo Ive Letters of ot nn an English EnglishWoman Woman olal and nd other well wel known and by hy Liza of ot Lon London Ln don dOl who Is famed ns 1 the composer of or ofIn In III s II Persian Garden arlel Mr lr His Bis Bispham pham phal Is II now no with New NewYork Nel York for tho new nf operatic en enterprise which he expects to product produce next season |