Show L SHARPS HARPS and FLATS says lIa it Is ILI for fOl a I professional pianist to practise at ILl least four foul hours a day There Thore arc three kinds of ot music There is It good mu music sic thero Is bad and AmbroIse Thom Thomas as all Maurice Grau tho great operatic manager CI who recently died in III Purls Paris left lett an worth moro than thun BO that opera does not nol always spell ruin luh to managers Hattle Williams will probably ap appear pear peal next season in III a n now lIew play Ilia by h CIdo Fitch with music She Sho will open her hII season in The Little Cherub up n Uio ney play later In III the year yeul Augusta Close recently with tho i Chrysanthemum and oven moro recently In III vaudeville was waH married to Charles S Leeds a IL wealthy Western man nt at Christ Church Philadelphia on April A 1111 2 Tho chief cause of or was exhaustion from overwork In thc tho at attempt tempt to mak his living Tho other lay day at al an auction salo in wall paid for tho MSS ISS of or ono one of ot Ills his concertos Melba hns hall had a wing of ot the Homo for Hables named In Inho her ho honor because of or her In tho Institute Kin raised ral ell a largo sum toward tho Iho construction of ur tho now will whig by b tho salo aulo of or autographed lIuto photographs performances of DC ser and other operas are nrc given In tho English provinces province by ly tho company nt at seat prices ranging from 75 cents down to 8 cents Under tho auspices of ot the tho Archbishop oC New No York l Humes Clo Go goran and Victor Herbert and 01 his or orchestra r chestra will wil Iho a It concert nt II tho Wai VII on May 7 for tal the Iho benefit ot or a Spanish church to 10 be le erected near building It I as reported in Berlin week wrel that thal Herr Hen von VI nI di director l rector of the Munich opera had re le an ni offer to tl Heinrich Con rol as rUI rector director III of or tho Metropolitan Opera New York lerl von denied that he hud had received any uny direct offer Henry Hen W Savage from Vien Vienna na IL that ho witnessed tho Iho alico of ot Olo Ie III Hilda pest and tho Iho 3 performance of a the tho opera In III Vienna days III S later ItIN This work olk IH IA Iho mio HUI of ut Ihu far ar says Mr i Die Ie will wi bo ho presented In 1 season by I Mi Homo limp Ihl ngo the tho pianist Murk Ham bourg WI offered Hire Ihn of oC 00 awl 2 for fil pi m HI by h com Tho Judges worn Arthur Her vry v Michael Algernon Thuy found no JI ICO worthy of or tho prize but aligned 1 fl tho second to II William Wilam and 1 P Howe Howl It Il remark romark Ihly HIJII under thu tho man oC if W 1111 with a Until work In III whore tho ul 11 l not only thu capacity CI of hut but n 1 11 for II In Iho city cl of ut I Italy HiI Is hi l In n Ift ort of If of o own Tho Iho a It lut Ir In III tho Iho dolla Hern of u Mi J Inn lil In III ho n 1 of hav having ing 11 In II 1010 Italian opera hlll 1111 In III IM 08 with Iho In III i 11 to In bit hll four HI a I by I III thu h s ut ll 1111 11 und 1111 ono tW or I conceit 1 Ho v 1 l iun pi ati do not to I ho lit 11 a I Im I fennel of humor m 1 V I all al time ln h found onU ni roil 1 musical critic over uc lure 11 that twi is only one who praised him hll with ith Sir HII Elsar wh has u just returned to 10 m luckier He 1 found three In its on this side name mi if r them Mr 11 Aid Aidrich rich did say sa very C nice things abou Ii J gars rs Hilt Bil bow did tb d this out He IlL paid sall to tn a IL senta l lot ot oC Musical 11 America Hint lie h treads anything tho th newspaper t tj about him and 1111 hax nil Hi Ih IMI SI cut thI out of or his paper lefor h i runa |