| Show I SHARPS and und FLATS I Mark tark the th Russian Hulan pi pl pianist anist arrived In New York on nn the lit last Friday and lin will win begin Ills his Hen next week with the Phil Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia Symphony orchestra He la Is accompanied by b Mrs Comparing the Ue day da musical comedy etrata tra with those of Offen Offenbach Offenbach bach an n Endl critic walls waits One On Is I almost tempted to tn beUve that writ writing log ing champagne musk mil Is I an n art of ot which the secret Is I lost I Mr ill M r I contemplates giving c cIn log ing In opera every night flight during durin the Ihl sea season 1 son Ion 0 at the Manhattan Opera Ope house hou houth the th bin big ItI personnel at n 0 principal al already alt alreed ready reed t nga ed with Uh I Us Ps dosen dOMn so sopranos pranos PraDo besides ItS Melba telba Iba Bohu ehu Garden Rue Rusa Ru Bressler anti and O win slit I great tenors teno and three thre conductors also tiso 0 the production of eight n II nw u op operas p peras eras suet such h a Ii polly polIcy possible In III one of the Ut UI last letters letter he penned tile the late Prof Joachim expressed hit his belief lIet that hat tile the time lim wet an H not distant when Mil Anrica m rl would be bl leader In Inthe the Ut world worM In the tude Mabel M to Daniels writes writ At AI the re recent r recent cent Mt In Berlin when h the th monument to Wr Wa n r wn wo was the Ornans had an opi i nf of 1 b aliD something fm the he I pen of ot Prof lI Jf Paine P ln lust yen cu In Ih hadwick gave an un cOIlS nt nf of Ills his h own 1 works work hae h has nut not h hven M n given ven a hearing and I Ie s In It being widely J ed d throughout the country countr as 5 MII I HM his hi string When Verdi died he be left ft 0 francs tor ff the th erection In Milan of ofen an en for tot aged aRed In tn the flor dOr of this there Ihre la ii laa iia a Verdi VIrdt museum containing scores ore anti and diverse documents Illustrating blat Ife Ite If and nd To these th baa haa h lately n died the Ut furniture of the lintel hotel lately room In Milan tu In 18 which Ver Vel Verdi dl di dIed ded d ed Behind this building there Is ii I a mausoleum containing Verdis VerdEs coffin cortin and und two other coffins One of Br these th contains the remains relna of his hie hi second nd wife the other Is empty It H was II Intended for tor the remains remain of his h Il Illint lint ret wife hut but all aU efforts made mad by 11 Verdi erdl to 10 find them Ihm were In vain vin At Atthe Atthe the time Ume when sh ah died he was waa 11 too pout to buy bU a permanent grave IRve for tor her and subsequently the th place of burial could uld not be found again alII At 1 the Royal Hoyal opera apora In Berlin there are at present prent no fewer than five live Amer American Am AmIrun lean ican singers Farrar Darch and Hose I and MM 4 Or Is wold and Maclennan Four of these all but Miss KI Rose l Ired in 11 Madame Butter Butterfly fly Ry whet when that Ihal opera had It Iti first per performance In III the Ibe German metropolis and nd this thi caused quite a Ii commotion om motion among amon the Ih singers In who are beginning bej to 10 dread the American peril for tor as a soon as all American sinners become great ret aud and famous America reclaims them as a we wesee wesee see lie In the Ihl cases aae of lam Nordic and nd Farrar August In his hi letter to 10 the Ibe Staats Stati Z writes write rapturously of or Mitts Miss Farrar charming Im ha Impersonation of the heroine of this thi opera Hi lie 11 found her even better than In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York both bolh vocally and histrionically Nver Ner he continues continue did her voice sound softer and und rounder In the Ibe lyric pa passages and nd never more full and pow JIOw powerful powerful erful In iii the th dramatic moment She he be fascinated the th public to 10 such an n extent that It seemed med as If It the Ute storm torm of ap applause appia plasma pia after fler the Ib second act would never end After the third act there wets wet countless recalls recall for all U the Ibe artists artist and then a lung long tun series aeries for II Miss anal Farrar Berlin has ha h become bem the Ibe Mecca of oC music mule students student from all 11 parts part of DC the die world orld and many of the th pilgrims who flock thither art Are re as II Ignorant a II t the tM who make tIne the trip rip to tile the Mecca Times Tim without number r young yo liP girls present th them themselves selves at the consulate or American Am om club without any ny Berlin addresses add with absolutely no knowl knowledge knowledge edge of German and nd aDor ignorance cue ance aa as II to ID the c and coat cost of living Many lany of them hm I n r find their way Q ay to those two t af sources source ur of ot In Ia formatIon end and an one to 10 think thin of th the t wll wh could be ie unearthed her here In Berlin Thus Tb writes write Caroline aroline V Kerr In I Ute lii Leader and ConcertGoer ba says II that on n nt of Berlins best t known know kno teachers teacher hut hUM lately announced her Intention of rofu a It i who ha hanot not an n assured in nt of f at t It I Ien leget en Th a month be argus argues Kru that no noone 0 one Oil lilt can till live liv comfortably bl on nil less lesa I aM that union site Khe h has haj fut amount eith either tit er It else abe will In be II seriously h ha III In her har work rk r n the t will nave vs tin the table that In I d ncr wr price she is Ie eVs the Ih pupil of ot t oJ of ot the lie B at tit life |
