| Show r SHARPS HARPS S and FLATS 1 1 Vienna Is disconsolate because Its Us favorite tenor tel or refutes refuses a new hew contract even for tor a n year He thinks ho can cnn make mako more more re In America and elsewhere He Ito seems to bo ho a semi sen sensible sible moan man for he lie h Intends s before ho becomes a free freo lance to tithe take lessons of Jean J enn de do In Paris Purls has lias an In Intense dislike for private recitals The Tho other day be bo Ing Invited to play phI In ono one of 0 tho the palo pala palatial tal homes of oC Chicago ho lie asked what ho supposed was nil a II prohibitive price Tho The figure named was but to lo his surprise the tile lady lad of uC the tho palatial house promptly acquiesced is tho thu title of or the tho bright beautifully blau and com cos 1 comic opera olem vehicle in lii which Sam Sain S and I Lec Iee eo Shubert are offering Cering of the tho genial and 1111 1 comedian De Do DeWolf Wolf Volt Hopper with petite eUle Marguerite Clark us na his principal support It Is the tho work of oC Reginald who wrote the music and und Fredrick Rankin who supplied the book ook anti and lyrics Giuseppe Gla who ho wrote the 1 I libretto of oC opera ra Madam But Butterfly in lit collaboration with ot of Milan hd only on I recently He was considered one ono of or time tho greatest modern modem Italian dramatists but few tes te ot or othis his lila works canto came to tho Um American stage His Wife Vito of or adapted from G 0 GA GA A Greene wan wal produced In iii tho the United Statue States just 10 years ago Tho Time complete edition ot of works will comprise 80 lavo lalo volumes of 0 music Dr Is tho Urn thoman man maim who has hall undertaken the herculean task tURk of ot editing this huH collection and no better belter could have been bee tako IE 15 1 years to 10 complete completo the tho work worle Tho Timo first volume appeared lre 1 not nol long ago ngo II go It contains an n Introduction In which tho the editor says that of the tha symphonies attributed to Haydn are nN undoubtedly his while 20 26 G are arc doubtful und nod II nd 38 mao aro Editor ot of tho time New ow York Musical Coin Caution lor Is editorially f break breaking lag ing the hearts hl of certain local tallies dallies by showing that their music critics do 10 not understand their business Imo no trained curs whereby to 10 discern the tho pitch In which limo aro playing or 01 In lu which vocalists tire aro ringing I Tho occasion OI ot or this rl ni ooN breasting was saw the tho reviews In tho tIme dallies dailies I Ill up ap on the Now New York operatic boards and their h at attempts attempts tempts to tell whether alma sho touched C or 01 D lint Hat in this or that mona meas measure ure UIe the Heralds s an nn attempt at itt descriptive of oC dramatic color shill lug with kaleidoscopic quick quickness quickness ness noss from to phrase e fairly makes makos sore SOlO with laughter the time sides aides of the tho Courier editor Now that Edward Edwal MacDowell Is 18 dead musicians 11 n both O h professional slon 1 and al d I win pay puy mm more marc in intention n m to his lila music and arid many ama amateurs amateurs c tours are arc asking themselves what they h should begin with Of Ot the tho four piano pianoforte pianoforte forte fortI sonatas the best perhaps Is la tho thin fourth or ur but all son sonatas atas are very vel and it II is ad advisable s to begin with the tho collections of oC holt pieces the Woodland Sketches Sea Pieces Now New ew England Id ls 01 or Fireside Tales The Tho charm ot of those Is III enhanced by h indicating In tug ing their poetic purpose e between In Instrumental and und vocal music Simmers should begin with tho Eight 1 Songs Song each of or f which Is II a n Jewel when sym sympathetically pathetically sung aunG This collection In Iii Includes InI eludes The rIme Sea Sen which Huneker apt alt aptly altI aptly ly I called tho thin greatest song lIong of oC the tho Hea sea since Am Ant Moor Meer Even gon tho tIme severest t critics of oC Ameri Amen American can music most of the tho critics vie Ie with each cach other for this title cannot deny tho time presence of oC an un extra extraordinary ordinary OI and amid creative impulse ulse in American musical art ant While for 10 reasons to bo be considered tow raw works In large largo forms como come to general public anti scarcely to local every OVel year wit witnesses nesses n o notable Increase of ot orchestral works chamber music piano and vocal ocal works III In large largo forms Corms and an other othol com coin compositions positions by hy American composers Of OC smaller piano compositions anti and songs tho thu seasons bring forth forthm nn aim appalling quantity and too often It Is tine an appalling quality is WI welt veli yet cl In the tho mills midst I of oC this saturnalia many works olles of oC truo true distinction of uC breadth and beauty works In ad lInco of oC those usually chosen to 10 sent American music on n mm flints pro limo programs grams And Aini foin to time un an American opera rises train from tho the com coni posers consciousness to tn it never to performance and lInd sinks again Into Inlo a II mysterious obscurity oblivion or III neglect lIe wo tire tiro fain to know knos which I In III the February Atlantic |
