| Show I SHARPS AND FLATS I Dreadful news from front the tho front Cronl Ca Caruso c Caruso ruso rUMO putting on weight fast The fhe dal dat dalles Ilex les hardly hurdly can cnn estimate tho the cruel blow they hey the deal tho the febrile female contingent nl imong tho time rs with that ills die trussing piece of or Information III ht n e hoad typo type 1 last week Courier Mignon Nevada Neld Palmer daughter of oC Emma Enema Nevada has lias signed a II con coil to sing Ing for Cor Thomas Beechum In London for tor three years She will make her ler debut In iii October In Tho Barber of or and will later sing Marlon Carmen and amid Ophelia II 1 Northern summer schools of or music arc aro re attracting many teachers from the south and west wesl It speaks yell well for tor forlie forthe the lie zoal 11 of uC those thoRO educators that they prefer to como coma north and stet east for or nor nol normal mal naul work rather rathor than upend I their an on annual nual nuni holiday In III doing nothing Idleness s does loos not nol appeal to active minds All 1 such minds crave em ve IK Is x It change o scene ceno and this the human desire to meet now pee peo plo and learn of oC thom them thomA themA A Boston Item says Luther Luthor Orlando Emerson of or n f Boston the Iho venerable com corn Poser passed tho time ninetieth anniversary of or his hili birth lust last Wednesday 1 Mr Ir Emerson Is III the oldest living member of oC that famous group of ot teachers com composers corns comI I posers I and educators beginning with Lowell Meson and Including such men menan menas an as I 1 II Woodbury William B II Bradbury Brad Bradbury bury hUI A N X Johnson George P F Root George J Webb obb and others He Ile still enjoys uncommonly good health for or one of or his iia years and composes o 08 pieces piece of oC music for or a I magazine of ot which ho Is I part purt editor R bun holl lotto comes to America to conduct rehearsals mind and per performances o of hl hI his new opera oper In which tho the will star Bessie Abott Abatt next season a rousing reception r will ba hll him by h the tho combined Italian societies The treatment which ho hI will receive wilt will be bo far tar different front from rom that accorded him on III his last appear an Once CO In III America At that time Injunctions I linns hills bills contracted by b different mom morn hers bor of at his hla company any and legal writs I rondo made his life bite miserable o miserable ml In fact that ho determined never to re 10 return return turn to America George Tyler T ler by hy the tho promise of nt n a tour lour to the Pacific coast and to Mexico was Willi able to 10 get el to forgot forget his hi determination For Kor or tho first time In III ida his life lito the portrait por portrait trait painter II If Humphrey Moore heard tho the sound Bound of o music last laH week at lit a II tr roo n given by b ills his a wife w ifo In III Paris Mr Moore was born barn u a deaf mute mule In to New Now NewYork York YOlk sixty years ago ngo Among the th of Mrs Moore was waa n II Chicago woman Mrs Peterson whoso whose tars singing hn line boron been on one anti of o the th de delights delights lights of ot Mio tho season Mrs Peter Peterson son lIn suggested putting an 01 electric tube lullo In III Mr Moors ear while white the tho Countess cle III was playing i a I violin The effect cITed was wu miraculous for or Mt olt Moue Moore heard every eer note noto of ot the violin Tears Taus rolled down hL his cheeks cheek und and many of o those Ileone present ent wept In sympathy Mr Moore expressed od his hl wonder and delight In hI the tho sign language and und In writing w 1111 for tor the benefit nf or the tho guests Mr III Moore has hOll lived In hr forty orty years arll and Is IH famous on as an mt Idealistic painter of ut beautiful he Spanish and Imd Amer scan lean women A letter lottor from Munich says nays Marcella Craft of o the tho royal opera has hall hind had to give Ilvo up UI her plans for a IL trip 1111 to In America ArneIll tits this MI summer minor on Uti account of III her Euro Kuro Jo uro penn pearl engagements and will remain In Munich she Is la to lOlling sing three thre roll roles In the Ihl which begins bog Ins on July Jul 26 Miss 1 Is s raft Craft lw IR 1 delighted with the tho Mil 1111 nick public puhl which sho chic finds l always sympathetic with her work Also AIlO o fo for tor fortier tier her treatment by the Iho press mad and for Cor the nt at tho opera house cho rho ho line has only good words In regard to 10 Uio JIO latter she says IaH Everyone In III the Iho theater deems to be beso beso so kind I 1 certainly do 1111 not feel eol any of ot the Ihl much talked of or prejudice against Americans There Thero Is always In every Ver theater for fur a R newcomer bu but equally equall an nl much for or a R German nH us fo fonn for tor foran nn an American and I J have often orten felt fell that UIRt on nn the contrary when once we wo arc accepted they tho make meko more of oC us II of o their own people Tho The hard part partIs Is I to get Kt accepted but that too Is It herd har for tor everyone everlIne For Kor the tho sake of decency groans the Musical Courier we sincerely lope hope that our unscrupulous publishers am and pushers of rot did not supply the tho Nor bandmasters with tine the unspeakable unspeakable able spawn of ot their catalogues which tho the bandmasters IJ were constrained to play piny to 10 Col because they nod ho were core American If It the hand band bandmasters masters of o their own freo treo will use their Judgment In selecting from the best of or our not too tOil great rent stock of oC beau beautiful beautiful American airs then thon wo vo 0 hove no reason to 10 regret that our ox visit vl gave gu them therm a II hearing Oc Occasionally when by b accident wo we have been bren obliged to listen to 10 thin tho putrid phrases and disgusting dl of or much of oC the tho American airs is as played by our peripatetic polyglot bands wo we have almost found round I In record lIcord with tho the Italian Italia musician In III Genoa nOi who said Rahl There Th re are arc no American musicians mu because It Is Impossible for toe foran nn an American to be bo a n II musician Thou Then ngan when the tho simple grace and aUlI natural na nil natural tural charm of o Fosters Riv Hh River er or falls on our emirs ears we two tell feel like the Syrian captain of ot Biblical nib licit I repute who swore that flint Abana and aUlI rivers of or Damascus were wro better than nil all the tho waters of at Israel |
