Show i SHARPS AND FLATS FLATS An autograph Beethoven letter sold soldat at n a recent auction In London contain contained ed these two sentences This horrible fourth floor oh God without a 0 wife what an existence Ever Every stranger steals my things Lilli Lill Lehmann though In her sixty second year continues to delight audiences au audiences with her Hr song recitals Several Sev Several eral very en successful ones were given b by her In n Vienna row Cow weeks ago and andon on her return to Berlin she gave another at which she sang Mignon songs as well ns the ot of Bungert for which she has done dono missionary worl The Paris opera soars says the Musical Courier ru runs s throughout the year ear with exception or of a few days here and there for renovation which does docs not take place There are a number of free Cree da days s for Cor the people Altogether there are about performances In Inthe the tho regular calendar The average nightly receipts during the year ear end ond ending In ing November 15 were the tho best seats scats being and from this price to 40 cents It costs about to raise the tho curtain at the Paris grand opera hero nt at the Metropolitan tan It costs about The average receipts In ParIs are much lower when the tho Americans are arc absent less than 2000 the greater number or of performances at It less than this sum when the Americans appear up go gotho gothe the tho receipts to n a night Hero In New York there are aro few Cew at most above There Thero will no doubt douht be a tremon lous dous sale Rale for the following books announced an announced b by Mr Leonard Liebling tiro tho humorist of oC the Musical CourIer I think of the tho Metropolitan I by Oscar Hammerstein Expurgated Mar Mary Garden an Appreciation II try Jules An enthusiastic and anil particularly disinterested biography hat Is a Soprano 7 b by Olive Fremstad A spirited t C essay sn showing that the only real sopranos are tran trai posed contraltos English of oC Wagner Translated into English A carefully prepared work worl Issued to meet n large larso popular demand What hat Salome Salomo Did to the Critics I by I Richard Strauss Bound In red sackcloth with bows bowl of oC black crepe de chine on each volume My I Complete Works orl lW by Pietro I Thu best book on Caval lerla ever eer published The admiration which Beethoven had I for tor Napoleon before ho he assumed the title of emperor has become common I knowledge dwells somewhat upon the value of admira admiration lion tion and the regard which the com composer composer poser entertained for his hero must have been great indeed We Ve realize this moro more Cull when we remember that tho original title of oC the Eroica sym symphony phon phony was merely merel Napoleon Bonn Bon t parte pante The Idea Is supposed to have been suggested to him b by Bernadotte the tho French ambassador at Vienna and I evidently a man of oC musical tastes On the completion O of the symphony m y t wag h ro si I t Intention t 1 to havo a c copy tent to Paris but before this could be bedone done dono the tho nurse that the tho consul had assumed l the tho title or of emperor reached th the AustrIan capital and thIs Information information tion was brought to the composer by byRle Ries In a 11 Ot fit or of rage ho tore the title page oft off the Idol had feet of clay The great composition eventual eventually I ly become known b by the tho name It now bears Melba you ou have Inspired a nations pride exclaimed the Brisbane Dally Daily Mall all alter after the great grent prima donna hat had glen given a concert In that city Referring to ono one number on the program the I writer goes on to sa saOno say Ono One travelled far that evening Leav LeavIng Leaving Ing the fore forest t I stood b by a brook waterlines grew The wraith of a alovel lovely lovel mad girl rIses from Crom the tho waters It must he be her for Ophelia ne never r would have havo expressed herself us as Ambrose Thomas would have us he be bellevo I lIeo But what a conception nevertheless less Who ho knows what vagaries Ophelia ghost ma may nut have com committed I The opening wall of the oboe trans transported I ported one straight Into the tra tragedy ed edor or of the tho insane mind and Ophelia Ophella step ster stepped pell ped before one h her poor mad eyes eeR shining through tears her dl dishevelled hair and pathetic young ounE figure hurting with the futility of oC It nil Oh to he lien this opera and to watch such an Ophella VIII It ver verbe er be bc our tate fate we deserted l Australians living I in this beautiful but oh so lonel lonely outpost of oC art |