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Show MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Musical vibrations will cause liiyh explosives to yo oif. Tijf, once fiimous court violinist, Eurico Eu-rico Musi, died in Rome a few days afro, lie was at one time a memlier of the well-known "Florentine Quartette. Lkoncavai.i.o is busily at work on two operas and a ballet to be called "Reynard tlic Fox," the libretto o which has been written from Goethe's famous poem. Tiif. czar of Russia plays on the cornet, cor-net, it is said, with such utter disregard disre-gard to time and place that some one once hinted that it entirely accounted for the existence of nihilists. The favorite amusement of Theodoie riavemeyer, the mull i-miUiona ire, is playing the violin. President William R. Llarper, of the L uiverstty of Chicago, is an admirable performer on the cor- I net. Mmf.. Lucca, the widow of the music publisher, who has just died in Mihin, i carried on the business herself after ; her husband's death, and was among ! the llrst to introduce Richard Wagner's : operas to the Italians. 1 Vr.it ru's new opt.ra lias for ilsMibjrct, not King Lear, as lias lieen reported, hut Count Ugolino mid the Tower of Famine from Dante's Inferno. In pro-i pro-i pnring it he has had examined a musical mu-sical selling to the episode written in the sixteenth century by Viueen.o Galileo, Gal-ileo, the father of the astronomer. Toi.sxot. after writing a libretto to j an opera called "The DiMiller." a mu-I mu-I sical and operatic tract, int ended In cure j the Russian peasant of intemperance. ; Hnd procuring a teetotal eonipoer to ! write the appropriate muMe. finds that ' the Russian peasant expresses no in-I in-I terest in his work, and Cue opera is a failure. |
