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Show MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, Musical vibrations will cause high explosives to go oft". ' Tun once famous court violinist, Enrico En-rico Masi, died in Rome a few days ao. He was at one time a member of the well-known "Florentine Quartette." Leoncavallo is busily at work ou two operas and a ballet to be called "Itcynard the Fox," the libretto of which has beeu written from Goethe's famous poem. Tin: 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 Theodoic Havcmeyer, the multi-millionaire, is playing the violin. President William 1? M-.VI..11- nf thn 1 'nU-.M-ilv of Chi.-mr.l is an admirable performer on the cornet. cor-net. Mme. Lucca, the widow of the music publisher, who has just died in Milan, carried on thy business herself after her husband's death, and was among the lirst to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to the Italians. V Ultnfs new opera has for itssubjeet, not King Lear, as has been reported, but Count Ugolino and the Tower ot Fa in hie from Dante's Inferno. In preparing pre-paring it he has had examined a musical mu-sical setting to the episode written in the sixteenth cenlury by Tinccnzo t!al-ileo, t!al-ileo, the father of the ast ronomer. Tolstoi, after writing a libretto to an opera called "The Distiller." a musical mu-sical and opera I ic tract intended to cure the liusMim peasant of Intemperance, and procuring a teetotal composer to write the appropriate music, tinds that 'die Russian peasant expresses no interest in-terest In his worlt, and the opera Is u fa i 1 u re. |