Show MUSICAL richard wagner is sixty seven the beauty of the bass drum is only skin deep carnello the violinist has been decorated with alie crose of the legion of honor kichard wagner has been offered to direct twelve concerts exclusively clu of hie own music in the different states by an american manager joachim is expected to visit the united thi fall classical students think that the report is too good to be true hajam hof new rival has made her dibut in london and won a brilliant she ie eaid to be not only a great singer but an actress of intelligence the friends of leopold lichtenberg san franciaco Franci ico are out with a challenge of that he will play the violin against any gereon now in north or south america the young violinist is but eighteen years old and was a companion student of mr willard lake city at brussels it is eaid that at the beginning of his remarkable fast dr tanners voice was a high tenor tt changed gradually to a deep and round bass here is a hintt tenors who wish to become bassos should there be such A scene in lyon and healas healys music store chicago enter stranger for some music clerk calling to another fixl no answer still no response friend of the firm Is lyon in stranger what kind of a men egme is this anyhow not lone ago sig bach gave a very curious and interesting performance n london illustrating the use of a voice renovator invented by him self in an explanatory lecture he showed how by fixing a couple of alij platea against the mouth a great nerease of sound any additional dit ional expenditure of breath could be produced he then sang several songs with and without the apparatus and certainly produced an astonishing volume and rich body of tone ie maintained that the invention would materially assist public speakers and singers and enable conductors to engage select choruses capable of producing with the resonator ahe deflect of double their numbers the invention has received the high commendation of professor tyndall and tait and wo shall doubtless bear more of it A menagerie proprietor recently announced that for his beneat a learned elephant would play some pieces upon the piano fone people rushed to hear the tusked virtuoso and ft large suni WAS taken at the office A pianoforte piano forte was brought into the ring and alie top removed after the usual obeisance the elephant advanced raising his huge right forefoot fore foot he placed it up on the keys suddenly ho uttered a fearful cry which sounded like weeping and created no mail alarm the manager came forward to learn the reason after communicating with the elephant he ordered him to be led away and turning to the audi ence he announced that the elephant had recognized in the keys of and piano was so overcome by bis feelings that he could not perform referring to the debut at st jamea hall of mr herbert keeves son of mr sims keeves the london tims bays amateurs who remember mr sims cleeves at a corresponding age seemed to imaging that the great english tenor bad come back from a journey to tho fountain of youth in the fairy land of birami described in old spanish romances the illusion was not dispelled when the first notes of tho young singer struck the ear here was tho same velvety softness of tone in the middle register the same quality of the bovyer voice and at least an attempt nt the same penetrating char of the high notes by means of which mr hiim produces ime of bis most brilliant effects even littia mannerisms anil lecul iari lies e ff the nil but inaudible enunciation of the last and note of a chriso not forgotten no more than tha general feature of style and sentiment much of this may bo due to more or less conscious imitation or to the fact aliat sig mazzucato alio instructed ie fater er esin ane same two it would lio impossible to alny that alio mysterious principle of heredity so much talked of now ailais has been here at work alis voice although very sweet and pathetic is as vet very weak fani especially ally the higher require and developing the einger was by nervousness pey hapa also herad gitary whid ao 10 the 11 iria froin Doni efUs maria di aulian cluade his but ble wats hlll in the beautiful air It efrain thy voice from weeping from mr lUvane light of ane world conducted bj the composer end to wear off only in ina eelig Sohn berte fa ave maria to sum up mr herbert reevea debut was regards pi pular success very brilliant and not on alie other cianti without of a higher amitio kind |