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tremendous success and is now engaged to produce “Boris Godunoff” at the Costanzi.	D. P.
A Frescobaldi MS. Discovered.
Rome, January 19.—A manuscript of Girolamo Frescobaldi, the famous Italian organist-composer of the seventeenth century, has just been discovered by Carlo Giorgio Garofalo. This manuscript contains twenty-seven fugues in three and four parts, a sonata for flute, an “elevation” and nineteen songs. It comprises 114 pages in all.
D. P.
Another Hearing for Braunfels' “Birds.”
Stuttgart, January 20.—Braunfels’ opera, “Die Vogel,” which recently had its Berlin premiere, has been performed with excellent success in the Landestheater in Stuttgart, under the conductorship of Fritz Busch.
The Same Everywhere!
Vienna, January 3.—A week prior to the date scheduled for the Vienna premiere of Schreker’s opera “Der Schatz-graber,” which was to have taken place on January 10, there came the surprising announcement that this performance had been abandoned. “Technical difficulties,” according to the official statement, account for the postponement. Mme. Jeritza and Mr. Schubert being in America at present, and Mr. Oestvig being disinclined to study the extremely difficult tenor role on short notice, their parts had been entrusted to some minor singers, but even these went into “passive resistance,” refusing to iearn their intricate roles. These incidents strongly illustrate the weakened morale of German operatic singers once so famous for their faithfulness to their artistic purposes.
P. B.
Lo Desca Loveland Active in Melbourne
The fortnight which Lo Desca Loveland spent in Melbourne found her very active socially as well as musically. She was asked to assist in many diplomatic functions, chief of which was the dinner reception given in honor of the American Consul General to Australia, at which the entire diplomatic corps was present. Miss Loveland was honor guest for a day at Mme. Melba’s conservatorium and listened to her master classes. Besides her recital in Melbourne, at which she achieved a distinct success, Miss Loveland appeared in the town halls of seven suburbs. Of particular interest is the fact that at one of her recitals some members of Mme. Melba’s family were present, and at the close of the program they found their way to Miss Loveland, who writes that, after giving her a cordial welcome to Melbourne, they said: “We feel that we are quite competent to judge, and with no hesitancy we want to tell you we consider yours to be the best voice, handled with the most perfect execution, we have ever heard in Melbourne, with the single exception of our own illustrious Aunt Nellie Melba.” Miss Loveland spent the Christmas holidays in the Blue Mountains of Australia for a rest before sailing on December 28 for New Zealand, where she was booked to appear in no less than fifty towns. This young singer is an artist pupil of Alice Garrigue Mott, the vocal teacher, of New York.
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thal’s recitation of his latest dramatic work, which is a new revision of Calderon de la Barcas’ “Das grosse Welt-theater.” Richard Strauss is composing the incidental music for the play, which, according to present plans, will have its first presentation at this year’s Salzburg Festival.
Wagner Works Draw.
London, January 13.—The British National Opera begins activities at Bradford on February 6. In the first two days of advance booking, over ¿3,000 was taken. The most popular operas appear to be “Parsifal” and “The Mastersingers.”	O. P.-J.
Rimsky-Korsakoff Cycle at Petrograd.
London, January 13.—In the coming season at the Maryinski at Petrograd, there is to be a Rimsky-Korsakoff celebration by a cycle of the following operas : “Sadko,” “The Snow Maiden,” “Kitisch,” “Mlada,” “Tsar Saltan,” and “Coq d’Or,” under the conductorship of Emil Cooper, one of the Russian Conductors at Drury Lane, London, in 1914.	O. P.-J.
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London, January 13.—Dr. Richard Strauss, interviewed on his arrival in England after a two months’ tour of the States, gave his opinion of American audiences. “They were wonderful—in fact, I think that music in America is in a flourishing condition. The average standard seems very high;” and he was particularly interested in the large number of musical clubs that existed there, some of which had a very large membership. This, he said, tended to a better and more critical appreciation of good music.
O. P.-J.
Russian Opera at Barcelona.
Barcelona, January 12.—Barcelona has just had for the first time Russian opera in Russian, given by a troupe headed by Mme. Davidoff and Mons. Ivanoff. The work given was “Boris Godounoff.” Serge Koussevitsky, a decided musical personality, was the competent conductor. The production as a whole was excellent.	T. O. C.
Gade Succeeded by Rudolph Berg.
Copenhagen, January 19.—The late Axel Gade (son of Niels W. Gade), who was a leading member of the Royal College of Music in Copenhagen, has been succeeded by Rudolph Berg, whose name is well known as the composer of several songs and large choral works. Among these last, “Geister der Windstille” has recently been performed both here and in several of the larger towns of Germany. Gade’s position as concertmaster of the Royal Orchestra has been made the object of a public competition. A final decision will be made after the two most successful candidates, Thorvald Nielsen and Olaf Bjorvig, have each functioned one month. This is the first time in the history of the orchestra that the post was not filled by simple promotion.	F. G.
“Mimo-Plastic Drama” for Copenhagen Opera
Copenhagen, January 19.—Louis Glass, one of the most prominent composers of Denmark, whose “Sinfonia Svas-tica” was a great sensation at the second Northern Music Festival in Helsingfors last year, is at present working on a “mimo-plastic drama” which will probably soon be performed at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. A similar composition, “Aphrodite,” by the same composer, was giver• here several years ago.	F. G.
A Voice of Five Octaves’ Range.
Vienna, January 19.—The most phenomenal voice in the world, which, as far as could be ascertained, has no precedence throughout history, has been discovered by the Austrian Society for Experimental Phonetics. Its possessor, Michael Prita, a Hungarian singer, has recently had his voice scientifically examined by the society and it was found that it comprises five full octaves. His lowest note is the contra-F of forty-two vibrations, which is over two octaves lower than the lowest violin tone, while his highest note is the A in alt (1740 vibrations)—one tone higher than the highest note of Patti. The timbre of his falsetto is of great sensuous charm. Prita is forty-four years old, has studied philosophy, medicine and law at the University of Vienna, and is a pupil of the Viennese vocal teacher, Gânsbacher. Phonetic records of his voice have been made and will be preserved in the archives of the Vienna Academy of Science.
Goossens Music for Covent Garden “Movie”
London, January 24.—•The great new moving picture establishment, which has its quarters in the Covent Garden Opera House, has a film orchestra of unprecedented merits, for it is the old opera ensemble, now called the Covent Garden Symphony Orchestra, which accompanies its pictures. The music for the first picture, “The Three Musketeers,” an American film, has been composed by Eugène Goossens, who personally conducted the first performance. As an introduction at the reopening of the new picture palace, the overture of Wagner’s “Rienzi” was played and, according to press comments, it is said to have been a “solemn moment in the history of the cinema.”
Jeritza Expected to Save Austria.
Vienna, January 19.—Maria Jeritza, the famous Viennese prima donna, who is creating such a sensation at the Metropolitan, has joined in the protest of the Austrian artists and scientists against the proposed sale of Vienna’s tapestries. She made her protest by cable. Since the news of her American salary has reached poor Vienna, it has become a standing joke that the prima donna will devote a part of her earnings to putting Austria back on its feet.
New Opera by Zemlinsky.
Prague, January 16.—“Kleider machen Leute,” an opera by the Viennese composer, Alexander Zemlinsky, will have its premiere at the Deutsches Theater in Prague.
Reiner a Rome Favorite.
Rome, January 19.—Fritz Reiner, the eminent Hungarian conductor, who made a triumphant debut at the Costanzi this year, has already become a favorite of the Roman public. He has conducted a concert at the Augusteo with
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