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• ■* :• : ta ivnc poem, by Mv““ , sung at was really one more% • *. V « ' * '• * . • ‘ ■ :with which we are. 4 . *11on;es•. • f. i ■ *enurchnew prose song It . wa ittle jmore•f'.improvisation with musical a ccompaniment.. 7}.very few accompanists would ■ have the* • 1■r.t •»is that “the music the music.”■ r• J. - /• • . . . 4 . , , to be a radical change in all accompaniment sentiment, if the prose song is to come into use.it is sent for that very purpose.Real grief is felt by all musicians at the sad death of M.:esadcen-anHenri Jahyer,.the amiable secretary of the Opera Comique, who with musicianly fervour undertook the ungrateful tas! of raising the standard of operatic music in Nantes within the past year Cousin of M. Cavalho, well equipped by training and experience, he planned more than he couldaccomplish, poor fellow, and has succumbed to the strainA ' ‘* 'usvesemineofr sends to one of the city papers an ingenious musical device for marking wine bottles, with a view to discovering the customary depredations.It seems that the sound of the uncorking of a bottle descends toward emptiness. By arranging a descending scale from opening point, then, all one has to do is to mark the stopping point, when of course the thief may be nabbedto a semitone. A bottle of ordinary Bordeaux, full, pops on high C, when half full at F sharp in bass clef, when emptyat C in the bass clef.ieThis scale varies with the length of the neck and thecase, all one has to do is to find the tone of the bottle at the close of the dinner, and to verify it by ear or piano when next opened. The trouble is, that after some dinners nobody could find the door, let alone a chromatic tone. In that case the butler wouldbe ahead, that is, if there was any liquor left. But the. * * 1 . *is not the one to knowabout such things.oTheof Wind instruments has been revived.* I * ‘ A * * **.irFive of the first associates, uniting with M. Philipps’ excellent quartet, announce a series of concerts of ancient and modern music at the Salle Erard. M. Taffanel was itsr.tif.)f I founder. Duvenoy’s opera, “Halid,” will soon be given at the Grand Opdra.« • . • i ‘ . ‘ .It is geneially conceded, as a result of recent experiences, that composeis cannot successfully collaborate On musical subjects. So fine are the lines between temperaments,views, stands ds, and feelings, that the colour’s ogic gets broken, and symmetry is destroyed. Neither will nor congeniality seems to be sufficient to conquer this.No wonder ! • It is all one person can do to control the colouring of his own work, so that symmetry shall not bebroken. Continuity of sentiment shading is the work ofa mastertttA young Russian, Scriabine, has had the hardihood to give a concert here of solely his own works. Tiny littlethings, some of them. Sort of cameo improvisations, whiffsof thought, some, without even amen. They were verypiet r, some of them, and all hud the great merit of being short.M. Giraudet’s splendid work on Delsarte is out in French edition, and at the house of Quantin.This is awork that ought to be in the studios of every vocal professor in Paris and New York, and everywhere else, and in\ j * ^ ^their heads and minds, also in the hands of all artists for« --..J-.-.Delsarte expression is the essence of all art expression, and Giraudet is a loyal and faithful exponent of Delsarte.It is sincerely to be hoped that M. Paul Bourget will win by law the right to know whether his publisher is robbing him or not. There never was a greater farce of wounded honour than thaf’ show of rage that fall into when asked to show their books.toThe rascals !fattening on pe pie’s brains and folding their hypocritical hands over their lying day books. If they were honest would not be afraid to show them.arecapable of keeping two sets of books if the Bourget law goes into effect!M. Ldon Jancy, the handsome and•» . . .' ■ ’ • •, and well-'made Officierartist, has beenas also The Musical Courier.of his many pupils,, tFAnnie; Edgar Thomas
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Musical Courier
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Feb 20, 1896
Page 18
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