MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1121, 5 October 1911, Page 18

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

The Wellington Municipal Orchestra gave the last of this season’s concerts in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening, the 27th September, when a fine programme was presented. It included “Peer Gynt Suite,” (Greig), “Finlandia Tone Poem” (Sibelius), “Loin du Bal” (Gillet), Prelude to Act 111- of ‘Lohengrin” (Wagner), and “Trepak” from the “Nutcracker Suite of Tschaikowski,”

besides works by Bizet and Maughan Barnett. Franz Lehar’s new opera “Gypsy Love,” will ’be produced at the Globe Theatre, New York, on October 30th. To celebrate the occasion Messrs Henry W. Savage, A. H. Woods, and Marc Klaw will give Franz Lehar a banquet on October 31st. It is interesting to know that in America Mr Lanze produced Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” Mr Woods will produce “Gypsy Love,” and Messrs. Kiaw and Erlanger have secured the rights of his “Count of Luxembourg.” Mr F. C. Whitney, the American manager, has decided that “Der Rosenkavaler,” the new Strauss

Opera, is more of a cargo than he can conveniently carry, and allowed his option to expire on July 31st. He 'forfeited 32,500 dollars in advance royalties, by not paying the same amount on 30th July. Mr Whitney figures that the entire expenses of production would amount to 125,000 dollars, because the opera - requires a large stage, an orchestra of a hundred, and a large cast. In a season of twenty weeks, for which the contract provided, Mr Whitney could see no possible reimbursement, so he has abandoned the project entirely. Mr Frank Hutchens, the brilliant young New Zealand pianist, is to give two recitals in Wellington on the 11th and 13th of the present month. Amongst the artists engaged for concert tours of America, during the next two seasons, are Paderewski, Ysaye, Godowski, Thibaud, Mary Garden, Scharwenka, Felix Berber, Mdlle Yvonne de Treville, Kussewitsky, Namara Loye, and Yvette Guilbert. Yvette Guilbert will be accompanied by an orchestra of seven, to accompany her on old-fashioned instruments in a sketch entitled “An Evening with Marie Antoinette at Versailles.”