MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1131, 14 December 1911, Page 10

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

As the Balalaika Orchestra began playing the Russian National Anthem at a concert at the New York Hippodrome the other Sunday night, the native Russians in the gallery gave expression to their resentment in hisses and cries of “Remember Kishi' neff!” The orchestra continued to the end of the anthem, however, although the uproar did not cease. The audience had just greeted the Starspangled Banner” with cheers. The provincial tour of “The Blue •Bird’” in England has necessitated some changes which are at least novel. In order to reduce the display of light to the minimum the music which the orchestra plays is printed on black paper in white ink. After strenuously denying that he was writing a new opera, Richard Strauss recently gave a few friends the opportunity of listening to a new

work which he has composed, and which at any rate is operatic in form and design. Herr Siegfried-‘ Wagner does not like Strauss’s music. He says his great father would turn in his grave if he heard “Salome,” or “Electra,” or “Der Rosenkavalier.” . This raises the interesting question what effect ‘•Der Barenhauter” would he likely to have on the. remains of the great Richard. What Siegfried says of Strauss is almost exactly word for word what the Beckmessers said of “Tristran” and “Die Walkure.”