MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1246, 5 March 1914, Page 37

MUSIC NOTES.

By

"G” String.

In an interview with a Wellington pressman the other day, Mdlle. Antonia said. —•“ Many concert artists have their eyes on this part of the world. And why not? For its population, there is no country in the world like New Zealand. There are so many places to, visit. The people are all music-loving, if not actual!v musical, and every place is so interesting- Then there have been so many reports of artists making big money out here. too. That is a big consideration, and one, I think, that will mean that many fine artists will visit Australia and New Zealand in the near future.”

The Berlin Liedertafel, with a performing membership of 300, was to undertake an extensive tour of Europe, commencing this month. The tour was to extend over two months and amongst the places to be visited was to be Cairo, where two con n °U were to be given in the Khedira’ Theatre.

The Royal Wellington Choral Society paid to soloists during the past year £463 12s, and £l6l 11s to paid members of the orchestra. The sum of £llB 12s 8d was paid for the use of the Town Hall and organ £36 10s for the use of St. John’s schoo!room for practices, and £221 12s 8d for printing and advertising. General expenses amounted to £36 5s Bd. whilst £5O was paid to the secretary and £B3 15s for the purchase and hire of music. The total expenditure for the twelve months amounted to £1427 7s 2d, the receipts from al 1 sources being £1455 12s 7d, the vphclosing with a balance on the credit side (including balance brought forward of £l'o7 7s lOd from the previous year) of £135 13s 3d. The receipts from the production of Bizet’s “Carmen” amounted to £l7B 18s, Havdn’s “Creation ” and Mendelssohn’s “Eliiah” (two performances) £297 6s, Handel’s “Judas Mac’abaeus” £69 9s 6d. and Handel’s “Messiah” £2lB 3s. making a total for the six performances of £752 16s 6d- The receipts from the concert tendered to Mr. Maughan Barnett amounted to £ll5 6s. from organ recitals £7l Bs, from hire o e music £36 9s. from active members’ subscriptions £lOl 0s 6d. from hon. members’ subscriptions £346 3s, and receipts from other sources £29 17s 7d.

The season of opera in Eingl’sh at the Centurv Theatre New Y°rk, has been marked bv signal success. The management is now arranging for similar seasons in the other American cities.

A monument is to be erected to .honour the memory of Alexandre Guilmant, the famous French organist, at the side of the Trocadero. Paris. The monument is to cost £4OO, half of which sum has been subscribed by American musical enthusiasts.

Mascagni’s new opera “ Parisina,” failed to rouse any great on the occasion of its first production at the La Scala, Milan, on the 151 December.

There is much commotion in the musical dovecot of England at present, because a certain number of gentlemen, with Mr. David Murray, R.A-a in the chair, who met recently with the object of discussing the question of the establishment of a Ministry of Fine Arts, favoured that the council representing the various .'branches of art should consist of four architects, three sculptors, three palinters, four designers, one engineer, and one antiquary. The question is not unnaturally asked who the dickens these worthy gentlemen are who dared to ignore the divine a”t of music in the family of Fine Arts ’