MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 12

MUSIC.

'By Treble Clef.) '

Tetrazzlnl to Tour. .':." Mine: Tetrazziui, haying refused the . offers mado by the New \ork and Chic- ! ago opera 'companies, intends to give, a ' concert tour in this country next sea-' ' son. : ' 'in a year or two,"' sho; writes,. 1 "I shall be heard again in opera. '.Ail offer hais already' been made me by a now manager, with.. amplo financial, backing, and very-probably .it iwill- .not. . be two- years ( before -.-New . York. will, agam have- a new ■ opera ■ house and company." vlu San lYancjsco, whero Mme.\;Tetrazi»ni was. a. great favourite for- .two years before her' sisnsational' 'discovery",; in London, sho. will appear . in :opcra as well as in concerts, under. Mr.'-: Leahy, who was the manager of : the Tiyoli.- Theatre in': ,-in 'tho ; days' of - her former "triumphs.. - . ' " The .foregoing report'favours mour .that 'Tetrazzini may visit- Australia within tho next two years. Verdi's Sarcasm. ~ : ,-That Verdi was - sometimes- in a sarcastic mood is shown by' a letter ho wrote. in> May, 1893, to Edoardo Mascheroni (who' conducted the first performance.of. "Falstalf" at Milan): — : 'I am at present very busy,'- putting. tho . finishing touches to an opera in twelve" ;acts. ,1. am';also'- writing: a'prologue to thite opera, arid a symphony .which lapts as. long as all of Beethoven's .niie; symphonies combined. In addition to these . I. amrat i.work .on'- a prelude to .each of. ; tho,acts\of.'my:.opera, violoncelii, and double-basses, whioh'.will, play tho. melody, not after .the manner, of' .'Traviat-a'and 'Kigoletto, I ..but- an ultra-modern' melody like .thoso of our ' daywhich liavoijieither bcjrinning lior , 'end,-and : are suspended iu^tlie'air,dike :: iMohammed's. grave. I/oannot tell: you | .yet: what- ' accompaniment. ,tho; singorsj will provido to this music, b'lt hope that a - happy inspiration will- help rile, out; . what I want is to have the singers imitate tho clattering of plates." - v : </ V;' :/.y=p=?*:.......