MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 9

MUSIC.

« (Br Treble Clef.) Carrena. Teresa C'arreno's concert tour of South Africa, originally limited to six weeks, had to be extended. On February 1 sho and her party left for Egypt, where, after taking the Nile trip, tney are to settle down in Cajro for a month's rest. From Cairo they will proceed to Italy to visit her son Giovanni Tagliapietra, who is studying for a career on tho operatic stage. Then the spring and summer will bo spent between Italy and Switzerland. September will see the belated return in Berlin, whilo October will take tho magnetic Venezuelan to England for a serios'of concerts and recitals there. Sho has been giving of her best to her South African audiences, and their enthusiasm has been an eloquent tribute to the appeal her great art has made. Wagner's Consideration. Whilo he was one of tho most exacting conductors who ever lived, Wagner was nevertheless quite alive to the fact that mistakes will happen even in the best regulated orchestras. Wagner, in his own compositions, wroto exceedingly difficult music for tho French horn, which at that time had not arrived at the more perfect stage of development it has now attained. Nevertheless, he was well aware that the instrument was a very hard one to play. On one occasion he was conducting an orchestra in Vienna, and in one of the most difficult passages of tho Scherzo from Beethoven's "Eroiea" Symphony the horn player had the misfortune to make a slip on a high note. Among tho players was Edward Mauthner, a writer of comedies, and ho turned from his place in the front row of tho violins and jeered at the unfortunate horn player. Afterwards, in tho green room, Wagner severely rated those who had laughed at the occurrence. He pointed out the fact that tho horn ia a most unreliable instrument, and that the least drop of moisture in tho tubes of the instrument was liable to cause trouble. He then warmly embraced the horn player before them all, by way of consolation. Miss Golda, who is creating such a furore in London at present by her singing, is a Miss Clarke, from Sydney, who went Home with Madame Amy Sherwiu three years ago. and who was taught and brought out by Madame Sherwin. This is the second Australasian success due to the teaching and efforts of Madame Sherwin. The other instance was the brilliant success o[ Madame Lola ' (Miss Siblnld. of Duncdin). who is engaged'to sing a!, the opening concert of the Empire Festival, in London, when the King and Queen will be present.