MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 20

MUSIC.

[By Treble Clef."!

A Farewell Visit. All lovers of the great songstress will bo delighted to learn that Madamt, Kirkby Luun is returning to. AVellington to give two farewell concerts (on January 2 and i), on her way north to Eotorua. Had she not decided to visit tho thermal wonderland this would not havo been possible, but Madame's desire to "see the Maoris alnd the mud-springs" has brought about an entire rearrangement of the tour.. After Wellington sho is to sing at Napier on January 7, Hastings on January 8, and Gisborne on January 11,

before proceeding on to Rotorua, via Auckland. Madame has promised to sing several. of the songs which became popular hero during her last visit, among them the "Sapphic Odu" of Brahms, and Hullah'a "Threo Fishers," and will also add new operatic and ballad numbers. A Colony of Aged Artists. Joining tho musical and literary colony at Grossmont, a suburb of San Diego (California), Mme. Johanna Gadski, the noted soprano, has announced . that sho had purchased a site lor a home which she expects to occupy in 19l». In.the colony so for are Mine. Ernestine Schu-mann-Heink, contralto, who will live there next year; Mme. Teresa Carreno. pianist, who will live at Grossmont when she retires; John Vance Cheney, Owen Wister, Carrio Jacob Bond, and others. Touring Singer!. Two announcements which are of interest to Australians appeared in the London "Daily Telegraph" on October 26:— Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford are leaving for tho Continent on Monday, in order to give a series of recitals in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, and Munich. They are also to appear at the' Chevillard : orchestral concerts in. Paris, and with tho Philharmonic Society in Budapest. Mr. and Mrs.. Rumford will return in December to give a farewell concert at the' Albert Hall—on the 14th of that month—prior to a tour in America, Australia, Neiv Zealand, and India, which will' keep them out of Eng-' land until the summer- of 1914. An accomplished artist who has long been absent from London will shortly make her reappearance in the person of Mdlle. Antonio Dolores—known in the early days of her career as Antoinette Trebelli. Miss Dolores is now returning from a very successful tour in South Africa, and will bo heard at two recitals next month in Bechstein Hall. Sousa.' John Philip Sousa, the March King, who was in Wellington last year, is still very much alive in tho United States. .The "Milwaukee Free Press" of October 27 hails his re-entrance into Chicago in tho following manner:— Sousa, John Philip Sousa, is a greater, ■moro popular, more indomitable Sousa 'than ho over was. It is possibly a safe .guess that moro than half his capacity audiences at the Pabst yesterday had 'gathered.to 6ee Sousa himself,. regardless of his band. People came to see a formidable personality, a great musician with 1 a great knack of ingratiating himself into the good graces of his audience, 'and they wero as elated as over over his sucoess in turning tho trick ngain. Probably never beforo did he seem so completely self-confident, so irresistibly dominant and ingenuous. . Tho indescrib.ablo ease of attaining effects, fine artistically compelling effects; tho little touches, his own; his graciousness and quiet refinement of manner aro all tho mark of a man of great staturo. : The programme was a fine one, popularly and artistically, which seemed botli ;tho samo tiling last night, for even when Sousa put on cap and bells aud burlesqued the "won't !>c killed" "Everybody's Doin' It," ho did to splendidly that he put his ft'udionco in p..fit of sparkling good humour that jrent all thu war aroimiL