MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 9

MUSIC.

rai Teeblb CMW.I Colorldgo-Taylor's Place. The place Mr. Samuel ColeridgeTaylor, tlio distinguished' mulatto composer, who died last year, holds in tho estimation of his admirers lias been very sympathetically described in an inscription written for the tombstone on liis grave (Bandon Hill, England) by tho poet, Alfred Noycs. Tho inscription runs as follows:— "In memory of Samuel ColeridgeTaylor, who died on September 1, 1912, at tho ago of 37, bequeathing to the world a heritage of an undying beauty. His music lives. It was his own, and drawn from vital fountains. It pulsed with his own life, ancl now it is his immortality. Ho lives while musio lives. Too young to die, his great simplicity, his happy courage in an alien world, and his gentleness made all that knew him love him."

Musical to tho Bones.

A London medical expert lias made an anatomical examination of Caruso, and says that ho "combines to a greater extent than any other singer I have ever examined the physical characteristics necessary for perfect production of vocal sounds in almost unlimited' volume." Tho learned doctor goes on to say that even tlio bones of Caruso are musical. "For instance, if you tap one of his knuckles smartly with your forefinger, it gives out a higher-pitched, more resonant tone than the average person's muscles." This is doubtless true, but mercy on us I who in our midst would daro to rap Caruso's knuckles for him?

The above announcement created much comment in New York, where Caruso is an enormous favourite. The Now York "Sun" exclaims, "If a single knucklo joint of that greatly gifted man, when rapped lightly, gives out a musical note of specially high pitch, what an ineffable chord would sing through a startled world if somebody wore to impose upon him (purely in. the interest of art, of course), tho blow known in sporting circles as 'a good smash in the slats'!"

Picture Effeots Instrument. '

England seems to be continually preparing for a Gorman invasion. Perhaps one of the most formidable-weapons in her arsenal is tho ldnesounder. It has for its objcct tho supplying of sounds for pictmire theatres. It is a weird arrangement controlled by lovers, and can produce many effects, including barking doji, tug whistle, birds, wind, siren, sleighbelis, bump, firo alarm, motorcar (and boat), not'crash, glass crash, heavy wood crash, light crash, cannon, waves, slaps, crackle, splash, galloping horses, train, door-latch, waterfalls, thunder, etc. Having produced an instrument of this kind, Johnny Dull feels that he can sit back in his chair fully prepared for anything Richard Strauss and the German Emperor can concoct for the benefit of the European concert.

Notes. A new and improved version of Leoncavallo's "La Boheme" lias been produced at Palermo. Tho work is rechristened "Minii Pinson," which is perhaps as well, for the composer of the popular "Paglincci" lias suffered with his "Boheme" in comparison with the "Boheme" of Puccini.

Debussy has sot a tennis game _to music. The work is a dance-pantomime written for Nijinsky, tho Russian dancer, and is entitled "Jeitx." It now remains for Sousa to writo a similar work about a gamo of baseball, and Sir Edward Elgar to writo a symphony oa oriokot-