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MUSICAL NOTES.
The campaign among the young students
in Paris against the pianoforte concerto con
tinues unabated, and M. Paderewski is the
latest victim. Be was to play the great
Beethoven concerto in E flat at the Colonne
concert. But after the conclusion of the
first movement the performance was inter
rupted, and the pianist was subjected to a
storm of hissing, which in its turn aroused
an opposing acclamation. M. Colonne had
to beg the admirers of M. Paderewski to
desist from taking part in any demonstra
tion, for, by a recent legal decision, any
member of the audience has the right-of
expressing his disapproval, as well as hiB
approval, of any performance "in. the usual
way," "Ba Heme Jlusicale," the leading
musical magaaineof France, somewhat cyni
cally says, m reviewing the incident, "The
applause and the hissing were equally unde
served." The critic disliked the great Polish
pianist s interpretation of Beethoven. *
The wonderful boy composer and conduc
tor, Max Dareweki, to whom reference was
recently made in these notes, has aroused"
more extraordinary enthusiasm than ever by
the first performance of his latest -composi
tion for orchestra at Bournemouth. The
new piece is a march entitled "England's
Crown;" and in response to the clamour for.
an encore, he conducted the waits, "Le
Beve," which he composed when he was
only five. Even now this young wonder is
not in his teens.
M. Jean de Rcszke, whose voice was re
ported to have been ruined as the result of
negligent medical treatment—more prob
ably the Wagnerian roles caused die trouble
—is about to start a school of singing in
Paris. . Five or six years ago the great tenor
announced that he would found a new opera
house iiribe French capital, with a school
of smgingatthched to it, oh the model .of
the Festspiel-haus at Bayrevtb, But he
fouud that-the jcpst of inaugurating and in-:
stalling such an institution would be prodi-"
gibuB;"id" he has abandoned the scheme for a
con^ervabbnum. There; will nowbe ^
Ma%n<dp 3^^het tbjeme -is a Haison
Marchesi, fbwv^tby orgifted Englishand
Americatt '-atudent^ to patronise. It is
curioiwtbathearly all tbe^jelcbrated teach
ers ih Ewrppe are -mtbout' honour; in thesfr
own,90aintrifes. Tberviennese do. not pat
roniseXeschetitxki in. any numbers, horidO
the Frendh-rushMadamci Mafchesi. Tfa$«fc
planation ih fhat in Europe the offiqial con
servnfciMitti is .the ordinary .avenue td'ed
vaiii^i^h and commands. dhe aerftnq-ilft
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