A LISTENER at Sousa's Manhattan Beach concert, sent a written request to the popular leader to play for an encore Beethoven's "Eroïca Symphony," which is nearly an hour long. IN Brooklyn, street-bands have been prohibited from playing. In Philadelphia they play seventeen hours out of the twenty-four. And yet people say that Philadelphia has no well-developed musical taste. A SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD man in Columbus has Published monthly at $2.00 a year; single numbers, 25 cents. (Send 10 cts, for a back number sample copy.) pumped the organ in a local church for nearly fifty EDGAR S. WERNER, 108 East 16th Street, New York. years, and is especially fond of telling of his experiences with different organists. He may be excused for being such an old blower. A FRENCH Scientist, after long listening in the woods, has made out and reduced to writing the song of the frog, or swamp music" as he calls it, and has discovered that the frog répertoire is varied and extensive. Frogs can carry on conversations at long distances, and can communicate to each other emotions of fear or hunger. THE stage of a Roman theatre was much broader and deeper than that of a Greek theatre. The passages leading at each side from the stage to the orchestra were arched over to make room for more seats in the Roman theatre, and there was a flight of steps in the middle of the auditorium, where in the Greek theatre there was a block of seats. Ir is getting to be the habit of new operas to enter the States in a humble manner. "Cavalleria Rusticana was first given here by a light opera company. "I Pagliacci" had its initial performance in a most unworthy manner. And now Puccini's "Nanon Lescaut " has its first hearing in Philadelphia in a very quiet way, although with many well-known names in the cast. Poor Nanon, the forerunner of "Camille," was matronly; and the De Grieux of Montegriffo is said to have been of many styles, all equally unlike the Chevalier of Provost's tale. A CORRESPONDENT writes: "On Oct. 10 I was on an omnibus. At Charing Cross four butchers got up, dressed in the blue frock of their trade. I observed that every man carried a cleaver as bright as the best-conditioned silver. "I turned to the man beside me, and asked if he had a marrowbone with him. Whereupon he produced a gray polished one from his pocket, and struck a few notes upon the cleaver. He said he was one of a band of eight butchers from Smithfield market, now the only band in existence; he had been a member for four and twenty years. "He also said that they make a point of attending the wedding of every butcher or butcher's daughter they hear of, in order to escort the party to or from the church." 1879. TION.. re, logy; ese pro have to ketches: moto physical -from st crude um ora le copy) ork. NT. ormed - day, ste of y peo tation ries. LL. M. I. INCIDENTAL. How Gilbert and Sullivan Work. GILBERT describes his method of collaboration with Sullivan. He meets the composer, and proposes a subject, which they discuss freely and fully. After the plot is settled, Gilbert writes a fairly long scene, and that is discussed and altered several times. Anything that Sullivan thinks unfit for musical treatment is stricken out. After a number of conferences, Gilbert begins in earnest, and sends his libretto to Sullivan, always keeping an act ahead. Famous Battle Songs. THERE are two instances on record of a battle being won by a war song. In the fifth century Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, and Lupus, bishop of Troyes, were sent into Britain to refute the doctrines of Pelagius. During their stay in this island, the Picts and Scots, hearing that the Roman legion had been withdrawn, commenced hostilities, and drove the Britons from the northern to the more southern parts of the island. Germanus, at the request of the hard-pressed islanders, led them against the Picts and Scots, who had advanced as far as Mold, in Flintshire. The bishop, having been a military commander in his youth, placed his men in an advantageous position, and then started one of the songs of the church. This song began at the commencement of the battle, and so vociferously did the Britons sing the refrain, "Hallelujah," that the hills, echoing with the sound, terrified their enemies, and caused them to flee in all directions. This was called the Hallelujah victory. The date is fixed by all historians at A.d. 429. The second instance occurred on the 6th of November, 1792, when the French, under Dumouriez, encountered the Austrians at Jemmapes, in Belgium. The day was going dead against the French, when Dumouriez ran out to the front and raised the ". Marseillaise." Forty thousand voices instantly took up the chorus ; and, inspired by the magic of the battle song, the French rallied, and fell so furiously upon the Austrians that the tide of battle was completely turned, and victory given for defeat. FRAULEIN ALICE, the popular actress of Berlin, announces her coming marriage. To all my friends and acquaintances: I desire herewith to make known that I am about to appear in a new character, which I have never yet performed. The drama is called Marriage (Die Ehe '). The part of the hero will be taken by Herr Hans E. Upon him it depends whether the play will be a comedy or a tragedy. It will certainly not be a farce, for we are both of us terribly in earnest. Besides, all my married friends tell me that in Marriage' there is nothing to laugh at." Ar the complimentary concert given in the Fifth Avenue Opera House, Mount Vernon, N.Y., Dec. 10, the popular lecturer, Mr. Henry A. Fay, gave a decidedly interesting talk on " The Piano as it was and as it is." Mr. Fay showed a remarkable familiarity with the salient points of the subject in hand, his sub-topics being "The Immediate Precursors of the Pianoforte, The Clavichord, Virginal, and Harpsichord." 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