Life — March 2, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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174 PUIG ‘THE, ponderous delights of Wagner are now being dispensed with a lavish hand from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Hous Mature goddesses avd corpulent fairies vociferate in Teutonic gutturals, assisted by hard-working males. These males appear, as a rule, in their underclothing, with occa- sional door-mats thrown across their shoulders. The narrative in these Wagnerian operas is generally primitive, often clumsy and unsuit- able for dramatic purposes, but enlivened by monologues of stupefying length, Every note of the music, however, to the true Wagnerian, has its subtle relation with some other note somewhere else. Every bar and measure, every toot and bang, are so laden with sigcificance as to render music by other composers too trivial and contemptible for serious consideration, A pleasant relief from too much opera of TO MR, McKINLEY. JT MIGHT BRING RELIEF: = this description, and from some of the humbug that is inevitable with such in- tolerant adoration, is afforded by the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Nothiog can be more seri- ous, more sincere, more tech- nically perfect, than this mar- velous company. Their pro- grammes may sometimes be a little too lofty for the popular taste, but they are rendered with such delicacy and feel- ing as to become a delight to IFE isa modest sheet,and does not like to cull attention to its own perfections, But there isa time when modesty ceases to be a virtue, and this is it, Therefore Lire claims for itself a generous meod of praiso when it makes known to a waiting world a discovery which should give it a high place among the world's most. enterprising journals, By its own resources, unaided and alone, it has discovered and now makes known that Mr. Alger of Michigan is still Secretary of War in President McKin- ley’s Cabinet. “YOU ARE THE MOST PAMIZIAR QUAIL f EVER SAW." “WHY NOT? TUIS 18 THE CLOSE SEASON, YOU KNOW.” the professional and an edu- cation to the amateur. NATION which bas a navy seldom lacks precedents