Programme . en if the flimsiest opera in its repertory had been given. The press, however, was not on the whole unfavorable. Berlioz added: I was ruined and I owed a considerable sum whichI did not have. Bertin advanced him one thousand francs from thetreasury of the Journal des Debats, of which Berlioz was the musiccritic; friends gave him money, some four hundred francs, some fivehundred; Friedland and Sax advanced him twelve hundred francsapiece, and the publisher Hetzel one thousand, so that he could jour-ney to Russia. Balzac said to him: You will come back with onehundred and fifty thous
Programme . en if the flimsiest opera in its repertory had been given. The press, however, was not on the whole unfavorable. Berlioz added: I was ruined and I owed a considerable sum whichI did not have. Bertin advanced him one thousand francs from thetreasury of the Journal des Debats, of which Berlioz was the musiccritic; friends gave him money, some four hundred francs, some fivehundred; Friedland and Sax advanced him twelve hundred francsapiece, and the publisher Hetzel one thousand, so that he could jour-ney to Russia. Balzac said to him: You will come back with onehundred and fifty thousand francs: I know the country; you cannotbring back less. Berlioz answered this in his Memoirs: The readerwill soon see that if my concerts at St. Petersburg and Moscow pro-duced more than I had hoped, I could, however, bring back much lessthan the one hundred and fifty thousand francs predicted by Balzac. *The first concert was announced for November 29, 1806. It did not take place till December 6.—P. LISZT 797 TWO LECTURE RECITALS L Wllh Liszt In Weimar Piano Compositions by LisztWith personal reminiscences r A Program of Piano Compositions by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt, with interpretative analyses JOHN ORTH Concert Pianist and Teacher of PianoSTEINERT HALL ENTRACTE. THE COLOR OF KEYS.(From the Pall Mall Gazette of October 15, 1913.) In Mme. Louise Heritte-Viardots reminiscences, published theother day, reference is made to the supposed correlation of colors andsounds. The author says, It was curious how we all agreed in connect-ing special colors with each key. She gives a list of keys and thecorresponding colors as suggested to her. C major is white, C minorbrown, E major deep blue, F major bright violet, A minor pearl gray,G major red, and so on. A curious question is here involved as towhat are the special characteristics of keys, if such really do existoutside of the imaginations of individuals. It is difficult to arrive atany very definite conclusions,
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