Music.

When the Metropolitan Opera Co. announced the production of "Parsifal" in English, some took the attitude that upon the success with which the text could be distinguished depended the future of grand opera in that tongue, others, that it hung upon the effect of the translation itself. None seemed to realize that a production in which most of the singers were foreigners, and the translator himself merely a very able writer of reviews, could, for very obvious reasons, fail to meet either test, and still justify the claim of those who believed they had a right to hear opera at their native opera house in their native tongue. The question of giving grand opera in English is hot new. It has been threshed out many times in words and in deeds.