Programme music.--Folk-songs in America.--At the back of some dedications.--Wagner and Brahms on each other.--The beggar's opera.--Shakespeare and music.--The modernizing of Bach.--Usurpations of the ballet.--Schumann's children.--Berlioz today.--Camille Saint-Saƫns.--Jenny Lind and Barnum.--Adelina Patti in America.--Franz Kneisel.--Henry Edward Krehbiel.--Theodore Thomas.