Salvayre

(sal-vir) (Gervais Bd.), Gaston, Toulouse, 24, 1847— May 16, 1916; studied at the cath.maitrise, then at Toulouse Cons.; later Paris Cons., taking the Grand Prix de Rome, 1872, with cantata “Calypso”; 1877, chorusm. at the Opéra-Populaire; 1894 in Servia; later critic of “Gil Blas’’; Chev. of the Legion of Honour; c. operas “Te Bravo” (1877), ‘Richard 111.” (Petersburg, 1883), “Egmont” (Op.Com., 1886), “La Dame de Mon is or eau’’ (Opéra, 1888), etc.; c. also Biblical symph., “La Resurrection,” 113th Psalm with orch., etc. Salzedo (sil-za’-do), Carlos, b. Arcachon, France, April 6, 1885; harpist, composer; studied Bordeaux and Paris Cons., 1st prize solfege, piano and harp; toured in Europe as harpist, later with Amer. orchs. and in recital; dir. harp dept., Curtis Inst. of Music, Phila.; founded Salzedo Harp Ensemble; c. works for harp and orch., in which he has appeared as performer or cond.