THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MUSICAL NOTES,
AT HOME.
November 20th, 1880.
FOLKS-SONGS.—Mr. George Werrenrath sang the folk-songs of England,
Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Scandinavia in Plymouth Church on
Thursday evening, Nov. 11. He was assisted by Miss Hattie L. Simms, Mr.
Henry Camp, and others.
HASSELBRINK.—Mr. Carlos Hasselbrink, the young violinist from South
SULLIVAN.—Gilbert and Sullivan's " Pirates of Penzance" -will be given
by the D'Oyly Carte Company at Newark on November 22d,iPaterson the 23d, America, who made his debut in this country in Chickering Hall, on Oct. 14,
Jersey City the 24th, and. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the 25th, has given up the idea of being considered a solo violinist, and intends to join
an orchestra. Sensible yonng man!
26th and 27th insts.
SEIFERT.—A shocking tragedy occurred at Buffalo, on the morning of
SEQUIN.—Mrs/Zelda Seguin, having recovered from her recent indis-
Nov. 10, about seven o'clock. Russell Dart, a prominent citizen, shot and
position, has rejoined the Emma Abbott Opera Company.
dangerously wounded Professor Emil Seifert, a well-known music teacher.
EUTERPE.—The soloists engaged to assist the Euterpe Society of Ho- It appears that Seifert had become enamoured of Miss Dart, one of his
boken, on Thursday evening, Nov. 11, on the occasion of the celebration of pupils, and of late had been very attentive to her. The father forbade him
Schiller's birthday, were Miss Fanny Pollak, Miss Henne, Mr. Graff, Mr. the house, which Seifert resented; angry words followed, when Dart fired
Remmertz and Mr. Pecher, organist. Max Bruch's oratorio, '' The Lady of three shots at Seifert, each one taking effect. Dart tried to escape, but was
the Bell" (Schiller's poem), for soli, choir, orchestra and organ, was per- promptly arrested. Seifert has been married. His wife recently obtained
formed. The concert took place in the First M. E. Church, Hoboken.
a divorce from him. He lived formerly in New York, and Baltimore, and is
STRAUSS.-—Johann Strauss has composed a new opera, entitled, " The well known among the professional people of both cities.
Lace Handkerchief of the Queen," which was brought out in Vienna about a
GILMOEE.—A grand military concert was given on the night of Nov. 9th,
month ago, and which achieved a great success. It was very favorably in the
armory of the Twenty-seventh Regiment N.G.S.N.Y., by Gilmore's
spoken of by the critics, and is said to be amusing and brilliant. We are Twenty-second
Band, under the direction of Mr. P. S. Gilmore.
informed that the Thalia theatre has the right to produce it in the German The concert was Regiment
in aid of a fund, to buy a uniform for the band which may
language, and will bring it out at an early date.
be worn by members in all professional engagements outside of regimental
JOSEFFY.—Mr. Saalfield has completed arrangements whereby the duties. The soloists during the evening were Constantin Sternberg (piano),
appearance of Herr Joseffy is assured at six of the coming Saalfield concerts. Signor Raffaylo (euphonium), Signor de Carlo (piccolo), Mr. Christian
At the first of these, which will be given November 22, he will be assisted Fritsch, who sang Abt's " Good Night, My Child," and Miss Emily Spader,
by a full orchestra under the direction of SignorD'Auria. Saalfield proposes, who sang the Grand Aria from " II Trovatore." A strong chorus assisted in
and Joseffy disposes.
the singing of the " Heavens are Telling," and " Columbia." After the con-
BECHTEL.—Professor Frederick Bechtel, of Brooklyn, has composed an cert there was dancing.
opera, which he entitles " Alfred the Great." Selections from the same are
SOLDENE.—Miss Emily Soldene and her new Comic Opera Company
to be given at a concert in the Brooklyn Athenaeum.
gave their first performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Monday
BELARI.—Signor Emilio Belari, formerly one of the principal tenors of night, Nov. 8, to a numerous audience, the pieces selected being " Trial by
the Theatre Royale of Madrid, has arrived in this country on a professional Jury" and "Chilperic."
visit.
GOOD FOR THEM !—The premium obtained on the sale of boxes and re-
ZUNDEL.—A memorial collection was made a week ago Sunday last at served seats for the Brooklyn Philharmonic concerts to be given during the
Plymouth Church. It was for the purpose of raising a sum of money that season was $1,6H8. The highest premium paid this year was $9.75 per seat;
should be equal at least to the payment of $200 a year to Mr. John Zundel, the lowest was 25 cents.
the late organist of the church, and now its organist emeritus. Mr. Zundel
WAGNER CONCERT.—Another "Wagner" concert was given on Nov. 9th,
resides in Europe, and before he went there the trustees of the church had at Koster & Bial's, by Rudolph Bial's orchestra.
undertaken to pay him $200 a year as iong as he lived. Afterwards they
GERMAN OPERA.—On Saturday, November 13, the Thalia Theatre Opera
decided that they could not afford to pay it. They are now trying to make
Company produced with a full chorus, at the Waverly Opera House, Brooklyn,
it up by voluntary contributions.
Suppe's opera, "Boccaccio."
NEW OPERETTA.—The first performance of the operetta, "DerRatten-
A LUCKY COMPOSER.—The Mendelssohn Glee Club's three prizes have
fanger von Hameln," libretto, by H. Italiener, music by Adolf Neuendorff,
occurs on December 14, at the Germania Theatre. Active rehearsals are been awarded. Out of 39 compositions submitted to the committee (Messrs.
Joseph Mosenthal, Dudley Buck, and Samuel P. Warren,) the three success-
taking place every day.
ful works are all by the same writer, Mr. W. W. Gilchrist, of Philadelphia.
AWARDS.—It was announced last June that two prizes would be awarded The first of these prize songs is entitled " Ode to the Sun," and is for chorus,
by the musical director of the Church of the Holy Trinity in this city for with an accompaniment of two pianos. The second is called "In Autumn,"
original compositions for church services. The committee of award con- and the third is " Dreaming forever." The songs will all be sung in the
sisted of Mr. Joseph Mosenthal, the Rev. Dr. George J. Geer, the Rev. Dr. course of the season at the concerts of the Mendelssohn Glee Club.
Marvin R. Vincent, Mr. George E. Aiken, and Mr. A. R. Parsons, the
HUBBARD.—A very interesting programme for a piano recital was given
organist of the church. This committee, it is stated, have received a great
number of compositions, and have decided to award the first prize to Mr. by Albert D. Hubbard, on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13th, at Chickering Hall.
Every number was selected from the " old masters," including Bach, Handel,
John H. Cornell, and the second prize to Caryl Florio.
Gluck, Field, Mozart, Beethoven, Kalkbrenner, Schubert and Weber. Miss
HOWARD.—Mme. Constance Howard has arranged to give two piano Segur, vocalist, will assist. At a second recital on Jan. 8th, Mr. Hubbard
recitals next month, with the co-operation of Mr. S. B. Mills, Mr. Herman will play selections from the "new masters"—Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens,
*Brandt, Mr. E. S. Lansing, Miss Emily Winant, and Mrs. Buxton.
Henselt, Brahms, Rubinstein, Schumann, Wagner and Liszt.
KOSTER AND BIAL'S.—Constantin Sternberg, the Russian pianist, Wil-
THE LEADER OF THE NINTH.—Mr. M. Arbuckle, leader of the Ninth
helmj, the violinist, and Mile. Letitia Fritsch, the vocalist, have been en- Regiment Band, now performing at the American Institute Fair, received, on
gaged, and will give a series of concerts, in conjunction with the orchestra, the evening of November 13th, a superb silver and gold cornet from his
at Koster & Bial's, beginning on the 5th of December.
friends. The instrument has just arrived from Europe, and is said to be the
BEEBE.—Miss Mary Beebe, the well known soprano of the Ideal Opera handsomest ever made. Several leading musicians were present on the
occasion, and assisted in the programme.
Company, is quite ill, at her home in Boston.
THE LEADER OF THE TWENTY-SECOND.—The instrumental, vocal and
SCHILLER.—Madame Madeline Schiller, whose health has been fully re-
stored, contemplates an early return to the United States, for a permanent promenade concert given by Gilmore's band, at the armory of the Twenty-
second regiment, proved so successful that one will be given every week,
residence.
beginning on Saturday, November 20. The cost of supplying the band with
CELLIER.—Mrs. Alfred Cellier has arrived in this country. She will pass a new uniform, which is the object of these entertainments, will be about
the winter in Boston with her husband.
•14,500.
ROOSEVELT.—" The Masque of Pandora," poem by Longfellow, and
TAYLOR.—A concert will be given at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on
music by Alfred Cellier, will be produced at the Boston theatre, Jan. 10th. the 29th inst., on the occasion of the annual benefit of Mr. D. Taylor, the
Prof. Longfellow is to aid the enterprise by writing several new songs ex- local manager of Mapleson's Opera Company. Among the artists whose
pressly for Miss Roosevelt. [But how will she sing them ?—Ed. MUSICAL names are announced are Signors Campanini and Galassi, Mdlle. Belocca,
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Miss Fannie Kellogg, of Boston ; Mdme. Chatterton-Bohrer, the harpist ;
SERENADE. —At half-past eleven o'clock on Monday night, November 8, Mdme. Teresa Carreno, pianist; Miss Marie Geist, violinist, and the Temple
Gilmore's band appeared at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-fourth Quartette, of Boston.
street, and as soon as Sarah Bernhardt had returned from Booth's theatre to
her apartments in the Albemarle, a burst of military music filled the air in
ABROAD.
front of it. First the familiar notes of the " Marseillaise " reached her, and
CHAMBER MUSIC.—The Society for Chamber Music at St. Petersburg gave
then came the national anthem of the country. The '' Star Spangled
Banner," a selection from " Semiramide," Sullivan's "Lost Chord," a selec- its first concert for the season on the 2d October. Among the executants were
tion from Meyerbeer, Gounod's " Ave Maria," and "Hail Columbia" were MM. Anton Rubinstein and Charles Davidoff, both honorary members. The
large hall of the Credit Society was crowded by a fashionable and distinguish-
then played.
ed audience, anxious to hear Anton Rubinstein's new String Quartet in F
FRENCH OPERA.—The Grand French Opera Company, organized by G.
and his Violoncello Sonata in D major. The first named, work, ad-
de Beauplan for a season of four months, in New Orleans, La., gave the minor
mirably played by MM. Hildebrand Weikman, Weikmann and Davidoff,
initial performance at the Theatre de l'Opera on the night of November 8. pleased
greatly, especially the first movement and the Adagio. Anton Rubin-
" Robert le Diable " was rendered in the presence of a large and fashionable stein played
Beethoven's " Mondscheinsonate" and compositions by Schubert,
audience.
Weber, and Chopin.
CONCERT TROUPE.—The Rionda Concert Troupe, consisting of Mdme.
VIERLING.—A new oratorio, " Alarich," music by Georg Vierling, is being
Rionda, Louise Obermiller, Mr. Gabriel Marie, Mr. and Mrs. D'Hubert, Mr.
de Barbe, Miss Adele de Barbe, a child pianist, and Mr. Leon Heyman ar- rehearsed by the Singacademie, Bremen.
rived on Sunday, November 7, on the steamer England.
GOROBETZ.—The Russian papers announce the death of Oleg Gorobetz,
OPERA BOUFFE.—Reports from Havana have reached here that Mr. one of the wandering minstrels who used to wander over Russia singing the
Grau's opera troupe is doing excellent business there. After the rain in New old popular traditions. Oleg, who was nearly 100 years of age, had a mar-
vellous memory and could sing all the national songs.
York, the Cuban sunshine must be pleasant to the treasury box.