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July 20th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MISS EULALIA RISLEY'S SUCCESS IN EUROPE.
ROM time to time the press of Houston, Texas, has taken a pride in
alluding to the success achieved in foreign lands by Miss Eulalia
Risley, a young lady of that city, and one, from all accounts, of whom
Houston should feel proud.
From foreign papers the following extracts are made, showing that the
Houston girl is still winning abundant praise:
From the Menes Wiener Abendblatt, Dec. 11, 1880.
On the evening before last Miss E. Risley, a young American and pupil
of Mme. Marchesi, gave a concert in the Bosendorfer hall, which filled the
hall with a most distinguished and critical audience. This young lady is
gifted by nature with an attractive and dignified appearance, and a voice of
rare volume and range. In the higher register up to B, it is a mezzo-
soprano of the richest organ tone and in the contralto notes it surprises by
its depth and power. Without exaggaration we can therefore maintain that
in the future this artist will sing Elvira in " Don Juan " with as much eclat
and success as the famous contralto role of Fides in the " Prophet." Miss
Risley also sang Pergolesi and Lotli with the most exquisite feeling and
Btyle. She sang further the grand aria from Rossini's " Cenerentola" with
most striking technique, and lastly simple songs by Taubert, Marchesi and
Rubinstein with fine taste, and earned from her audience repeated and
stormy applause.
From the Wiener Allegeimeine- Zeitung of December 11, 1880.
We notice with pleasure three more concerts, given by the following vo-
calists: Mme. Louise Dustmann, Miss Emma Thursby and Miss Eulalia
Risley. The concert of the much admired imperial court singer partook
more of a local character, and resembled a delightful social evening among well
known friends. Mme. Dustmann was received with enthusiasm and was called
upon very often to favor her audience "encore." The two American singers
were both distinguished through their really phenomenal vocal powers.
Miss Thursby has a bell-like clear and ringing soprano, not very intense aa
to strength, but wonderfully flexible and sympathetic, and showed itself cap-
able of the most difficult vocalization—Miss Risley, a pupil of Mme. Mar-
chesi, who appeared for the first time as beneficiary before the public, prom-
ises to become an international celebrity. Such an extensive and powerful
contralto, which, beginning at the lower G, reaches with ease over two oc-
taves and a half, possesses such richness of sound, and is so uniformly and
thoroughly cultivated, will seldom be heard. The public was completely
captivated by this sonorous voice, and gave her a perfect ovation. Miss Ris-
ley, who is mistress of the, German language, would be a valuable acquisition
for our grand opera, but unfortunately we hear that her wonderful voice has
been engaged by another impresario.
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From the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, Dec. 11.
Miss Eulalie Risley, a young American, who, as we hear, has already
been engaged by Mr. Maurice Strakosch for five years, gave on last Thurs-
day a very successful concert. Her alto voice, as to beauty of timbre, ex-
tent and method, is truly extraordinary; that this wonderful voice has been
cultivated in the most artistic manner was proved by the young lady's
masterly execution of the celebrated aria from "Cenerentola," which was
the most brilliant success of the evening. The violoncellist, William Pop-
per, and the pianist, Mr. Schutt, from St. Petersburg, assisted the young
singer on this occasion.
From one of the above extracts it will be seen that Miss Risley has
already closed an engagement with Maurice Strakosh, an American manager,
and hence those of her native land may reasonably expect to have the plea-
sure of hearing Miss Risley within the" next few years ;
THE BOSTON NORMAL MUSICAL INSTITUTE.
n p H E prospects of the Musical Institute, which opened its season in
_L Buffalo on the 6th inst., are all that could be desired. The expens.e of
attending the Institute, exclusive of railroad fares and incidentals, will not
exceed $40.
The following expression of citizens relative to the Institute is self-
explanatory :
We, the undersigned citizens of Buffalo, desire to express our gratifica-
tion that the celebrated Boston Normal Institute of Music will hold a session
of five weeks in this city, beginning July 6, to be conducted by distinguished
masters in the various branches of the art, under the direction of Mr. Harry
Wheeler, the very successful teacher and director of Boston.
Ed. Moeller, Robert Denton, Robert Keating, F. H. Root, D. P. Rum-
sey, George C. Stearns, A. P. Wright, W. H. Glenny, N. K. Hopkins, H. A.
Richmond, J. 0. Barnes, C. W. M'Cune, D. C. Beard, Ray T. Spencer,
Christopher G. Fox, Hobart Weed, E. L. Hedstrom, C. E. Walbridge,
Lucien G. Chaffin, A. T. Chester, J. R. Drake, A. L. Brown, N. P. Curtice,
J. W. Bridgeman, Rechab Tandy, R. Outriss Ward, Adrian R. Root, Mat-
thias Rohr, David Gray.
It is announced in the number for November 5th, 1880, of THE MUSIC TRADE
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AT HOME.
We have received from Mr. Chas. F. Pidgin, of Boston, Mass., the
libretto of a new American comic opera, in two acts, entitled " The Burglars;
or, The Majesty of the Law." Words by Chas. F. Pidgin, music by Henry
Walden. It reads like a re-hash of " Pinafore " and the " Pirates."
It is announced that Mr. Max Strakosch will give eight weeks of Italian
opera in New Orleans, beginning next December, and that Mme. Etelka
Gerster will be his prima donna, while his company will be equally strong
in other respects. It is said that Madame Gerster is having written for her
a very light opera to be entitled " Testimonials for Piano Manufacturers."
Mr. Carlos Hasselbrink, the violinist, closed a successful engagement in
Baltimore, June 25th. He began a six weeks' engagement in Cincinnati
July 12.
Mr. William Mason will, as usual, spend the summer in the Isle of
Shoals.
S. B. Mills, the pianist, will take his rest in the Adirondacks.
Miss Florence Coplestone was lately " b y the sad sea waves" at
Bath, L. I.
The Mendelssohn Quintette Club, of Boston, will visit Australia on a
concert tour. They were to leave San Francisco about the first of July.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt will on her return from her European trip give
a series of concerts in Newport, Saratoga, and other summer resorts.
Mr. Ferdinand Dulcken, the pianist and composer, is about recovered
from his severe railroad accident and is spending the summer at Tremont,
N. Y.
The New York Philharmonic Club, having closed a very brilliant and
successful season, have added several new selections to their extensive reper-
toire for the fall.
The fall tour of Joseffy, the pianist, will include San Francisco, New
Orleans, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincin-
nati, Detroit and all the important Eastern cities.
It is not generally known that Miss Emma Juch, who recently made a
successful London debut in Colonel Mapleson's Opera Company, was for
seven years a pupil of Mme. Murio Celli, of this city. She is probably the
first American prima donna who never went to Europe to "complete her
studies."
Among the recent arrivals from Europe was Miss Eva G. Cummings,
who has been studying music during the last two years under tuition of
Lamperti, Arigotte, and other masters in Milan. She is said to have made a
successful debut in Rome as Margharite in " Faust," and will return to
Europe to fullfil an engagement in September.
Theodore Thomas was staying recently at East Hampton, L. I.
Miss Emily Winant, the contralto, has been announced to spend the
summer at Grand View, on the Hudson.
The Great Opera HouRe at Fort Wayne, Ind., was burned July 6th.
Loss, $10,000; fully insured.
Miss Anna Louise Cary is to live in Boston after this and accept only a
few engagements for concerts and oratorio. She states that she will no
longer sing in opera.
A large force of men is at work on the excavations for the foundations
of the new Opera House, at Broadway and Fortieth street, in this city, but
unexpected obstacles have presented themselves in the shape of ledges of
rock which necessitate blasting, and which will prolong the work at least
two months. The architect's plans for the building are rapidly approaching
completion.
A second and more unique performance of the cantata of '' Queen
Esther," in Buffalo, July 1st, attracted a superb audience to St. James Hall.
The attendance was more general in its complexion than on the night be-
fore, and comprised many regular theatre, goers in addition to the full repre-
sentation of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the Protestant Episcopalian
denomination. In the singing, which was improved throughout, Miss Lottie
Inman renewed the favorable impression of Thursday evening. The
costuming of the children was also arranged so as to show to better effect.
Little Josie Lane, scarcely three years old, became a great favorite with the
spectators in her dainty little part of the child of Haman. In the fourth act
Miss Shirley Cobb, Miss Effie May Clark, Miss C. Witmer and Miss Lulu J.
Clark sang well in the concerted parts. The quartette in the next act sang
" Do I wake, or am I dreaming," in a way to provoke rapturous applause.
The King of J. F. Witmer was a trifle better than on the first night, but the
High Priest of William E. Hayes was more amusing than appropriate.
JOURNAL, (now THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TKADE REVIEW), which makes its appear-
ance in a new and becoming dress, that its editor, Mr. Charles Avery Welles, has It is proposed to use the bugle in giving orders at fires in New York and
become its sole owner and publisher. As Mr. Welles has been the soul of the enter large cities, and a system of bugle signals is now being arranged similar to
those used in the army.
prise from, the beginning, all of its excellent feature* having been due to him alone, the
change of ownership is of interest to its readers only as an assurance that he will have Mr. Kleophas Schreiner, the Hamburg conductor, is now settled with
a stronger inducement than ever to give them his best efforts and the full benefit of his
his orchestra at Long Beach, and has inaugurated the series of summer con-
long and varied experiences ax a journalist. He has so far offered a vigorously con-
ducted journal, which occupies afield of its own, and which we should think would be certs. About sixty of the musicians came over with Herr Schreiner, and are
indispensable to all in any way connected with music or the music trades. No one who said by the Hamburg press to be most thorough artists. Previous to their
departure for this country they gave a series of concerts in Hamburg which
knows him will doubt that his policy of impartiality will be fully carried out.—-N. Y.
were attended by an immense audience of citizens, who were unreconciled to
MAIL.
having so many good musicians leave the city even for a short season in
THE MUSICAL CBITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, devoted to the interests of music America.
and the music trade, has an able editor and a most efficient corps of staff correspond-
Constantino Sternberg is now in Europe, but before leaving this country
ents.—NEWARK SUNDAY CALL.
he gave into the hands of Schuberth & Co. of New York a number of his
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TKADE REVIEW of November 20 is issued, and, if compositions for publication. They are said to be beautifully written and
possible, is more interesting than ever. It has a larger circulation than any other to display skillful workmanship with much fanciful invention.
musical paper published, containing the latest and most reliable information regarding The Saalfield summer concert combination includes the following ar-
tists:—Signor Brignoli, Signor Ferranti, Mme. Carreno and Miss Barton
musical events both at home and abroad. It also contains the best criticisms and the
spiciest articles from some of the best writers in the country.—Nyack, N. F., CITY (late of the Strakosch Opera Company). The troupe will visit most of the
prominent watering places and the pleasure resorts of Canada.
AND COUNTY.