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5th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
At the moment of going to press we
learn with regret that there seems to
be no hope left for the holding of a
World's Fair in this city in 1883. At
the hour appointed for the regular
meeting, May 4th, of the Executive
Committee, seven members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee and eight newspaper
reporters assembled in the committee
rooms at 317 Broadway. There was
an informal meeting of the seven Com-
missioners on one side of. a locked door,
and another informal meeting of the
eight reporters on the other side of the
door. The regular meeting was then
postponed for another week. Commis-
sioner A. S. Sullivan said that he was
in favor of applying to Congress for a
discharge of the Commissioners from
the duties accepted by them under the
statute. This will be sad news for
several musical and trade papers which
have been enduring losses for some
time past in the hope of making it tip
during 1883.
The Lincoln House in Worcester,
Mass., is a solid, substantially kept
hotel.
The list of stockholders of the new
Rogers & Bacon Piano Co., 122 Eliot
street, Boston, is said to include some
of the best musicians in that city.
Mr. F. Winslow Bailey of the Bay
State Organ Company, Boston, has
been South, and has made some of the
best agents in that section of the coun-
try, Werlein in New Orleans, J.
•McClure of Nashville, H. G. Hallen-
berg of Memphis, and J. H. Snow of
Mobile.
M. St. Saens has received a commis-
sion to write an opera for the Paris
Opera House. The work is to be called
" Ines de Castro," and will consist of
five acts. The libretto has been writ-
ten by MM. Armand Silvestre and
Le"once De"troyat.
KIND WORDS.
MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW,
published at 853 Broadway, New York,
and edited by 0. A. WELLES, is one of
the best musical papers in the country.
Every number is full of news.—Bulle-
tin, Bloomington, HI.
Since Mr. A. H. Hammond of Wor-
cester, Mass., has made the extensive
addition to his factory, Mr. E. P. Car-
penter, the organ action manufacturer,
who occupies part of the building, has
been given more room, which he very
much needed for his rapidly growing
business.
Messrs. Witherby, Rugg & Richard-
son, the manufacturers of wood-work-
ing machinery, of Worcester, Mass.,
are one of the most sterling concerns
in that great manufacturing centre.
They make many machines especially
adapted to the requirements of the
piano and organ trades.
Mr. Authur Woodward of Woodward
& Brown, Boston, is to be married in
June. Congratulations are now in or-
der, and none will be more hearty or
sincere than those of the MUSICAL
THE
EDITOR OF THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW AS H E I S
REPRESENTED.
U. S. Colombia, 3 orguinettes, $181
Glasgow, 1 organ,
Hamburg, 4 pianos,
100
850 Central America, 2 organs,
Hamburg, 1 musical instrument, 105
$13,075
Total,
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
(Received too late for proper classification.)
PORT OP NEW YORK.
Week ending, May 3d, 1881.
Imports.
Musical instruments, 277,
Exports.
Liverpool, 29 organs, . . $1,719 Hamburg, 20 organs, .
Liverpool, 1 piano, . . .
700 Brit. Honduras, 1 musical
Brit. West Indies, 3 organs,
214
ment,
London, 13 organs, . . .
2,250 Mexico, 1 piano,
London, 2 musical instruments, 437 U. S. Colombia, 2 pianos,
Bristol, 2 organs, . . . .
150 U. S. Colombia, 4 harps,
Bremen, 3 organs,
. . .
500 U. 3. Colombia, 1 organ,
The parents of Lizzie Lam-
bert, a child of 11 years, ap-
plied to Mayor Grace, of New
York city, for permission for
her to play the violin on the
stage of the Bijou Opera House
in the opera of " La Mascotte."
After hearing her counsel and
Elbridge T. Gerry, counsel for
the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, the May-
or granted the permission on
the condition that the child
shall not be engaged in singing,
dancing, or any performance ex-
cept playing upon musical in-
struments.
Mme. Ambre, the prima don-
na of the defunct De Beauplan
Opera troupe, and M. Tour-
nie, the baritone, are reported
to have eloped. They have both
been missing from the Westmin-
ster Hotel in this city since
May 2d, and up to the time of
our going to press nothing has
been heard from them. Many
members of the company are
looking abaut for their unpaid
salaries, as Mr. de Beauplan
has no money, and Mme. Am-
bre was the only responsible (?)
party.
We learn that Mr. Franz
Rummel, the pianist, who re-
cently left this country, intends
to settle permanently in Lon-
don. He is announced to ap-
pear at the Crystal Palace Con-
certs in that city.
PORT OF BOSTON.
$31,354
.
$1,230
instru-
18
390
. .
717
. . 3,279
. .
135
Week ending April 29, 1881.
Exports.
England, organs,
$500 Brit. Poss. in Africa, organs, $5,580
England, orguinettes, . . . 440 Brit. Poss. in Australasia, or-
3,768
Nova Scotia, etc., organs, . . 300
gans,
Total,
$10,588
Import?.
England, other musical instruments, . . .
$2,177
Anton Rubinstein, the distin-
guished pianist, is announced
to give a series of four concerts
at St. James' Hall, London, in
May and June.
The concert at the Royal
Academy of Music, on Monday
evening, in aid of the Henry
Smart Memorial Fund, was
completely successful.
The
programme was devoted exclu-
sively to works, vocal and in-
strumental, by the late distin-
guished English musician.
The Patti concert for the Nice
sufferers produced upwards of
£1,600.
The Italian press attaches
much importance to the success
of the new version of Verdi's
"Simon Boccanegra" brought
forward at La Scala, Milan, on
the 24th of March. The earlier
version of the opera was first
given, it seems, on March 13th,
1857, in Venice.
"Great preparations are be-
ing made for the " Nibelungen
Ring" performances at Berlin
in the presence of Wagner.
THE EDITOR OP THE MUSICAL CBITIO AND TRADE REVIEW AS HE REALLY IS.
At Karlsruhe recently Franz
Schubert's opera, " Alphonso
und Estrella," was performed,
under the leadership of Herr
Mottl, director of the Court
Orchestra, and was certainly
very well received.