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Issue: 1881 Vol. 5 N. 3

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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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voices of revellers are heard in the street singing
that profane ballad, "Got'em on," but the sick
and penitent damsel turns for comfort to the new-
est monthly issue of a book of fashion-plates. A
footstep ! a cry ! a sob ! and Alfredo is in her arms!
He protests he never wunk at a barmaid in his life,
and attributes the error to an occassional weakness
of the dexter eyelid. She believes him ! Ah ! now
she will die happy. In vain does Alfredo entreat
her to fly with him to the ambrosial groves of the
Alexandra Palace, where, in connection with the an-
nual outing of the pew-openers and sexton of St.
Startem-in-the-Valley, there are tea gratis and cake
unlimited. She refuses. She cannot. Altogether
apart from the difficulty experienced by Basselas,
how can she go to the Alexandra Palace in her dress-
ing-gown ? So, instead, she lies gently down on
the couch, covers her toes decently with her pretty
robe, and gracefully expires, while charity-boys
sing mourn fully, "Down among the dead men."
The libretto of " La Tcaviata" rewritten somehow
in accordance with the foregoing plan would not
only be acceptable to modest opera-singers, but
also for use at the Royal Academy of Music and
kindred places where the parents of the pupils do
not mind the music, but seriously object to Italian
operatic plots.—Figaro, London.
OBITUARY.
JOHANN CIIMSTIAN LOBE.
T3ROFESSOR J. LOBE, the theoretician, died at
_L Leipzig on the 27th of July. Born at Weimar,
May 30, 1797, he was at first engaged as flautist and
subsequently as violist at the Grand-Ducal Theatre.
His theoretical knowledge soon obtained for him
the title of Professor and it was not long ere, aban-
doning the career of an actual performer, he settled
permanently in Leipzig, working industriously as
writer and teacher. His compositions for the piano
and other instruments are not much known ; nor
was he more fortunate with his operas, " Die Fli-
bustier," "Die F'drstin von Granada," "Wittukind,"
"Der rothe Domino," "Solabella," ka. Hisnamo
is all the more familiar through his writings, es-
pecially his '• Compositionslehre," in four volumes,
which "both simpliiied and presented in a highly in-
telligent form the art of musical composition.
Lobe's " Musikalische Briefe," " Consonanzen und
Dissonanzen," " Katechisrnus der Musik," &c, are
in the hands of every educated musician. From
1846 to '48 he edited the "Allgemeine Musikzei-
tung," then published by Breitkopf and Hartel.
He used frequently to sign his articles " Ein Wohl-
bekannter," and appropriately enough, few readers
being unaware that the " Old Acquaintance " was
no other than " Old Lobe ! "—Su/aale.
THE KAKOCZY MARCH.
A
HUNGARIAN journal gives an interesting
account of the origin of the Rakoczy March
which Berlioz utilized in his " Damnation of Faust"
an example which has since been followed by other
composers. According to the Hungarian paper,
Franz Rakoczy II., one of the heroes (if the war of
Magyar independence, was returning with his
troops from the battle of Szibo, when, on the 10th
November, 1705, he heard for the first time this
air played by a Hungarian named Barna Miska,
and who gave the composition the title of the Ra-
koczy March in honor of the warrior. One of the
descendants of Barna, the " beau Zinka," popular-
ized it by playing it all over the country. At Stuhl-
weissenburg, a musician, the Abbe Vacek, heard it
and wrote it down, and it was issued as a definite
musical composition by a musician named Rus-
zicska. " Since then," says the Hungarian paper,
"according to the custom of the Magyar musicians,
several variations have been added to the March,
according to the taste and fancy of innumerable
executants."
A wag suggested that a suitable opening for
many choirs would be, " O Lord, have mercy on
us miserable singers!"
It is said that the average musician is shorter
lived than those of other professions. This is not
such a gloomy world after all.
The German local Saengerfest which opened in
Philadelphia, Aug. 21st, was concluded on the 22d.
About 10,000 persons were in attendance during
the day. The Saengerfest was held to raise funds
for the great Saengerfest next year in celebration
of the bi-centeuary of the settlement of Pennsyl-
vania. The united Germa n singing societies were
all present and sung during the day.
The fourth annual Saengerfest of the'Peninsula
Sangerbund took place in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Aug. 22d. In addition to singers of local repute,
Messrs. Franz Remmertz and C. Fritsch, of New
York, were among the soloists.
MUSICAL CHAT
AT HOME.
Letters received in
this city indicate that
there is a probability
of the return of Sig-
nor Campanini for the
coming season. There
is more than one rea-
son for the return of
Signor Campanini to
New York. It is t
derstood that Signor
Campanini takes
much interest in the
construction of the
new opera house. His
suggestions have been
received with great
favor in the matLcis ui construction and internal
arrangement, and it is not unlikely that his name
will be prominently associated with those who
have subscribed to complete one of the finest
places of entertainment in the world.
Mr. Thomas, in accepting the tribute, said that he
did so for the members of his orchestra, to whom,
more than to himself* the pleasure expressed by
the public through Professor Swing was due.
A concert was given at Chatauqua, N. Y., on
Aug. 20th, by the Fiske University Jubilee Singers.
Among the prominent features of the concert were
the splendid piano playing of Professor Max Lieb-
ling, of New York, and the violin solo by Signor
Vitale of the same city. The efforts of both gentle-
men were greeted with hearty demonstrations of
applause.
Some people can invent awful mean slurs.
When the Jenkins girl was whaling away at the
piano and pestered the next door neighbor, the
next door neighbor came out on the steps, listened
to the noise a minute, looked up at the Jenkins
girl's mother, who was at the window, and said.
"Got plumbers at work in your house, haven't
you?" No wonder those families don't speak now.
John Howson, lately singing in " Olivette " with
the Comley-Barton troupe and now at the Hay-
market Theatre, London, in "Gibraltar," is having
a new piece written for him, entitled "Straws,"
and from the pen of Clay M. Green. Remarks as
to its showing "how the wind blows " or in regard
to its " baleful influence " are now in order through
There is a violinist out West who is without arms
and plays with his feet. His playing attracts exchanges.
large audiences but we have our own private opin-
Miss Florence Copleston, assisted by Mme.
ion about a man who plays with his feet in Sum- Julie de Ryther, gave a highly successful
mer with the thermometer at 98 deg. in the shade. matinee musicale at Richfield Springs, on Wednes-
day morning, Aug. 17th. Miss Copleston played
Richard Grant White plays, or did years ago,
the violoncello with a degree of skill, but he is not selections from Liszt, Chopin, Saint-Saens and
Scarlatti, and Mme. de Ryther sang two favorite
a theorist or a well educated musician.
songs by Gabriel.
The Philharmonic Society of Jersey City pro-
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under Mr.
poses a series of oratorio concerts next season.
The society numbers 175 singers, and is now estab- Henschel's direction, will give twenty evening
lished on a permanent basis. Dr. Damrosch com- concerts and as many afternoon rehearsals this
The orchestra numbers 60 musicians,
plimented them highly for their valuable assistance season.
at the Festival last May, and under the efficient and the library includes 275 numbers, 52
training they have received they may fairly claim symphonies, 85 overtures, 12 concertos and 126
miscellaneous pieces.
to rank among the best choral organizations.
The twenty-fourth annual festival of the Worces-
ter (Mass.) Association will occur on Sept. 2(i, 27,
28, 29 and 30. There will be nine concerts. The
principal works will be the Verdi " Requiem," the
"Creation," and "Elijah." In addition there will
be a number of minor choral works, organ and or-
chestral concerts, and solo singing.
The artists
already engaged are Miss Kellogg, Miss Cary, Miss
Winant, Mr. Tom Karl, Mr. Whitney, Mr. Rem-
mertz, and others of local reputation.
Mr. William E. Mulligan, the organist of St.
Stephen's Church, gave an organ recital at Red
Bank, N. J., recently.
The entertainment was a
social and artistic success.
Messrs. Koster & Bial will change the character
of their entertainments at the hall in Twenty-third
street. The Berliner Ladies' Orchestra have been
engaged, and will begin a series of concerts Sej)t-
ember 16.
The Hess Opera Troupe, including Miss Eisner,
Miss Randall, Messrs. Peakes and Carleton, have
made a decidedly good impression in the ' ' Mas-
cotte," at the Grand Opera House, Chicago. Miss
Eisner is rather new to the stage, but is spoken of
in most complimentary terms as a very pretty girl,
possessing a good voice and charming manner, and
adding positive strength to the organization.
William Carleton, now traveling with the Acme
Opei'a Company, singing in ' ' The Mascotte," leaves
the troupe at the end of this month in order to come
to New York for rehearsals of "Patience," shortly
to be produced at the Standard Theatre. Mark
Smith takes his place in the Acme Company.
Miss Abbott's costumes for the season are already
beginning to excite the attention of the great West.
A Chicago paper has had an interview, in New York,
with the packer of a dressmaking establishment
where the very good goods were being made ready
for shipment. The dresses for the revised edition
of " L a Traviata " are appropriately described by
the correspondent as "pure in tint and chaste in
design."
The advance subscription for the Gerster engage-
ment under Strakosch, in New Orleans, is very
heavy, and as much as $3,000 premiums have been
received for choice of boxes.
The six-weeks season of concerts by the Theo-
dore Thomas Orchestra at Chicago, closed Aug. 20.
The engagement, which has been financially suc-
essful, will be renewed next summer. The aggre-
gate attendance has been 20,000. The programme
of the closing concert was interrupted by the pre-
sentation to Mr. Thomas of some handsome flowers
by the Rev. Dr. Swing, on behalf of the public
Miss Isabel Stone, of Boston, sailed on Saturday,
Aug. 13th, for London, where she is under engage-
ment to sing at a series of concerts this autumn.
Later she will make the tour of the provinces.
Mr. Max Maretzek and Signor Tagliapietra are
giving vocal and orchestral concerts in Cincinnati.
The Emma Abbott Opera Company begin their
season in Denver, Col., on September 5. They
open the new Tabor Opera House, just completed
by Governor Tabor at a cost of half a million dol-
lars. The company is composed of sixty-eight
people in all, and, it is said, are guai'anteed rail-
way fares and $20,000 for the two weeks' engage-
ment.
" Billee Taylor " has been " a g o " in Boston, as
done by the Rice-Goodwin troupe, and, to put it
paradoxically, will probably be a fixture for some
time in Llie " Hub of the Universe and the /Esthetic
Centre of the Intellectual."
They are to have another " opera festival" in
Cincinnati this winter.
Miss Emma Abbott's English Opera Company
contains this year several artists who will be new
to this public, as well as several of those who were
in her own and Max Strakosch's companies last
season. This is the composition of the troupe:
Miss Emma Abbott and Mme. Julia Rosewald,
soiirani; Miss Pauline Maurel and Mile. Annetta
Zelna, contralti; Castle, Fabrini, Cooper and
Appleby, tenori; and Stoddard, Conly, Olmi and
Tarns, baritoni and bassi, with Signor Tomasi as
conductor. The repertory ranges all the way from
" Faust " and " Rigoletto " to " Olivette."
Adamowski, the violinist, has composed a comic
opera, entitled "Priscilla." The libretto, which is
by Mr. J. T. Wheelwright deals with the loves of
Miles Standish.
" Priscilla" will probably be
produced in Boston this winter.
Mr. Curl Zerrahn has been re-elected conductor
of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society. This
will be his twenty-eight year of service.
Mr. Charles L. Siegel, musical director of the
Yorktown, Virginia, chorus, was in Washington a
few days ago, and while there he conferred with
Col. Craighill and Col. Forsyth with regard to the
erection of the music stand at the centennial of the
surrender festivities
Work will be begun on the
stand about the 1st of September. Mr. Siegel also
conferred with Capt. De Souza, leader of the United
States Marine Band, and the latter will arrange the
music to be played by his band as accompaniment
to the chorus. The band is composed of thirty-six
pieces, and is, with perhaps one exception, the finest
in America.
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The Pkilharmonie Club will commence their it is not profitable to publish for so small a con- in the salaries of great singers. In 1831 Mme. Mali-
bran, then the first of living prima donnas, received
usual series of chamber music concerts at Chicker- nection.
ing Hall, Nov. 15. Miss Florence Copleston,
The deaths are announced—at Saint Regie, of 1,250 francs for each performance, about $250;
pianiste, will be the solo artist of the first concert. Chas. Joseph Brice, professor and composer of while now $500, $1,000 and even $2,000 a night
Maurice Dengremont has, we have been informed, music, aged 55; at Florence, aged 24, of Antonio are by no means uncommon. In Francis, however,
been engaged to play at one of the Philharmonic Terenzi, a promising writer on musical matters; at the salaries of singers do not appear to have been
so high, for Mme. Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Mali-
Club's concerts.
Trieste, aged 45, of Enrico Pirini, operatic agent; bran's
sister, received only 1,000 francs a night iu
The opera house in Holyoke, Mass., was crowded and, at Turin, of Luiga Lamiraux, concert- 1849, when she created the role of Fides in "Le
recently when the operatic exti*avaganza, " Medi- vocalist.
Proplu'te," and Mum Krauss, the leading soprano
cal Students," was presented by Our College Boys The Conservatoire at Vienna has 726 pupils in- at the Grand Opc'ra in Paris, receives 1,500 francs
Opera Company. The piece itself was pronounced cluding G75 Austrians and 51 foreigners. Only for each performance, which was also Faure's sal-
a success.
one is American.
ary.
Not one of three so-called national airs of the The latest in Patti rumors is that French capital Arnold Mendelssohn, the organist of the Evan-
United States is strictly of American composition. sends her to America, and that she was privately gelical Church at Bonn, is a grand nephew of the
"Yankee Doodle " is said to have been the work of married to Nicolini as a precaution.
Mendelssohn. Ho has founded for the
an English physician, and to date back to the French The Viennese papers announce that on August immortal
at Bonn a choral union that is highly
wars, when it was composed in derision of the vol- 11 Johann Strauss, the renowned composer of church
praised, and in July last executed in the church a
unteers of the colonies who assisted the British reg- dance music, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of vocal
of his own for an eight-voice
ulars. It is said by others to date back to the time the composition of his first waltz, which, it was chorus composition
soli, of which the critics are unani-
of Cromwell. It was certainly known in England alleged, was writen on August 11,1831. It would mous in with
approbation. Bonn is very proud of
before the revolution and was sung by the soldiers be ungracious to cast doubt upon this pretty little him, both their
because of his name and lineage, and be-
who garrisoned Boston. The music of the '' Star story, though the fact cannot be forgotten that cause of the
promise he gives of being musically
Spangled Banner " is also of English origin, and Johann Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, and
once bore the title of " Anacreon in Heaven." Rob- that, if the tale be true, he composed his first worthy of them both.
ert Treat Paine adapted to this air one of his pop- waltz when he was of the mature age of five. As Mr. Irving has sub-let the London Lyceum for
ular songs, "Adams and Liberty." It was not till his father, another Johann Strauss, was equally a part of October and November to Mr. Samuel
1811 that Francis Key composed the present words. celebrated composer of dance music, a slight sus- Hayes for an Italian opera season at cheap jjrices
" Hail Columbia " was written in 1798 by Judge picion cannot be suppressed that the waltz, if the —that is at the ordinary theatrical prices.
Hopkinson to what was then called the '' Presi- affair have any trutli at all, might have more claim
The Sydney papers speak in highly eulogistic
dent's March," an air composed by a German nam- to the paternity of the elder Strauss than to that of
terms of Herr Wilhelmj and his playing at the con-
ed Foyles, on the occasion of a visit from the Pres- the child of five.
certs he is giving there. Max Vogrich, the young
ident to one of the New York theatres.
Madame Christine Nilsson, who has been for Hungarian pianist ; Miss Kate Thayer, soprano,
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work, "Pa- the last three weeks at Mont Dore, Auvergne, has and Miss Mario Conron also come in for a good
tience," which is called an " {esthetic opera," will been invited by King Oscar to take part in the word.
be produced at the Standard Theatre, beginning fetes attending the marriage of the Prince Royal of Among the members of tho Italian Opera com-
Sept. 19, by Mr. D'Olyly Carte's opera company. Sweden. Madame Trebelli has, of course, al-
St. Petersburg, for the coming season are
It is stated that rehearsals of the play are now in ready b«en engaged, and Madame Nilsson, as a pany,
Mdmes. Sembrich, Durand, Fursch-Madier, Tre-
progress and that the cast of the company is com- true patriot, has undertaken to give up a portion melli,
Signors Masini, Barbacini, Cotogni, Vasselli,
pleted. Among the artists engaged are Mr. Willi- of her holiday in order to sing at the wedding of and Lombardi.
There will be a performance
am Carleton, Mr. Ryly, Miss Carrie Burton, Miss her future sovereign.
every day excejit Sunday.
Eose Chappelle, and Miss Edmonston.all of whom
"Rosa di Perona," new opera by the widow
are well known in New York, besides Miss Roche A new opera, "Das Verwunschene Schloss,"
and Mr. Cadwallader, from the London Opera music by MilliJcker, libretto by Berla, was pro- Lionetti, has been produced at the Teatro Rossini,
duced with success at the Freidrich Wilhelmstrasse Naples.
Comique.
Theatre, Berlin, recently.
Tainberlik has beon made a Nubile e Hidalgo
The Emma Abbott Opera Company have gone to
The Liverpool Philharmonic Society , will next Basco, a distinction highly prized in Spain.
Denver City, Col., and will begin their season
season produce Lachner's "Requiem," and the Joseph Labitzky, tho dance-composer, rival of
Sept. 5.
setting of "Odysseus " by their conductor, Herr Lanner and Strauss the Elder, celebrated on the
Mme. Carreno, Mme. Donaldi, and Signor Fer- Max Bruch.
1st July his 80th birthday.
ranti will give a concert at the Oriental Hotel,
Coney Island, on Monday evening, Sept. 5. The Another musical newspaper. This one is to be Mdlle. Blum, formerly of the Grand Opera,
same artists have been engaged for the coming sea- issued from Liverpool, it is to be called the Brass Paris, and the Theatre do la Monnaie, Brussels,
son for a concert tour in the principal cities of the Band News, and, as its name implies, it will be having recently become Mdme Daydou, has retired
the "organ" of brass bands. The publishers from the stage.
United States.
state that there are upwards of two thousand pro-
Miss Lillie Berg, a young artiste of this city, re- fessional and amateur brass bands in England A new and permanent " Operetta-House ". is to
ceived the compliment of a testimonial concert at alone, or a total of forty or fifty thousand brass be erected in tho well-known Hotel Demuth, St.
Richfield Springs last week, in which she sang sev- band players.
Petersburg.
eral times. The entertainment is said to have been
Joseph Wieuiawslci has composed a new Violon-
The salary list at the Paris Opera has recently
highly successful in every respect.
been published. It is headed by M. Lassalle, who cello Concerto, of which report speaks well.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will sing in public for gets #24,000 a year; M. Maurel has $22,000; M.
" 11 Violino di Cremona," new opera by Duke
the first time since her return at the Worcester Villaret $12,000*; M. Sellier $9,000; Mdlle. Krauss
Litta, is announced for the autumn at
(Mass.) Festival Sept. 29. Mr. J. B. Pond will be $16,000; Mdlle. Richard $12,000, and Mdlle. Edith Giulio
r
her manager, and already states that applications Ploux $4,0(X). The director has no rent or gas to A arese.
for Miss Kellogg's professional services are so nu- pay, and he has a subvention of $160,000 a year. Marchetti has been nominated President of the
merous that they cannot be filled during the coming During the year 1880 no less than eleven operas Royal Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome.
season.
were performed, not one ef them being a novelty.
The Imperial Opera House, Vienna, has re-
Miss Emily Winant and Mr. G. W. Warren gave And yet the French claim that the Paris Opera opened.
a matinee musicale last week at the Lake House, retains its old position among the lyric theatres of
Lake George, for the benefit of the local Episcopal Europe.
Italian librettists seem almost as much played
church. The result was a substantial addition to
out as composers in Italy, if the book of the new
the church funds and an artistic success for the A Vienna paper contradicts the report that M. opera " Jella " beany criterion. A contralto gipsy
Rubinstein is about to renounce the role of a is the dens ex mavhind, and the plot is founded on
performers.
pianist. M. Rubinstein has no love for the life of
Mr. Adolph Fischer, violoncellist, will not return a virtuoso, and during his recent visit to London tho love and jealousies of two knights, a tenor and
to New York before December. He has engaged to ho lost no opportunity of showing the public so. a baritone, for a young girl, who is, of course, the
play in Pai'is at the Pasdeloups concerts and in So long as he can keep the little fortune ho has soprano. In accordance with the fitness of operatic
Leipsic at the Gewandhaus concerts in November earned there, it is highly probable M. Rubinstein things, the tenor carries off tho prize, having dis-
comfited the machinations of that desperate villain
will not play again in London. But no sooner the baritone. The opera was produced at the
ABROAD.
does tho ruling passion display itself, and the for- Communal Theatre at Placentia, and it had a fair
Stephens and Solomon, of "Billee Taylor" fame, tune disappears or is forgotten, but M. Rubinstein
will open the season at the London Olympic will assuredly be found once more in that city. iccess.
Theatre, on the 29th inst., with their new comic At present, according to the Viennese paper in
The Russian composer, G. A. Lischin, has written
opera, "Claude Duval, or Love and Liberty," under question, Rubinstein is reported to be writing a an opera, "The Gipsy." The libretto is founded
the direction of Mr. Michael Gunn, Mr. D'Oyly new ballet and a new symphony, or, as he once on Puschkin's poem bearing the same title.
Carte's partner in the first infliction of "P c."" faithfully expressed himself, "spoiling clean
From Berlin comes the news that Suppo is work-
A youth, bearing the somewhat suspicious name music paper."
ing at a new operetta " The Darling," with which
of Carl Wondra, and said to be a thirteen-year-old
At a meeting of Bards at Bangor, Wales, Aug. the Carl Theatre of Vienna will be favored next
prodigy from the conservatoire at Vienna, is about 19th,
it was unanimouslv resolved that the winter; also Millocker, of Vienna, is engaged on a
to come forward as a boy violinist. The race of National
of 1882 should be held at new operetta, " Tho Maid of Belleville," words by
prodigies seems, however, to be deteriorating, Denbigh. Eisteddfod
This
year
it
will be held at Merthyr Zell and Genee.
and at any rate Carl Wondra is about ten vears too Tydfil,
The following intelligence ivppeais in the Allge-
old.
Miss Thursbv sang at Bergen a short time since, meine Dcufwhe Musik-Zeitung: Julius Liebig,
It is said of English musical people that they
conductor of Ems, has been presented
readily receive lives of German composers while in aid of the Ole Bull Memorial Fund. She will orchestral
by His Majesty the Emperor, with a breast pin
they are apathetic in regard to the lives of distin- remain some time in the North and sing at Christi- richly
set with diamonds. Herr Angelo Neumann
guished English composers. The Spectator says ania and Stockholm. Over fifty thousand people has secured
the sole right of representing the
that the cause of this opinion is found in the fact went to hear her at Copenhagen.
that biographies of foreign musicians deal with the The Paris Figaro publishes some statistics which " Nibelungen-ringes " in Breslau and Dresden.
best composers, and that as musical people are not are interesting because they throw some light on
Sign or Arditi has gone to Milan, in order to
readers (their leisure being engaged in music itself) the much discussed subject of the recent increase place his son in the Conservatory of that city.

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