Music Trade
Review
September
20th, 1881.
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THE
MUSICAL
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
Maurice Dengremont's first appearances after bis
return to this country will be in Boston, under the
management of Mr. A. P. Peck, Oct. 18, 21, and 22
next. He will play in Philadelphia, at the Acade-
my of Music, Oct. 24, and will then come to New
York.
Mr. George W. Morgan, organist, of New York
city, has written and published an anticipatory
" Thanksgiving Hymn on the Recovery of the Pres-
ident." The words are by Mr. John Keynton.
The management of the Metropolitan Concert
Hall propose to add a stage, with scenery and ap-
pointments, for the production of light opera dur-
ing the winter season.
Mr. M. L. Bartlet, the baritone, has been engag-
ed to sing at the Worcester (Mass.) festival, which
takes place the last week of this month.
Miss Fanny Pollak, soprano, will return to this
city from Europe next month to fulfill a number of
concert engagements.
The Meigs sisters' vocal quartet will give two
concerts in Steinway Hall early in the fall season.
Signor Errani, who has been the instructor of a
great number of our best amateurs, has been engag-
ed as principal vocal teacher by the College of Mu-
sic, in Seventieth'street. The concert hall in con-
nection with this institution is rapidly approaching
completion, and will be opened during the coming
winter.
Mme. Constance Howard was very successful in
her three morning concerts recently at the theatre
of the Newport Casino. The programmes were ar-
ranged with taste and discretion, and according to
the local press and correspondents Mme. Howard
achieved a triumph. This young lady has already
been recognized in New York as one of the most
industrious and talented of our resident artists,
and her many friends and admirers will be grati-
fied to know that she justified all that has been
said of her by a series of brilliant performances be-
fore an exceptionally critical audience.
agers of the Chicago Exposition to play at daily
concerts during the continuance of the fair, from
Sept. 15 to Oct. 25.
The case of Henry C. Peakes against Thomas
Derby, the husband of Emelie Melville, was tried
in San Francisco, Aug. 29th, before a jury in
Judge Wilson's department, a verdict being ren-
dered for the plaintiff, with damages at $300. In
December, 1879, Peakes, being then in New York,
entered into an agreement with the defendant to
render services as a singer in leading basso parts in
a series of operas to be produced by the defendant
in San Francisco and other points on the Pacific
coast, for from 12 to 16 weeks, at $150 per week.
On the evening of Jan. 19, 1880, the plaintiff enter-
ed upon his engagement at the Bush Street
Theatre, in the opera of " Friquette," playing
until the 21st of February following, when the de-
fendant closed the theatre, disbanded his troupe,and
abandoned his scheme of operatic representations.
Peakes therefore sued for §1,050 damages. The de-
fendant claimed that he had engaged the plaintiff
only for a season of seven weeks, terminating at
the beginning of Sothern's engagement at the
same theatre, and that he then intended to go to
Oregon and British Columbia for four weeks, or as
long as business was profitable.
ABROAD.
Miss Annie Louise Cary received a letter from
Mr. J. H. Mapleson, manager of Her Majesty's
Opera Company, on July 30, urging her to recon-
sider her determination not to sing in opera. He
claims she is now in her prime, and it will be time
enough to think about retiring when anybody ap-
pears capable of occupying any portion of her
shoes. He urges her to sing in his comj>any the
coming season, and shall want her to sing in Lon-
don the next season, and says if she has made con-
cert arrangements they can easily be dovetailed in
with the operatic performance. Miss Cary will, it
is stated, probably accept.
The death is annonnced, at Paris, aged 74, of
Victor Coche, formerly the partner of Tulon, one
Mr. M. F. H. Torrington, conductor of the of the imitators of the Boehni flute in France, and the
Toronto Philharmonic Society, has been passing his author of a Flute Method. His chief pupil was
vacation in England.
the flautist, De Vroye. He was the husband of
"Mme. Kentzs Minstrels, Vienna Orchestra and Madame Coche, piano teacher at the Conservatoire,
Vivandiere Cornet Band, under the management of and father of Madame Lyon.
Kit. Clarke, inaugurated their season, Aug. 15th, at
Mdlle. Peralta, is conducting an opera troupe
Long Branch, N. J., where they played under the through Mexico.
auspices of the Young Ladies' Christian Reading room
Society. The maiiagment is aiming to place this
The Berlin opera house opened on Aug. 16th
company at the very front of refined amusement with " Tannha'user."
enterprises, and judging from the press notices is
It is stated that at a competition at Cologne,
succeeding. The company will be at the Nyack
Opera House on Wednesday evening next, Sept. 14th, Sept. 4th, for a chorus for male voices, 793 people
competed.
when we predict for them a full house."
The above is taken from City and Country of
The deaths are announced at Rio de Janeiro, of
Nyack, N. Y., whose editor seems rather unsophis- M. Almeiras, violinist; and, at Lucca, aged 74, of
ticated in the matter of female minstrels, partic- Napoleone Rosse, ex-buft'e.
ularly of the Mme. Rentz variety ; but, as we are
informed that they played under the auspices of
Herr Richter has revived " Tannhiiuser," with
the Young Ladies' Christian Reading-room Society the new Venusberg music, at Vienna.
we suppose it is all right, though we should have
Madame Christine Nilsson has refused to accom-
thought that there were altogether too many rentz
in their moral clothing—they wear little—to make pany Mr. J. H. Mapleson to America this year,
them acceptable to any Young Ladies' Christian although she was asked to name her own terms,
with any reasonable sum she might choose to be
Society whatever.
deposited at Rothschild's. Madame Nilsson has,
It appears that Nicholas Crouch, the author of however—except a brief visit to Sweden and a pos-
"Kathleen Mavourneen " and other popular songs, sible concert tour in England—concluded no Euro-
now in his 73d year, is reduced to the necessity of pean engagements. Meanwhile, Mr. Henry Jarrett
working as a varnisher in a Baltimore factory. has, on behalf of Miadame Nilsson, arranged with
Crouch was formerly one of the gentlemen of Mr. Henry E. Abbey for an extended tour for con-
Queen Adelaide's private band, and was one of the certs only, beginning in October, 1882. Mr. Abbey
agrees to pay Madame Nilsson £20,000 for a hund-
singers at the coronation of Queen Victoria.
red concerts, besides traveling and hotel expenses
The fall term of the Hershey School of Musical for five people, and besides a half-share in the
Art, Chicago, opened Wednesday, the 14th inst , nightly receipts over and above the sum of £600.
with unusually brilliant prospects, the number of This contract is very similar to that Madame
applicants already received being larger than ever Nilsson made with Messrs. Max and Maurice Stra-
before
kosch in 1869.
Mr. E. B. Perry, the distinguished blind pianist
It seems to have been settled that Madame Patti's
of Boston, has accepted a call to take charge of
the piano department in the Oberlin College, at first appearance in public—absolutely the first—
Oberlin, Ohio, and commences his duties there was made in 1851, when the prima donna was eight
years old, at Trippler Hall, New York. She stood
immediately.
upon a table and warbled in a manner which aston-
The fall term of the Chicago Musical College ished the probably not very critical audience that
began Monday, Sept. 12. Never before have the had assembled. Thence the future diva proceeded
prospects of this school been better, and it has through the States and to Havana, after which she
been found necessary to make arrangements for rested for some years, and came out seriously in
more rooms in the Central Music Hall building. 1859—November 24th—as Lucia.
The president of the college, Dr. F. Zeigfeld, has
" I Burgravi," a new four-act opera, libretto
returned from his vacation. Mr. Hattstaedt is
home from Europe, and all of the faculty are ready by Signor Interdonato, music by Signor Carlo
Podesta, was produced at Bergamo, Aug. 17, with
to resume hard work.
fair success. Mile. Wanda Miller was soprano,
Prof. Geo. F. Root, of Chicago, conducted the Cardanali, tenor, Rapp bass, and Rossi conductor.
opening exercise at the Lake Bluff Musical Con-
Mr. George Grove haa, a letter in the Musical
vention.
World informs TIS, discovered among his music
Signor Liberati has keen engaged by the man- another of the innumerable forgotten works by
Schubert. The book is the collection of 50 varia-
tions on a waltz by Diabelli, which a German music
publishing firm procured, variation by variation,
from all the best known Austrian composers of the
day (doubtless without paying for them), and pub-
lished iu 1823. Beethoven was asked to contribute,
but his muse outran the publisher's intentions,
and he presented them with 33, which were pub-
lished separately as Op. 120. " However to cut a
long story short, among the 50 is a variation by
Franz Schubert, which seems never to have been
republished, and which has escaped even the keen
nose of Herr Nottebohm, author of the comprehen-
sive, and generally accurate, thematic catalogue of
Schubert's works. It is only a trifle, but trifles of
such men as Schubert are often of value. There is
a variation by Liszt in the same collection which
that doughty master has dropped out of his catal-
ogue."
M. Saint-Saens has agreed to write for the Paris
Opera House a grand five-act opera on the subject
of Henry VIII.
M. Guiraud, the composer of the immortal " Pic-
colino," has written [a new opera, " Galante Aven -
ture," which will be produced at the Paris Opera
Comique next winter.
Herr Franke, who has been with Wagner at
Bayreuth, has arranged with him for the exclusive
right of performing the opera of " D i e Meister-
singer " in England and America during the years
1882, 1883, and 1884.
It is proposed at the forthcoming Leipzig Opera
season to perform Weber's Operas in chronological
order. The recent successful rendering of " Pre-
ciosa" in London, would surely justify more atten-
tion here to the fine series of dramatic works by
the great composer of " Der Frieschiitz."
Mdlle. Salla is engaged to sustain the part of
the heroine in M. Ambroise Thomas's " Franeoise
de Rimini " at the Paris Grand Ope"ra. She re-
ceives 100,000 francs, with two months' holiday a
year.
After a comparative retirement of some years, B.
Ullmann, the well-known impresario, is again to
the front, organizing a concert-tour with Mdmes.
Albani, Norman-Neruda, and other eminent art
celebrities.
Mr. Garrett is the organist of a chapel in one of
the cathedral towns of England, and he recently
flogged one of the choiristers because ha made a
slight mistake in his singing. He did not flog him
immediately, when his passion was high, but
waited until the next day. When the matter had
been made a scandal of, the Doctor's friends de-
fended the outrage on the ground that flogging
was resorted to for such offenses in other cathedral
towns.
In the Kay Park, at Kilmarnock, Scotland, was
held recently a Burns musical festival at which the
singers numbered upward of 800. Excursion
trains were run from neighboring towns, and the
crowd of visitors was unprecedented. Seldom if
ever was a larger throng seen in the town, one
estimate being that it comprised more than 25,000
persons. Within the Kay Park inclosure there is
a natural amphitheatre capable of seating an im-
mense congregation. It was there that the exer-
cises were held. Seven of the 16 numbers on the
programme were songs by Burns. Burns' statue,
in honor of the occasion, was crowned with a
wreath of holly.
A concert was given at Bergen, in Norway, on
Aug. 19th, in aid of the Ole Bull Memorial Fund.
The concert hall was packed from floor to ceiling
and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Mrs. Ole
Bull and her entire family were present. Miss
Emma Thursby, the star of the festival, had a bril-
liant success and was serenaded after the perform-
ance. Over $10,000 have been subscribed to the
fund.
Franz Rummel, the pianist, has been stopping
in Brussels.
Teresina Singer lately gav« a concert at the
Theatre Girgenti.
The Hungarian composer, Julius von Belic/ay,
dedicated his last composition to the Crown-Prin-
cess Stephanie. A short time since, he received a
letter of thanks written by her Higness's Grand -
Master of the Household, and accompanied by a
gold breast pin set with diamonds and represent-
ing a lyre.
Another novelty, " Das Verwunchene Schloss,"
buffo opera in five tableaux, words by Berla, music
by C. Millocker, has been produced at the Fried-
rich-Wilhelmstadtisches Theater, Berlin.—Dr.
Krauss, having terminated his engagement at
Kroll's, is succeeded by Thaodor Wachtel.