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laying, a most difficult accomplishment at the
Reporter.—Well, well ! You surprise me. What
kind of a fellow is Nicolini ?
resent time.
Mr. Rullman.—Oh ! about 62 to 63 years old,
CELLISTS.—Mr. A. Hartdegen, violoncellist,
but he makes up very well.
tas taken up his residence in New York city. I t
Reporter.—Was there not a story that when Patti
WAGNEK.—Dr. Hanslick, of Vienna, is one of the 3 rumored that he will soon marry Miss Norton,
first sang with Nicolini, some years ago, before she iritics par excellence, on all musical subjects. His he soprano. Mr. Adolph Fischer, violoncellist, is
fell in love with him, she used to object to having ork "Vom Musikalischen Schonen," known in sxpected soon from Europe, and Madame Rumor
him cast in the same operas with her, because he nglish as a "Treatise on Musical iEsthetics," is ays that he comes to marry the daughter of Mr.
smelt so badly ! Was there any truth in it ? "
idely circulated and has been translated into jchirmer, of the well-known music publishing
Mr. Rullman.—See here, have you ever been in several languages. The sixth edition has just been ouse.
ublished. Dr. Hanslick is one of the pronounced
Havana ?
KELLOGG.—Clara Louisa Kellogg, has thus far
mti-Wagnerites who continues active in opposi-
Reporter. —No.
cured good houses and liberal applause wherever
Mr. Rullman.—Well, when you approach Hav- tion, notwithstanding the positive success which he has appeared. She attracts large audiences.
ana, you notice a peculiar odor, a smell of garlic, Wagner operas are achieving on the continent.
PHILHARMONIC CLUB.—The New York Philhar-
very disagreeable and nasty. That's the way with ~he arrangements for a Wagner cyclus are about to
Nicolini. As soon as you get near him you get )e closed in London. This is the first step tow- monic Club, begins its fourth season at Chicker-
that garlic smell in your nose and it is awfully .rds a similar cyclus in New York. It is to be ing Hall, Nov. 15th. The three succeeding con-
rts are to take place Dec. 20, Jan. 17, and Feb.
offensive. He is celebrated for it. Patti's infatu- oped that we will soon have an opportunity to
The soloists are S. B. Mills, Miss Copleston,
ation for him cannot be accounted for. Why, she isten to the remarkable works of this remarkable
Mrs. W. G. Morgan, pianistes, and Maurice
told me herself that she had made her will leaving snius.
'engremont, violinist.
everything to Nicolini. It's a good thing for his
THURSBY ABROAD.—-Maurice Strakosch is taking
wife and two children, isn't it ? I advised her that mma Thursby all over Europe, according to the
AN ICE IDEA.—M. J. Warner & Co., of No. 737
when she came here that she had better go house- eports from the other side. He has been giving roadway, New York, offer a prize of $1,000 for
keeping; if she had no faith in cooks she could ioncerts with this American vocalist throughout
the best new and original music composed for and
bring her own along. I told her she could not >reat Britain, Spain, Germany, Austria, Denmark dapted to Colonel I. F. Warner's libretto of a comic
carry this thing on in our country, as she does in md Norway and Sweden.
pera, entitled: 'Arctic; or, the North Pole Ex-
Europe, because the first thing she would know,
>edition.'" Here is a chance for some of our
" PARSIFAL."—Wagner's
"Parsifal" is now :old-blooded composers to freeze on to a one thou-
if she stopped at a hotel with him, the proprietor
would surely bounce both of th'em into the street undergoing preparatory rehearsals, while the solo- and dollar bill. The Ice-berg intermezzo, be-
the next morning. I told her such carryings-on ists are studying under the personal supervision of ween the first and second acts, must not be for-
might do over there, but they would not work ;he " master." Each role is studied and practiced gotten. There are excellent opportunities for a
?» double, so that in case of sickness or unforseen eal-skin scherzo, an Esquimaux ballet, and an open
here.
iccidents, no delay in the performance will take
Reporter.—Perfectly correct, Mr. Rullman. But place. The copyright of the work has been pur- 'olar Sea waltz. A beautiful Adagio a la Alaska,
tell me, how about the dates at Steinway Hall, and hased by Schott, of Mainz, who will publish the ;an be introduced in the Kamtchatka chorus, and
he opera might very appropriately close with
in Boston, etc.
•arts as rapidly as possible The performance at 3ishop Heber's " From Greenland's Icy Moun-
Mr. Rullman—Oh, there is nothing sure about Bayreuth takes place in the Summer of 1882.
lins."
those dates. She has had a kind of agent here, a
WONDERFUL.—As an instance of managerial
Frenchman, but he makes no positive arrange-
B I L L . — " A dramatic and musical paper in
ments as he is compelled to submit everything to liberality, we must record the action of M. Vaucor- tuenos Ayres has the terrifying name of The Mos-
the Madame, and, as a matter of course, no one beil, of the Grand Opera, Paris, who voluntarily uilo. We wonder how often it presents its bill?"
can deal with him. That ridiculous report that is doubled the salary of the rising young American Musical Herald, Boston.) If the net's account
out, which states that Steinway had advanced prima donna, Miss Griswold. Her Paris suc- ood it will never present its bill.
money, is too absurd to countenance. Do you think cesses have exceeded the expectations of her most
call Minnie Hauck, Miss, when
Tretbar is such a fool to advance money without a sanguine friends, and, (what is of more conse- she MARRIED.—Why
is now Mme. Hauck-Wartegg, having recently
written guarantee ? No, sir, never in the world. quence), those of her teacher and manager. married
the Chevalier Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg,
Those dates don't amount to a pinch of snuff, if Among coming engagements at the Grand Opera,
Patti takes it into her head at the last moment not Paris, that of M'lle Nordica, another reputed ne of the travelling correspondents of the Vienna
to come. As I told you, I will believe she is com- American prima donna, must be noted. Great Freie Presse ? The chevalier pressed his suit per-
sistently, and has at last been rewarded.
ing when I see the cable dispatch that the steamer expectations are entertained.
VALLERIA NOT COMING.—Alwina Valleria is ad-
with her on board has left Queenstown.
COMIC OPERA.—Miss Danille as Donna Juanita
Reporter.—Patti is about thirty-five years old, is seems to have made a success. She is at present vertised by Col. Mapleson as one of the members
with Mahn's Opera Company, filling the roles for of his company. She has, however, up to date,
she not ?
to come to this country. As a fact,
Mr. Ridlman.—Well, as I used to dandle her on merly taken by Jennie Winston. A new work in declined
Valleria has accepted an offer to sing at the Leices-
my knees, I suppose I know. She is more than ourse of rehearsal, which will be played by this ter
Musical Society Concert, with Sims Reeves, on
ompany is " T h e Gascon." It is also contem-
forty.
Dec. 12th.
Reporter.—What was your idea of a scale of plated to give " L e Postilion de Longumeau,"
the opera in which Wachtel, the German tenor,
LARGE IDEAS.—Patti thinks of giving her first
prices with Patti ?
concert at the New York Stock Exchange. She
Mr. Rullman.—My plan was only to charge $5.00 made such a furore.
has heard that the price of seats there is $30,000
each for the best seats, and $1.00 each tor the poor-
PATTI TROUPE.—Salvati, the baritone, is now an-
est. Give everybody a show to get in, was my nounced as a member of the Patti Company. This ;ach.
motto. Then I was going to spend $20,000 with adds another " unknown greatness " to the other
A WANDERING MINSTREL.—Remenyi, the Hun-
agents in Paris and London to cable every move- ' unknowns." It is a fact that with the exception of garian violinist, is concertizing in the West, play-
ment of Patti and Nicolini to the New York papers, Nicolini, none of the troupe have been mentioned ng nearly every night in small cities. By the
during the Summer, to begin with. But these in the prominent musical journals of Europe. time he gets through, his acquaintance with the
fellows who are managing her won't spend a cent. Who are Mile. Castellan, Violiniste; Mile. Hoh«n- ounty seats of the United States will be more
I'll bet they don't even give free admission to the schid, Contralto; Sig. Pinto, Basso? According thorough than that of any other artist who ever
members of the New York press. Why, sir. I ex- to reliable reports, Nicolini is of no account, so travelled here. Remenyi understands how to
pected to spend at least $40,000 before she gave that it will cost ten dollars to hear Patti sing two attract the multitude. There is life, vivacity and
her first concert.
arias, with an encore, if she is not in a bad humor. soul in his violin playing.
Reporter.—How will the concerts draw at ten
RUSH FOR MAPLESON.—Why do the reporters of
MOSZKOWSKI AND TSCHAIKOWSKI—Moszkowski the daily papers make such a rush for Col.
dollars a seat, under her own management ?
Mr. Rullman.—Who is going to give ten dollars and Tschaikowski, two Russian composers, are at Mapleson's room as soon as he lands in a hotel in
a seat ? How many people will pay that ? She present attracting considerable attention, due to this country. They hardly give him time to re-
will be just about as successful in concerts, at their extraordinary originality and individual
over the effects of the sea voyage before they sub-
that price, as her sister Carlotta was at two dollars. ity. Tschaikowski is in the thirties, and has com ject him to another nauseating experience. We
I could have bought all the seats I wanted for posed symphonies, chamber music, songs, and a notice that he always indulges in generalities, and
Carlotta's concerts, from Max Strokosch, at one large repertoire of pianoforte music. He is now why should he not ? His business secrets are his
dollar each; but, oh no, not much. Patti is great about completing an opera, "Mazeppa," in the own, and he is perfectly right in not giving them
in opera, there is no use of talking. I told her I libretto of which some effort is made to copy the to the Press.
could run " Traviata " here ten nights and draw Byron version. Von Billow, considers Tschaikow
tremendously. Let me tell you she is great in ski one of the few competent composers of the
POPULAR SONGS.
that role. You see she is very natural in it day. Moszkowski, is about twenty-five years 0
MONG
the
coming
publications we hear of,
age,
and
has
suddenly
loomed
up
as
a
genius
in
Good bye. [Exit.)
none seems to have a brighter prospect than
the art of music. He has composed a large num-
Reporter.—Good bye. {Exit mystified.)
ber of pianoforte morceaux. His symphony "Joan the remarkable ditty, " Baby's Empty; Cradle's
of Arc," was heard here last season, but for want Gone." There is something so pathetic, so emo-
The rapidity with which dates have been filled of a proper interpretation many of the beauties o tional in this song, that it strikes home in a most
for the Kellogg Concert Organization proves the tone-picture were lost. It is to be hoped that fervent and passionate manner.
the wide extent of Miss Kellogg's popularity the works of these talented young men will be
It will however soon be obliged to succumb to
and the ardent desire of the public to give he produced here, not alone for the purpose of en- the overpowering impression of the latest lyric
cordial greeting after-her two years' absence.
couragement, but also in order to help educate th< effusion, entitled, "Father is with Mother Now."
The other song is mere pap to this, and this is
The Paris Conservatory of Music is located in a present generation of. music lovers.
more pop to the other. ' ' Father is with Mother
building of relatively small dimensions. Lately
ON THE TRAMP.—Mme. Donaldi, one of ou Now!" how intensely overpowering, how familar
the property in the immediate vicinity has been
secured and improvements, costing a half million American prima donnas, is " o n the road," singin the idea! " Father " (not step-father, not father-
dollars, will be made. A large concert hall will b grand Italian opera airs with piano accompan: in-law), but simply, " Father is with Mother Now."
built, and the room used at present for that pur ment. Last season the Donaldi-Rummel Company It will draw tears from the eye-lids of the most
lost considerable time and quite as much money matter-of-fact individual. The idea of mother be-
pose will be devoted to instruction.
Some say that Mme. Donaldi's false intonation hac ing in company with some one, that she is not en-
Anton Rubinstein has been requested to direc: a great deal to do with it. Mme. Carreno, tin tirely alone, that it is Father she is with now ; is it
the symphony concerts at Moscow, and has accept- pianiste, belongs, or, rather, is at the head of tin not sublime ? I t surpasses in witching tender-
ed, although he is suffering severely from an present company. She is an excellent artist ness that other beautiful song, "Father's Teeth
affection of the eyes.
who has the ability to interest pin audience in pian are Plugged with Zinc."
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