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January 20th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
The reproduction of "Der Freischutz," by the
Msennerchor, as a testimonial to Prof. Greiner. is
expected to meet with the same success the for-
mer presentation of the opera did, and it is to be
hoped that the testimonial will be a substantial
one.
It is a long time since the estimable Clara Louise
Kellogg has appeared before a Rochester audience,
and the concert to be given on the 16th inst. will,
no doubt, be well attended. It is to be hoped so,
and also that the great Patti will be greeted by a
large audience, should she favor us with a call.
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Mr. Fritz Staub is manager of our Opera House, been greeted by a crowded house at each' per-
and is an exceedingly clever and accommodating formance.
gentleman. Our Opera House is a very nice build- The operas given were "La Mascotte," "Pina-
fore," "Olivette," "Chimes of Normandy," "Fat-
ing, with a seating capacity of 1,000 to 1,200.
We hope to have some good musical troupes initza," and "Czar and Carpenter," and it is need-
later in the season; our best troupes usually come less to add, that the last named elicited most
interest on the part of the musical people here.
in the latter part of the season.
A.s soon as our newjines of railroads are com- Of the other operas, it is hardly necessary to
pleted, which will be in less than a year, our speak; suffice it to say that they were splendidly
transportation facilities will be equal to that of rendered, and that the company, if anything, was
far above the requirements of the works.
any city of its size in the country.
The "Czar and Carpenter" was produced with
Troupes can then come without being carried
out of their way a hundred miles or more, as they the following cast:
INTRODUCING THE ELECTKIC LIGHT.
Burgomaster, Myron W. Whitney; Czar, Mr.
The electric light, which is quite general here have been forced to do in the past. A good musi- McDonald,
who hails from our neighboring town
now, has been introduced in the Corinthian Acad- cal company would be liberally patronized here of
Steubenville and has naturally many friends
emy, and over the entrance hangs one of the
here; Ivanof, Mr. Fessenden; French Ambassador,
magic lamps. The Grand Opera House has not
Tom Karl; Marie, Miss Geraldine Ulmar.
yet indulged, but as enterprise is one of its mot-
WEST DETROIT.
Mr. Whitney's Burgomaster was capital, beyond
toes, no doubt ere long it will also "let its light
WEST DETROIT, MICH., January 10.
riticism, and Miss Ulmar was charming in her
shine," etc.
T)RrVATE letters and the press from Australia
At all events, one great improvement is to be JL speak in very glowing terms of the Mendels- ole. opera was given here for the first time, and
made, and that is the enlargement of the facility sohn Quintette Club, of Boston, and the associated the The
daily press incline to the opinion that it will
of egress, in case of fire, and the placing of two prima donna, Miss Cora R. Miller.
a success.
fire alarm boxes in the building, one on the stage It is plain that the concerted playing of the not It prove
not have satisfied that part—and perhaps
and one in the auditorium. This will also be club is a revelation to our antipodal friends, and t was may
the greater part—of the audience which
done in the other places of amusement.
in no stinted measure do they express their feel- sxpected the rollicking, and I may say'vulgar fun
E. H. L. ings in regard to it. The club gave a series of con- only too liberally offered in "La Mascotte,"
certs at Sydney in October, after which they went Olivette," etc.; but the real musicians among us,
to Queensland, visiting Brisbane, Maryborough, those who care more for the intrinsic value of the
INDIANAPOLIS.
November 12, Gympie, November 18, Toowoomba opera musically and those who saw the best operas
INDIANAPOLIS, January 9.
and back to Sydney, November 26, where they in Europe and are best able to judge, were not
r p H E O . THOMAS'S Orchestra drew a good house left the same evening for Newcastle, arriving there ouly pleased with its rendition, but predict a
JL at the Park Theatre December 29, and the on the 27th of November; from there they go to successful future for the opera in this country.
Yale College Glee (Hub did a fair business there Tasmania, and then to Victoria and South Aus- The sextette for male voices in the second act
on January 4.
tralia.
was the evening's gem and was heartily encored.
Since the engagement of the Emelie Melville Miss Cora R. Miller, who is said to be a very Next Monday Miss Kellogg appears at a farewell
Company, we have had a rest from comic opera, handsome young debutante, reaps the highest com- oncert here, and a crowded house seems to be
although the return of this company would be pliments for her beautiful voice and the artistic insured.
welcomed, as it is the only comic opera company grace with which she imbues her simplest ballads
CHORAL SOCIETIES.
worthy of the name that has appeared here this as well as the most trying selections from operas.
My
reliance
for
material for future letters to you
season.
is placed upon the two attempts now being made
MISS MILLER'S SUCCESS.
MISS KELLOGG ATTRACTS ATTENTION.
to organize choral societies here.
Clara Louise Kellogg was never possessed of a The Gympie Boucicault says: "Miss Miller was Mr. Whitney, of Boston, who has been among
greeted
with
a
perfect
fusilade
of
applause
that
very sweet temper, and as she grows older she
us for some months, and who is backed by repu-
seems to become crankier. Her recent performances ran round the house like independent file-firing, tation and by friends made since his arrival, has
have surpassed all her former efforts to make her- which was taken up and*rang out sharply from the issued a call and expects to recruit a society from
self disagreeable, and if her poor little husband crowd, after her brilliant vocalization of Donizet- the membership of the former Gounod Club.
gets much happiness out of the coming union, he ti's Se Crudele, in which she more than realized Enjoying the prestige of some influential musical
our expectations."
will have to be a very patient man.
society people, he is confident of success, whilst
Eecently, at Milan, Tenn., she compelled the Mr. Schnitzler, violin, and Mr. Ryan, clarionet, Carl Retter,. an old resident of the city, organizer
are
apparently
great
favorites
with
their
audiences,
proprietor of the hotel to allow her colored maid
and director of the Symphonic Society (now dor-
to eat at the table with the other guests, threaten- and the success of this first venture of the Men- mant), is making a like effort, and is equally san-
delssohn
Quintette
Club
in
distant
lands
seems
ing to leave the house with her company in case
guine.
to be assured.
her demands were not acceded to.
Mr. Retter is well and favorably known here-
At Louisville she visited McCauley's Theatre, The Mastodon Minstrels have been drawing big abouts, is a thorough musician, has hosts of
and disgusted the audience by carrying on, in a houses early in November at the Opera House, friends, and has probably done more for the cause
loud tone, a conversation with her manager, who Sydney, and the Williamson Opera Company was of good music here than any other person.
sat in the box with her, and called down upon her- to open with "Pirates of Penzance" on the 12th It remains to be seen who will gain the lead. At
self the wrath of the ladies of the company by re- of November, at the Theatre Royal.
all events the city will profit by the undertaking
ferring to them, in a voice loud enough to be heard Mile. Charbonnet, a superb pianiste, was to whoever gains the victory.
have
a
benefit
concert
on
the
23d
of
November,
at
all over the house, as "those females."
On Thursday evening next the Art Society will
At Masonic Temple, the same night, she made a Masonic Hall, on which occasion some of the best give its ninety-fifth reception, Mrs. H. Holdship
similar display of herself, so that, considering she Sydney talent were to participate.
and Mr. Carl Retter having charge of the pro-
is only human, and with only human capacity for Miss Georgie Smithson has been delighting gramme, •which will consist of vocal music, piano
Jarge audiences at the Queen's, in a sensational aolos by Mr. R., and quartettes by Messrs. Maeder,
making trouble, she did pretty well.
drama entitled "The Female Detective;" it was ooper, Hirsch, and Retter.
ANOTHER PRIMA DONNA WITH A TEMPER.
changed November 12th for the play of "Mazeppa."
Mme. Gerster is another prima donna who pos- Theodore Thomas gave three concerts, with the
CINCINNATI'S OPERA FESTIVAL.
sesses a temper not to be despised.
members of the N. Y. Philharmonic Orchestra, on
The Cincinnati Opera Festival has excited much
While en route from Cincinnati here a short time December 30 and 31, and January 1, at Music interest here, and our city no doubt will be well
ago, she became enraged because the cars jolted Hall, Detroit. The attendance was not large, and represented at Cincinnati next month.
her, and declared that if the train was not run the management loses by it seventeen hundred Perhaps after our Choral Society is fully under-
slower she would refuse to sing that night.
dollars.
way, and peace reigns supreme, we may be able
She was finally pacified, however, and graciously
to announce another May Festival here. Who
allowed the train to proceed at the usual rate of
knows!
PITTSBUBQ.
speed.
Our last one, some years ago, was certainly suc-
Church choir concerts are quite the rage now,
PITTSBURG, January 7, 1882.
iesaful enough to justify a repetition.
and from one to a dozen are annonnced every
MUSICAL correspondence from America's
HlIiARIUS.
week.
blacksmith shop! What a task!
The Matinee Musicale closed its sixth year Jan- I should hardly have the courage to undertake
uary 4. They have had six years of uninterrupted it, were it not that the past and coming weeks
PHILADELPHIA.
success.
N.
furnish material for this letter, and that matters
PHILADELPHIA, January 10, 1882.
I shall mention below justify me in the hope of
HE holiday season has not been prolific of
having subject matter for future letters.
ENOXVILLE, TENN.
events.
Musically, this city has been almost as devoid The musical
Cecilian and Mendelssohn Societies have been
KNOXVILLE, January 9, 1882.
of enjoyable occasions of late as the Sandwich recuperating
from the recent concerts noticed in
UR amusement season, so far, has been un- Islands.
usually light, and almost a blank, so far as 'Tis true, the Art Society has its bi-monthly your last issue, and with Patti's brilliant concerts,
musical entertainments are concerned;
receptions, and quite a number of music-loving even the benefit-fiend seems frightened out of
Some amateur home concerts comprise the list people and amateurs arrange chamber-music even- the notion of concerts, as a possibility, after her
up to date. We have had circuses, "Two Medal- ings for themselves, but both are equally inacces- successes.
lions;" "Phunny Phellows," "Milton Nobles," sible to the general public, and unless a concert or She seems to have exhausted the field.
However, Colonel Mapleson is with us, proffer-
"Claire Scott," "Harry Pease," etc., and the next opera company should come here now and then
inflicted on the boards is Nick Roberts' "Humpty we would have a musical desert with scarcely an ing a two weeks' repertory of more dignity and
importance than any Her Majesty's Opera has
Dumpty" dates for the 10th and 11th inst.
oasis.
On the 27th the Knabe Orchestra gives a musi- No wonder, therefore, that the brief season of hitherto offered Philadelphia.
cal concert which introduces to our people our music which we are in the midst of brings out The first week we are promised "Aida," "Wil-
liam Tell," "Carmen," "Les Hugenots," "H
best home talent. They usually give one enter- the populace en masse.
Trovatore," "Rigoletto," and "Lohengrin" at the
tainment each year, about the holidays. These On Monday last, January 2, the
matinee; and the following week, "Mignon,"
entertainments are usually very creditable to those
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA # COMPANY
"Martha," and "Faust" for Wednesday, the 18th.
who participate in them, and are greatly enjoyed
opened an engagement at Library Hall, and has Further than that this deponenth sayeth not.
by our people.
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