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In his North Suites considerable searching is
done, and lots of touching, and a great deal of
stirring, especially with cymbals, bass drums and
trombones.
But I must call the lecturer to his senses, if that
is possible, and tell him that the latter qualities
he mentioned cannot be attributed to music, after
such broad definitions are given which inelude
the whole sphere of music.
Philosophical, scientific, devotional, pastoral,
and poetical cover the ground. Even these va-
rious "kinds of music" could be reduced by sev-
eral terms, and thus made more intelligible.
For instance, descriptive music, such as "pro-
gramme" music, includes pastoral and also many
other "kinds of music." Pastoral is only one of
the many "kinds" of descriptive music.
After the Professor gets through with a lecture
at the Peabody, his listeners generally know less
about the subject he has been trying to talk about
than before he began. It is not his intention to
produce so profound an effect, but the effect is
produced nevertheless. A glorious future awaits
the Peabody Conservatoy of Music under such
auspices ! !
May 5th, 1882.
THE ZAVIEE RECEPTION.
NE of the most enjoyable mueicales of the
season took place on Thursday evening,
April 27, at the rooms of the Xavier Union, No.
20 West Twenty-seventh street. It was a "Ladies'
Reception"—a biennial event when the members
vie with each other in making the occasion mem-
orable by reason of a tasteful programme and
hospitable treatment of its guests. Tho pleasant
rooms were handsomely decorated, and by 9
o'clock were crowded by the friends of the so-
ciety and at least two hundred of its members.
The programme opened with a duet, "The
Fan," by Leslie, which was sung in a delightful
manner by Miss Marie Glover and Miss Lillie
Berg.
Miss Glover, a promising young aspirant for
AT HOME.
operatic
honors, has a fine mezzo soprano voice
Henrietta Beebe has arrived here on a visit.
which she has subjected to the best European
Miss Emma T. Howe was tendered a compli- training with excellent results. With a piquant,
mentary concert in Plymouth Church on April 25. pretty face and figure, she has a vivacious man-
The programme included performances by Jo- ner that is very winning, and at once enlists the
seffy, the New York Philharmonic Club, Miss sympathy of the audience. Miss Berg has a
Howe, Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox, and Miss Nellie trained soprano voice of excellent quality, which
she uses to good advantage. The duet was sung
F. Brown. The church was crowded.
THE BAt/TIMORE "SAENGEKBUND,"
with much archness of expression in describing
Minnie
Hauk-Wartegg
brought
suit
in
the
an organization comprising many of the foremost
the latent possibilities of the fan, and elicited a
German singing societies of the city, have decided Supreme Court of this city on April 25 against hearty recall. After Mrs. Nenin's humorous reci-
upon the "Faust-chor" as the composition which Col. J. H. Mapleson on a judgment for £242 tation, in which she personified various small
will be sung by the "Bund" at the Philadelphia obtained by her in the High Court of Justice, school boys in a declamatory mood, Signor
Exchequer Division, England, in October, 1880. Coletti sang a solo, and then Miss Berg rendered
Singing Festival. Prof. Hammer will direct.
Mr. Fort, of the Academy of Music, received The amount claimed in the present action is an aria from Donizetti.
his benefit on April 25, at which the "Baltimore 31,177.72. Judge Barrett, in the Supreme Court, A duet from "Crispino % la Comara" followed.
Liederkranz," a German amateur singing society, Chambers, granted an attachment against the de- It was sung by Miss Glover and Signor Lencioni,
gave Kreutzer's "Camp in Granada," one of the fendant, upon the ground of non- residence.
and proved to be the most pleasing feature of the
most legitimate operas in the German repertoire. The Cumberland (Md.) Musical Association gave evening's entertainment. Mr. Max Maretzek was
The performance was exceptionally good. Prof. its first concert on April 11, the selection being the accompanist, by special request, and it goes
Mittler is the director.
Rossini's "Stabat Mater." The soloists were: So- without saying that the genial Max played in his
Publishers of and dealers in sheet music here prani, Misses Maggie P. Shuck, Laura Thomas, usual artistic manner. Signor Lencioni proved
have been feeling anxious about the sales of Matilda Minke, Lizzie Earlougher; alto, Miss his ability to sing buffo roles in capital style.
dance music on account of the following absurd Maggie Long; tenor, Mr. John L. Thomas; bassi, Miss Glover sang and acted with a demure arch-
article in*the Catholic Mirror of this city:
Messrs. John A. Fulton, William L. Morgan, W. ness that captivated the audience and elicited an
"In some convent schools the little girls are H. Shepherd; Musical Director, Mr. J. P. Wiesel; encore.
taught how to dance, under the pretense that it is a grand chorus of 100 voices; full orchestra. The Miss Henrietta Markstein then played a piano
beneficial exercise and that it imparts grace to their concert was a great success, and, according to the solo, variations of the popular ballad, "Old Blind
carriage. They learn not only square dances, but local press, inaugurated a new era in musie in Joe," in her vigorous style. Signor Leucioni fol-
tho waltz, the polka, the raquet, and other devices
lowed with the "Neapolitan Tarentello," from
of the devil. This is infamous! To allow them Cumberland.
even to instruct one another in these forbidden
Beecher announced recently that his former or- Rossini.
amusements, what is it but preparing them to ganist, John Zundel, was probably upon his death- Miss Glover, accompanied by Mr. Maretzek,
commit sin? It is training them for vice and the bed, in Germany, and that he had received a letter then sang Cowen's ballad, "It Was a Dream,"
much sympathetic expression.
end of vice, which is perdition. If they never from
him, which was probably the last he would with
learned these dances, they could never take part in
Several other solos and recitations closed the
ever
write.
them; and whoever teaches them, or connives at
programme, and after doing justice to a collation
their instruction in them, becomes, according to Professor Albert Rosse gave his fourth annual served by Purssel, the guests indulged in dancing
circumstances, mot e or less responsible for the sins concert on April 26 at Standard Hall, assisted by until an early hour.
which they will themselves commit, and which Miss Fenithorne, soprano; Mrs. Belle Cole, mezzo
they will be tho occasions of others committing by
this means. This practice must stop, worthy nuns soprano; Mr. Vicarino, baritone; Miss Jennie
Pratt, accompanist, and a number of young
VON BULOW'S WEAKNESS.
and sisters, and the sooner the better."
pupils. The programme consisted of vocal and
Yon TEBPE.
following
is taken from a recent number
instrumental pieces. Mrs. Belle Cole was encored J. of the London
Musical Times :
for her singing of Schira's "Sognai," and Mr.
A SERAPH GONE TO JOIN THE ANGELS.
Dr
von
Biilow
opened
his campaign on the 13th,
Vicarino
sang
"Evi
tu,"
from
"Un
Ballo
in
Mas-
\ | B . STEPHEN FISKE, being overloaded with chera." Five lads elicited some extraordinary in Leipzig, with a Beethoven
evening, like the onehe
•^-^ work, has asked the proprietors of the Star noises from five violins, which was far from gave here on January 20. This
time the symphonies
newspaper to request him to resign, which they have
were the sixth (the PHStoral) and the seventh; the
done. His connection with that paper ends with this artistic.
overtures were those to "Coriolanus"and "Egmont."
week. The Star will miss his valuable services, and
I need not here repeat—what in England is now so
the several valuable people in his retinue. Hereafter
fully recognized—the unique position which the
ABROAD.
the Star will not be puffed in Buck's Spirit of the
Meiningen Intendant occupies among conductors;
Times and the Dramatic Quaker. Nor will there be
but it must be confessed that the performance of the
any fear of Mrs. Mary Fiske offering to write stories Emma Thursby and her trusty adviser, Maurice Seventh
Symphony was a little disappointing; Dr.
for it at fifty dollars a week, or her little fresh Strakosch, have returned to Paris.
Riilow seemed inclined to exaggerate effects, and
friend superseding Mr. Percy at fifteen dollars a Sarasate, the Spanish violinist, has given a von
and at times even was a little careless of their rela-
week, or Mr. Harvier offering to do it for ten. All
of concerts in Milan, in which he took part vence. On the other hand, the Pastoral Symphony
the good old times are gone for the Star. But Mr. series
was brought out with consummate genius, and with
Stephen Fiske can now devote himself to Jeremy not only as soloist but as a leader of quartettes. the
most delicate and thoughtful sympathy.
Diddler Freund, and if he has any spare time can
Peschka-Leutner will take part in the German The overture to "Egmont" was also lu many re-
get up a new dramatic paper with a Jesuit for an operatic performances in London in June.
spects striking. But the triumph of the series was
assistant and a Jew for business man, and puff all his
old favorites, beginning with Mrs. John Wood, in- Anton Rubinstein's G minor Symphony was won in the second concert, on the 14th, devoted to
cluding Mr. Augustin Daly and Dan Harkius, and played and favorably received at the second Aca- Brahms, in which the First Symphony in C aroused
a furore quite unexpected in Leipzig. It is true Dr.
ending with Mr. Townsend Percy. This will be in- demy Concert, Munich.
von Biilow took a rather unfair advantage of the ap-
teresting, at leaf-t for Mr. Fiske and the gusher.—N.
Anton Rubinstein recently directed his over- plause, which induced him to repeat the delicious
Y. Dramatic Times.
ture, op. 60, B major, at a concert in Konigs- Allegretto, by making a little speech to the audience,
in which he thanked them, in "his own name and In
Herr Angelo Neumann has secured Mme. Vogel, berg, Prussia, a city where his genius is fairly that of H.H. the Duke of Meiningen, who had sent
worshipped.
Mme. Reicher-Kindermann, Mile. Marianne
him thither to procure the master, Johannes Brahms,
Brandt, and the tenor, Unger, besides other
The inauguration of the monument, in the a satisfnetion f r the 1st of January," when, as i»
artists, for his series of Wagner-opera perform- courtyard of the Conservatory of Music, Moscow, notorious, Brahms himself played his new Piano-
ances in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Russia, and to the memory of Nicholas Rubinstein, came off forte Concerto with something less than appreci-
France. Anton Seidl will be the director.
the last week of March. Anton Rubinstein, his ation.
The public was certainly and excusably offended.
Saint-Saens appeared as pianist, organist, and brother, was present.
took it that Brahms needed satisfaction—tho
composer at the fourth concert of the Conserva- Anton Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" is soon to be They
applause of an audience peculiarly vain of Its mu-
tory at Brussels, on April 2. The following pro- produced in Pesth.
sical insight; it was not to be supposed that they
gramme was performed, the conductor being M.
would see that their own musical credit needed
Gevaerts: Overture, "La Chasse du Jeune Henri," After giving a concert in Vienna, Sarasate left mending, and so be grateful to the Meiningen Capelle
Me"hul; Concerto in E flat (No. 22), Mozart, piano- for Italy.
for giving them an opportunity of reguiniog their
forte, M. Saint-Saens; organ solos—"Rhapsodie MARIE ROZE began a month's concert tournee on pos-ition.
Bretonne," Saint-Saens, Prelude and Fugue in A
Of all the conductors in Europe who are apt to
minor, Bach, M. Saint-Saens; Symphony No. 4, April 13, starting from Norwich, England.
make themselves ridiculous, Hans von Biilow is a
in B flat, Beethoven.
MME. ZEISS, the contralto, has arrived in Lon-
shining example. He often created the most in-
A new Symphony by Gernsheim met with so don, where she is at present remaining.
tense controversies here on account of his vanity
much applause in Rotterdam that it was repeated DR. MAX GOLDSTEIN'S Die Musikwelt, of Berlin, and conceit, and it is not surprising that he is con-
a week afterwards.
stantly making enemies.
has suspended publication.
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