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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
to its work, while the orchestra, under the direc- in the same capacity. Mr. Paul Gideau is in
tion of Mr. Ernst Catenhusen, is the best that charge of the organ at the Church of the Saviour,
can be heard in any New York theatre at present. where Mr. Fred. Stein ia basso, and Mr. Chauncey
Law is the tenor.
"THE WIDOW" AT THE STANDARD.
A. S. Caswell is organist of St. Stephen's R. C.
" THE CHIMES OF NORMANDY."
Church.
Carrie J. Clark, soprano, goes from
NEW opera, especially when composed by
E CHIMES OF NORMANDY," as pre- the South Miss
Bush
wick Reformed Church to the
a musician living in this country, whose
sented by the Hess Acme Opera Company
identity is familiar, is received here with a pre- at the Standard Theatre, i« a thoroughly enjoyable Reformed Church on the Heights. Miss Carrie
judice which foreign operas are not subjected to. performance of this popular opera. Miss Adelaide E. Mason, soprano, returns to the Strong Place
The secret of this can only be found in a phase Randall, who is winning golden opinions for her Baptist Church.
of human nature which admires importations more artistic singing and naive acting, was an interest- Mr. Charles H. Parsons remains as organist of
because they are foreign than because they con- ing Germaine, but Miss Louise Searle gave rather All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church, to which
tain real merit; on account of the enchantment too great a flavor of exaggeration to the role of Mig- Mrs. Alice Meserau, soprano, comes, from St.
lent to name and person at a distance.
nonette. Mr. Mark Smith was a capital Marquis, Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mr. Calixa Lavallee, a Boston musician, has and Mr. Henry C. Peakes made a profound im-
composed an opera called "The Widow," which pression by his realistic impersonation of the Miser. Miss Agnes Lasar leaves the St. James Protest-
has more musical value than the great majority of Mr. Wilkie sang the role of Robin More with ant Episcopal Church to join the choir of the One
light operas produced in this city during the last good taste, and the ehorus was spirited and intelli- Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Church, Harlem.
Mr. H. M. Hyman, basso, of Dr. Cuyler's choir,
two decades, and the only reason which prevents gent.
returns to join Rev. Dr. Armitage's choir in this
it from becoming a success is the fact that he does
city.
not reside three thousand miles away from here,
GRAU'S
FRENCH
OFERA.
and get a manager to tell all kinds* of remarka-
Prof. A. R. Walsh exchanges with Mr. Henry
l^HE season of Maurice Grau's French Opera H. Powell, the latter hereafter being at the West*
ble stories about his idiosyncrasies.
J.
Company
came
to
a
conclusion
on
Saturday,
minster Church, and the former at St. George's
The plot is outlined by the following: The act
opens at a fete at the chateau of the Due de Trop, May 13. At no one time was there a large Protestant Episcopal Church.
in honor of his neice and ward, Nanine, who loves audience present, and the performances were Mr. Robert Graham is now organist of the Old
Marcel against the wishes of her guardian. At only passable, the soloists, with the excep- Bushwick Reformed Church, where Miss C. Dazet
the fete the Marquis Beauseant meets Donna tion of two or three, being of mediocre quality,
Paquita, to whom he had been engaged, but he and the orchestra and chorus not worthy of much is the leading soprano, and Mr. Foster, leader.
Miss Sophie Stoddard changes from St. Bar-
has in the meanwhile married A dele Henriques comment.
for her fortune. Paquita, incensed at the treat- French opera requires thorough singers and nabas's Protestant Episcopal Church to the
ment she has received from the Marquis, pretends actors, as much as any other kind of opera, and if South Bushwick Reformed Church. Mr. H. E.
to drown herself. As he is running toward the works are presented in the shabby manner in which Hutchinson leaves St. Peter's Protestant Episco-
water to prevent her he is caught by Passepoil, a Grau has been giving them here this season, the pal Church to take charge of the organ at the
Middle Reformed Church. Mr. Harry Eyre
servant, who, not having seen the widow, thinks audiences will undoubtedly be small.
Browne continues at the Clinton Avemie Congre-
he has prevented the Marquis from committing
gational
Church, with Miss Saenger and Mr.
suicide; and the Marquis, thinking he will be ar-
A WONDERFUL CHILD.
Henry Baird. It is expected that notwithstand-
rested for murder, bribes his captor to silence.
From these circumstances follow several amuaing rpHEODORA LINDA DACOSTA, a young ing passing differences, Mr. George W. Morgan
situations, and after many mishaps the opera ends J_ child, seven years of age, sang at Chickering will resume his duties as organist at Talmage's
Hall, on May 17, at a concert tendered for her Tabernacle.
happily in the marriage of Nanine to Marcel.
benefit. She sang several songs with much ex-
Upon this slight fabric Mr. Lavallee has built an pression and a sentiment which was suprising for
ANNIE LOUISE CARY.
excellent light opera, full of rich solos and de- one so young. With proper care and discrimina-
lightful concerted numbers and effective cho- tion in the culture of the voice, this child will M I S S ANNIE LOUISE CARY, contralto, whose
ruses.
-^-'-*- retirement from the concert stage has been
become a noted vocalist.
The opera indicates that the composer is a mu-
nimored, is the daughter of the late Dr. Nel-
sician of more than ordinary ability who has
son H. Cary. She was born in 1842 in Wayne,
qualities which enable him to do even better in
ORGANISTS AND CHOIR SINGERS.
Kennebec county, Me. When fifteen years of
future, although "The Widow" is in itself a work
age she was sent to Boston to study music,
of more merit than we meet with every day.
and soon became a member of Dr. Bartol's
CHANGES IN BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
The instrumentation is very effective, although
church choir. A testimonial concert was given to
a larger and more competent orchestra should
ISS KATE PERCY DOUGLASS succeeds her, the proceeds of which were devoted to assist-
have been selected to play the opera.
Misg Emma S. Howe as soprano in the Ply- ing her to obtain an education abroad. She
As Mr. Lavallee is accused of plagiarism, it may mouth Church choir. Miss Helen Norman, alto; started for Europe in August, 1860, and proceeding
be well to state that there hare been and are com- Mr. George Werrenrath, tenor, and Mr. Ivan directly to Milan, studied first with Giovanni
paratively but few modern composers who have Morawski, basso, continue, with Mr. Henry Camp Corsi. Thence she went to Baden-Baden, where
not been accused of the same charge.
as leader of the choir. Mr. Henry Carter, of the she studied with Mme. Viardot Darcia. She stud-
To be original in music in our day is to be one Cineinnati College of Music, has just begun his ied, later on, with Bottesini, in Paris, and Henry
C. Deacon, in London, and the latter she pro-
musician out of nearly all that are living, with a term as organist.
nounces the best of all her teachers. Her first
probable exception of half a dozen.
Mr.
Dudley
Buck
continues
as
organist
of
the
Mrs. Seguin sang the title role. Mr. William Church of the Holy Trinity. Miss Jennie Grant appearance on the operatic stage she made as
Castle, who should now make room for younger succeeds Miss Holcomb as soprano. The alto is Azucena, in "II Trovatore," in Copenhagen, in
men, as his voice has lost its musical quality, was Mrs. Draper, Mr. Colville is tenor, and Mr. Brown, 1867. She remained in that city until March, and
then made a tour of Norway and Sweden, under
cast for the part of Marcel; Miss Adelaide Randall basso.
the management of Ferdinand Strakosch. The
sang Nanine, and Mr. Mark Smith made an excel-
lent Marquis Beauseant.
At the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, following winter season she sang under the man-
Mr. I. H. Brewer is organist; Miss Schraeter, so- agement of one of the Strakosches in Stockholm,
prano; Miss Emma Wilkinson, contralto; Mr. and accepted an engagement for the Royal Swed-
"THE MASCOT" AT THE GERMANIA.
Charlas H. Thompson, tenor, and Mr. John ish Opera House, singing in Italian while the
chorus and other soloists sang in Swedish.
SUMMER season of English comic opera Saunders, basso.
was begun at the Germania Theatre, with
At the close of this engagement she sang a short
The Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall's Church in season
Audran's "Mascot,"on May 8, the English libretto,
in Berlin, and with such success that she
by J. W. Norcross, differing somewhat from the Henry street has the following choir: Miss Chris- was offered an engagement for three years by the
librettos used at the former productions of this tine Dossert, soprano; Miss Nettie Cook, alto; manager of the Salle Ventador, in Paris. She
comic opera in New York. There is also an inci- Mr. Louis Belcher, tenor, and Mr. Edwin Bray, declined to accept it, however, and engaged
dental ballet added during the second act, led by basso.
herself for three years with the Strakosches. Dur-
Mile. Adele Cornalba, which unquestionably adds Mr. H. E. Duncan is Mr. Wiske's successor as ing the winter of 1869-70 she sang occasionally in
a great deal to the interest of the operette.
organist of Hanson Place Baptist Church. Miss London, and in the fall of the latter year returned
The cast is one of more than usual excellence. Emma Sweetzer is soprano; Miss Cavanagh, con- to this country in a concert company, which in-
Miss Dora Wiley's voice seems to be specially tralto, and Mr. W. C. Kimball, basso.
cluded Mme. Nilsson, Signori Verger and Brig-
adapted to light opera, and she uses it in the
noli, and M. Vieuxtemps. Afterward she sang in
The new choir of the Reformed Episcopal opera and concert under the management of the
"Mascot" with excellent effect. Her interpreta-
tion of the role is more life-like and natural than Church of the Atonement is Miss Sarah Spender, Strakosches for several seasons in this country
any we remember having seen. Mr. W. F. Carl- soprano; Miss Ella Spender, contralto; Mr. M. and Europe. Her engagements in St. Petersburg
ton, as Pippo, adds another to the successful roles Barnes, tenor, and Mr. F. P. Barlow, basso.
and Moscow were most satisfactory.
he has appeared in during his engagements in
At the Protestant Episcopal Church of the During the seasons of 1877-78 and 1878-79 she
light opera, although he could still improve it by Reformation, in Gates avenue, Miss Mary Butler was a member of Colonel Mapleson's opera com-
acting equally as well as he sings the part. Miss is organist; Miss Emma C. Smith, soprano; Miss pany. She created in this country the character of
Pauline Hall was a charming Fiametta. The Mina E. Grotjun, contralto; Mr. W. H. Bretell Amneris, in ' 'Aida." Her repertoire is an extensive
orang-outang song and dance in the third act was tenor, and Mr. Henry F. Reddall, basso.
one, not only in opera, but in oratorio, and as a
very effectively done.
ballad
singer she has few rivals. She sang in the
We must advise Mr. Henry Molten, the Prince In addition to these the following changes have Cincinnati Music Festival in 1880, and then visited
Frederick, to pay attention to time in singing. taken place since May 1: Mr. Shelly, of New Ha- Europe. Last season she sang in the Festival in
He did not sing two consecutive measures in ven, becomes the organist of the Church of the May in Cincinnati, in the May Festival in this
proper tempo during the performance of the opera, Pilgrims, in place of Mr. Cortada, who goes to St. city, and in the Chicago Saengerfest in July. Dur-
and in concerted parts this error became danger- Mark's Church, New York. Mr. George Ellard ing the past season she has been traveling with the
remains as tenor; Miss Montez, formerly of Zion Petersilea Concert Company, and has been ac-
ous to the surroundings.
will be the soprano, and Mr. Fred. Ingra corded everywhere most cordial receptions and
Mr. J. W. Norcross, Jr., as Lorenzo, and Mr. Church,
formerly of the First Presbyterian Church the
Richard Golden, as Rocco, kept the audience in a ham,
warm commendations to which her merits as
condition of constant merriment during the even- succeeds Mr. Fred. Crane.
a singer entitled her. Miss Cary will also sing
ing.
At St. Ann's, Mr. Archibald Arthur remains as in the Festivals to be held in the great cities of
The chorus is fresh and youthful, and fully up organist, and Mr. Caulfield stays at Grace Church the West.
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