Music Trade Review

THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MUSICAL NOTES.
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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.—WEEK ENDING AUG. 9.
KOSTEK AND BIAL.—Mr. Rudolph Bial will give us only Wagner's musical
compositions on Thursday evenings hereafter.
Imports.
Musical
Instruments,
168
pkges.
.
$19,314
METROPOLITAN CONCEKT HALL.—Mr. Aronson gave the last of his first
series of Jullien's compositions on Sunday evening, August 15.
Exports.
Value.
Value 1
HALLOCK.—The singing of Miss Hallock in " Fun on the Bristol" is very
Liverpool, 40 organs, . .
3,211
good, although she has not much opportunity to show her abilities.
lentral America, 1 pkg. ac-
"
9 pianos, . . . .
4,205
$ 44
JAMES.—Mr. Lithgrow James, said to be a fine baritone, arrived on Sat- cordions,
London, 13 organs, . . .
2,750
British Poss. in Africa, 21
urday from London. He will join the Emma Abbott Opera Company.
875
organs
1,750 New Zealand, 14 organs,
U. S. Columbia, 1 organ, .
PAWN SHOPS.—Musicians seem to have a hard time financially, judging British N. American Colon-
98
" "
"
11 orguin-
from the number of musical instruments to be found in the pawn-shops.
ies, 1 piano,
125
ettes,
850
650
NEW OELEANS JUBILEE SINGERS.—The Jubilee Singers gave a concert Hamburg, 5 organs, . . .
Glasgow, 14 Organs,
1,450
Hamburg, 3 pks. musical in-
in the concert room of Congress Hall, Saratoga, on the evening of Aug. 7.
struments,
300
MAAS.—Mr. Louis Maas, a pianist from the Leipsic Conservatory, is Bremen, 1 organ,
. . .
250
said to have been engaged by Mr. Theodore Thomas for his concerts in the
$16,558
Total,
.
.
United States.
PORT OF NEW YORK.—WEEK ENDING AUG. 17.
DUBREUL.—M. Dubreul, Mr. Mapleson's stage manager, arrived in New
York on Friday, Aug. 6. Mile. Isadora Martinez, a member of the company,
Imports.
also came on the same steamer.
$14,684
Musical Instruments, 113 pkgs
CAMPANINI.—Campanini has greatly distinguished himself in Boito's
Exports.
"Mephistofele," an opera which Mapleson will undoubtedly produce here
next fall. This company will be here about the 8th of October.
Brazil, 7 pianos,
2,777
Liverpool, 1 piano, . . .
30 London, 3 organs, . . . .
100
''
2 orguinettes .
BAND LEADER SEIBERT'S SENTENCE.—Band Leader Seibert, of the engi-
575 British Poss. in Africa, 11
"
12 organs, . . .
neer battalion stationed at Willett's Point, who was hired to play for the
200
organs,
626
Whitestone Fire Department at their parade about a fortnight ago, but left Bristol, 2 organs
523 Brtsh. Poss, in Africa, 7 mus.
the firemen shortly after they had started on their line of march because the Hamburg, 10 organs, . . .
200
instruments,
600
department refused to pay him in advance, was tried by court martial at the Bremen, 2 organs, . . . .
120
120 French West Indies, 2 organs,
fort on the 7th inst. for this, and for playing at a festival without permisson U. S. of Columbia, 1 piano, .
Mexico, 4 organs, . . . .
280
"
"
1 accord-
from proper authority. The charge preferred against him was "Conduct to
370
eon, .
2 pianos,
the prejudice of good order and military dicipline." The court found Sei-
32
bert guilty, and sentenced him to forfeit $15 of his pay, and to be confined
$6,953
to the limits of the post for two months. The finding and sentence have
Total,
been approved by Gen. Abbot, commandant of the post, who, in addition to
PORT
OF
BALTIMORE.—AUG.
2
TO
7
INCLUSIVE.
the above sentence, reduced Seibert from the position of Lance Sergeant to
the grade of private soldier. This will take about $11 a month from his
Imports.
pay.
$1,913
Musical Instruments entered for consumption, ." . . . .
A SINGER'S "WHISKEY SOURS."—Walter Marion Conn, a singer of the
Exports none.
Standard Opera Company, was a prisoner in Special Sessions Court on the
PORT OF BOSTON.—WEEK ENDING AUG. 6.
7th inst. Horace H. Brockway, proprietor of the Ashland House, charged
that on the previous Thursday, Conn came to the hotel, and, being unable
Imports.
to give an account of himself, Avas put out. He tried to kick and strike
611 Antwerp, musical insts.
. 155
Brockway, and, finally, while in a patrolman's custody, struck the complain- England, pianos, . .
"
other musical in-
ant in the nose, causing it to bleed profusely. Conn said he had come to
Total, .
$2,556
struments,
1,790
the city from a summer resort on the day of the assault. He met a friend,
and drank some " whiskey sours." He said he was not used to that kind of
Exports.
beverage, and got mixed up. He was told that a lady wanted to see him at
751
the Ashland House. He tried to find her, but became thoroughly confused, E n g l a n d , o r g a n s , . . . . $ 685 Other musical insts.
and whatever else occurred was a mystery to him. He said he had never B r i t i s h P o s s e s s i o n s i n Africa,
Total, . . .
$5,139
organs,
3,703
been arrested before, and was heartily ashamed of the behavior he had been
guilty of. He did not remember having struck the complainant. The
PORT OF BOSTON.—WEEK ENDING AUG. 15.
Court found him guilty, and fined him $25. The prisoner went to the Tombs
in default of payment.
Imports.
England, musical instruments,
OBITUARY.
OLE BULL.
A despatch from Christiania of Wednesday of this week, announced the
death of Ole Bull, the violinist, at his home in Bergen, Norway. Ole Borne-
mann Bull was born in Bergen on Feb. 5, 1810. He was passionately fond of
music in his earliest years, but his father sternly forbade him to follow hi
inclinations. At 18 he was placed in the University at Christiania, but was
dismissed in disgrace when it was learned that he had taken temporory
charge of an orchestra at one of the theatres. In the year following he went
to Cassel, Germany, and offered himself as a student of the violin to Spohr,
who, however, received him so coldly that he despaired, and began to study
law at the University of Goettingen instead. He did not keep to his books
long, however, and his next appearance was again as a musician in Minden,
but in consepuence of a duel which he fought there he had to flee the coun-
try. He went to Paris, where he became so despondent that he threw him-
self into the Seine one morning. A lady of wealth who saw the act saved
him from a suicide's death, and afterward assisted him in his art, because
she saw in him a striking resemblance to a dead son. He soon afterward
made his debut in public as a violinist, and his success was instantaneous.
In about seven years he had acquired a liberal fortune. He married, and in
1838 he returned to his native Bergen, bought an estate and settled there.
Five years later he came to the United States and gave a series of concert;
which added greatly to both his fame and fortune. He remained here two
years and then went back to Europe, giving concerts here and there as the
humor took him. He saw something of war in Algeria, making a campaign
there with Gen. Yusuf. He built a theatre in Bergen, and tried to establish
national schools of literature and art in Norway. His glowing patriotism
got him into trouble with the Government, and vexatious lawsuits were in-
stituted against him, which cost him a good part of his fortune. To add to his
other troubles his wife died, and he again turned his footsteps to the United
States, landing here for the second time in 1852. With nearly all the money he
had at command he bought a tract of 152,000 acres of wild land in Potter
County, Pa., and tried to found a Norwegian colony. After two years of hard
endeavor he had to abandon it, with the loss of nearly all his property. He
came to New York city, leased the Academy of Music, and started to give
Italian Opera. He failed utterly and went back to Europe, where he gave
concerts with all his old success. He remained abroad until 1869, and then
returned with a comfortable fortune and settled in Wisconsin, where, in 1870
he again married, the lady being considerably his junior in years. He has
since been giving concerts at intervals both here and abroad. His last ap
pearance in this city was on March 4, at the benefit performance for the Heralo
Irish Famine Relief Fund.
Exports.
England, 2 organs,
$672
ABBOTT.—Miss Emma Abbott was last at Block Island.
"PINAFORE."—This opera is to be revived at the Aquarium.
RICE-KNOX.—Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox has been at the United States
Hotel, Saratoga.
HUMPHREYS.—Mr. H. R. Humphreys led a sacred concert at the West
End Hotel, Long Branch, on Sunday evening.
F INK .—Mr. Karl Fink, Mi'. Alfred Dolge's champion salesman, is sum-
mering at the Fort Lee Park Hotel, near New York City.
LEVY.—After several weeks' incessant practice, Levy has learned to play
Aronson's Waltz " Sweet Sixteen." They say he does it very nicely.
FRENCH OPERA.—M. Maurice Grau's French Opera Company will appear
at the Standard Theatre on September 13, in " La Fille du Tambour-Major."
Jacques Offenbach is the author, and it met with great success in Paris and
London.
LISZT.—If you wish to take the HerahTs word for it, Liszt said to Theo-
dore Thomas, during the latter's recent visit to Europe, " I do not look so
old, but I feel very, very old. I shall write no more. My pen is tired, and
I have done."
BADEN-BADEN.—A new and brilliant star has appeared in the musical
world. Miss Jenny Hahn, possessed of a splendid alto voice, who made her
debut at the choral festivals at Baden-Baden and Gottingen, promises soon to
rival, if not surpass, all the great oratorio singers.
AMERICAN AUTOMATIC ORGAN CO.—The American Automatic Organ Co.,
of Boston, Mass., lately issued a catalogue of their mechanical musical
instruments, from which it appears that a full line of their instruments will
shortly be placed on the market. The pictures of the organina look very
well.
SCRIBNER & Co.—Messrs. Scribner & Co., book publishers of this city,
have lately called the attention of the press to their edition of ' ' Spiritual
Songs for the Sunday School," of which they have already printed 100,000
copies. The book is the work of Dr. Robinson, and is very highly spoken
of. The Interior, of Chicago, says : " The music is generally of a high order
of merit."