Music Trade Review

THE MUSIC TEADE
MUSICAL NOTES.
JOURNAL.
SHOOT HIM.—
Some people dislike cat concerts at night
Which they never can cease from abusing,
TSCHAIKOWSKT.—Tschaikowsky is composing an opera entitled "Jeanne
But it always struck us that a cat concert was
d'Arc."
At all times and places a-mew-sing.
ROMEO AND JULIET.—Thirteen composers have set "Romeo and Juliet"
PROF.
WOLFRAM.—Prof.
Wolfram, of Mansfield, Ohio, has been in New
to music.
for several weeks under the treatment of Dr. Ward, of 339 West Twenty-
PATTI.—Adelina Patti will oppear as Desdemona in Verdi's "Othello" York
third street for throat troubles occasioned by straining and overwork. Prof.
next autumn in Paris.
Wolfram left the city highly elated with the successful treatment of Dr.
AJAX.—Markal's choral work, "Ajax" has been successfully performed Ward.
at Dantzic and Thoru.
CHEEK. —Richard Wagner is reported to have written, in a letter to a
SANTLEY.—Santley, the celebrated English baritone, has joined a Roman Bostonian,
that if a million of dollars shall be subscribed in this country and
Catholic church in London.
paid to him in cash and securities he will agree to come to America to stay,
VERDI.—Verdi has accepted the Perpetual Honorary Presidency of the and that he will produce all his operas here and devote his future life and
Istituzione Rossini, Bologna.
labor to the Republic.
HEILBRON.—Mile. Heilbron will probably be engaged to sing in
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.—On Sunday last, July 4, the Declara-
"Mignon " at the Scala, Milan.
tion of Independence, set to music, was, it is stated, sung by a large chorus
RIVE-KING.—Mme. Rive-King is said to be organizing a large and pow- at Philadelphia. It is probable that had George Washington contemplated
erful concert company for next season,
such a fate for the historic document, he would have thought twice before
Too BAD.—The Norcross English Opera Company sing the " Chimes of he defied the old country.—London Figaro.
Normandy " at the Aquarium this week.
UBSO.—The news from mid-ocean is that on July 7 a musical and literary
RANDEGGER.—Sig. Randegger has been appointed conductor of the Nor- soiree was given on board the Australia by Camilla Urso and the artist and
wich Festival, in place of Sir Julius Benedict.
amateur passengers on board, in aid of the National Shipwreck Society of
SWEET.—Miss Stafford, of the Conquest Pantomime Troupe, which opens Sydney. Mme. Urso, little August Sauret, Mrs. F. M. Bates, and Miss
Jennie Sargent took part in the concert. Mme. Urso collected about $120
at Wallack's Theatre to-night, is said to be a sweet singer.
for the Society.
STUB.—Professor Stub's orchestra at the United States Hotel, Saratoga,
PIRATES.—The season at Booth's Theatre, under the management of Mr.
comprises many members of the New York Philharmonic Society.
Abbey, will begin on Monday, September 13, with the Ideal Opera Company
LIBERATI.—Sig. Liberati, the cornet-player, is engaged as soloist at the in the "Pirates of Penzance." The principal members of the company are
Chicago Exhibition which begins September 15th and is to last six weeks.
Miss Beebe, Miss Marie Stone, Miss Adelaide Phillips, Mr. Tom Karl, Mr.
SARATOGA.—Madame Selika, of Boston, was to sing at the concert in Fessenden, Mr. Myron W. Whitney, Mr. H. C. Barnabee, Mr. Frothingham
Congress Spring Park, with Brown's Boston Brigade Band, last Sunday and Mr. McDonald.
evening.
Music IN AMERICA.—The London Musical Standardreprints an article from
MAUD.—Mr. Alfred Cellier is engaged in the composition of the music a recent issue of the Music TRADE JOURNAL entitled " Music in America," and
for a travesty on Tennyson's " Maud," written by Mr. Earl Marble, a Boston says : ' ' The following article, from the American Music TRADE JOURNAL,
though it uses curious modes of expression, is in many respects not far from
dramatic editor.
the truth." The article in question was written by Mr. O. B. Boise, a dis-
MAPLESON.—The London World announces that Mr. Mapleson and his tinguished native musician, composer and critic.
Italian Opera Company will sail from Liverpool for New York on Wednes-
A LITTLE OUT.—Wednesday evening next is the date definitely fixed for
day, September 29.
the performance of Sullivan's most popular compositions by Rudolph Aron-
BROOKS.—Dr. George F. Brooks, the renowned concert organist of Bos- son's orchestra, at the Metropolitan Concert Hall. Sullivan's music will be
ton, Mass., has composed a new mass. He informs us that "it is spoken of rendered precisely as it was given years ago in the old Castle Garden by the
in very high terms."
composer himself, as Mr. Aronson has the manuscript scores. On the same
CRITICAL IGNORANCE.—It is related that a critic on one of the daily papers evening there will be played a grand selection from the "Pirates of Pen-
asked the question in a music store the other day, "How many strings does zance."—JV. Y. Sun. The Sun is evidently mingled in the above paragraph
which it printed last Sunday. It should employ some one to edit its musi-
a violin have, anyhow ?"
cal hash who knows the difference between Sullivan and Julien.
SEMBBICH.—Mme. Sembrich recently signed an engagement for sixteen
PRIZES FOR ANTHEMS.—A card has been received from the Musical Direc-
performances at Madrid during the months of September and October, after
tor of the Church of the Holy Trinity, of this city, announcing the offer of
which she goes to Russia.
two prizes for anthems for the use of the quartet and chorus choir under his
Is IT So.—Campanini is said to be constantly remarking abroad, direction. The anthems are to be from four to seven minutes in length, for
"America is my country," All the singers sing that tune when they expect full chorus, with or without interspersed solos, duets, quartets, &c., at ths
to return here for another season.
option of the composers. The words are to be from Scripture. The prizee
VANDERBH/T.—Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has made Manager Gye a are $70 for the best and $30 for the second best, and the judges are to be
tempting offer for performances by the Covent Garden Opera Company in Mr. Joseph Mosenthal, the Rev. George J. Geer, Mr. George E. Aiken, the
Rev. M. R. Vincent and Mr. A. R. Parsons, the organist of the church.
New York during the next Universal Exhibition.
Compositions are to be submitted by Oct. 1, (with cipher or motto), to Mr.
PATTI.—The six operas which Mme. Patti will give at Monaco are "Don George G. Rockwood, No. 17 Union Square.
Pasquale," *'La Traviata," "Faust," "Lucia," "Linda" and "Rigoletto."
NEXT SEASON.—The list of opera companies comprises the Strakosch &
She takes Sig. Tagliafico as stage manager there.
Hess Opera Company, which opens in November; Mahn's "Boccaccio"
PATTI.—A critic says that, while Patti sings ballads, pronouncing each Company, which opens in October at Philadelphia ; the Blanche Roosevelt
word clearly, her notes are so distinct and round that the hearer feels as if Company, which begins an engagement at the Union Square on the 13th of
he could pick up each one and put it in his pocket.
September ; Grau's French Opera Bouffe Company, which plays an engage-
VOICE GONE.—Rossini once told Mme. Nilsson to be careful that she did ment at the Standard Theatre, New York, and in New Orleans ; Mapleson's
not use her high notes too early and too much, and there are people who be- Grand Italian Opera Company, probably opening late in November (with
Gertzer and without Nilsson) ; D'Oyley Carte's " Pirates of Penzance " com-
lieve that she suffers now because she did not follow his advice.
bination, with a new opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, in preparation for an open-
REEVES.—If Mr. Sims Reeves, the English tenor, looks, in hisunhealth- ing at Booth's ; Mme. Ambre's French Opera Company, which opens in New
iest moments, anything like the picture of him which appeared in the last Orleans in November ; the Berton Ideal Opera Company (consisting of Myron
number of an alleged art paper, he has our sincerest sympathy.
Whitney, Tom Karl, Fessenden, Adelaide Phillips, Mary Beebe and other
LOST HER VOICE.—Mme. Nilsson will appear in England in two concerts well known artists) ; the Dudley Buck Opera Company; Daly's " Sea Cadet,"
after the season. On October 11th she is engaged by Mr. Harrison for Bir- Haverly's Juvenile Opera and Miles' Juvenile "Pinafore" companies.
Besides the foregoing there will be a host of concerts headed by per-
mingham, and on the 14th of the same month by Mr. Kuhle for Brighton.
formers like Wilhelmj, Joseffy, S. B. Mills, Dr. Damrosch and Theodore
ROSSEAU.—Miss Erne Rpsseau, formerly of the Colville Opera Burlesque Thomas. The latter, with a strong orchestra, is said to be contemplating a
Company, who has been seriously ill for many weeks, is said to have so far tour of the United States.
recovered that she will be able to resume her professional duties this fall.
Wallace—Seguin.
KEOKUK OPERA HOUSE.—There is now building in Keokuk, Iowa, a
At noon on Saturday last Mrs. Zelda Seguin, the English prima donna, exchanged her
grand opera house capable of seating 1,000 persons. The building is to be
completed by December. 1880. Mr. D. J. Ayres, of Keokuk, is the manager. name for that of Mrs. David Wallace. The wedding ceremony was performed at St.
Luke's Episcopal Church, in West Baltimore, the Rev. T. W. Sunnett of Catonsville (a
AMERICAN COMIC OPERA.—"La Belle Americaine," a comedy opera in suburban town) and the Rev. Mr. Briscoe of St. Luke's officiating. Only a few verbal
two acts, libretto by Charles Barnard, music by S. Austen Pearce, is to be invitations were given, and not more than fifty persons were present. Mr. Wallace is
produced in this city during the coming season under the direction of the about 29 years of age. He was Master of Transportation for the Indianapolis and Terre
Haute Railroad. He is a son of ex-Gov. Wallace of Indiana, and a brother of Gen. Lew
composer.
Wallace. He met Mrs. Seguin in February last, when she was in Indianapolis, and be-
WATERING PLACES.—Miss Florence Copleston, the pianist; Mme. Flor- came engaged to her not very long ago in New York. About the middle of June she
ence Rice-Knox and Mr. A. P. Burbank, the dramatic reader and humorist, came here to sing in a semi-amateur performance in Catonsville, in the " Doctor of Alcan.
last week gave a number of charming parlor entertainments at several of the tara," and has since been a guest there of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Carrington, from whose
house she was married. Mr. Carrington gave her away at the altar. Mrs. J. H. Steiner
watering places.
of Indianapolis, a sister of Mr. Wallace, went up to the altar with the groom. Mr. Steiner
ZURICH CHOIR FESTIVAL.—The famous choir festival, held once in four was among those present, as were Dr. MacGill of Richmond, Mr. Joseph Henry, a prom-
years at Zurich, has taken place this Summer. The singers numbered some inent engineer, Mr. E. V. Hermarge of the Baltimore News, Judge Hough, Mr. James
4,000, with an orchestra of 200. It is described as having been an imposing Darsey of Barnum's Hotel, Mr. George Gardner, the Misses MacGill, and Mrs. Orville
Harwitz aad daughter. Young Edwin Seguin, aged about 12 years, also assisted. Mrs.
affair, and as an artistic event worthy of the highest praise.
Seguin wore a Worth costume of gros grain damasse silk in two shades of brown, trimmed
BEVERLY.—J. C. Beverly, a singer, died in Flushing last Friday night with point lace, a chip hat, with plume and brocade ribbons, and diamonds for jewels.
from the breaking of an abscess in the stomach. Mr. Beverly was a member After a lunch at Barnum's Mr. and Mrs. Wallace started for New York. She will sing
of the choir of St. Mark's Church, this city, and he had also been connected with the Emma Abbott Company next season, and Mr. Wallace takes a position upon its
outside staff.
with several operatic companies. He leaves a wife and four children.