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August 5th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MUSICAL CHAT
AT HOME.
A four days' musical convention will be held in
Canesaraga, N. Y., commencing Aug. 9th and end-
ing Aug. 12th, to be conducted by Dr. George F.
Root, assisted by his two daughters, Miss Nellie
and Miss May Root, the convention to be conclud-
ed by a grand concert on the last day.
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ABROAD.
Saratoga is well supplied with music. There
are now there for the season five separate bodies of
musicians, which include Brown's Boston Brigade
Band at Congress Spring Park, Napier Lothian's
Boston orchestra at the Grand Union Hotel, C. W.
Stub's at the United States Hotel, Adolph Bern-
stein's at Congress Hall, and Nathan Franco's at
the Clarendon. The approximate cost of the
music for the season is about forty thousand
dollars.
Musicians are said to be the strongest-headed
men in existence, they can go through several bars
in a day without getting drunk
The London World aptly describes Mr. Georg
Why is a bad musician like a forger? Arts. They Henschel as " the best singer among musicians
both make false notes.
and the best musician among singers."
" How can I leave thee ? " he was singing in a A musical festival of a novel sort is to be held at
very tender tone. He was'nt very popular with Brighton next September. The choral societies,
Mr. Ad olph Fischer, the violoncellist, will return her parents, and it was verging on twelve o'clock, bands and fanfares of Belgium, France and Swit-
and the old man came in and showed him how he zerland have been invited by the Mayor and other
to this country in September next.
could leave her.
authorities to engage in a competition for a num-
A concert was given July 23d at the Pavilion
ber of handsome and valuable prizes.
Hotel, Staten Island, by a recently organized com- The twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of
pany, which includes Mme. Teresa Carreno, Miss Terschak, the great Transy'lvanian flutist, will A new opera by Leo Dt'libes, " Lakme," is to be
Spader, Miss Barton, SignQr Brignoli, and Signor occur on the 19th of October, and it is the inten- j>roduced in Paris about the end of next season.
tion of his friends in this country to forward him The part of the heroine, an Indian Brahminess,
Ferranti.
a testimonial on this occasion.
was composed especially for Mile. Marie Van
Mr. Strakosch's new Italian opera company, of
which Mme. Gerster will be the chief singer, will The Saalfield Combination Concert Company, Zandt.
otherwise include Mile. Marie Leslina, soprano ; which includes Brignoli, Ferranti, and others, are The remains of Henri Vieuxtemps are to be
Miles. Mei and Eicci, contraltos ; Signori Staphane, said to be making successful headwa/ in their removed from Algiers to Verviers, his birthplace,
Perungini, and Lazzarini, tenors, and Mr. George summer tour. They are moving through New where a monument is to be erected to his memory.
S. Sweet, baritone. It is announced, also, that England and capturing first money from the water-
Miss Kellogg will sing with the company in New ing places.
Rubinstein has had an extraordinary success in
Orleans and other cities. Mr. Habelman will be
London, and has made a small fortune by his
the stage manager and second tenor. Mme. Ger- If Mme. Nilsson returns to America it will not piano recitals.
ster will arrive in New York on Nov. 14, and will be before the season of 1882-3.
Mile. Valleria has signed a contract with Mr.
sing in concerts in Boston before she appears in
There was a pleasant little matinee at Chicker- Carl Rosa to sing in English opera next season in
opera at Baltimore on the 28th of that month.
ing's rooms, July 12th, when Mr. S. G. Pratt, of London.
The permanent fund of the Boston Handel and Chicago, introduced himself to Boston. Mr. Pratt Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who returns, to
Haydn Society now amounts to $21,000, and ne- is a pianist and a composer. The programme was America in August for a short visit after an ab-
cessarily the future has no special troubles for the made up exclusively of his own works, and showed sence of over two years, has received an offer from
managers, financially speaking.
at least versatility, while his playing was fluent, the manager of the La Scala, to sing in Milan du-
easy and always intelligible. For the rest, Miss ring the carnival season next year. The illness of
Mr. Barnabee leaves the Ideals this season.
Daisy Hall's beautiful voice was heard with great her mother, however, compels her to postpone her
St. Louis is to have an immense opera house at pleasure, albeit in a somewhat ineffective song of decision.
a cost of $200,000.
Mr. Pratt's ; Mr. Listemann led in a string quar-
By a return made to the Lord Chamberlain, it
The Cecilia Club of Buffalo, N. Y., is able to re- tette, and a vocal quartette sang Mr. Pratt's appears
that Covent Garden Theatre, when used
port a very successful first year, with little or no "Rainy Day." There was a long delay before the for Italian
Opera, has accommodation for an audi-
concert
begun.
pecuniary loss and an outlook for the future that
ence of 2,136 persons, viz,:—Stalls, 400 ; pit, 100 ;
is fair to all parties interested.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, it is said, is engaged pit tier, 130 ; grand tier, 30 ; first tier and balcony
Miss Emma Von Eisner, a sister of Mile Litta, upon the libretto of an operetta for which Mr. stall, 220 ; upper boxes, 56 ; amphitheatre stalls,
has made her debut in concert with marked suc- Adamowski will furnish the music, Mrs. Howe has 400 ; gallery, 800.
in her work the assistance of Mr. Joseph Bradford,
cess.
whose intimate practical knowledge of stage re- Mile. Anna de Belocca left London for Paris on
Mr. James Pearce, the accomplished organist quirements will materially aid in making the work Monday, July 11th.
and composer, has returned to Christ Church, effective.
The King of Sweden has bestowed on Mme.
Fifth avenue, New York.
Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt the Medal "Literis et
Mr. Strakosch has engaged the New Orleans The visit of M. Bellevant, the representative in Artibus," with the ribbon of the Seraphim Order,
Opera House for next season, and the papers of this country of the Societe des Grand Concerts de The second Chamber at the Hague has made a
that city are already congratulating the public on France et de l'Etranger, to Boston, resulted in the law which will come into operation on New Year's
engagement of Music Hall, for Friday evening,
the musical feast in store for them.
December 2, Monday evening, December 5, Satur- day, 1882, securing to literary men and musicians
Mr. Emil Liebling has issued in neat and conve- day afternoon, December 10, and Tuesday evening, an exclusive right in the performance of their
nient form the musical programmes rendered at December, 13, for the concerts by the Adelina works.
his several recitals during the season 1880-81. He Patti combination. It is contemplated to give By next season another large music room will
goes to assist Mr. George F. Root in the Normal these concerts without orchestra, and to rely be added to the two which the Berlin Concerthaus
Musical Institute, at Erie, Pa., from July 11th to almost entirely upon the fame of La Diva as the already possesses.
August 5th.
attraction for the musical public.
Signor Bevignani has been re-engaged as con-
Two delightful concerts were given at Central Miss Hattie Schell, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, ductor
of the St. Petersburg Opera this winter.
Music Hall, Chicago, during the week ending has returned home after an absence of nine years
The deaths are announced—at Naples, aged 70,
July 23d, by Peschka-Leutner, the distinguished in Germany, where she pursued her studies in
songstress, assisted by Jessie Bartlett Davis, Mr. music. She entered the conservatory at Vienna, of Gaetano Germasi, the well-known organ builder;
Livermann, Mr. Bach, the Chickering Quartette, where, on graduating, she took the first prize. at Asti, of Mile. Angelica Pia, pianist; at Turin,
and Mr. Falk.
Miss Schell subsequently sang at the Royal Opera aged 18, of Guiseppina Varini, of Syracuse, vocal-
Stein way Hall is being completely renovated and at Berlin, at the Bremen City theatre, and other ist; and at Venice, of Vittorio Salmini, librettist.
newly painted, and will be in fine condition for the noted musical centres. After achieving a flattering Paragraphs are going the rounds of the French
next concert season. The Symphony and Oratorio encore in Germany, Miss Schell has returned to and Belgian papers that Madame Alwina Valleria
societies have secured their dates, as also have the her native city—La Crosse—where her friends is engaged for the Monnaie, at Brussels. This
Thomas Choral societies and the Festival Chorus. arranged a testimonial concert on Wednesday even- statement is untrue. Madame Valleria needs rest,
The Patti management also have the refusal of sev- ing last, with the most encouraging results.
and after the Covent Garden season she will not ap-
eral dates in November.
pear on the operatic stage till January.—Figaro,
Mr.
Rudolph
Bial
resumed
his
position
as
con-
London.
Remenyi, the well-known Hungarian violinist,
made his reappearance before the New York public ductor at the Metropolitan Concert Hall on the Herr Rheinthaler has won the prize at the Frank-
at Koster & Bial's on July 17th, and since then, evening of July 30th, after an absence of several fort opera competition with his "Das Kaetchen
whenever he has played, the attendant audiences weeks caused by sickness. Mr. Carl Hamm has von
Heilbronn."
have been very large. His performance of the been very successful in directing the music during
Mr.
BiaJ's
absence,
and
the
concerts
every
evening
In
nine months, it is stated, 147 (?) operas by
" Liberty Hymn," one of his many compositions,
have been well attended. With the return of Mr. twenty-six composers have been performed at the
is always received with enthusiasm.
Bial, the concerts will be invested with additional opera house at Konigsberg.
Prof. James C. Beckel, of Philadelphia, has attractions.
M. Ambroise Thomas, it is stated, is anxious to
commenced the publication of a musical monthly
of twenty pages, called "The Musical Bonanza." The Saalfield Operatic Combination gave a con- produce his new opera, " Frangoise di Rimini,"
This is what the whole country has been pining cert at the Casino theatre, Newport, July 27th, to but is not satisfied with any of the sopranos who
are available for the principal role.
for, for years, " there's millions in it."
a house about two-thirds full.