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December 20th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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voices and natural talent and who have had no friends. Herr Ignatz Briill played the orchestral
musical advantages whatever are also welcome. part on another pianoforte? It is considered a re-
The usual Saturday evening rehearsals are devoted markable work. Brahms will visit Hans Von Bii-
almost exclusively to the service music for the fol- low at Meiningen to have the work produced there.
lowing Sunday or festival. The director will be
AT HOME.
An English musical journal states that there
The New York Tonic Sol Fa Association organ- happy to receive applications at the Music Rooms are seventy-nine American composers at work
of
the
church
on
Wednesday
at
7:30
p.m.,
and
ized December 8 by electing as President T. F.
upon comic operas. This is a mistake. There
Steward ; Treasurer, George E. Dunlap; Vice- Saturdays from 3 to 4 p. m.
are over two hundred alone in New York. The
Presidents, E. Corkill, S. A. Merriam and Miss L.
latest we hear of is an opera to be known by the
ABROAD.
Britton ; Secretary, Raphael Benjamin, M A.
At St. George's Hall, Langham Place, London, physiological title, " He is She."
It is reported that Zelda Seguin-Wallace will on November 21, was revived the operetta, "Ages Saint-Saens, like most of the musical celebrities
soon retire from the stage.
Ago," written by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, and composed of the day, is constantly occupied either in com-
Mr. Frederic Clay, who has re-written portions posing, directing, giving piano or organ recitals,
The first oratorio concert in Baltimore takes by
the music, and added a new duet for the tenor or rehearsing great works. His "Samson and
place December 30, "St. Paul" having been se- of
soprano. "Ages Ago" was followed by a Delilah" will be given at the Hamburg Stadt Thea-
lected. For the second concert, " The Messiah " and
sketch, by Mr. Corney Grain, entitled tre in March next, under his own direction. He
is announced, February 17 being the date. The musical
has nearly completed his fifth piano concerto.
date of the last concert is not definitely settled "Out of Town."
upon. " Israel in Egypt " will be the oratorio on
The performance of " La Mascotte" has been Wagner is expected to be present, and may con-
that occasion.
forbidden in Berlin by the police.
duct on several occasions during the performance
Miss Fannie Kellogg, Messrs. D. M. Babcock and Marie Roze was engaged by Mr. Barnby to sing of "Nibelungen" in London, under the manage-
Willis Clark are engaged as soloists at the St. in " Elijah," at the Royal Albert Hall, on November ment of Mr. Angelo Neumann. Anton Seidl is nam-
Lawrence International Musical Convention at 23, and in March she will appear in " The Messiah " ed as the conductor of the rehearsals, and of the
when Wagner does not conduct in
Ogdensburg, January 2(j and 27.
and " The Creation." Mme. Roze was also engaged performances
" Elijah," and other oratorios, at Glasgow and person.
Mrs. Hattie Gates, Miss Abby Clark, William for
M. Ed. Gregoir, of Paris, who has been engaged
Willis Clark, D. M. Babcock and Carlyle Petersilea Edinburgh, December 17, 19, and 20 ; at Paisley,
gave a concert in Bridge water Friday evening, February 2, "Elijah;" and at St. James's Hall, on for some years past in the collection of material
Good Friday, for Rossini's "Stabat Mater" and concerning the life and works of Gretry, will
December 16.
shortly 2'nblish the result of his researches in a
other sacred works.
Miss Emma F. Dearborn, Miss Ella Fox, Miss The St. Petersburg Society for Chamber Music volume entitled "Documents relatifs a la Vie et
Alice Steele, and Mr. Lyman F. Brackett gare * con- during the past season brought out that forty- aux CEuvres d'Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry,"
cert at Norwood, December 13.
eight works, by twenty-four composers. Beethoven which is looked forward to with much interest in
W. J. D. Leavitt will appear in the Mechanics' leads with ten works, next comes Rubinstein with musical circles.
course, Worcester, January 2, with Nella F. Brown five, and Mozart, Schumann, and Raff with three A number of hitherto unpublished letters from
and the Lotus Glee Club.
each. Twelve Russian works were given, the com- the pen of Hector Berlioz will soon be issued from
The Schubert Quartette Bang, with other talent, posers being Rubinstein, Napravnik Davidoff, the Paris press, with an introduction written by M.
Gounod.
in Newport, N. H., Thursday evening, December Cesar Cui, Borodin, and Tschaikowsky.
15.
Rimsky-Korsakow, author of the symphonic A statue to Bellini, and another to Verdi, have
Miss Fanny Kice and Miss Ella Fox had fine poem " Antar and Sadko," has been nominated as been inaugurated at Milan. A committee tele-
graphed to Verdi, who is at Busaeto, his native
success at a concert in North Cambridge on Friday professor at the Conservatoire. St. Petersburg.
place, near Parma, informing him of the applause
evening, December 9.
The financial affairs of the Paris Opera-house with
which the honor to the " illustrious dead and
The Musketeer Opera Company appeared in are reported to be prosperous. " Francoise de illustrious living" was received. A telegram of
Providence Thursday, Friday, and Saturday even- Rimini" and "Namouna L'Esclave" are being thanks from the vetern composer was despatched
actively rehearsed, and will soon be produced.
ings of last week.
in reply, and also one from the town council of
>f
Busseto, who expressed themselves as grateful for
The Harvard Musical Association will hold their Spontini's " Vestale has been revived at Vienna the
demonstration of the city of Milan
concerts in the Boston Museum Thursday after- for the first time since 1854. The chief parts were with patriotic
regard to their illustrious fellow-citizen.
noons, January 5 and 26, and February 9 and 23, taken by Frau Ehnn, Fraulein Papier, and Herren
and March 9. It is expected that Mme Camilla Labatt and Beck.
stage representation of Liszt's ora-
Urso will be the soloist at the first concert. The A new comic opera by a Russian composer is The " recent
St: Elizabeth," given in honor of the com-
orchestra will number sixty musicians, under Carl rumored to be underscored for production at the torio,
poser's seventieth birthday at the Hof theater at
Zerrahn's direction.
Olympic Theatre, London.
Weimar, has proved only a moderately successful
The Schubert Quartette Glee Club—Mrs. H. F.
Meyer Lutz's new Nautical Opera, " All in the experiment. The performance was conducted by
Knowles, soprano; Miss Ella A. Blake, alto; A. Downs," has been brought out at the London Herr Laasen before a large audience.
E. Paine, W. W. Clark, and S. H. Chubbuck, Gaiety. It has been fairly successful.
Herr Angelo Neumann's projected " Lohengrin "
tenors; D. M. Babcock, basso; and Mrs. Martha
At the Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, performances at the French capital have met with
Dana Sheppard—gave concerts in St. Johnsbury,
opposition on the part of M. Lamoureux, late chef
Vt., on Tuesday, and Well's River Wednesday for 1882, M. Goanod will personally conduct the dorchestre of the Grand-Opera, who claims the
first performance of his new oratorio, " The Re-
evenings of last week.
demption," written specially for the festival. Sir right of first production of the work in Paris. An
The Temple Quartette appeared in East Boston Michael Costa will act as conductor. The cantata, action-at-law has, it is said,been instituted by Herr
Thursday evening, December 15.
"Graziella," which Sir Julius Benedict was un- Neumann to decide the question, but, whatever
able
to finish for Norwich, will be completed the result, it appears certain that "Lohengrin^"
Miss Fanny Rice, cornetist, appeared at Rut-
in
time
for Birmingham. Dr. Sullivan has been Wagner's masterpiece, will be introduced to Parisian
land, Vt., Wednesday, December 14.
unable to accept an engagement to contribute audiences during the coming year.
Fannie Kellogg sang at Albany, N. Y., last Mon- either a vocal or instrumental work, and Mr. Gaul,
Wagner's " Rienzi " and "Lohengrin" will be
day and Tuesday evenings, December 12 and 13.
a local composer, has been commissioned to finish produced during the present season at the Teatro
his
new
cantata,
"
The
Holy
City,"
for
the
festival.
Fenice, of Veuice.
The Lotus Glee Club sang at Natick the 14th; at
Herr Niels Gade, of Denmark, has been invited to
Dorchester, 15th; Music Hall, Boston, 20th.
Anew comic opera, "Le Nozze Prigione," by
write a secular cantata, entitled " Psyche."
Usiglio, was well received at its recent performance
Gertrude Franklin sang in Chelsea Monday;
Rutland, Vt., Wednesday, and in "The Muske- M. Planquette, composer of "Les Cloches de at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, of Turin. A new
Corneville," has just finished the first two acts of operatic work by Cortesi, entitled "L'Amico di
teers" at Providence, R. I., recently.
'' Rip-Rip," an operetta for the Folies-Dramatiques. Casa," will shortly be brought out at the Teatro
Miss Emma F. Dearborn, the Weber Quartette, It is founded on " Rip Van Winkle."
Nicolini, of Florence.
Miss Fanny Rice, Miss Georgie Pray, and Mr. F.
Gounod
is
preparing
a
work
in
three
acts,
which
O'Nash will give a concert January 9 at Worcester.
Anton Rubinstein has undertaken the direction
may be brought out at the Parisian Opera Comiqua this winter of the first three concerts of the Im-
Mme. Minnie Hauk sang in " Carmen " for the next year.
perial Music Society at Moscow. Later, the
200th time on December 11.
The two young daughters of Mme. Lemmens- eminent pianist composer will conduct a number
Geistinger will shortly visit San Francisco, and Sherrington, long one of the most popular of of compositions by Russian musicians, at one of
while there will play a round of favorite characters English sopranos, made their debut together at M. Pasdeloup's Concerts Populaires in Paris.
in opera, comedy and farce.
Louvain recently. One is a soprano, the other a
The executors of the late Johann Maria Farina
contralto. Both are pupils of Jenny Lind.
have handed the sum of 18,000 marks to the
Haverly's Comic Opera Company, to play "Pa-
tience," includes W. H. Seymour as liunthorne, C. While the Theatre des Nouveautes, Paris, was treasurer of the Cologne Conservutorium, for the
M. Pike, Alonzo Hatch, Hugh Augier, Henry Lea- ringing with the plaudits of the delighted audience purpose of founding two free scholarships at that
rock, Adele Leonard, Pauline Hall, Rose Wilson, on the first night of Lecocq's new opera, " Le Jour institution, which will bear the name of the
et la Nuit," the composer was lying at the point of testator.
Gertrude Orme, and Dora Wiley as Patience.
death, suffering from the effects of a surgical
Mendelssohn's " Elijah" was performed at Tenby,
A fine opportunity for young singers to learn the operation.
Wales, on the 2d inst., the principal vocal-
art of vocalism is afforded by the volunteer chorus The work upon which Gounod is engaged is, South
being Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Ma-
at St. Thomas's Church under the direction of says the Paris Figaro, a "series of dramatic scenes," ista
Enriquez, Mr. Hollins, and Mr. Bridson.
Mr. George William Warren. Rehearsals take having for its title " Maitre Pierre," and "por- dame
The chorus consisted of 100 voices. The conduc-
place Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 p. m., the traying on the one hand the loves of Abelard and tor
was Mr. W. Terence Jenkins, organist of the
chorus class meeting every Wednesday evening Heloise, and on the other the struggle of dogmatic parish
church.
at eight o'clock from October until June J.6t. Christian philosophy against the advancing en-
Applicants enter the choir through this class and lightenment of the age.
The first numbers of a weekly illustrated music-
must possess good, freBh voices and, if they are to
journal, entitled Lu Musique Populaire, have
sing contralto, tenor or bass, the ability to read Johannes Brahms recently performed his new been issued in Paris. The new periodical is edited
plain music fairly. Young girls with really fine piano concerto (13 flat major) before a number of by M. Arthur Pougin, the critic.
MUSICAL CHAT
December 20th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
133
voices and natural talent and who have had no friends. Herr Ignatz Briill played the orchestral
musical advantages whatever are also welcome. part on another pianoforte? It is considered a re-
The usual Saturday evening rehearsals are devoted markable work. Brahms will visit Hans Von Bii-
almost exclusively to the service music for the fol- low at Meiningen to have the work produced there.
lowing Sunday or festival. The director will be
AT HOME.
An English musical journal states that there
The New York Tonic Sol Fa Association organ- happy to receive applications at the Music Rooms are seventy-nine American composers at work
of
the
church
on
Wednesday
at
7:30
p.m.,
and
ized December 8 by electing as President T. F.
upon comic operas. This is a mistake. There
Steward ; Treasurer, George E. Dunlap; Vice- Saturdays from 3 to 4 p. m.
are over two hundred alone in New York. The
Presidents, E. Corkill, S. A. Merriam and Miss L.
latest we hear of is an opera to be known by the
ABROAD.
Britton ; Secretary, Raphael Benjamin, M A.
At St. George's Hall, Langham Place, London, physiological title, " He is She."
It is reported that Zelda Seguin-Wallace will on November 21, was revived the operetta, "Ages Saint-Saens, like most of the musical celebrities
soon retire from the stage.
Ago," written by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, and composed of the day, is constantly occupied either in com-
Mr. Frederic Clay, who has re-written portions posing, directing, giving piano or organ recitals,
The first oratorio concert in Baltimore takes by
the music, and added a new duet for the tenor or rehearsing great works. His "Samson and
place December 30, "St. Paul" having been se- of
soprano. "Ages Ago" was followed by a Delilah" will be given at the Hamburg Stadt Thea-
lected. For the second concert, " The Messiah " and
sketch, by Mr. Corney Grain, entitled tre in March next, under his own direction. He
is announced, February 17 being the date. The musical
has nearly completed his fifth piano concerto.
date of the last concert is not definitely settled "Out of Town."
upon. " Israel in Egypt " will be the oratorio on
The performance of " La Mascotte" has been Wagner is expected to be present, and may con-
that occasion.
forbidden in Berlin by the police.
duct on several occasions during the performance
Miss Fannie Kellogg, Messrs. D. M. Babcock and Marie Roze was engaged by Mr. Barnby to sing of "Nibelungen" in London, under the manage-
Willis Clark are engaged as soloists at the St. in " Elijah," at the Royal Albert Hall, on November ment of Mr. Angelo Neumann. Anton Seidl is nam-
Lawrence International Musical Convention at 23, and in March she will appear in " The Messiah " ed as the conductor of the rehearsals, and of the
when Wagner does not conduct in
Ogdensburg, January 2(j and 27.
and " The Creation." Mme. Roze was also engaged performances
" Elijah," and other oratorios, at Glasgow and person.
Mrs. Hattie Gates, Miss Abby Clark, William for
M. Ed. Gregoir, of Paris, who has been engaged
Willis Clark, D. M. Babcock and Carlyle Petersilea Edinburgh, December 17, 19, and 20 ; at Paisley,
gave a concert in Bridge water Friday evening, February 2, "Elijah;" and at St. James's Hall, on for some years past in the collection of material
Good Friday, for Rossini's "Stabat Mater" and concerning the life and works of Gretry, will
December 16.
shortly 2'nblish the result of his researches in a
other sacred works.
Miss Emma F. Dearborn, Miss Ella Fox, Miss The St. Petersburg Society for Chamber Music volume entitled "Documents relatifs a la Vie et
Alice Steele, and Mr. Lyman F. Brackett gare * con- during the past season brought out that forty- aux CEuvres d'Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry,"
cert at Norwood, December 13.
eight works, by twenty-four composers. Beethoven which is looked forward to with much interest in
W. J. D. Leavitt will appear in the Mechanics' leads with ten works, next comes Rubinstein with musical circles.
course, Worcester, January 2, with Nella F. Brown five, and Mozart, Schumann, and Raff with three A number of hitherto unpublished letters from
and the Lotus Glee Club.
each. Twelve Russian works were given, the com- the pen of Hector Berlioz will soon be issued from
The Schubert Quartette Bang, with other talent, posers being Rubinstein, Napravnik Davidoff, the Paris press, with an introduction written by M.
Gounod.
in Newport, N. H., Thursday evening, December Cesar Cui, Borodin, and Tschaikowsky.
15.
Rimsky-Korsakow, author of the symphonic A statue to Bellini, and another to Verdi, have
Miss Fanny Kice and Miss Ella Fox had fine poem " Antar and Sadko," has been nominated as been inaugurated at Milan. A committee tele-
graphed to Verdi, who is at Busaeto, his native
success at a concert in North Cambridge on Friday professor at the Conservatoire. St. Petersburg.
place, near Parma, informing him of the applause
evening, December 9.
The financial affairs of the Paris Opera-house with
which the honor to the " illustrious dead and
The Musketeer Opera Company appeared in are reported to be prosperous. " Francoise de illustrious living" was received. A telegram of
Providence Thursday, Friday, and Saturday even- Rimini" and "Namouna L'Esclave" are being thanks from the vetern composer was despatched
actively rehearsed, and will soon be produced.
ings of last week.
in reply, and also one from the town council of
>f
Busseto, who expressed themselves as grateful for
The Harvard Musical Association will hold their Spontini's " Vestale has been revived at Vienna the
demonstration of the city of Milan
concerts in the Boston Museum Thursday after- for the first time since 1854. The chief parts were with patriotic
regard to their illustrious fellow-citizen.
noons, January 5 and 26, and February 9 and 23, taken by Frau Ehnn, Fraulein Papier, and Herren
and March 9. It is expected that Mme Camilla Labatt and Beck.
stage representation of Liszt's ora-
Urso will be the soloist at the first concert. The A new comic opera by a Russian composer is The " recent
St: Elizabeth," given in honor of the com-
orchestra will number sixty musicians, under Carl rumored to be underscored for production at the torio,
poser's seventieth birthday at the Hof theater at
Zerrahn's direction.
Olympic Theatre, London.
Weimar, has proved only a moderately successful
The Schubert Quartette Glee Club—Mrs. H. F.
Meyer Lutz's new Nautical Opera, " All in the experiment. The performance was conducted by
Knowles, soprano; Miss Ella A. Blake, alto; A. Downs," has been brought out at the London Herr Laasen before a large audience.
E. Paine, W. W. Clark, and S. H. Chubbuck, Gaiety. It has been fairly successful.
Herr Angelo Neumann's projected " Lohengrin "
tenors; D. M. Babcock, basso; and Mrs. Martha
At the Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, performances at the French capital have met with
Dana Sheppard—gave concerts in St. Johnsbury,
opposition on the part of M. Lamoureux, late chef
Vt., on Tuesday, and Well's River Wednesday for 1882, M. Goanod will personally conduct the dorchestre of the Grand-Opera, who claims the
first performance of his new oratorio, " The Re-
evenings of last week.
demption," written specially for the festival. Sir right of first production of the work in Paris. An
The Temple Quartette appeared in East Boston Michael Costa will act as conductor. The cantata, action-at-law has, it is said,been instituted by Herr
Thursday evening, December 15.
"Graziella," which Sir Julius Benedict was un- Neumann to decide the question, but, whatever
able
to finish for Norwich, will be completed the result, it appears certain that "Lohengrin^"
Miss Fanny Rice, cornetist, appeared at Rut-
in
time
for Birmingham. Dr. Sullivan has been Wagner's masterpiece, will be introduced to Parisian
land, Vt., Wednesday, December 14.
unable to accept an engagement to contribute audiences during the coming year.
Fannie Kellogg sang at Albany, N. Y., last Mon- either a vocal or instrumental work, and Mr. Gaul,
Wagner's " Rienzi " and "Lohengrin" will be
day and Tuesday evenings, December 12 and 13.
a local composer, has been commissioned to finish produced during the present season at the Teatro
his
new
cantata,
"
The
Holy
City,"
for
the
festival.
Fenice, of Veuice.
The Lotus Glee Club sang at Natick the 14th; at
Herr Niels Gade, of Denmark, has been invited to
Dorchester, 15th; Music Hall, Boston, 20th.
Anew comic opera, "Le Nozze Prigione," by
write a secular cantata, entitled " Psyche."
Usiglio, was well received at its recent performance
Gertrude Franklin sang in Chelsea Monday;
Rutland, Vt., Wednesday, and in "The Muske- M. Planquette, composer of "Les Cloches de at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, of Turin. A new
Corneville," has just finished the first two acts of operatic work by Cortesi, entitled "L'Amico di
teers" at Providence, R. I., recently.
'' Rip-Rip," an operetta for the Folies-Dramatiques. Casa," will shortly be brought out at the Teatro
Miss Emma F. Dearborn, the Weber Quartette, It is founded on " Rip Van Winkle."
Nicolini, of Florence.
Miss Fanny Rice, Miss Georgie Pray, and Mr. F.
Gounod
is
preparing
a
work
in
three
acts,
which
O'Nash will give a concert January 9 at Worcester.
Anton Rubinstein has undertaken the direction
may be brought out at the Parisian Opera Comiqua this winter of the first three concerts of the Im-
Mme. Minnie Hauk sang in " Carmen " for the next year.
perial Music Society at Moscow. Later, the
200th time on December 11.
The two young daughters of Mme. Lemmens- eminent pianist composer will conduct a number
Geistinger will shortly visit San Francisco, and Sherrington, long one of the most popular of of compositions by Russian musicians, at one of
while there will play a round of favorite characters English sopranos, made their debut together at M. Pasdeloup's Concerts Populaires in Paris.
in opera, comedy and farce.
Louvain recently. One is a soprano, the other a
The executors of the late Johann Maria Farina
contralto. Both are pupils of Jenny Lind.
have handed the sum of 18,000 marks to the
Haverly's Comic Opera Company, to play "Pa-
tience," includes W. H. Seymour as liunthorne, C. While the Theatre des Nouveautes, Paris, was treasurer of the Cologne Conservutorium, for the
M. Pike, Alonzo Hatch, Hugh Augier, Henry Lea- ringing with the plaudits of the delighted audience purpose of founding two free scholarships at that
rock, Adele Leonard, Pauline Hall, Rose Wilson, on the first night of Lecocq's new opera, " Le Jour institution, which will bear the name of the
et la Nuit," the composer was lying at the point of testator.
Gertrude Orme, and Dora Wiley as Patience.
death, suffering from the effects of a surgical
Mendelssohn's " Elijah" was performed at Tenby,
A fine opportunity for young singers to learn the operation.
Wales, on the 2d inst., the principal vocal-
art of vocalism is afforded by the volunteer chorus The work upon which Gounod is engaged is, South
being Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Ma-
at St. Thomas's Church under the direction of says the Paris Figaro, a "series of dramatic scenes," ista
Enriquez, Mr. Hollins, and Mr. Bridson.
Mr. George William Warren. Rehearsals take having for its title " Maitre Pierre," and "por- dame
The chorus consisted of 100 voices. The conduc-
place Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 p. m., the traying on the one hand the loves of Abelard and tor
was Mr. W. Terence Jenkins, organist of the
chorus class meeting every Wednesday evening Heloise, and on the other the struggle of dogmatic parish
church.
at eight o'clock from October until June J.6t. Christian philosophy against the advancing en-
Applicants enter the choir through this class and lightenment of the age.
The first numbers of a weekly illustrated music-
must possess good, freBh voices and, if they are to
journal, entitled Lu Musique Populaire, have
sing contralto, tenor or bass, the ability to read Johannes Brahms recently performed his new been issued in Paris. The new periodical is edited
plain music fairly. Young girls with really fine piano concerto (13 flat major) before a number of by M. Arthur Pougin, the critic.
MUSICAL CHAT
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