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May 5th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
SYMPATHY FOB THE " FIGABO."
REMARKABLE
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TRADE REVIEW
EXPERIMENTS IN THOUGHT
Says the London Figaro of April 22:
READING
Herr Hans von Wolzogen's "Guide through the r
Music of K. Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung' " [^HERE was a pleasant little gathering the
Owing to the crowded condition of our columns, some of our
has just been published by Messrs. Sehulz-Curtius, X other evening at a private house in this city, Trade Matter lias been transferred to this page.
174 New Bond street, at the price of 2s. 6d., bound at which some remarkable exhibitions of thought
in cloth. It is a pity that, instead of having the reading were given by Mr. W. Irving Bishop.
DOUBLING THEIR BUSINESS.
English version revised by a competent hand con- Miss Marie Glover sang several arias in a charm-
NE
of
our reporters strolling along Four-
versant with our language, the translation has been ing manner, and a duet, from "Crispino e la Com-
teenth street the other day encountered
entrusted to Herr Hans von Wolzogen. Parts of it ara,"with Signor Lencioni. Mr. Bishop discussed
are wholly incomprehensible to ordinary English- the subject of thought reading with Dr. George M. Messrs. Rufus Blake, of the Sterling Organ Com-
speaking folks, thanks to the extraordinary nature Beard, and then gave some remarkable exhibitions pany, of Derby, Conn., and Mr. E. H. McEwen,
of the English text. The following sentence, for of his talent in that direction. Mr. Bishop was of McEwen & Co., who conducts the principal
instance, defies alike analysis and any attempt to blindfolded and led from the parlor by Dr. Beard warerooms of the Sterling Organ Company,
parse it:
to a remote part of the house. During his ab- located at No. 9 West Fourteenth street, New
"But Fricka, Wotan s wife, the protectress of mar- sence from the room, a well-known journalist York city.
Mr. Blake had but recently returned from a
riage, cannot suffer this outrage (i. e. the incestuous pressed the point of a pin on a sofa, then touched
commerce between brother and sister), and forces the petal of a flower on a lady's fan, and finally Western trip. Mr. Blake was in a very happy
her husband to withdraw his help from the guilty hid the pin in the carpet.
frame of mind, and when our reporter asked him
hero, he, Wotan, most despairing wishes for 'the end'
what news he had to tell, he remarked:
Mr.
Bishop
was
then
called,
and
was
led
back
himself, and with a terrible curse consecrates the in tke room still blindfolded. A third person
"We've doubled our business since I saw you a
Nibelung-hero Hagen, the son whom Alberich be-
month ago, and our New York warerooms, con-
got without love of the corrupt wife of the then put his own hand within four inches of Mr. ducted by our friend Mac. here, have been making
Rhine king Gibich, as the annihilating hero of the Bishop's hand, while the journalist grasped the a tremendous stride forward. But come into my
wrist of the third party. The journalist was told
world."
private office," said Mr. Blake, and saying this, he
Even those who know the story, and are acquainted to concentrate his mind on the disposition he led
the way through the tastefully adorned rooms
with English, will fail to discover what on earth the bad made of the pin, and then, divining his
author means. This defect pervades the book, and thought, Mr. Bishop rushed across the room to occupied by McEwen & Co., to a cosy little retreat
those who wish to comprehend it will often be the sofa and touched the spots on sofa and fan in the rear.
"This," said Mr. McEwen, "is Rufe's den when
•compelled to mentally translate the English text where the point of the pin had touched, and then
he's in town, and it also makes a nice quiet place
back into German, and then again into average picked the pin out of the carpet.
English, "before they will be able to grasp the au- Other experiments took place of an equally inter- for our agents who may want to write a letter or at-
thor's ideas.
esting nature. The journalist made several cir- tend to some personal business while here."
We sympathize with the Figaro. We have met cuitous journeys around the room, and then
"The latest thing that I know of," said Mr.
•with such translations at some of our Symphony marked with his finger the outline of a double Blake, "is that we talk very seriously of opening
and Philharmonic Concerts.
cross on the wall. Mr. Bishop, blindfolded a branch house in Chicago—a genuine branch
and absent from the room meanwhile, on being house that shall be entirely devoted to pushing
called in, grasped the journalist's hand, and swiftly the interests of the Sterling Organ in that part of
INTERESTING TO YOUNG MUSICIANS.
bore him over the same course pursued by the the country "
E first number of The Musical Instructor has latter through the room, and ended with making
"When I was in Cincinnati," continued Mr.
X come to hand. It is a neatly printed period- the double cross on exactly the same place on the Blake, "I made a very excellent arrangement with
ical, and is edited by Eobert Goldbeck, of St. wall.
John Church & Co. They take the regular agency
Louis. Within its compass of twenty-four pages
for our organs for a large territory. They took
The
journalist
suffered
from
writer's
cramp
that
is found a large amount of readimg matter for in- evening, and on concentrating his mind on the about two hundred organs in about two weeks.
struction for the voice and the beginner on the pain, Mr. Bishop quickly located the very joint Sam Hamilton, of Pittsburg, wanted our organs,
piano. For those who are able to teach themselves
but I was not going to move our agency from
the centre of the pain was.
the Instructor will doubtless be of valuable assist- where
Charlie Mellon, who takes about six hundred a
During
the
experiments
Mr.
Bishop
was
in
a
ance.
Now, with these parties, and among others
semi-hypnotic condition, and after their conclu- year.
Hall in Cleveland, and when we get our Chicago
sion
appeared
to
be
in
a
highly
exhausted
state.
THE GIANT AND THE PIGMY—Signor Tecchi, a
house started, we will have about as good connec-
little French-Italian opera singer, met Signor Oam- The experiments were witnessed by several tions as any house in the country. I don't know
newspaper
men;
Major
Pond
and
Mr.
Bachert,
of
pobello, a big Scotch-Italian opera singer, in the
of any house in the country whose connections
streets of London the other day and hit him over the firm of Pond & Bachert, Everett House; Mr. will surpass ours."
William
L.
Vinal,
of
the
Weber
Male
Quartette,
the head "with a big stick." Signor Campobello,
"And how has business progressed in your New
who will b© remembered as quite a six-footer, Boston, and a number of ladies.
York warerooms, Mr. McEwen?" said our reporter
"detained" Signor Tocchi (oh, George!) and had
to that gentleman.
HESS'S ACME OFEBA CO.
the little man bound over to keep the peace.
"We think we have been very highly favored,"
.{There!!)
T IS a pleasure to witness a performance of he replied. "For instance, lately we disposed of
comic opera which is complete and satisfactory 204 organs in this place within twenty-seven days.
MOKGAN LEAVES TALMAGE. —Organist George W.
Morgan has resigned on account of the reduction in every respect. "La Mascotte," given by the You know we do both a retail and a wholesale
of salary made necessary by the expenses of Tal- Hess Company at the Standard Theatre, is the business here, and for our wholesale business we
best representation of Audran's opera that has control all of the New England States, all of New-
mage's Tabernacle.
taken place in this city. The company opened York and New Jersey, a part of Pennsylvania,
A POPULAR COMPOSER IN TUOUBLE.—A public an engagement on May 1 with this opera, in and all of Arkansas and Kansas. In addition to
subscription has been started in Portland, Me., which Miss Adelaide Randall sang Beltina; Miss our regular trade, we have also taken many orders
for the purpose of gathering a fund to relieve F. Emma Eisner, Fiametta; Mr. Mark Smith, Plppo; which belong really to the factory, and not to us,
N. Crouch, who now in his old age is suffering Mr. Henry Peakes, Lorenzo; Mr. James Peakes, and the total number of organs ordered at the fac-
from poverty. Crouch is the composer of the Bocco, and Mr. Alfred Wilkie, Frederico.
tory from all sources, including the New York
popular song, "Kathleen Mavourneen," which
Miss Randall possesses a rich and resonant warerooms, has for some time been averaging, as
song, although not of great musical value, has soprano, excellently trained. She sings with Mr. Blake will tell you, sixty-five per day."
delighted thousands of listeners in this country, great taste and expression, and understands the From the above it will be seen that the Sterling
and the singing of which has given many young requirements of the role. Miss Eisner is a charm- Organ Co. is making marked progress, and that
singers a chance for an encore. Crouch has lately ing Fiametta. Her presence is more than agreea- the New York warerooms, for a young institution,
been working as a varnisher in a Baltimore furni- ble, and a sprightliness characterizes her acting is taking a remarkable position for itself, which
ture factory.
that makes it very attractive. She saug the music will, however, hardly be a matter of surprise to
Anton Rubinstein's oratorio, Das Velorene Par- with understanding, and, throughout the opera, those who understand Mr. McEwen's ability and
odies, was given on the 10th ult., in St. Jacob's faultlessly.
tact as a business man and his praiseworthy ca-
Mr. Mark Smith has a powerful voice which pacity for making friends.
Ohurch, Chemnitz.
A new edition of Liszt's "Chopin" has just been will be valuable if properly taken care of. He in-
published in Paris; also a work entitled "Mozart, terprets his role correctly, and represents the A small fire took place on the night of April 30
shepherd better than we have yet ever seen it in the yard of C. D. Pease & Co.'s factory, on
the Man and Artist," by Victor Wilder.
done.
Forty-third street. A large box, used for the stor-
The season at La Scala, Milan, was very disas-
The Peakes Brothers sustain their reputation as
trous, both artistically and financially. The doors artists, and Mr. Wilkie, whose lyric tenor voice is ing of refuse, burst into names through sponta-
neous combustion, but before the fire could com-
have been closed.
very pure, would also receive much praise if he municate to the building it was extinguished.
Christine Nilsson is in London; also Mme. Sem- exhibited a little more confidence in his singing.
A Mason & Hamlin organ has been sent to the
"brich.
The chorus was exceedingly good, and the or- Smithsonian
Institute Museum, in Washington,
chestra,
barring
a
few
errors
that
are
apt
to
occur
Mr. Fred. Clay, an accomplished composer,
D. C., for exhibition, also models of the various
on
a
first
night,
was
satisfactory.
The
orchestra
•who, among other operettes, wrote the music to
parts of the organ, and its system of construction.
Gilbert's "Princess Toto," will write a cantata for could be enlarged without detriment to the mu- Comstock. Cheney & Co., key manufacturers
sic,
a
few
more
violins
being
necessary.
the Leed's Musical Festival of 1883. Mr. Clay
and manufacturers of ivory and turned goods, at
has many friends and admirers in this country.
JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.—So the Ze.itschrift fur Centre Brook, Conn., are extremely busy. Busi-
Liszt is expected in Brussels this month, at the Instrumentenbau, in Leipsic, has a little fight on ness with them has doubled itself in the last few
performance of his "St. Elizabeth."
hand. It must be pleasant news for certain edi- years.
A fire on Sunday, April 30, destroyed about
A certain ffistinguished musician, just a year tors of German musical journals to be termed
ago, when dining at a house in Mayfair, found "infamous liars." There is certainly no mistaking $2,000 worth of various woods in the lumber-yard
himself ao intolerably bored by the conversation that expression, and the Zeitschrift puts it in ital- of Albert Weber. The loss was fully covered by
insurance.
of the lady on his right hand that he jumped up ics, to make it more binding in all probability.
Prof. W. M. D. R. Muller and wife, of Balti-
WOLFSOHN AND JOSEFFY.—Henry Wolfsoh n will
suddenly frem his chair, and, with a wild shriek
of freedom, quitted the room. Ladies and gen- be Joseffy's manager next season, he having been more, are in the city to attend the Festival. Beth
tlemen of established position cannot imitate the selected on account of his successful management are cultivated musicians. Mr. Muller makes his
•example of this eccentric genius, but they must this season. A series of very select concerts only headquarters, in Baltimore, with Messrs. Sanders
& Stavman.
will be given.
feel sorely tempted to do so.—London World.
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