Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-10-21
Correspondence of the Free Press.
MUSICAL CHIT.CHAT FROM NEW
YORK
No. IL.
NEW YORK, Oct. II, 1859.

New York, Oct. II, 1859.
Messrs. Editors of the Free Press;
Since my last letter we New Workers have had
so many other things to excite us that music has
been rather at a discount. You know that We
must alw ays have some extra excitement here in
order to be able to exist in our customary and
normal state. To this never to-be-satiated appe-
tite, the repeated accounts of the progress and
final completion of the Great Eastern have con-
tributed not a little, then the surprising and trag-
ic suicide of Mr.. Leupp, Zone of New York; pal
atial' merchants) came nicely into play to fill up
the papers; then the wedding of the season, whose
n. Y. publicity so scaudalized Col. Foraey that
he Immediately made it more public by copying
the full account; and now as / write, the great
triennial Fireman's Parade is feing enacted, which
certainly has already turned turned this immense
city upside down. This morning every window
in Broadway was filed with ladies, and omnibus
ses were turned out of their usual routes into all
the dirty little lanes and by-,treets. People
thronsed the sidewalks. All the trees, lamp
posts, awning frames and staircases were black
with eager and curious humanity, and as we ga1-
ed upon the scene on our way up town, the
thought flashed upon US that the best way to find
out the number of idler, we have here, is to scare
up a parade, and they will all be sure to appear.
During the passage of the procession through
Fourteenth Street, the Sixth Avenue cars were
stopped, and at two o'clock there was a string of
them from Amity to 25th street, all brought to a
dead stand.
A week ago Friday, Madame Bishop left us for
the Canadas, where she has already commenced
an extensive concert tour. She means to favor
you Burliugtonians on her return, and hope
you will turn out en- masse and give her a bumper.
Let every inhabitant of your city, viii
lage, or town, Gust which you please
do his or her best to show that
no matter how much Canadians may appreciate
sweet singing, Yankees, and Vermont Yankees
aboue all others, (cheers) can appreciate it more,
and notwithstanding how great her success may
be in the Provinces, the only success deserving the
name may be reserved for Burlington. She is a
truly heavenly singer without doubt. Being per-
feet in all the technicalities of vocalizatiOn, she
does not for that cause despise a simple ballad, but
on the contrary, renders it with all the care and
finish bestowed upon the most complicated and
elaborate Italian c~avatina, consequently it goes
straight to the heart.
Shortly before her departure, she enriched her
repertoire, by a selection from the lyric compost
tions of your fellow townsman, Mr.. Cha,. Jerome
Hopkins, and although the name Of the songs she
already sings is legion, she was fully determ ined
- r.ala - - uou.5onod Darr,apaprv in
her ''stock on hand a compliment to your town
which you will appreciate.
Messrs. Strakosch and Ullman are to inau gurate
their Winter season of Opera here this evening at
the Academy. The first great attraction is to be
Mile Speranza, Of whom much has been said be-
forehand in her praise, even to the item Of her
being very beautiful; however I have seen her
photograph at Brady's, and if the mouth of a Ro-
dentia. the nose Of a Greyhound, and a face gen
orally taking it's cosnomen from a very useful
carpenters tool known by the name Of hateha, are
pleasing accomplishments to ones "visnomy,"
then truly she must be a bauty.
The Misses Gellie lately gave q concert at the
Pavilion House, on Staten Island. These young
Artists, we believe, have not sung much
out Of this city, except in Canada;
which claims the honor of being their
birthplace. They are, however, fast becoming
f~avorites in our metropolis. Their rendering of
Italian Duets is charming in the extreme, and
may be ikened to the violin Duets of the famous
brothers Mollenhaue; in the particular of precision.
of IN seHbe passages Of running thirds, for in
stance, even in caienzls, being given by them as
smoothly as if but one voice was heard. They are
the presiding gcnii Of Calvary Choir, which is
now agreed to be second only to that of Grace
Church; if the names of the two Churches, howev-
er, were exchanged, t would be considered second
no longer, people having a sort Of fancy for taking
it for granted that, Of oourse, Grace Church must
be the first n1,r. merely on the strength of its for
mer reputation.
A~ptommas, the Harpi,t of the century, gave hi.
first Matinee of the season, at Niblo's, last Satur-
day. There was nothing but Harp music on the
occasion, which popularity We heartily commend.
Mongrel ~v7tuoso concerts are an abomination,
except when a eaztaf7ics gives them. IF we wish
ed to hear Thalberg play, we would prefer to hear
him, and him alonc, without suffering through
three pieces Of miserably uncongenial Z" popular"
vocal trash beforehand. On the present occasion
he played, among other things, his own "Tarsn-
tela" a marvel Of digitation,) and his arrange
ment Of favorite melodies, in which "Auld lang
syne" and Money Musk are iEt,ftrirtd in a
manner that the first living theorists might be
proud to father. 1t is a rare thing among great
~UirtEosi to find a good theoretician, but Mr.. Aptom-
mas forms this variety, and that to a very great
degree Of perfection. He is at once a relief and a
charmer.
Truly yours, TIMOTHY TRILL.
From tho Daily of the 18th.
The HARPER's FERRY RIoT.-It probably
will be some days before it will be truly
known what is fact and what fiction of the
hourly and half hourly stories sent from
Baltimore and Washi ngtOn on the 18th and