New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-29
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.

its customary has led 10 some dscuesion In prnt
aud silI in conversation as 70 the causes Of tis
untownrd event The chief ressou IL not Che only
one Unsigned, Is this. The owners OF the buiaiag.
lodng some $50 900 Of rtock form numerous body,
who in addition to the received have the right AZ
free admission secured seas and the ownership of the
most valuable private boxes These are, .s a whole.
wealthy men, who, with their famiies, form large
portion of tias csss who mnrt pay for opera repre-
sentations or they fail. In Europe, those who arc
equivalent 10 The pereOns hereius their r,nk
title and acknowledged fsshnr-pay for for thoir pr
waite boxes much q season, each handsou.s sam.
and this the manager Is enabled to meet bis engnp-
mens: and il most be remembered instead Of sn ops>
box circle, I'LL the tiers abroad cave the anphitheaer
are composed OF private boxes some Of which arc et
out for tho evening however in certain houses by the
managers II il couiended that II the STOCKHOLDERS
here bad no privileges, and paid Handsomely for seats
during the season tho opera would revive, and ke
placed upon a nsore permanent basis. @
TIE stockholders, their part. have published
statement showing the very moderate return they geG
for ler investment, es adm jsion and reserved seas
al included. II IL very certain that bot for tbsse
stockholders WHO Put their money in at venture
90 far percentages 60. greatly the los rs-ttere
would be Academy ALL and complaints are cor
sdered coming with n very bad grace from people whs
never did or never could subscribe cent toward tbs
institution.
We have desire to enter into this vexed question
and to tai ing sides. There SEEING to u.s. however, No
reason why there sboud not, and every reassa
why there should, DO proper endowments for a
Academy Of Music, without the chronic difHouI-
ties Of stockholding. Thousands Of people, dead
ard alive especially Dead leave nj lions Of dollars
to all sorts Of Institutions. except thote Of ar.
Feejee Islanders in for Of Legacy
whore tie MUSES. get cent-indeed we can recall
but cue Legacy, 32oO00-tist by the late Mr. Thorn
dixie o! Botoui' given for the purpose of essab-
lshng musical COLES late chair at Cambridge. Masia,
it must be remembered canno, be owned Like Cabinet
pictures. A man buys half dozen score Of them
TO furnish his house and illustrate himself and Is
patron Of art" be gets an equivalent and experience
shows he hae taste in seiection-and is hard 10 20
wrong with god nametbeee pictures cell we'll il BIO
DO forced to paTs with then--whe extra-fne furui-
ture amenabe TO the ws Of change of fashion, has no
chance in perpe,tye, and it is better therefore to In
vest in art than in rosewood or upholstery II operas
could be appropriated like these pictures, minister's
to the domestic taste, pride, and parade Of the owns<s,
there would be no difficulty about the matter. The
srlt il the opera bas fixed or permanent place In
popular affections it has Art Unions Artists Re-
cep,iopsit ia alien and stranger with change
able welcome, or none at all.
If the stockholders, W ho afford IL. viii 90
step further, and endsw an academy, without money
and without prce-as unversities colleges, hospitals,
Libraries are endowed, by absolute and immense gs
music will then have fair chance. Ono single hand
go endowed the Astor Library. We hear Of no long
or sLort in the gentle precincts of Lafayette
place. no privileged subscribers, no army Of dead
heads. All there ia smooth II the alts be worth
cultva,ing, they worth paying for luxuriously.
In come asI ects of difusive expense, Eew-York b.
almost unequalled. There is probably larger
Ter of expensive private households hers, than 10
Paris and it may be very much questioned if we do
not tread closely the heels Of London in that par
tlcular less few Of the gres,est hereditary establish
mcnts tiers 1t is not for the want of wealth in the
community then that Art institutions do not prosper
that there is not Academy Of PAinains~ OF Fiss
Arts; Q Concert Hsu, or tLst tho Academy Of Musis
has the clls and fevers, dies of inani,ion II Ia
the want of little wedirected iberaliry in that way
II was great step to get the Academy Of Music bulk
at all; it would be but one advance to secure 10
certain opening during An appropriate season each
ea, and TO establiah it's allegiance to its charter.
In the course Of this oporaiic discussion it has beea
youndly asserted that Mr.. Uman is no musician ana
therefore not fit for the place Of director Tuis is an
error. He Is competent amateur and clever critic
correspondent sends Us the following notice of Mr.
Ualman whose prominent connection with the fue
arts gives him the place Of public man, with the
Donors Of publicity The numerous skirmishes axd
fghs which Mr.. Ullnaan has had with the pres may
be attributed to his early polytechnic education we sup
pose. Bernard Ullman was born in the City of Pes<h
in Hungary, in the year 1873 At the ago of sixteeu
be took degree Of Doctor of Philosophy. Frora
Pesh be went to Vienna and entered the Polytechnis
Institute, and would have left it Lieutenant in tho
army, bat being of feeble constitution, il was de-
cidod not to make a soldier of him. a circumstance
which has probably deprived the world of another
Kossuth or Haynau. He next embrsced the CON-
merial profession, and became clerk in the house Of
Steiner & Co., and afterward in the great vienna bank
ing house of Gey muller g. Co. From Vienna he wvSa
to Paris In 1885,, and entered the banking house "
Achle Foald, tie recently dethroned Minister Of
France, and it was through his friendship Uman was
enabled TO obtain access to the scenes and models
of tie Grand Opera of Paris Thus the Jrcess
was brought out in exactly the same style a. ii
Paris From Paris Ullmsn went 70 London.
and became the foreign correspondent of Heath.
kuish & Co. About this time bis father died. He
had been repated very rich having invested largely
in the railroad connecting Austna and Hungary.
bnt on winding up bis affairs was found tia. ae had
left barely enough to support bis widow and her three
young children This induced Ullman to turn bis al
tenon TO our country, the haven Of all poor or dsoo
solae foreigners. and be dashed across the Atlantis.
with letters 10 August Belmont, Prime wsrd & King
and other Leading bankers; but finding thai the sry
of "a clerk would scarcely srinport hin, and h.;rc.