The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-28
MUSICAL ITEMS.

-Piccolomini was at last accounts very i'll
with a malady of the spine.
--Gluck's Arnlide is to be revived at the Theatre
LYrique. Paris.
---DAtricaine, at st. Petersburg, is described
\ as "a transcendent success" Tamberlik was the
a A''Vasco," and Barbot the "Selika.'
--Liszt is about TO visit Paris, where, in
March, he viii produce some OF his religious
compositons.
q "A musical composition by Leonardo da
EVinca-a bravura alr-was lately sung at con-
cert in London.
i Bale has Just finished a new OPERA the
name OF which is not yet made public. The
work was composed chiefly in Spain.
--Bagier's Italiaa Opera Company lately made
q visit TO Rouen, where they appeared In Semi
Tdrlide, with La Grange as the Queen" and
~ the new contralto, Zeiss, as "Arsaces."
Flor d'Alizd the new opera by Masse-the
subject taken from Lamartines story-has been
produced at the Opera Comique, with the
daughter of Duprez as the heroine.
There is man named Kennedy who is CIV
ing Scottish entertainments in England. He
Eslngs Scotch ballads most delightfully."-, and ii he
r wishes to make money and reputation he should
vssit this country.
--Grisi is on a tour concert through Scotland
and the north OF Ireland The troupe is one of the
very best ever formed, including also Mario,
MADAME Merle. Labache, Mr.. Foil, vocalists
and Miss Emilia Arditi, violinist.
W Don PdsqlLdLe, as revived this season at the
has met with the usual success. Patti is soon to
appear for the first time as "Desdemona'' in Ros-
sini's Oteuo.
--Aubers opera, LA Bayadere, +" has been re-
81 vived at the Grand Opera, Paris, with Salvionl
(dancer). Hamachers, WarOt, and 0lin in the
+ cast. The work was first produced thirty years
+ ago, with Tagllonl, Cinti-Damoreau, Nourrit,
- and Levasseur.
-Gounod's sacred drama, Tobias, has been
j the latest musical novelty in London, where it
/1xyao trU
pu the 18th instant. The principal voealists were
desdames Sherrington and Rudersdorf, and Mr.
Sims Reeves. Jules Benedict conducted, and
here was large chorus and orchestra.
--Longfellow's lines, Resignation" begin
hing:-
There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb s there,
music from Beethoven" the music being a
nangled alienation of melody in the sonata
MINOR, Op. "a.
\ Charles Maury, French composer of more
<alent than reputation, died on the 18th January.
j. He cultivated chiefly religious and chamber
music; and among the best of his works are
lass Tor four male voices without accompani
nents: TIE Deum; several motetts; and Lies
disciples d'Emmaus," mystery" NJ. Maury
Fas 43 years Of age.
60 -Mercadante's Leonord, lately revived in
sondon has not met with public favor. 1t is
~ leemed dull and tedious; ahd yet, says critic
+W ut has hne music-music that glows If IL does
aot burn, that rises from the earth if it does
& lot soar INTO the empyrean that in short. il
heightened and elevated If not heayen-sent and
inspired.
ntts Linda di OhdmountI, just revived in Paris
fcr Adelna Patti, made him think "of gigantic
payer meeting, the greater part of act and &C
III being taken up with supplcation or thanks
gi'ing and the devotions conducted by the Sti
pediary Magistrate of Chamounix "a strange
MIXTURE of Mr.. Spurgeon and Poor-Law Com
misioner), who acts as fugleman, and gives ou
hymns two lines al a time.'
In Gsace (Metbodist) Church. Chicago, the
orgB possesses some curious features, the mos
i noticeable being the extended action. The key
bOads are In the corner pew OF the centre aisle
Hi twelty feet from the organ, the tracker-wori
s and1raw-stop action running under the floor il
the basement. This instrument, though small
eonhins over four thousand ieet of tracker
worl, the swell tTackers being nearly forty fee
longirom the keys to the valves, still preserving
4 remarkable promptness ia the touch.
.--It the late exhumation of the bodies O
Beethoven and Schubert from their graves il
r. WaeMinger Cemetery in Vienna the delicate
almoet female head of Schubert was a great cor
trast o the massive, thick, bony, and immens
abrainbasin holding the head OF Beethoven. Th
F. signs OF musical talent were missing in both, q
+" least in those places where they are supposed
be Schubert had sill thirteen teeth, AM
4 Beethoven fourteen. Schuberts skull shove
hhe most perfect proportion OF the human hea(
much more than Beethoven's.
From Havana we have received interestin
M not agreeable reports of An Operatic fdsc0. Tn
Habanese are disposed to be severe on Lott
= ion of first tenor. During performance
D EIisir gilmore this dissatisfaction was 8
trongly marked that the opera had to
brought TO a premature close and two acts
huzi0) shared with Lott in the displeasure
he audience. Boschetti, Anastasi and sewers
other members OF Grau's troupe have given sati
faction to the fastidious Habanese.