The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-14
MUSICAL NOTES.
-Tamberlik ia singing again in Paris.
Patti has signed operatic engagements uI

| -IamDernk l5 Singing ilSalu LII 1atis.
Patti has signed operatic engagements ut
to 1871.
Tame Clts," the late London sensation
is shortly to be brought out in Chicago.
-HerYo, the composer Of 'fLGil Creye," is
also his own ibrettist.
-Taus.g and Rubenstein are the two popu'
lar pianists of the day in Berlin.
-Ferucci is the name of q new soprano who
is exciting the opera-goers OF Moscow.
-Perotti, new tenor in Genoa, is highly
praised there by very critical public much
disposed to grumblng.
-Rossini gave abouttwenty years OF his life to
art. and about forty to the enjoyment Of life.
Was he right?
1t is said that tho King OF Saxony pays
| nearly one.fourth OF the civil money to the
Dresden Theatre.
-Meyerbeer's "Profeta" and Rossini's Seen
erentola" have been the late attractions at the
Pergola Theatre, Florence.
1t is said that Kellogg bids fair to be Pat
tbs successor in London, if not In the new
Italiens of the French capital.
w,
service in memory Of Rossini, the cathedral
was draped in black, and the Sdbat Mater was
performed.
"A society of gentlemen amateurs have
lately performed at the Town Hall Of Leeds
tho "Antigone" of Sophocles with Msndels'
sohn's entire music.
-Teto Mattel is one Of the most prolific and
popular composers on the opposite side of the
water. He is known here chiefly by the vocal
aria Non Der.
"A sale of rare old violins made by Stradi-
yarius, Guarnerius and Bergonzi recently took
place IN Paris the old instruments bringing
fabulous prices.
The orchestra of the Tammany Alhambra,
ut New York, will include twenty-six pieces, un-
der the leadership Of Signor Oberti, an Italian,
who for the last fifteen years has been resi-
dent of London.
-Flotow is in Paris completing his new
work, ssI'Ombre." NJ. de st. Georges ie the
author Of the libretto. The story is carried on
BY four characters only, without the aid of q
chorus.
Musicians are said to bo concaited. They
usually arc. Even tho great Beethoven had
the weakness OF vanity, for in one of his let
tcrs he writes: "Kings and princes may easi-
" make professors and privy councillors, and
bedizzen them with titles and ribbons; but
great men-men that stand conspicuous from
among the common herd-they cannot make.
That they must leave alone; and when two men
like myself and Goethe meet, We ought to be
held in high esteem.
The New York "Iusical Gazetto" throws
out these suggeations to choirs that wish to
sing church music with expression: "Let
choir sing tune through as they have been
in tho habit OF doing, with voices full and IN
strained. Let them then sing itagain IN pre-
cisely the same way as regards time, pronun-
citation, expression, &C.. but diminishing the
power twenty-five per cent; that is, singing
with about three -fourths the usual strength OF
voice, and those who listen will find the effect
improved ut least ono-half. In fact, this pro-
portion does not adequately express the differ
ence. for the distinction is really between bad
and good. Whom the power is unrestrained,
every voice stand out separate and distinct from
every other, causing each individual defect to
be intensified and exaggerated. When the
voices are subdued they are for more likely to
blend and become, as it we're, transfused, a
process which strongly tends to absorb indivi-
dual faults aud to create an agreeable result
even out Of unfavorable materials"