The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-21
MUSIC AFD THE DRAMA

-vieuxtemps, the violinist it is rumored,
will visit this country this spring.
Liverpool has lately had Handel's "Judas
Maccabeus" performed with band and chorus
Of two hundred persons.
Madame Neruda is described by Paris
correspondent as the best violinist he ever
heard. with the sole exception of Camille Urso.
Mile. de Murska, singing in Paris directly
after Patti, has made success IN Lucia
chiefly by means of certain very high notes IN
the mad scene.
The Bilse concerts are among the most
ponnlar institutions of Berlin. The concerts
.re attended by ladies who bring their sewing,
as well as by amateurs of the other SEX
,-Opera in London next season ls to be
carried on by Gye and Mapleson jointly.
Usually rivals in management, they have come
to the wise conclusion that unica is strength.
An orgsnist is advertised for by London
church, who for forty pounds year will per-
form his church duties, instruct the school
children. and pay the expenses Of the umpire
who selects him.
AT St. Petersburg has been produced
new national opera called "The Inhabitants OF
Mini Novgorod" The opera was magnificent
" put on the stage. In the last scene, repre-
senting triumphal entry into Moscow, twenty
horses were introduced.
The stage Of the new sHer Majesty's The
atre," in London, is the finest in Europe, being
sixty-one feet deep, ninety-nine wide and eigh-
ty-one feet high. The system OF framing the
proscenium more or less in barbaric gold will
be abandoned in favor of the real architectural
and classic style. BY these means the stage
side Of the new theatre will offer in its outlines
and in its rich draperies and. decorations
worthy frontispiece to magnificent theatre.
There will be splendid arch, with noble paint
ings in the Italian manner, over the stage.
Hector Berlioz, whose death was recently
announced, is amply written about in the for
eign papers, and his biography will ultimately
appear in book form. 1t is generally acknow-
lodged that he was an original thinker, writer
and composer. though not as extravagant in
his views as Wagner. Berlioz used to write
h,a m,,ss;;c wkenaver the idea occurred to him
In coaches, rail cars, hotels, as "si as il a's
study. One chorus he jotted down by the
xas-lighted window Of a shop in Pesth. He
has composed operas, oratorios, symphonies
and church music. Gluck was his favorlte
composer.
The "Coliseum, which they are building
in Boston, for Gilmores monster peace festl-
val concert, will be the largest building In
America under one roof will require 900
feet OF lumber in it's construction; will be three
hundred by five hundred feet, and will cover
between three and four acres of ground,o or about
10000 feet. There will also be usel in the
work fifteen tons Of nails. and between four
and five tons Of other iron work, such as bolts,
braces, &c. To cover the roof, 30 as to make
it waterproof, thirty tons Of tarre1 paper will
be used. All outside foundations are hve by
six feet and fifteen inches thick; centre foundi-
tion supporting roof, eight feet square and
eighteen inches thick, all bedded in solid gravel,
making IN all five hundred foundation sup
ports. The apex Of the roof is eighty-s'x feet
from top of sill. At height Of fifty feet there
will be 1900 feet of continuous windows, five
feet high, all made to run on + RS, for ven
tilshon, consisting OF $500 feet of glass. In
the upright Ct the building there are to be
1858 lights Of glass. Ingress and egress are
1asde safe aud easy by twelve doorways, TWEEN
:, innr feet wide. 1t will hs.Se seating capa-
city for the easy accommodation OF 49, 800 spec
tators, and standing room beneath the gallery
and promenade for an immense number. The
conductor OF the concert will stand two hum
dred and forty feet distant from the remotest
singer. To complete the building will require
10000 days work, or little over twenty-seven
and-a.half years by single man; but with the
large force at work on it, it will be finished by
the 10th Of June.