Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-17
Carl0tta Patti Her Reception in
Washington.


Cor. Cincinnati Commercial, llth,l
The best monument yet built to Lin
coins memory is the great hall lately
finished and dedicated inside of the
Young Mems Christian Association
Building in this city, and called by his
name. Nearly two thousand good
Washingtonisns went there last night to
hear Carlotta Patti consecrate the place
with concert. Director Max Srakosch
was sstounded. This morning he had to
pay Delano fifty. four dollars on his re-
ceipts, and showed his friends out of a
huge envelope nearly $4,000 out of the
night besides.
The Russian Minister had said to him
in New York, apropos to the enterprise
of Washington concert, in November,
III ny Sera personne la." But Strsk-
osch came and saw before him from the
rosttum of the frescoed, fresh hall, such
a nultitudnous glimmer oil heads and
silks as had hardly greeted him the first
nights in New York, for Washington is
sentimental on music, and puts on its
best faces and apparel to go to concert
Carlotta Patti, fresh from six years in
Europe, and bringing with her own the
glsmor of her sister renown, is sensa.
ton; and last night, despite of early No
vember and the foreboding of the Rus
sian Minister, this city, taken by its ears,
was at its brilliant best before the csHta-
trice. Patti is no longer the debutante
she was as she left us, IN 1868, but has, in
her six years absence abroad, developed
her art as she has developed her magnif-
cent bust. The latter, by the way, more
than compensates for her lsmeness, and
she came before us here with such 9ecol-
lett ABANDON as TO remind us of the clas-
sic Pyhrne correcting her judges. But
Washington fears nothing since the
Blondes, and this was not an affair at all.
Carlotta Patti was famous always for
her marvellous staccato, and she gave us
her best last night, and was caught every
time leaving the stage in storms of sp-
plause. This lady seems to have won
European ecldt almost commensurate
with her sister Aislina's, and has been
waited into Moldavis, Wallachia, and the
remotest hooks and corners of the con-
tinent, as if on the notes of her crescendo.
Almost everybody remembers the history
vi huCoC tWO nhoiShi oiobCiot uOEu PUOE,
in Italy, where music is product of the
climate, brought almost in infancy by
their parents to New York, cultivatiug
their gift by the help of friends, and go
ing back to the Old World to conquer it
with melody. Tsere was another sister,
and the family genius ran through all
three. But this third is now the wife of
the rich Strakoseh, aud is now retired.
These Patti sisters are to music what
Rachael was to the drama, cold and
classic in their style, but finishing their
art to exquisite perfection. Neither
of them have Nilssous or Pa
repas soul or sweetness, or power of
voice, but overmatch these singers ia
execution. We have heard more of
Adalns on this aide OF the Atlantic, but
Csrlotta is said to have a higher range
to her voice, aud in no way inferior to
her sister, save that her lameness hin
ders her from the opera stage, Their
kind of music is nearly the same.
have said as much of Miss Patti as she
comes in December to renew her Western
acquaintance, and thought Of her his.
tory aud merit, SO much of them Ameri-
can, is not out of place. Max Strakosch
has put into his combination, too, a
young violin artist, Prume, whose music
fairly drips from bis fiddle-bow.