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

-Vicuxtemps, the viOlinist, it is rumOred,
will visit this country this spring.
Liverpool has lately had Handels "Judas
Maccabeus" performed with band and chorus
Of two hundred persons
Madame Neruda is described by Paris
correspondent as the best vioiinist 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 Bse concerts arc among the most
popular institutions Of Berlin. The concerts
are attended by ladies who bring their sewing,
as we'll as by amateurs Of the other sex.
Opera in London next season Is to be
carried on by Gye and Mapleson jointly.
Usually rivals in management, they have come
to the wise conclusion that union is strength.
An organist is advertised for by a 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 ''Tho Inhabitants Of
Mini Novgorod." The opera was magnificent
ly put on the stage. In the last scene repre-
senting triumphal entry into Moscow. twenty
horses were introduced.
The stage Of the new s'Her 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 tho real architectural
and classic style. BY these means the stage
side OF the new theatre will offer in it's outlines
and in it's 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
egn papers, and his biography will ultimately
appear in book form. 1t is generally ackuow-
ledged that he was an original thinker, writer
and composer. though not as extravagant in
bis views as Wagner. Berlioz used to write
his music whenever the idea occurred to him
in coaches, rail cars, hotels, as we'll as il his
study. One chorus he jotted down by the
gas-ighted window of shop in Pesth. He
has composed operas, oratorios, symphonies
and church music. Gluck was his favorite
composer.
The coliseum" which they are building
III DOSCOn, IOr d1lmOre'6 monster peace feSt1-
val concert, will be- the largest building in
America under one roof; will require ]. 700, 900
feet OF lumber in its construction; will be three
hundred by FIVE hundred feet, and will cover
between thres and four acres of ground, or about
15O. 600 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 so as to make
it waterproof, thirty tons Of tarre1 paper will
be used. All outside foundations are FIVE by
ois foot a.d 2Rtoon iaohos thinl, oo,tro PoundA
tion supporting roof. eight feet square and
eighteen inches thick, all bedded in solid gravel,
making in ali Eve hundred foundation sup
ports. The apex Of the roof is eighty-six feet
from top of sill. At height of fifty feet there
will be 1900 feet of ontinuous windows. five
feet tigh, all made to run on rollers, for ven.
tilation, consisting of $500 feet of glase. In
the upright Of the building there are to be
1868 lights of glass. Ingress and egress are
made safe and ess Easy ~ ~ twelve doorways. twen
ty-four feet wide. It will have seat,ns Cap.
city for the easy accommodation OF 16 800 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 ye ars by q single man; but with the
large force at work on it, it will be finished by
the 10th Of June. ~