, 1872-12-29

Orient tho solemn znd hrshed tone, the mystic and
half-fatasic quality the dreamy and unfamiliar and
impractical Of his music hut it Is the East At
its confluence wik tho West Eubinstein is on the
isthnus tina: divides the Orient and the Occident.
not mix. There evident conflict and struggle in
his naturc and Lis Innzlc. He ro.rs like lion and Is
panther, and with bis grace and precision, upon tho
keys. But ls hands claws in velvet They smite
like haname: they ca1ess ie niotEtr But thers Il
longing IL his characteristic style and manner, which
makes it wondrous true to our time Of broken rela
ton5 when the past has gone and the future has not
come, when are dseatished with what Is and not
clear what is to be.-in9ependent, Dec
MUSICAL NOTES.
Brignoli WAS recently singing at Nice, but has
gone to Milan. -.
Mile. sesei has grown too stout for Ophelia, in
Ambroiso Thomas" Hamlet"
Horr Ulmann is in wranglo with the man.
ayers Of the Gewandhaus concerts at eipsic,
and charges them with extortlon.
TschaikoGsky" and "Opritschniki" arc re-
spcctiyely the meodlous titles of a new Russian
composer and his opera.
Herr Schott, formerly an officer in the Wur-
tenburg army, has had great success in Berlin
ii Herr Flotows "Stradella."
The manager OF the Berlin Opera House has
published card saying that Lucca can't sing in
any. German theatre. "Oh, the world it is
wide" Gc.
Tho musical public eho,1ld beware OF one j.
Perkhurst, travelling through the country and
pretending to be "a agent Of Theodore Thomas
lie is an lmposter.
The Vesccliua s;stccG, formerly of Chicago,
having accepted tho tri.io;, Of S:gnor Agramonte,
employ tho Intervals Of study in giving concerts
through tho West.
NJ. Ambrose Thomas sNEignon" is not
liked by tho Roman amateurs OF the Apollo
Theatre, despite the excellent singing and act
ing of Madame Pantalconi.
Verdi and Oncnbact, it ia eail, are coming to
America Mr. Charles Diclcns, jr Gays that
the lato announcement Of his iutcntion to visit
the United States is utlfounded.
Ole Bull lately devoted the receipts Of ono OF
his concerts to the purchase of 400 Norwegian
books for the University OF Wisconsin: Tho
great violinist, st last accounts, was at Mobile,
giving a farewell" concert.
At tile Russian capital, Roannis tsGuy1iemo
Tell" has been renamed "Ch.rles tho Bold;"
and this 'Carlo il Temerario" met With great
success, on the principle, We suppose. that 4
rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
1t appears to he truo that the plan for tho
Opera House in Pera, Constantinople,- under
Glatell Pasha, is to be carried out, and that u
large sum, it IL said El00,00o, has been sub
ecr1bed. The site is in the cemetery known to
Europeans as the Petit Champs dos Alorts.
Tho most remarkable musical combination
effected in America since tho Rosas Joined COM
rany with Snntley and Wachtcl vii! take place in
q few days, waen Mr.. Theodore Thomas prom
iEcs TO gyo three concerts il New York with R,1-
brstein and Wienawski. This is truly a mag
nil!ceat prospect. Tho best orchestra ever
heard in tho United States, playing with the
first Of living pianists and one OF tho frat Of
vioiaists-what can bo moro alluring?
Nine. Cosina, the daughter of the Abbe Franz
List, became, a few days ago. convert to tho
| Protestant faith. The ceremony OF receiving
| this new Sister into the bosom of tho Lutheran
Church, took place in Baireuth, the small lava
rian town where Richard Wagne:s FESTIVAL
Theatre - is being erected. The lady was
shortly afterwarl married to that eccent. ic COM
poser, her father, tho Able, being present At
| the wedding.
Herr johann Strauss has written letter to
tho Vienna Tagebiatt in which he speaks rather
| d;sparagngly Of our American instrumental
musicians. He rays he would haro gladly ro-
mained for year or longer in the United States,
but he ascertained, soon after his arrival in Bos-
ton, that he would bo unable to find sufficient
number of good musicians to organize an effect
| ive orchestra. II johann Strauss has written
any euch lottor, then Johann Strauss is simply
fabricator.
There arc already two applicants for the Acad-
| emy OF Music for next season. They are the
two Max'8 Strakosch and Marotzek. The lat
ter, it seoms, is determined to enter the field
next year unembarTassed by foreign agents or
not st all. The story that Wachtel was to roturn
tion Of the enemy, and sounds very much like
TINT othor report that Mmo. Paropa Rosa has
failed in Cairo, though to tell the TRUTH Madame
never did succeed SO well anywhere as in Amer
| ica.
Although N. Ernest Lcgonyo's "Doux Reines
dc France" with music by III. Gounod, produced
in French at tho Italian Opera House in Paris, OH
the 9th ult. is chronicled as SUCCESS it appears
not to be startling one, either dramatically or
musically. The pieco was ready in 1865, but was
not then produced, owing to official objections.
| Il. Gounous music comprises introduction,
two 0c{es, o melo-drame, q baritone mir, six
choruees and concerted pieces, and grand in
te3'1ede chantc. The orchestration is pronounced
to be mastery.
Tho anniversary Of tie death Of Mcndelesohn
has been tho occasion in various towns in Cor
choral society in Vienna the " Mannergeaang.
yerein," executed his " Antigono' and the over.
ture, Calm of the Sea, besides liet}er, sung BY
Madame Dutsmann: The Leipzig Gewandlaus
performed the I" Lobgcsang" at its sixth concert
on the 4th inst, in honor Of the composer, whe
the Golden Wedding Of the King OF Saxony waf
celebrated bT March composed by Horr Ferd
nand David and 4 !" Domino salyum fac regeu1.
written by Herr G. Renecke.
The musical obituary this week contains thu
name Of one of tho most celebrated music pub
fishers OF Italy, Francesca Lucca, who died sud
denly, in Milan, on the goth ult. He WAS bor1
st cremona in 1902, and Vas originally musi;
engraEer in the house OF Ricordi. From Bade1
| we learn the decease OF Madame Sabina Marquet
born i'll Mayenco in los; che was one Of tho ei,
sisters Heinfetter, three Of whom were famed
prime dome, sabina Clara, and CathinkA. From
Palermo wo get the news that the composer o1
, ee;llaise"), Luigi Mercantini, is no more; pub
lie monument will bo erected to his memory 4