, 1872-12-08

:. Overture to The Faries Lake.. AuDer
8. Fantase from "LuTlino". .Nenzel
4. Quadrtlle-" ', Minuett Passen. en.... G,1ng1
s. potpourri-"A Wreath Of lmmortelles". -Menzel
{. Cornet solo- Whirlwind Polka" Levy
7. Waltz" The Siege OF the Hearts". Hoffman
g. Potpourr-From "Faust". t"..''''''-.--... .aonnod
TO- Galop-" Postil1ion D. Amour. Hermann
THE aEnaAN1A CONCERT.
The regular concert by the GeEmania Band
will bo given this afternoon at Orpheus Hall,
with the following programme:
l. March, Trust to Luck Faust
2. Ogerturess William Tel, .nossini
/. Grand potpourr Tour through Eu- 'Ns
S. % oboe solo, from Don Pasauaie Balfa
6. Horse Railroad Gallop- .Arndt
8. Ii Belle Amazone. .Losclhorn
.. Amusement Quadrile. .ZikoR
MUSICAL LITERATURE.
Messrs. G. D. Russell & Co. hare recently is
suen song BY Alfred H: Pease, ~ Love Ny
Gated to Mrs. Charles Moulton; also, Te
Deum, No. 4, in major by Dudley Buck, which
is notable addition to church music. All the
parts have solos assigned to them, but the larg-
est and best is that for soprano to the words,
strong points is the production Of brilliant effects
for chorus, and this skill displays itself in seY-
era1 parts Of the Te Deum just published.
The sale Of the setting Of LORD Byron's song,
:" The Maid of Athena" by II. Gounod, has not
been 80 great as the compose, expected, and
Mrs. Weldon publishes the following explana-
tion of the failure I" 1 am much disappointed,
on consulting with the purchaser, III. Goddard,
to find there is only EFT 1884, % send to Mrs.
Black from the h. sale M Goqno1 gets no other
have pushed it more than ether songs Of
II. Gounod's, according to his with. He sang it
at his own concert, in the hope of getting o sale
for it Che only time lie ever sang in publlc);
sang it at Benedict's concert, fnd at Brussels
and Spa for the same purpose, but scarcely an
English newspaper has mcntimed it, or, # at
all, has dlsparaged song, one of the most beau-
tiful as it ia one Of the easiest of Gounod's
songs. and as not single English professional
singer has sung it, or ever does sing song on
which II. Gounod gets royalty, the result is
meagre. III. Gounod is sorty b have to send
Mrs. Black 30 paltry sum, which should have
been several hundred pounds under fair circum-
Stances"
We are indebted to D. P. Faulds, Louisville,
for the Mignon Petite Fantasia, for pianoforte,
by Ernest Zoeller, and dedicated to Miss Belle
Sheridan Badger, Of Chicago. It is both simple
and pleasing.
MUSICAL NOTES.
Mrs. Charles Moulton is singing in Philadc1-
phia.
Leonard Growers German Opera Troupe has
Grau pays Rubinstein $4,000 and Wieniawski
$5, 900 per month.
Ebcrhard Friedrich, Walcker, the great Bayar-
ian organ-builder, died recently.
Miss Kellogg sang and Miss 1lehlig played at
the last Brooklyn Philharmonic Concert.
The son OF the famed Paganini, who is resid-
ing at Parma, proposes to sell some MSS. and
posthumous works composed by the vloinist.
Aliterary and musical entertainment was given
at Ranes Hall, in Baltimore, on the 18th ult. for
the benefit Of Miss Rosalie III. Poe sister to Poe,
the poet.
Siguor de Michelis, of Ciyita Vecchia, has
composed an opera, called LUomo," all the
characters in which, however, are written for Ia
dies.
NJ. Theophile Gauter has left the MS. Ibretto
Of q grand opera, called ''Le Vampire" and II.
1Iahtte, the accompanist OF the ConserVatoire
Concerts, has set the music.
Miss Rose Hersee ia no longer connected with
the company Of Days Grand Opera House, New
York. She talks OF raising al Englah opera
company for travelling.
Mrs Carl Formea, wife Of the singer, will lec-
ture. This lady. we read, was Laura Rausch,
daughter Of notary at Cologne, and WAS the
first female graduate Of the Medical College at
Vienna.
At the conclusion OF the regular season OF
italian opera in New York, Madame Lucca Will
give = few representations in German opera,
commencing with Frau Fluth, in "Die Lustige
Frauen von Windsor"
Madame Peschka-Leutner sang for the first
time at Gotha, at q concert given by the men,
bers Of the Liedertafel. The compositions se-
1ected we're the air from st Erryanthe," Proch's
Variations" and songs by Schumann and
Marschner.
Madame Adelina Patti WAS to remain q month
at Moscow, and then go to st. Petersburg for
three months. She WAS to sing twice week.
Her reportory consists Of Lucia, u j" Rigo1etto,"
I" La Sonnannbnla,' u " Linda" '' Il Barbiere,"
and j" Romeo Giulietta."
II. Gounod has given his total profit from the
sale of the song " Maid Of Athens II to Mrs.
Black, now aged and poverty stricken, to ce1e-
brate whose beauty Byron wrote the verses.
At Venice flute player, n. Aloysio, exhibits
new model for violin. The strings are made OF
sound is said to have four times the seniority Of
en- ordinary violin.
There will be some curiosity to see the bust
Story, the sculptor, Is making OF Beethoven, OF
whom there have been nu1nberless pictures and
busts, all differing from each other. 1t is said
trait Of Beethoven. He is copying the mask,
which WAS taken from Beethoyen's face, exactly
in all it's homely fidelity, giving it vitality
through expression. It is grim, ugly face,
with decided :mulatto type, especially in the
nose Thayer, the biographer Of Beethoven,
he was very short, had yellow skin, broad,
spread-out nose. and projecting teeth, over
which his heavy lips shut. The mask gives this
with a slight Indian look about the
cheek-bone. Beethoven had also that concen-
trated expression in the eye, brow, and mouth
of morbid discomfort, which q face Of mixed
blood is apt to wear when part Of the blood is
ignoble, and the brains akin to Divinity"
New York gets Of the following Ing
friends who sit in the boxes at the Academy of
Music won't recognize him when he sits down
stairs in the orchestra-that the other day he
bowed to hfr. -, who pretended not to see
him. The next day he met his friend and said,
Why, John -, why didn't you recognize me
ut the opera last night? Because says his
I kant go and pay $40 for box, yeuw kneuw,
and then bow to every 50 fellow see in the or
elestra, ma dare boy, yeuw kneuw! Now Kan |
r."
Only few days since the head Of a prominent
lecture bureau in Gotham received a letter from
q small Western village, inquiring for how much |
tbs lecture committee Of the place could engage |
'tthat German singer, Lucky, with a good sup