Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
MUsIcAL ANp THEATRIcAL.



New Orleans papers beWan the deea-
dence of the French opera.
A foreign musical critic says: "Good
musicians execute their Music the bad
ones murder it."
The Boston Conservatory has instruct
ed, since its Inauguration ia 1862, more
than four thousand pupils.
A cantata entitled The FuirV Ring
by Mr.. w. IL. Cummings. the English
tenor, was produced reeentIyin London.
Madame Mallinger, ofBerlin. has been
engaged for the Italian 0peFall0use, st.
Petersburg, for the beginning Of next
Miss Annie Louise Cary win give a
concert at the Boston Music Hall pre-
viots to departing for a brief s9journ in
Europe.
Sir Michael Costa is to receive ten
thousand dollars for conducting the
orchestra of her Majesty's opera for the
current season.
Maggie Mitchell has been offered
twenty-five hundred dollars in gold per
week, to play an engagement Of indef-
mite length at San Francisco. 1T is
thought she win accept.
Circus companies are roaming am i'm
mense harvest throughout the
The season has not opened 50 prosDer-
ously in a long time.
London assurance continues to draw
at Wallack1s, New York. It is done in
magnificent style, with Lester Wallack
BrOughan, Mathews and other stars In
the cast.
Shakespeare is the title OF a new bal
let at the Theatre Regio in TorinO. In
the ballet the Bard of Avon dances so
we'll as to divide the applause with the
distint0 dQazatrice.
1t is rumored that a fresh scheme Of
English National Opera is to be essayed
in London next winter, and that a eele-
brated chef dOFcbestre has been offered
the post Of conductor.
There are twelve thousand profession
al musicians in New York City, and. es-
timating their families, Twenty-Five
thousand people directly dependent for
their bread upon the popular tastes OF
the metropolis for music.
On the occasion of Mime. Parepa-Ro-
sa's last concert in the New York Aead-
envy of Music the receipts reached nine
teen thousand dollars. The only concert
her troupe gave in Brooklyn yielded
nine thousand dollars.
Forbidden Fruit, adapted from the
French of Emile Augier, las made q
success in Boston. Its original title is
"GdbT5eUe," 1t has been PLAYED in
London under the name Of H'EUe.u 1t
is evidently something about the fall Of
man, but caanot decide upon a name.
Christian Suckow is the name of a
violinist who has met with much sue
cess throughout the Western States. He.
is a Norwegian, and, it is said, plays on
a violin with twelve strings; four are
arranged the same as the ordinary VIC
lin, and the others are of fine steel
wires, tuned s. as to accord with the
four principal strings.
On the sixteenth ultimo, Mt the Thea
ter italian, Madame AlbOni appeared in
the first of the three performances she
intends to give. Cimarosa's master
piece, u MdtriHORiO SeQret0, was the
attraction, and the popular eantatrice
met with an ovation, each Of her efforts
during the evening calling forth pro-
lOnged applause. She was ably second
ed by Gardoni. A Paris writer calls
AlbOni San elephant with a nightingale
in its throat"
The cornerstone of the great festival
theater at Bayreuth, designed for the
performance of Wagner's grand operas,
was laid recently on the composers
birthday. The celebration lasted three
days. The music, directed by Wagner
himself, was furnished by an orchestra
of one. hundred pieces and a chorus of
two hundred and fifty voices, with a
number of eminent artists in the solo
parts. Wagner delivered an address at
the OperahOuse, in the midst of the ut
/ m pCf GaafhrGlaunn w~hfnh. GO a NHoaf.d fhnI
composer that Returned around and en-
braced his wife.
An American opera of any class is an
unusual thing, but a comic opera, entire
ly of home manufacture, is rare indeed.
daced. 1t is entitled 1.-The Pearl Of.
Bagddd;" music by John NJ. LOretz, jr.,
G6rdtto from the clever pen of Mr.. z.
De Nyse, and was produced Monday
night week, for the first time, at the
Lyeeum, Brooklyn. The operate COM
pany consisted of Miss Emma Howson,
soprano; Miss Minnie Treadway, con-
~tralto; Mr.. Eugene Clark, tenor; Mr..
John Clark, basso; Mr.. Frank Dalton,
baritone; assisted by a well-ehOsen chO-
rus and full-appointed orchestra.
A writer in the London Figaro has
discovered the following direct contra
dictiOn in OthedO. In the fourth scene
of the third act (Chandos edition) oe-
ours the following passage.
That handkerchief
Did an Egyptian to my mother give;
she was a eharmer, and could almost read
The thoughts Of peoples she told her while
Two1id make her amiable, and subdue my
father
Entirely toher love.
And in the second scene Of the fifth
act of the same tragedy we read:
Cassie confessed it;
And she did crafty mis- aTnOr9uS works
With that recognizanee and pledge Of love
Which / first gave her. Isaw il in his hand;
I It WA a hapokerchieE, an antique token
Ny father gave my mother.
The musical festival of the Lower
Rhine, which opened ut Dusseldorf ON
Whitsunday, seems to have been a brill
iantlysuccessful affair. hewOrks per-
formed include a cantata of Baeh's, IchI
hattie VSeJ Bek2Emmerniss; Hander's Ode
for ST. Ceeitid's Day; Shubert's NiTi-
Om'S Siegedgesangj a sacred opera of
Rubenstein's, entitled Der ThUrD zH
Bd6eE ("The Tower of Babel ~; the
finale to Memberships LOreJei; Bee
thoven,s Eighth Symphony; Sehu-
mann's Symphony in D minOrs and
various other classical and modern COM
positions. The principal solo singer was
Madame Parepa-Rosa, of whom the cor
respondent of The AtheR0un1 says: 81
am glad to be able to state that Madame
Parepa-ROsa has returned from her six
years sojourn in America in excellent
health and with voice unimpaired, i'll
not improved. Her English friends win
be pleased to hear that it is her intention
to take a years rest in England. Her
pure enunciatiOn and ringing voice
evoked much applause from the Ger
mans.sl