, 1872-10-29
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
| MUSICAL NOTES.
| MendelHsohn'B "Athalie" music was given
entire at Springfield, Mass, on the 18th, by a
Musical Convention in session there. The per
Torrance OF this music is so rare as to be worthy
OF special notice.
Archbishop Manning, Of London, has pro-
hibited ladies from singing In the choirs within
his district.
N. Gounod has taken the trouble to deny in
the Goulois that he has been naturalized in
England.
Verger, the baritone, who VAS here With
Nilsson, is now singing at the National Opera
House in Paris. The engagement Of Rosa
Cslllog, who has also been here, has just been
The death at Dinant Of Ii. Charles Bimonin
is announced He was d boy prodigy rs pian-
ist in Vienna At the age Of 10, and was much as-
sociated with Schumann, Liszt, and Moscheles.
The new Opera House in Milan is called the
Wachtei is studying Lohengrin, with view to
singing in it in 1873.
Aynesly Cooke, the baritone, who has come
down to US from past ages, is still singing in
English opera in London.
0fenbach's income, last year, from his operas
#as 81, ,000-
Anna Mehlig will play schuman's minor con-
certo at the Brooklyn Philharmonic Concert,
Nov. 6.
@1oAebeo& NAl1 AeuQelssUun, SOL OF the CQ[Q-
poser, is shortly to be married to Mdlle Mathilde
von Merkel, OF Carlsruhe.
Mills and d., Damrosch are giving piano
soirees in New York.
Tostee, the indecent opera-bouffer, is now
playing in legitimate comedy at Brussels.
Trouble is brewing already between Kellogg
and Lucca, owing to the fact that the people
prefer the latter.
Leonard Grover has organized the following
incongruous English opera troupe for St. Louis:
SsaR Mssa9s GfsGn as T;1 z ss@ @ n1s oss hshmsyd asyd
HeErmans. It is q peculiarly Groverish troupe.
Herr Johann Strauss, according to the Jen-
Ens Of the Vienna Tagebzatt, has taken home
with him from this country the American habit
OF chewing tobacco. He said it VAS recommend
ed him in the United States as good remedy
for the toothache.
H. Rouzeaud, the husband OF Nilsson, excom-
municated himself from the Catholic Church by
being married in an Episcopal sanctuary,
A music dealer in Glasgow announces in his
window q new sentimental song, "Thou Hast
Loved and Left He for Eighteen Pence"
The Neetor Of professional musicians in Ger
many is Herr Frederick Wieck, father Of Nine,
eighty-seyenth birthday. He is in full posses.
sion Of all his faculties.
That the noble husband of distinguished
pr1ma-donna may be useful after all was illus7
trated in the effort OF 8 burglar to enter the
room Of Adelina Patti at Homberg the other
day. She WAS aroused by the burglars efforts
at her bedroom door, when she awoke the Mar
quis de Caux, who ran down stairs just in time
to see the would-be robber escaping over the
garden wall.
How great minds may differ is illustrated bv
the opinions Of johnson and Carlyle on music.
johnson says: emusic excites in nv mind no
ideas, and hinders me from contemplating my
OWL On the other hand, Carlyle says: q Mu-
sic is kind OF ina1ticu1ate, unfathomable
speech, which leads US to the edge OF the in
finite, and lets US for moment gaze into that"
Carl Ze11ahn is at present holding musical
convention in Worcester, Mass.
Under the lead OF Mr. Theodore Thomas and
his musical associates, q Wagner Verein has been
Of promoting the great festival which Wagner is |
at Bayreuth for the summer Of 1874, |
and enabling the members Of the Verein to at- |
tend the performances at reduced cost. 4 |
similar plan is now under way in this city, with
A very sharp attack vas made, a few days ago,
upon Gounod, who was tainted by critic with |
forsaking his country, and who had the epithet |
of Englishman flung at him. Gounod reminded
bis detractor that Meyerbeer and Rossini long
inhabited Paris, to the honor and glory OF the /
German and italian schools, and added that if he |
remains in England amid kind friends, he has
not renounced bis nationality.
The enthusiastic noodles who throw aYay
been quietly snubbed at the Academy of Music,
New York, after the following fashion, accord
ng to Wheeler in the Arcadian: Mr.. J arrett has
quietly smashed the flower business too. On
he second night Of Lucca's appearance there
Eas about half 9 ton OF floral ships, and baskets
accumulated in the office. They were all sent
.round to the artists rooms. eff people wish
Q fling bouquets out Of the boxes to their favor
tes, he said, well and good; but my ushers
re not porters."
The st. Petersburg italian opera season, which
this month promiBes to be exciting, |
wing to the rivalry between Madame Adeline |
Patti Ia Marquise de Cau1) and Madame Nilsson
aouzeaud: The fair Swede is to have the part Of
1alentine in Meyerbeer's :tUgonotti," =" and Mad
md Patti is not likely to allow her the monopoly
i it: Madame Nilsson-Rouzenud made
nst., as Ophelia, in the "Amleto,'' after II.
Imbroise Thomas notions. She will also ap-
'ear IN i: S h1ignon' after Goethe, by the same
omposer; a. Desdepana, in Shakspeare's
Othello;' as Margkeeli1ta, in n. Gounod's
Faust;'' and also in her favorite characters in
he y TraViata" and "Trovatore" Of Verdi, and
he "Lucia". Of Donizetti: Whilst Madame
i5o1 IS A II s. RSss5np A dse h eanad ht S69 III
ngagemant 'ahe viii 60 to ST.: Peters5aIg, aud
iepds1ne Nilsson will SO to MqscoW The Is. coz
iate cbllisioa. RossiSi @ 5 aWiiiiai, IeIh j. to
q mounted III St, Petersburg, under Gle title Of
Carlo il Te1heraria" !" Madame Patti ia to have
esss Don A. Paseaa a9uaS9 e fRsfs pssssa5 a2ss
Linda, " and j" Il nar1iese."
DRAMATIC NOTES,
charlotte Cuehman will soon play in Boston.
nafnum will soon be in New York at his Hip
otheatron on Fourteenth street. y.
eaf lEs +; Caroline Bernsrl plSyia It Baltimore last
zee "ih eoht?ence an engagement at Woods |
Errtr f1- frrf, = L.