The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-06
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.


MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
Mile. Ostava Torriani, who Is coming to this
country next season with Mr. Strakosch, Is de-
scribed as having an excellent stage presence, and
q fine. sympathetic voice, which Is well under
control
Mr.. Emo. the owner OF the Filth Avenue Hotel.
who had contemplated converting the burnt the
atre in Twenty-fourth street into kitchen where
French dishes instead Of plays should be cooked,
has now determined to rebuild 1t as music hall,
The Church Music Association will give the last
concert of their season on Thursday evening at
Steinway Hall, under the direction OF Mr.. G. T..
Horsey. The following works will be performed :
Haydn's Symphony in @ minor, Weber's Mass In
G, and "The Walpurgis Night" Mendelssohn.
The appearance OF the Lydia Thompson Troupe at
the Academy or Music last night was made before
good house. The piece and the acting are famil-
lar to the readers OF the HERALD the former being
the well-known burlesque Of "Blue Beard", and the
latter resting mostly upon Miss Thompson and Mr..
Harry Beckett. This evening 'Kenworth" is the
piece, Mr.. Beckett playing his very remarkable and
very funny Queen Elizabeth
The new play now In rehearsal and soon to be pro-
duced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre viii probably be
called "Madalein MoreL" 1t is by DR.. Mosenthal
OF Vienna, and the scenes are laid In that clty-a
fortunate circumstance at this time, when so much
interest Is felt in the Austrian capital The play Is
IN five acts. three OF which were saved from the
fire In Twenty-iourth street, the other two being
rewritten by Mr.. DAILY partly from memory He
thinks the play superior to either "Article 47n or
"Alixe." The cast will include Miss Morris and
the strength OF the company.
Miss Nelson Is now at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
uot md frny a cf,f<
through the West. She begins her second engage
ment at Booths next week, appearing in her orig
inal character of Amy Robsart. The play is by
Andrew Halliday and is founded on Sir Walter
Sc0tt's novel OF "KenilwOrth." 1t was written for
Miss Nelson and produced at Drury Lane in 1870,
where the distinguished actress made wonderful
success In the part Of Amy. The dramatic situa-
tons OF the piece are very strong andthe piece
ends with a sensation" In the fall OF varney from
the drawbridge. In this ending OF the play Mr..
Halliday departs from Scott's novel, making more
harmonious conclusion than the great novelist was
in the habit OF giving to his romances.
A new sensation play, by Miss Mary Watson,
called "Held in Check" was produced at the Bow
cry Theatre last night and made quite hit with
the sensation lovers OF the east side. II Is more
coherent In plot and dialogue than modern blood
and-thunder plays generally prove to be, and what
with railroad collision, IN which the tremendous
crash OF the coliding trains was heardeven as far
as the footlights to the damage OF one profile
smokestack; "a friendly tree an impromptu BRIDGE
death struggle on the edge OF cliff" and other
exciting arrangements, the boys IN every part Of
the house were delighted, and "Held in Checkn
will probably hold the boards OF "Old Druryn for
fortnight or 80. Mrs. w. g. Jones, Mrs. Meeker
Miss Booth and Messrs Marden, Meeksr, Rooney
and O'Neil appeared in the cast.
The New York Catholic Choral Society gave
concert on Sunday evening at the French Church
OF st. Vincent de Paul. The attendance was very
large, and the choir and part OF the adjoining
galleries were crowded by the chorus and orches-
ira. The main attraction was Gounod's s.Messe
solennelle' (st. Cecia) In q major. 1t is written
In three solo parts, and in FOUR six and eight parts
in some Of the movements for soil and chorus. The
style Is a combination OF old Italian and modern
schools, and the effect is indescribaby grand. It
received ample justice on Sunday night, Mr.. Gus
tavus Schmitz the eminent organist ofSt Patrick's
Cathedral, officiating as conductor. Mile. Corradi
sang highly dramatic naorcedn "The Vision OF st.
Cecilia and Herr Sohst's fine bass voice gave ex-
preston to Variants "Invocatione Dion NJ
Sauret played couple Of delicious violin solos, and
the chorus completed the programme with Cheru-
bini's "Regna CGl." 1t was an unqualified sue
cess throughout, and highly creditable to the con-
uuOtoi, WnOoo at anu skill curing
the performance brought chorus ana orchestra
safely through very diiicult work.
The time draws near when we must lose forever
the genius which came last Fall to illuminate the
concert hail. Rubinstein commences on Mon
day, the 18th inst, q series of farewell recitals
consisting OF six matnees and one evening per.
formance. As bents the departure OF giant his
last efforts will be more colossal than ever before
during his visit to America. In the seven per-
formances we ind three works OF J. s. Bach, one
OF his son, P. L. Bach, three by Handel one
Haydn 'andante," four OF Mozart's charac-
teristic n,Orceaur, six Beethoven sonatas, three
works by Schubert, four by Weber, q like contrtbu-
ton by Mendessohn, seven OF Schumann's choicest
pieces, eleven "reminiscences OF the poet Chopin,
nocturne or two Dy John Field, two Henselt waifs
two Thaberg fantasias ten OF the best thoughts OF
Liszt and seventeen carefully selected works by the
great Russian pianist himself Such Titanic task,
beginning with the master mind OF the seven
teenth century, and leading the hearer through all
the delightful scenes with which art Is embellished
down to the present time could only be accom-
plished by genius. No one should fail to attend
these farewell rectals for every note which comes
than golden value to the lover OF true art.
STAMPEDE OF BOYS FROM A REFORMAToRY.
WORCESTER, Mass, May s, 1873.
About one hundred OF the four hundred boys at
the westborough State Reform School escaped this
morning by q concerted effort. AS they were
marching into the yard from breakfast the file sud-
| denly broke and they rushed for the gates. The