The New York herald., 1874-12-16
A MU s E M E N s.
The Musical Reason.

There has been quite y lull In musical matters
since the departure oil the opera company, but the
prospects are bright for the holidays. First comes
Theodore Thomas and his unrivalled orchestra
with q classical matinee at Steinway Hall on
Saturday and Brooklyn Philharmonic concert In
the evening. musical entertainment win be
presented the same afternoon at Association Hall
OF o popular character. 'The Messiahn will be
sung on Christmas night at stenway Hall by
the Oratorio Society OF New York and the
Handel and Haydn Society OF brooklyn.
the chorus numbering i've hundred voices
and the orchestra eighty instruments, under the
direction OF DR.. Leopold Damrosch. The solosts
will be Miss Abbie Winery, soprano; Miss NJ b.
Faxon, contralto; Mr.. George Simpson. tenor. and
Mr. A. =. Stoddard, basso. We have heard the
most satisfactory accounts 0I the long, panstaklng
course oI study to which both these societies nave
been subjected by their distinguished director,
aud certainly the entire musical puohc OF the
metropolis Will be interested In the result Every
one must rejoice In the organization OF an oraorio
local viii Ine ee ne or ie
OF the New York Conservatory OF Music. which
WIN take place at the Academy ON sunday
Max Maretzek several artists OF the Strakosch
troupe Will assist, and the programme will con-
slst OF RosSn's "Staoat Matern and selections
from the sacred works of Handel, Haydn and
Mendelssohn. There Will be three nights OF Italian
opera during the week alter Christmas, and the
management, we understand proposes then to
give "LOnengrln," with all Its grandeur Oi e1ect,
at popular prices Then VIII follow, later, sea.
son OF Englsn opera by the Kellogg troupe, which
have met with uniform success III their western
tour. MISS Kellogg proposes to introduce Balles
celebrated opera, "rhe IaIsman," during this
season. NJ. Louis Dachauer win continue his In
teresting per rormances Of the great requiem
masses at st. Anns church.
Musical and Dramatic Notes.
.The Sphinx" has failed in San Francisco.
Miss Nelson will appear in san Francisco IN
March.
They play in German as wen as Chinese In San
Francisco.
Charley Reed gives an entertainment OF his own.
called "The chinese Laundry"
The word ''concerton was nrst used in the six
teenth century by Scipione Borgogla.
Thursday, December II, Is the one hundred and
fourth anniversary OF the birth OF Beethoven.
George W. Morgan will preside at the fifth organ
concert at the Church Of the Holy Trinity this
afternoon.
Ohve Logan denounces an Indianapolis editor
who ventured to write TOO freely about her as "a
hopeless vulgarian."
When an actor wants 20 attract public interest,
his friends circulate report that MS sight is fall
ing or that he is going to retire.
Jonn Br0ugham, whose genial face Is missed by
New Workers, is playing at Roplnsons opera
House, Cincinnati, In the "Lottery Of Lile."
The Carols are playing to good houses at the
Park Theatre Brooklyn. They have made q
marked success throughout the provinces in the
.4Orpnans"
MISS Edith Abel met with immense success at
recent performance OF the Kellogg troupe In
Washington. She replaced Nine. Van Zandt as
Marguerite In "Faust."
John Mccullough Will play round OF shake
spearian characters at San Francisco. The plays
will be produced with q completeness never
hitherto witnessed on the Pacific coast.
General fitzpatrick is going to write real mill
tary drama. Relays OF actors Will be provided, as
the dramatic personnel are to be killed of In real
earnest. WHAT an entertainment for the godsl
A Baltimore critic thus speaks OF Mile. Anna
Drasdi's singing at Professor Rosewald's second
symphony concert in that city y:-"Her voice is an
organ Of singular purity and depth-a genuine
contralto, with o decided ring Of the true metal.
Her school Is Incompatible, and her style graceful
and nnished."
There's war IN Cincinnati about the right to
play "The Streets OF New York." Manager Ham,
lin asserts that the play Is from the French, and
was produced in New YORK before Mr.. Boucl.
cault touched 1t. Mr.. Mayo has purchased the
right OF tue play from "the dramatist OF the
age" The matter will 60 to the courts.