National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-26

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The Paris correspondent Of the London Daily
Rsios, writing on February ., says:
There are cafe concerts, where respectable
bourgeois can go in and out In an informal way
and hear really excellent singing. The morality
opera boufe. The Sale TaitbOut, which was
opened this season, affords Parisians not rich
enough to frequent the Italian and the new Opera
house, opportunities for hearing the best music
Of every style. A young violinist, named Jaqui.
not, made his debuf there few evenings since
under the auspices Of Roger. He is sure to be-
come q fayorite. N. Jaquinot was brought up
In England, and recently won hrst prize At the
London Academy OF Music, 80 that 70 some eX-
tent he belongs to us. Concerts given IN public
rooms, under the pushing patronage o. fashions
BILE ladies' are legion. THESE are attended chiefly
ey foreigners, who imagine they are going TO see
JemmGs dc chGnlbreS and e0neiergeS of rich French
people, who buy tickets to please their fair friends
music Is very often good, and rarely below par.
Mile. Sidney BurWard, Q youthful Australian
pianist, Of great excellence and most pleasing ap-
pearanee, struggles THIS week against the DE-
favor into which the SALES Herr and Erard have
fallen She will be assisted by some Of the best
artists. If the musicians who perform at those
concert rooms were in London, they could not
fail TO draw large pubic audiences. Here they
can only get on through the importantly OF pa
tronesses- 1t would be worth investigating the
Increasing favor in England Of music halls and
concert rooms, and their decline in Paris where
the public ear Is certainly we'll educated. 1t has
occurred 70 me, when have seen nrst-rate in
strumentslists listened to with indifference, that
were Thalberg and Chopin themselves again 10
play here, they would not command warm ap-
pIause. Parisians had thirty years ago the pa
thence to sit out their grand antasias because for
some reason now hard to explain, those musicians
were then the rage, and 1t would have been
deemed bad taste not to admire them. SoirseI
muSfcGleS, so successful when Nine. Emile de
Girardin wrote for the PTeSSs, are still attended
because OF social interests and exigeneies unless
indeed in Israelitish houses, where good music
fanny sort is ever heard by an appreciatiVe and
delighted auditory.
Two young Neapolitau girls named Badia have
had the luck to be taken up by Baroness Nathan
lei ROthschild. They are exquisite drawing room
singers, and in Waroling duets together form
fGbIeGH ripGHf pretty enough TO carry OF q prize
Of honor at the SALON. But not being Rffted
with dramatic power, they would have met with
less favor elsewhere. ProudhOn was justified in
saying that music unwedded to action is repuRnanL
to the French temperament. The opera is popu-
lar because dramatic. A song with an secompa-
niment Of by-play Is sure TO succeed. Nothing
more affects the French people than the noisy
tdHfGTe (which scarcely deserves the name Of mu-
sie) when played by the band Of . marching reg
iment. II fingers are not gifted with dramatic
power they fail in France. Mile. Krsuss being
ragedian holds foremost position At the opera,
notwithstanding worn voice and other serious
disadvantages. Nine. Miolsn CarYalho continues
against tatigued larynX to be prodigi0us favor
ite, simply because she is an ccomplished actress
as well as vocalist. She can yet dictate her own
terms to NJ HalanZieT, with whom she has lust
signed an engagement. For three years ame.
Mlolan Caryalh0 has been singing at the Opera
COmique rather than accept the terms offered her
ct the Rue Lepelletier. No vocalist Of our day
nterprets so we'll tiounod's music. She viii ap-
pear in the parts Of Mignon and Marguerite next
March. Theresa, IL is announced, has been en-
Brabant" at the Gazette. She has lain BY since
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