The Portland daily press., 1875-05-19
Art. Music and the Drama.

| C0ncertmeister Hubert Res a younger
brother of Beethoven's favorite. pupil, Ferdi-
| nand Ries, has lately celebrated the compile
tion of fifty gears Of service at the Royal Opera
at Berlin. Herr Ries was pupil of Spohr and
Moritz Hauptmann. On the occasion of his
Jubilee he received from the Emperor of Ger
many the Order of the Crown of the fourth
class.
| 'Its uncomfortable, and 1 wish he wouldn't
do it," is what Sothern said while beholding
Salvini's terrible impulses of rage in 'Othello.'
| Rubinstein has been elected corresponding
member of the Academic des Beaux Arts, in
| place of M. Daussoignes Mehul, who died
lately.
Herve, who composed "Chilperic' and "La
| Petite Faust" has recently appeared in Paris
as the author, composer, chief actor and singer
of new, grotesque little piece called "Alice de
| Nevers." From the remarks of the Paris
newspapers it seems probable that Herye will
| hereafter confns his efforts to one thing at
| time.
The celebrated pianist Bulow, it is said, has
| been reduced to beggary Well. you know, after
| all, "Man wants but little Herr rBulow,' IN
| Y. Com. Adv.
Mr.. Montague, the actor, having been limited
at by some paper as The original of photo
graphic likeness which fashionable young
lady keeps in a shrine, behind lighted candles,
| the Pail Mall Gazette calmly remarks: Gas
DR.. Arnold says, 'It is good thing to admire.
| By continually looking upwards minds will
| themselves grow upwards" and without hero
worship there would perhaps be no heroines."
The deaths OF two distinguished operate
artists are announced from Paris Nine. Caro-
| line Vandenheuvel (aee Duprez, the daughter
| of the renowned tenor singer, and NJ. Coudere
until recently one of the chief favorites at the
Opera Comique. Nine. Vandenheuvel leaves
a daughter of sixteen years, who is said to have
good voice.
Mr. and Mrs. Florence and Mr.. George +.
Rowe will soon sail for England.
The Paris correspondent of the London Stan
dar l. writes to that journal: ''The Russian
troupe has given its farewell representation. 1t
goes to Vienna, where, it is to be hoped, it will
succeed better than in Paris. Mile. Pouskana,
the star of this Muscovite company, will finish
her musical education here. am sorry for it,
French art may rob her of her originality, and
it can do nothing for her voice, which is at ease
in every feminine register, and fills the house
ever teach her to act, which she has not attemp-
ted at the Sale Ventadour. She seems to have
an innate sympathy with what is grave, pro-
found, and meditative. never heard voca;-
ist so well qualified to sing our rational airs.
Should Mile. Pouskana 90 to England she
would probably become a star of unparalleled
magnitude at the musical festivals. To indem-
Nifty the Russian troupe in some measure for its
poor harvest here, the French actors and ac-
tresses who have made money at st. Peters
burg are about to give a performance for its
benefit"
The musical and miscellaneous library of the
late Sir Sterndale Bennett has been sold at auc-
ton ''The collection says the Atheneum,
was tolerably extensive one, comprising one
hundred and ffty-fve lots of books and three
hundred and twerty of music. While very
rich in some departments, it was siDgularly in
complete in others. The composers represen-
ted were Bach, Beethoven and Men1elssohn,
nearly the whole of the published works of all
three being found in the library. On the other
hand, the collection contained comparatively
few of HandePs OF Haydns works, still less
(only four or five lots eachl of Weber and
Sebumanp, only one work by Schubert, and alb
solutelv 10 specimens of the more modern COM
nosers, B-ahms. Raft Wagner, sc. The Men
dal.sohp collection, as might be expected, was
noonIiarlv rich, and ncluded the autograph
scores of the ''Hebrdes" overture and the quar-
tet in d. which brought $500 and $3.50 respec-
tivelv. A set of thirteen autograph letters
from Mendelssohn to Mr. c. Coventry sold for
S1a5 and an album containing probably
unioue collection of autographs and drawings,
and including specimens of the writing of
Beethoven, Cramer, Ferdinand David Goethe,
Sir John Herschel, Hummel, Martin Luther,
Meudelssohr, Moschees, Mozart, Sir Walter
Scott Spohr aud Weber, and drawings by the
C llcotts, the Laudseers, Sir John Philip w.
Mulready, Mendelssohn and others, was
knocked down, after brisk competition, at
$685."
Barry Sullivan will open the fall season at
Booths Theater, Aug. 80. 'Juiius Caesar" will
be acted there nexb season, with Mr.. e. l.
Davenport as Brutus, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett as
Cassus, and Mr.. George Rguold as Marc An
tony.
Sir Robert Prescott Stewart, professor Of mu-
sic in the university of Dublin, in a recent lee
ture, said the following with reference to the
musical instrument: "The bag
pipe was an instrument both ancient and wide
ly known; it was alluded to in the writings OF
Aristides, Quintius and in King HowePs
laws a. D. 912,) and was known in Ireland