Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-30
PHIS TENN: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 80, 1875.
Music in Paris.

Nou OAiiy ANONo
There are cafe concerts, where respect
able bourgeois can go in and out in an
informal way, and hear really excellent
singing The morality of the songs is
certainly not lover than that of opera
bouffe The Sale Tai'bout, which was
opened this season, sf3rds 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 Jaquinot
made his debut there a few evenings
since under the auspices Of Roger. He
IS sure to become a favorite. NJ. Jau-
uinot was brought up in England, and
recently won first prize at the Londoa
Academy OF Music, so that to some ex-
tent he belongs to u.s. Concerts given
in public rooms, under the pushing
patronage of fashionable ladies. are
legion. These are attended chiefly by
foreigners, who imagine they are goiag
TO see the fine flower Of Partisan High
Life, and by the femmes de chambres
and concierges of rich French people,
who buy tickets to please their fair
friends, and then send them to the SER
wants hail. The music is very often
good and rarely below par. Mile Sid
ney Burnward, youthful Australian
pianist, OF great excellence and most
pleasing appearance, struggles this week
against the disfavc: 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 these
concert rooms we're in London they
could not fail to draw large public au-
diences. Here they can only get on
through the importantly Of patronesses.
1t would be worth investigating the in
creasing favor in England Of music
halls and concert rooms, and their de-
cline in Paris, where the public ear is
certainly well educated. 1t has oe.
Cured to me, when have seer 6rst-rate
instrumentshsts listened to with indiger-
ence, that we're Thalberg and Chopin
themselves again to play here
they would not command warm ap-
plause.. Parisians had thirty years ago
the patience to sit out their grand
fantasias because for some reason now
hard to explain, those musicians were
then the rage, aud it would have been
deemed bad taste not to admire them.
Soirees musicales, so successful when
Nine. Emile de Girardin wrote for the
Presse, are still attended, because of
social interests and exigencies, unless
indeed in Israelitish houses, where good
music of any sort is ever heard by an
appreciative and delighted auditory.
Two young Neapolitan girls, named
Badia, have had the luck to be taken up
by Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild.
They are exquisite drawing-room singers,
and in warbling duets together form
tableau vivant pretty enough to carry
off prize Of honor at the Salon"
But not being gifted with dramatic power,
they would have met with less favor
elsewhere. Proudhon was justified in
saying that music unwedded to action is
repugnant to the French temperament.
The opera is popular because dramatic.
A song with an accompaniment Of by
play is sure to succeed, Nothing more
affects French people than the noisy
fanfare (which scarcely deserve the
name of music when played by the band
OF marching regiment Ii singers are
not gifted with dramatic power they fail
in France. Mile. Krauss being a
tragedian holds foremost position at
the opera, Notwithstanding a worn voice
and other seriods disadvantages Mdme
Miolan Carvalho continues against a
fatigued larynx to be a prodigious
favorite simply because she is an ac-
complished actress as well as vocalist
She can yet dictate her own terms to NJ
Halanzier, with whom she has just
signed an engagement, For three years
Nine Miolan Caralho has been singing
at the Opera Comique rather than ac-
cept the terms offered her at the Rue
Lepelletier. No. vocalist of our day in
terprets so well Gounods music. She
will appear in the parts Of Mignon and
of Marguerite next March. Theresa,
it is announced, has been engaged by
0ffenbach to appear in Genevieye de
Brabant at the Gazette. She has lain by
since 1869