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| we're the tenor and contralto, whose manner as
well as singing was deserving Of severe repre-
hension. Artistes should not consider Eniscr-
able failure on their part as q joke. Quite
number Of Misses mingled with the senselcss ap-
! plause which greeted the termination OF the
| number.
ABROAD.
Mr.. THOMAS OPENING CONCERT.
Mr.. Thomas gave the firstof mis- series Of New
| York concerts last Monday evening. The Trib-
| n,,e OF that city says:
Mr. Thomas inaugurated last night at Steinway
Hall what may properly be considered On expert
ment in undertaking to give eeries of concerts
summer nights concerts Of the old Central Park
Garden and the Symphony concerts. and It was in
every way successful. He calls these popular con
thoroughly good, yet SO light and easy OF compIeA
hension as to be entirely within the understanding
Of the least learned OF its hearers The orchestra,
sonne since we last heard it here, was in admira-
Bile condition, after the ten days Of hard work
hfa aaasa i has st s shF0asEh aascs x
advantage than last night. The same
precision OF attack, the same crispness and brill
ancy among the strings, The same glorious quali-
ty Of the brass which we have always been familiar
with in ths band, was there conspicuous, and they
inarkablc one It included in the frst part Beetho-
ven's .'Consecration Of the House. overture: .
fes'safs 1eSs. from m aaydns s CREATION % II By H.
Whitney; two movements from Heinrich nof-
manns q Frithjof - Symphony; chopin's .'Kra-
b. Nine. Schiller, and Wasncfs new Centennial
March. The Beethoven overture was played with
all the old.time excellence of this orchestra.
be BE voice are 4' SO familiar here sang
the Haydn aria superbly. The two move
the Chopin piece, was admirable; her technique
very pure, her touch delicate and thoroughly sym.
pathetic, while very brilliant. The Centennial
tFBallet Music and Wedding Procession from
''Feramors," Mendelssohns bright aria, I'm
the 1. music O Of don on Giovanni" and that Of
BY whitney, s., saens nanSs
played By Nine. Schiller, and Liszt's Rhapsodie
10. 2. Nothing more need be said than that tho
second part was as well done Is the hrst.
KELLOGG AGAIN IN TIE FIELD.
The Boston Advertiser Of the 4th says:
The Harvard Lyceum course of entertainments
for the winter opened most brilliantly in Union
Hall, Cambridgeport, last evening, and il as much
can be expected Of the remaining fourteen enter
tanments as that of last night realized, both the
Lyccum managers and the public will have reason
for the heartest congratulations at the success OF
the Lat pignts sntsrtanment was
and the Boston Philharmonic Club, and every seat
in the hall was occupied, the audience being Of
uniformly refined and intelligent character; The
programme was very choice one, Miss Kellogg
appearing in three selections, each one receiving
an encore, which was graciously granted. Her
':Tray1ata, y which gave anc opportunity for the
display Of the purity, Aexibiity, and brl!iancy OF
her tones. An encore was demanded with the
greatest enthusiasm, and was responded to with a
Simple English song. Her second selection was
Gounodls song, ''Oh, that We Two We're Maylng."
which was, Of course most feelingly rendered The
the ai'f prlma donnas sElI, and called forth even
louder .plaudits from her audience, which she
acknowledged by returning and singing "Annie
Laurie."
MUSICAL NOTES.
The physicians have forbidden Nine. Patti to
visit Russia this winter.
Pauline Lucca Is farcwelling through Ger
many. Her husband longs for quiet life, etc,
ana is to be accommodated.
Wagner purposes leaving Bayreuth to visit
Italy, and will, in the first instance, proceed to
Bologna, where his Rienzi II is to be played.
The death Of Mrs. Alfred Shaw, the celebrated
contra1to, once known as Miss Portans, is an
nouuced. She sang on the Covent Garden
stage with Miss Adelaide kcmble {A1rs. Sarto-
RUS.
Madame Adelina Patti has contributed, by her
singing at concerts, to the lfeboat at Dfcppe, Of
which she is the godmother, and N. Lebey, Of
Paris, the godfather.
It is said that the late George Sand has left
among her posthumons works an opera libretto,
entitled La Mare au Diable," and that AIne.
Pauline Vfardot-Garcia will set it to music
Mile. Waldmann, the admirable contralto, ap-
plauded at the Sale Ventaaour in the dmneris
Of Aida, j" was married in Italy On the 5th llt.
to Count di Ferrara. The lady retires from the
stage.
We have now the last act of the Bayrcuth fes~
tivities. The King Of Bavaria has created the
conductor, Hans Richter, Knights Of the Order
Of St. Michael; and Frau Materna has received
the medal for art and science.
Later In the season Mr.. Thomas intends to
give series OF four concerts, ut which he will
produce number OF selections from the stRing
of the Nibelungs." He has been working hard
at them this summer, and they will be given
with solos, full chorus, and orchestra
There are at present in Vienna, studying un-
der Heinrich Proch, two young ladies from Car
thage, Mo-, the Misses Colby and Frost, con-
corning whom come the most enthusiastic re-
ports. They are said to possess voices Of rare
power, sweetness, and feIibility, and to be most
dcyo3ed students.
The opera season which Mr.. Carlberg has pro-
JecLcu VIII commence III fNuaQelpnla NOV. D,
with Wagner's Flying Dutchman." The work
will be given in New York Jan. S, and atr. A.
Blum has been engaged for the part Of the
Dutchman. The company will travel until Feb
ruary through the principal cities.
Celina Monteland, who sang at the Grand
Opera-House, New York, in Fisk's time, having
increased SO much in size that for some time she
had to abandon the stage, employed Paris
physician, who promised to reduce her to mod
crate plumpness. His system embraced daily
shampooing, but she gained flesh under it In
stead Of getting slender, and refused to pay
him. A lawsuit brings out the facts.
4 cable dispatch from London, Oct. g. to the
New York Herald says: 'sThe first performance
in English Of any of Richard Wagner's operas
took place at the Lyce4m Theatre tonight, on
which occasion the 'Flying Dutchman :" was
given by the Carl Rosa Englfsh-Ope Company.
It met with the most enthusiastic reception ever
accordad tn Enniish in