Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-15
MUSICAL NOTES.

1t is rumored that the opening
piece at Wallack's will be a comedy
adapted from the French.
Theodore Thomas will give q
series of concerts at Steinway Hall.
beginning the first weeA Of 0cto-
Der.
Mile Aimee will, after all, ppear
in New York this month. She will
make her rentree on the 25th inst,
probably in La Jolie Parfumeuse,
At the sale of tickets Tor tho
opening night of Mr.. Booths en-
gagement in San Francisco, 500
premium was the highestprice paid
for a box.
The New York World wants 10
have Wagaer's te~tralogy produced
in New York, and suggests Theo.
dore Thomas as a fit man to under.
take the work.
Mr.. Maurice Strakosch declares
that he is going to build an opera
house in San Francisco that will
cost 81, 200, 900, and a large concert
hall in Chicago.
The opera lie Timbre d'Argent,
the hbretto by Jules Barber, the
music by Camille Saidt-SaenS, will
be produced in Paris during the
next season at the Theater Lyrique.
The composer, Dessauer, who
/, died recently, possessed the rough
manuscript of "Don Juan" and
"Fidelia." He beqeathed the in
= teresting relics to the S%altzuourg
s Museum.
+. The story of Francesca da Re-
nina" is being used simultaneously
g for the opera form by three COM
posers: Goetz, a German; AMBROSE
e Thomas, u Frenchman, and Gag
y noni, an Italian.
Several Apache Indians attended
# Amiee's performance of Girole-
IS Giro6a, at st. Louis, Monday even
r ing. They took a deep interest in
re the capture of the heroine by pirates
-sympathizing with the pirates,
of course.
A grand musical festival was
given in Antwerp, August 10 to
Is, with a chorus of $50, and or
chestra of $50. The programme
embraces Beethoven's ninth SYM
phony. a cantata by Bach, and two
4, parts from La Guerre by Benoit.
ne Mr.. Carl Rosa's reportory for his
= opera troupe at the Lyceum Thea
ter during this and next month,
embraces Wagner's "Flying Dutch
lis man." a new opera written by Mr..
: F. II. Cowen, founded on Lord
Lyttleton's familiar "Lady Of Ly-
Is. ons;" Benedict's "Lily Of Kill
larney," NJ. Adams "Girsl6a,"
Isourd's "Joconde," and Beetho-
ven's 'Fidelio."
The Cincinnati Gazette says (;
ms Carl Beck's German Military nd,
81 at the Lookout House, is monopo-
LIKING the patronage of that large
Is. portion Of our music-loying COM
munity that visits the evening re-
sorts. The other night the Wagner
~. Centennial March was played for
a the second time. 1t is listened to
!, a with interest and patience, but can
ne not stir up any amount of enthu-
o. siasm.
on One Richard Wagner, a German
gn revolutionist, pitiful and Oblivious
refugee, ungrateful guest of the
Partisan pavement, gutter-haunter
oy of the purlieus of the opera, caco-
on phonous and cancelled tavorite Of
to our long-eared melomaniacs, has
r!iy for the last three days been per
10 forming a premeditated uproar, on
,rv fair-booth trestles, gilded ad hoe,
led near the little Bavarian town Of
DIS, Bayreuth. This Herve, devoid Of
ier his spirit, gayety and melody, this
ny ny stunning and icy ear-splitter, has,
ant without saying why, become the
at rampant enemy of France.-Ea.
ust muad About.
trSOo On Saturday, July Goth, a festi
re. val was given in the Alexandrl
he Palace, London, in honor of the
NC deceased Bale, the proceeds, which
the were considerable, being set apar.
for the founding Of a Balf