, 1877-01-21
ABROAD.
. TNEREAR1rT1

Mrs. Oates closed her St. Louis season res
terday, and will be in Cincinnati this Eeck
opening with 't La File de In,e. Angot. Eel
loge was in Philadelphia last week, but WIS IL
capacitatel from singing until Friday evening
BY sore throat This week she sings In Nea
York, opening Tuesday evening with "The Bo
hemian Girl" Soldene was in Louisville and
Memphis last week. Essipof was In St. Louis
last week. She plays this week in IndiahapoI,
on the 92d, and At Louisville on the 24tb, and
| will return to Chicago next week. Aimee
closed her New Orleans season yesterday. She
will be III Memphis three nights of this week,
and open at the Eagle Theatre, New York. next
week. The smith-Whltney party sang At Bat
talo On the 18th. 4 Juvenile English opets
! company is giving s. Crlspino'' at Hartfon,
Conn: The Barnabee Troupe sang in Spring
| field, Mass, last evening. The C.rman Military
Band is in Sacramento. The Swedish Lad1
| Quartettc sang in Providence last week. The
Mendelssohn Quintette Club has left Boston
for the West. Camilla Urso Is giring coneerts
in California.
MUSICAL NOTES. -.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. ltas done assJ
with its quartette choir.
Mile. Anna Mehlig has returned to England,
and played recently at the Crystal Palace. -
Tschaikowsky's new prize opera, "Valkul
the Smith, (" was given With success atSt Peters
burg on the 9Th inst. 81:
The Duke oi Coburg has conferred upon Sit
Julius Benedict the distinction Of Commander
OF the Second Class ofthe Saxe-Ernestfne Family
Order.
Franlcin Haupt, who took part last summer
in the Bayreuth performances, has married Hen
Unger (the Siegf1ed on the same ors.asiou). and
is retiring altogether from the stage.
AIr. J. +. Prime, of Boston. Is engaged on :
new work,-a "Spring Symphony, (which w
probably be produced By the Thomas Orchestra
at = CONCERT in the Sanders Theatre course, Ca1a~
bridge il.
The Monthly Nusieal Record, Of London, d
reefs attention to an appeal on behalf Of tToM
Haydn's grandchildren, known as the stssels
PO!ce!1f, who are in q state OF destituton ~
Buda-Pcst!l.
4 new Reu4e 4l4sicdk Is announced to be pip
lished at Cunstautinople, which Is to eontayas
especially. pieces composed by the anateols -.
the Turkish Empire. The work is ]ikely, VI
should think, to be musical curiosity.
The date Of the Inauguration Of the mond-
mcnt of Auber in Paris is definitely fixed toe
Jan. g, the anniversary Of the composers b'ta
Special representations will be given on thatdJ
both at the ODera and the Opera -comiaue'
Pablo de Sarasatt, the Spanish vtoln-p'a9er,
whose performances are exciting great sufpnse
and admiration In European cities, was mem.
Der Of the Carlotta Patti concert troupe IN la1
country four years ago. In Vienna be wsca1'eo
tut twenty times
The comic opera, ssDie Widerspanstise II ~
nung" {bosed on 3hakspeare's Flaming o. pug
,hrew ~, which has had great success u s9maj
hearres In Germany, has been produced u es
in, with Miss Minnie dauck in the CHIEF coalaG
er. The young composer, Hermann Gotz, OILY
lied few days since. !:
According to the Stciss T.u.es, Herr ". rap
vert has made collection Of ali "the io"f
ibe1ous, hateful, and insulting exprssssnan1
;hich have been printed about Master kicoah
Wagner, bis works, and followers, " ns
ncmfes and slanderers." This collection, u =:
he form OF a Wagner Lexicon will Shortly
e published By Fritzsch. OF Leipsic-
Richard Wagner, in conversation with q eor ::
espoudent OF the Philadelphia Telegraph 1s"
eeks ago, In reply to the suggestion tna1 ~ ns
ught to visit America, said: slam too old ~
mt The wife OF SalVini, the actor, reeentes
mt Wagner basket Of flowers consisting o. r.
ed Of white blossoms on which were latd ass: !:
nes Of score made By five blades Of gr1ss. ::
tth the treble key picked out in Violets. lns lns
70 opening bars OF the Rhine Daughters oonS ~:
ere marked on the lines BY pink blossoms. >,