National Republican., 1877-07-18
MUSICAL AND DRAMA TIC NOTES.

Amateur vocalists more frequently initiate
the defects than the perfectons OF public profes.
sional singers until the errors become chronic and
are accepted as correct.
There are three classes of music-that which
requires several hearings in order to be understood
that which Is understood Immediately, and that
which you can guess beforehand.
Ethelka Gerster, the new operatic star in
Europe, was announced at her MMsjestys M theatre,
Theodore wachtel and Rokitansky are engaged.
London papers say that Mile Chiomi has
proved at least two things that an English vocalist
can really act, and that native soprano Will at
tract fair house, even at the Italian opera in Lon
don.
The Louisvillians went wild during the last
week over their three days musical festival. To
them 1t was tho greatest musical event In their his
tory. Pappenheim and Remmetz were among the
soloists
In the current number of professional
paper In England there are more than dozen ad-
vertIsement for vocal soosts at churches, and the
average salary is fl2 or at the rate Of about egh
teenpence service.
Miss Emma Abbott, Mr. Oh. Fritsch, Mr.. J.
N Patlson Mr., Charles Pratt and others assisted at
the opening, BY the Rev. H. Flattery, Of the forty
hours devotion Sunday morning at 1880 O'Clock,
in St; Ccrclls's church, One Hnndred and ffth
Carl Ross left England on June 12 to take o
brief holiday In Italy, He will return during the
| third week In July, and in August he will take
/ again 10 tne ROAD, ~ DuDllH ana COrk,
and proceeding TO Glasgow and other Scottish and
some English towns before he opens again In Lon
don next year
Addison says: "The sounds of our English
words are commonly like those of strong music,
| short and transient that rise and perish upon a
| single touch. Those of other languages are like
| the notes of wind instruments, sweet and swelling
and heightened out into varieties Of modulation1
NJ D. Conway says of Wagner: "This man
has transmitted an entire religion to poetry and
then sot It to music And It Is one of the greatest
Of religons-what nature engraved on the heart OF
our own Teutonic ancestors 1t is all there-its
thousand phantasmal years, from the first cover
ing cry of the Morse savage before the chariot OF his
storm god 70 the last gentle hymn that rose 10
Freya under her new name OF Mary"
General Bradley johnson, on the occasion Of
a Mozart entertainment In Richmond, Va, on the
18th instant which Is described by local paper as
beyond the sixty-hrst degree of musical cOmpari
SON" presented baton to Prof Reinhardt, accom-.
panyng the gift with the following rosy remarks
"Thls rod Is not as was said Of the adjunct of q
howers but 1t Is the wand Of the enchanter which
can evoke trenors with the melodies which have
stirred the hearts Of men In all times. With II you
can evoke from the ambient chambers Of the air
the spirits which move all hearts that solemn
| anthem which following the sun has crcled the
earth with the martial airs Of England that trum.
pet march Of France which for eighty years has
marked tho progress Of the world that bugle nQto
which has 50 recently roAsed Christians In the
Watch on the RhinA" Whswl