The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-15

will sing aria from the ''Stabat Mater" Brgnolrs
"Marcho Tromphale Is likewise TO be played, II hav
ing become feature OF these evening concerts. The
band Is IN active practice Tor its European trip.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
Aptommas, tho harpst, Is at Richheld Springs.
There is music in tho air Of the Custom House.
s. b. Mills, the pianist. summers IN the Catskills
Carl Wolisohn, tho Chicago pianist is resting II
the East
.The Three Guardsmen" will be acted during the
week At Niblo's
Adena Patti is preparing for a DEBUT IN q new char
acter. Author and name unknown.
H. Gounod has ceded the right of representation IN
Italy OF his opera 'Cna Mars for tho Of 80 oo0t
Aronson's "Marchc TrIomphale" among the
pieces played By the band in Central Park yesterday.
Mme Clara Por tho coptraIto, has sailed Tor Europe
on OF recreation, and expects TO return homo
In October
Scribe, tho French dramatist, Is reported to have
made 8, 0ooOooL of his TRANSACTIONS and original
plays Doubtful.
Heller said TO have With great In Cali
forna notwithstanding the presence OF prestidg,satnl
predecessors
Mr.. Ricnard Arnold late solo violinst OF Thomas
orchestra, has gone TO tho Grand Onion Hotel, Sara
toga, for the season.
Tho century plant at the Aquarium has now nearly
four hundred blossoms, and one Of the great atrao-
tions in that museum OF wonders.
competition OF bell ringers to take place In Har-
lem. One OF the performers proposes 70 play some OF
Bach's fueues the church chimes.
'Poor 10" is in preparation at the Union Square
Theatre and Its first performance will be given on July
g. with Miss Mary Cary as the hero
Evangelne'' has met with great favor at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, and is just the right knd OF play
Tor midsummer nights entertainment
Miss Kate rhayer, young lady of old ana dis
tinguishcd theatrical family, will mako her FIRST APP
poarance at Gmores Garden this evening.
"Baby," the new threeact farce from the French,
will opon the preliminary al the Park to-mor.
night, 1t has had long run in Paris.
Mcssrs Julian Magnus and H. B. Bunner have
written play for Messrs. Shook & Palmer, which
will probably be drst produced in Chicago.
The great difficulty with foreign singers that they
cannot pronounce 'th.' They call brothers "brod-
ders" or "brozzers," and It hurts our feelings.
10 tho poor the open air concerts in Central and
Prospect Parks Oh Saturday afternoons what the
rich nay for during the winter months at 81 head
Amateur vocalists more frequently initiate the do
fects than the projections OF public professional sing
ers, until the length become chrome and
accepted IS correct.
There are three classes OF music-that which re-
qu,r several hearings order to be undersood that
which IS understood Immediately, and that which you
can guess beforehand.
Callenders Georgia Minstrels will present and
varied programme at Central Park Garden, and thu
evening will give sacred concert, assisted by the
Louisiana colored singers.
Ethelka Gerstor, the operate star in Europe,
announced at Her Mucsty's Theatre, London. ia
appear Amna At the theatre Theodore
Wachtei and Roktansky engaged.
London papers say that Mile. Chiomi has proved al
least things: that an English vocalist can really
house, even at the Italian Opera in London.
Tho Louisvillians went wild during the last week
over their three days. musical festival To them Is
was the greatest musical event their history. Pap.
penheim and Rcmmetz among the soloists
In the current number OF professional paper Ia
England there are more than dozen advertisements
Tor vocal sooiss churches and the average salar
is fl2, at the rate Of aboyt eghteenpenco
The SUCCESS OF "woodielgh," al wallack's, hasItn.
duced the management to continue 1t during the wee.
on Friday Mr. J. 3. Atwaer the leading actor OF Tho
company, will takc his benefit, appearing ''The
Stranger"
Miss Emma Abbott, Mr.. Oh. Frtsch, Mr.. j. N. Pat
tison Mr Charles Pratt and others will assist at the
opening by the Rev. II. Flattcry Of tho forty hours
devotion this morning at hall-past ten O'Clock ST.
Cecclas Church. 1O5th street and Second avenue Har
lem.
Carl Rosa left England on Juno II to take brtei
holiday in Italy He will return during the third week
OF July, and IN August he Will take again 10 tao road,
beginning at Dublin and Cork, and proceeding 10
Glasgow and other Scottish and some English towns
before he opens again in London next year
Addison says:-"rhe sounds OF our English words
commonly like those of strong music short and
transient that rise and perish upon single touch.
Those languages like the wind in
sruents sweet and swelling and Heightened out into
varieties OF modulaton
NJ. u. Conway says OF agner:--"This man has
transmitted entire religion poetry aud then set
it 10 music Aud It OF the greatest OF religions
what Nature ongravcd tue heart OF our own
Teutonic ancestors. II is all ,here--its thousand
phautasnal years, from the first covering cry OF the
Morse savage before the chariot OF his storm god to
the last gentle hymn tina; Freva under her new
name Of Mary"
General Bradley Johnson on the occasion OF
Mozart entertainment in Richmond, Va, on the 18th
inst, which rs described by local paper beyond
''the sxty-1r degree ol musical comparison pre-.
scented baton to Professor Ronhardt, accompanying
tho gilt with the following rosy rcmarks:-"Ths rod
Is not, OF the adjunct OF great orator. the
club OF Hercules wreathed 10 nowors, but 1t Is tho
wand OF the enchanter which evoke trcmors with
the melodies which have stirred the hearts OF in
all times. With II you can evoke from the ambient
chaub ers 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 trumpet march OF France which for eighty years
has marked the progress OF the world hat busle
which has recently reused Christians In the watch
on tho Rhinc'n Whewi
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