The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-26
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

ter.
The brothers Thorn are engaged to give series Of
concerts In Berlin
The Iiaiian operate season at ST. Petersburg ter.
minated the 18th February.
Herr Niemann Will be al Lcipsic and Cologne In
April and al Hamburg in May
Louise ~ Pomeroy appears juliet At the Kiralsy's
Theatre. Philadelphia, this week.
Ghhka's ''Lie Tor the Czar'' will probably be pro-
duced al the Paris Theatre ltalicn.
Herr Glasenapp threatens to publish second volume
of his biography OF Richard Wagner.
The plot OF sarria's new opera ia Campana DELI
Eremitagsio" has been taken from "Lcs Dragons dc
v.ars y
The first performance Of Iobert schumann's Seen
oveva" AT tho Royal Opera House, Berlin, takes
place March IS.
Miss Rose Eytingc closed her engagement In Port.
land, Me-. ON Saturday night Miss Fanny Marsh will
play this week.
Nineteen thousand francs have been subscribed up
to the present toward the erection Of monumen, 10
Feicien David
DR.. Moscntha has bcqueathed TO the Society OF the
Friends of Music, Vienna, ali his authors rights in bis
opera nbrcttos
". Alfred Jacl, accompanied by the Paul Martin
Quartet Party, has been giving concerts at CALAIS,
Lille and Dunkirk.
Lemons has met with extraordinary success at the
Chestnut Street Theatre Philadelphia. II is stlll on
the bills and no change Is announced
The Brussels Musical Conservatory has adopted
with success the plan OF giving performances with
compositions written by the students themselves.
John Mccullough has just flushed n weeks engage
mcnt at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia He
vii! be succeeded by the Oates English Compic Opera
Company.
signor Gardini has led his Italian opera company TO
has ,d rl
opened his season at Kroli's Theatre with Lucia d.
Lammermoor'
A new threcact comic opera, LA Courte Echelle I"
words by NJ. Rounat music by N. Membrec, Is In re-
hcarsA at the Theatre Lyrqra The cast includes
Allies zna Da,i, Parent; NM. Ense, Lcpers, Grivo.
Labat and Soto
The practice Of entire companies travelling about Is
now beginning to dnd favor In Germany we'll as
elsewhere. During the month OF May tho operate
company from the Stadtheater, Hamburg, viii per-
form at the Stadttheater, Brcslau.
The following operas are announced for performance
at the Teatro del Fondo between aud tho end OF
May :-Pacni's '.Sa!Io" verdis "Lu.sa Miller" Mcr.
cadantc's ELIZA Claudio" Bellini's ~ Purani I"
Petrellas work "Dana, la ata die Pozzuol,,' ~
and Sarra's fla Campana doll Eremitaggio"
H. Gounod is asserted to be somewhat supers,iti ous
and to attribute cabastic significance to certain
1gures 1t is reported that this popularity has greatly
influenced him In the terms agreed on by him and NJ.
Grus for tho publication OF 'Cnq Mars" According
these terms he is to receive 66666L after the FIRST
| and SO. 1884, after the hundredth representation
| Mr. John $. Clarke will tho control OF
tho Haymarket Theatre, London. where Mr. Joseph
Jefferson has agreed TO appear in "A Regular Fix II
is Improbable that both OF these dlsting uishod
American actors will play together in comedy, and
thus in tho meridian Of their powers the dra
| >r
| The combination will be as rare as brilliant
| Sothern's new play. "Thc Hornets Nest, In Three
| Buzzcs and Singer" written for him BY IL J.
Byron continues to DO we'll received at the Arct
! Street Theatre, Philadelphia, whore II was brough
last week for the first time in the Eastern States
Sothern plays the part Of Sydney Spoonbill n ricl
noodle who ultimately turns out to be not
rs nc looks when o designing widow, q swindng spec
and other parasites cndcavor to play upon him
The piece is farcical comedy, with amusing pio
and rather bright and crisp dialogue.
c. W. Couldock, the well known actor has had
translation made of French military DRAMA writte
for the great French comedian, Frederic Lcma,tre
and played by him for two with great success
Mr. Couldock calls his English version Tho Sacrc
Trust; or, The Orphans Of the Battle Fold" II
assumes Lcmaitre's part OF Corporal Antoine faith
full old soldier, whose fortunes and misiortunes III
piece represents in a very thrilling and me odramatl
manner. The play was produced for the first tim
last week at the Museum, in Philadelphia, and ha
been very we'll received.
The death OF Garrick, Or. johnson sad s'eclipse
| tho gayety OF natures" That OF Charles Matthew
would have thrown gloom over the stage, and ever
one will rejoice to know that the report OF his scrou
illness is unfounded. If mis- obituary had to be writ
ten It would be the biography OF very brilliant an
popular actor and the record OF bright and bus
career For a half century he has been before th
world and his two visits TO- America have made hi
name as celebrated to our public as It Is In England
Tho reports Of his illness were exaggerated, and h
answered them efectually by appearing on the stag
on Saturday night
The following Is a list OF the dramatic and musca
companies now travelling through tho country :
Kelly 4 Leon Mnstrels, Buffalo, N. Y; Joscp
Murphy, "Kerry Cow" Mwaukee, Wis.,: job
THOMPSON, "world on Wheels" Louisville, Ky. job
T. Raymond, Colonel Sccrs;" Frank f. Aiken
.sMaud Miller" Boston, Mass. Lewis Morrison, 'Tor
| Cobb, - Providence, n. l. George +. Rowe, "Brass
Richmond, Va Dion BoucicauIt ''Shaughraun,
Chicago H. W. J. Fleming, 'Custcr and His Avengers
New Haven, Conn William Carleton. ''Two Found
lngs." Jersey City, N j.; J. II. Mcvickcr Edwr
Booth, Springfield, Mass; Jarrett & Palmer, 'Dan
Drucc," Hartford, Conn.,; jarrett 4 Palmer, .Fn
Avenue" Philadelphia; W. r. Deutsch w. Florence
an ghty Dolar,' Boston, Mass. IL. j. Sargent (Bouc
cauU, "Forbiddcn Fruit" Buffalo, n. Y. wmaI
Carleton, 1.-The Catalpa Six, Jersey City.
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