Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-03
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

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Aimee is again bidding New York
farewell.
Pappenhsim has just given a farewell
concert to America Ia New York.
The emperor Of Brazil has been made
a member Of tbs Wagner Society.
The New York papers report Diplo.
macy winding up in q blaze Of glory.
Wagner's Lohengrin has lad a bril-.
liant success at the Apollo Theater,
Rome.
Kate Ciaxton aud her husband will
spend the summer in q yacht on the
coast Of Maine.
The Baltimore Gazette p%ronounces
Frapolli the best tenor we have had
since Campanini and Capoul."
The queen of Italy, who is passionate
~ fond Of music, recently sent for NJ.
Massenet 10 the Quirinal. and congratu-
lated him on his Roi de Lahore"
1t is rumored in New York that there
is to be q season of Italian opera, with a
distinguished prima donna as the leader
OF a brilliant company.
Some wretched vaudals, during thu
night Of Holy Thursday, wrencbed of the
four medallions on the tomb Of Mozart,
at the Saint Marx cemetery of Vienna.
New York Herald: Miss Mary Ander.
son will sail for Europe this week, to be
absent two or three monts, and on her
return will devote herself to dramatic
study. Her season has been very sue.
cessful."
At the Philadelphia Museum Charles
Thornton and Isabella Granger have ap.
peared in a new border drama, said to
be Of the Davy Crockett" order, called
Simon Kenton, or the Spirit of the
Kanawha."
1t is reported in New York musical
circles that S~trakosch has secured Miss
Cary for q five months season, with the
right to renew for two months more.
He will pay her $25Ol a month in gold,
or $500 a month more than she receives
this season.
Signor Facio has lately introduced
B%eethoven's Ninth Symphony to the
Milanese, who became positively enthu-
siastic. He is about TO present Verdi's
Requiem to the musie-lovers of Bologna.
The Academy of the latter city has lust
elected Madame Patti a member, a dis.
t%inction bestowed on no lyric artistic ex-
cept MalIbran.
Miss Fanny Davenport has concluded
al engagement with Messrs. Shook &
Palmer, of the Union Square theater,
and in August will present a play named
Olivia, now running in London. She
sails for Europe on the 9Th Of next
month, to confer with the author and
make the necessary arrangements con-
eerning costumes and scenery.
Mr.. Samuel Percy, who has achieved
much popularity by earnest and effective
acting while leading man at Niblo's
Theater, has been engaged by Mr.. Bald
win, OF San francisco, at a large in
crease of salary, to play the leading part
in Diplomacy during the season at that
city. Mr., Piercy will leave New York in
about a week, and his star engagement
will last about two months.
New York Tribune: "Mr. and Mrs. ].
c. Williamson have just ended their sea-
son-of thirty six weeks-in the United
States. They have filled three engage.
ments in New York, two in Boston, and
two in Philadelphia; and they have acted
in all the principal cities Of the South
and West, Their tour was directed by
Mr.. French. They acted The drama Of
Struck Oil 225 times. Mrs. Williamson
will spend this summer il San Francis.
co, with her mother. Mr.. Williamson
will sail for England on June 10, in the
Germanic. Next season Mr.. and Mrs.
Williamson purpose to resppear in an
improved version of Struck Oil, and in
a new drama by Joaquin Miller.
The critic of an Austin, Texas, paper
r%hapsodises thus over a recent operate
performance: doesn't Brignoli sing
~divinely2 There is a want OF fitness in
things when d great, strong man, with a
chest like a Mammoth Cave, can send
forth notes as soft, and sweet, and clear,
and full and round, and sweet as a hick.
DRY twig from which the scbool-boy has
slipped the bark to make an internal
whistle. How Susini thunders and roars
like Polyphemus, when his single eye
was chHoked out with a oharred and
burning BARRIERS polel And as Susini's
thunder r%everberates along the horizon
and shakes the spheres, so Brignoli, re.
tanning the vigor and freshness Of inn
marital youth, sends with the roaring
tempest, to Irvine about it like flashes OF
light about the tempest's wrath, q cur
rent Of delicious melody as rich and
melliauous as that to which young crea-
ton listened in rapt ecstaey when the
morning stars SANG together"