National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-26
MUSICAL NOTES.
Minnie Hauk has been singing in
Switzerland with great success

Minnie Hauk has been singing in
! Switzerland with great success.
1t is positively said that Colonel Ma
pleson has concluded a contract with Nine Nils
son TO come to this country next year.
With the concert at the Theatre Royal,
| Stuttgart, Miss Emma Thursby completed the
| ffty-two concerts Of the German tour for which
she was engaged By Maurice Strakosch.
| Theodore Thomas is said to have told a
lot of chorus singers the other day that they sang
like cows. 1t was a mean rebuke. Nobody ever
saw a COW that could sing worth cent.-EtmHa
| Free Press.
! Herr Nicholas Rubinstein, the younger
brother of the distinguished pianist and composer,
Anton Rubinstein. and himself pianist of great
ability, has just died He was director Of the
Moscow Conservative of music
Boston is to have next season. series of
weekly orchestral concerts at popular prices, I'M
der the direction of Mr.. Georg Henschel Mr..
Henry L. HigginsoR, we'll known Boston citizen
is the financial hacker of the project.
Among the names of those who COM
pose the orchestra at the May festival in New York
is that of Mr.. Rudolph Bal, the popular conductor
of the Metropolitan Hall concerts, who rendered
his services grautously out of love for the art of
which he is so enthusiastic yotary.
Wagners "Lohengrin" issteadily MAX
ing its way. 1t has recently been successful in
two cities, Naples and Madrid, where it had never
been performed before, and it had great triumph
at Nice few days ago. 1t is said that this latter
was the first performance of "Lohengrin" in
France.
Lovely as is the "Stabat Mater" we
often think Rossini sly old fox wrote it for joke
he had not as much religion about him as Inger-
soil (Bob of that ilk}-and when you come to con-
trast his work with the church music of Cheru-
bini, for example, you see the force of our obser-
yatiOns.-Nclg York Star.
1t seems to be all settled again about
Adelina PATHS coming to this country next sea-
son. but it will be safe to wait until she is really on
her way hilher. Patti is getting very extravagant
in her prices as she gets older, and it is rather
doubtful whether any manager will be willing to
assume so great pecuniary risk.
One of the most talked-about profess
sional beauties Just now is Miss Florence ST. JOHN
who is playing Olivette" at the Strand Theatre.
Her portraits everywhere, and she is the cyno-
sure of all eyes when she appears in Regent street
on the Row, attended often, by the by, by GER
tain noble duke, who, dit is responsible for her
costly toilets which add piquaney to her bewitch-
ing beauty.-L0RdoR Letter.
Colonel Mapleson told New York
Tribune reporter that he is thoroughly satisfied
with The results of his winters work. and that this
has been the best season he has ever had in Amer
lea, land" he added, lone of the best 1 have
ever had since have been in the business. We
have played in all the principal cities in this
country, and everywhere TO a satisfactory business
except in Indianapolis. Cincinnati, Boston, and
Philadelphia were the cities in which we did the
best"
A curious meeting of the three musi-
cal emperors takes place at Berlin next week. The
Able List is coming to conduct the performance
of his "Christus" by the German Cecilia Society
on April p, and on the Doth DR.. Won BulOw viii
give a List concert. Both viii remain in Berlin
for the production at the Victoria Theatre, under
Richard Wagners superintendent, of the "Nie-
belungen Ring" The Musk Vet draws a humor-
Gus picture of the aged List strOlling Inter den
Linden" with a son-in-law on each arm.
The recent tragedy at Nice was full of
intensely touching incidents, but none of them
exceeded the death of the three young Kennedys.
They were all singers of promises base, con-
traIto and sOprano-the Oldest of them and
twenty-and they had come from Edinburgh where
their father is a weIlknown singer, to study with
Lamperti. There was another brother with them
at Nice, who was not at the theatre. There was
also report that the fiancee of young Herbert
Reeves, the son of Sims Reeves was in the theatre
and was killed.