The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-07
MUSICAL NOTES.

opera.
LOttie Guy, the whisfling soloi
IS in Ohio.
.Vieuxtemps is talking of an al
erican tour.
"OliYette" continues its successf
run at the Novelty Theatre, Bosto
= Berloize during his lifetime W;
never appreciated in his own cou
= try.
The latest precocity is Frank Wi
> mark, five-year-old American DO
who reads music at sight.
The new comic opera 9Th
Mascot" is attracting large and a
lighted audiences 10 the Gaiet
Theatre, Boston.
Miss Emma Thursby has finishe
!, the series of fifty-two concerts 70
which she had been engaged by Nj
Maurice Strakosch.
Clara Schumann and Joachim ar
appearing together at Londol
Popular Concerts" Truly, a CRANE
treat to London cOncert=goers.
The performances, at reduced
prices, of classical operas have
tproyed even financially a success al
the Imperial Opera House, Vienna
The orchestra of an Italian opera
company, who recently gave sue
cessful performances in Hong Kong,
consisted of piano, violin and har-
mOnium.
AdeliHa Patti was we'll nigh
smOthered with bouquets on the
evening of performance in LA Ira
viata," terminating her engagement
at Monte Carlo.
Operas, however pleasing music
ally, and however funny, must be
clean in dialogue and costumed
mOdestly, in order to be accepted by
the Boston public.
List has been longer before the
public than any other prominent ar
list now living. He made his debut
at 0derburg sixty years ago, and
still appears professionally at inter
walls.
Scarcely any of the really popular
artists of the day are Italians. Chris
tine Nilsson is a SWede; Adelina
Patti, Albani, Van Zandt, Kellogg
and Cary are Americans; Gerster is
a Hungarian.
The social and professional circles
of Boston deeply regret the loss of
the young and talented tenor, Mr..
w. c. Tower. The musical profess
sion was very largely represented
at the funeral.
1t is said that the Ideal Opera |
Company is to appear in 0ffenbach's
La Grande DucheSSe," La Belle |
Helene" and several other opera
bouffe works, next season, owing to
their success in "OHYette.'
It is rumored in Boston that sew
eral wealthy and public-spirited
citizens contemplate building an
opera house, where Italian, German,
French and English opera will be
given for at least four months in the
year.
The Oxford, London, students
have formed an "0liYette" Club.
One of the conditions of member
ship is that one shall visit London
at least once a month to see the
opera of "0livette" performed,
while it is played there.
Ernst Schilling, a lad barely
years old, has recently been giving
piano performances IN Philadelphia
which have created quite a Sensa-
ton. 1t is said that he possesses
great natural talent, and is certain
to achieve a brilliant future.
THERE'S evidently a growing taste
for the old popular ballads making
itself manifested by lovers of music
in this country, judging by the well
pGtroniZed ballad concerts that have
been given during the past season
in New York and other large cities.
There is a great desire on the part |
of the public of Boston to listen to |
the singing of Master w. H. Lee,
formerly the wonderful "boy So
pranO,) now that his voice has de-
YelOped into a pure and beautiful
tenor. He is quietly pursuing his
studies.
NJ. T0urnie, the principal tenor
of the De Beauplan Grand Opera
Company, now performing in this
country, has sung with Adelina
Patti, Christine Nilsson, NJ. Faure
and others among the great operatic
lights, and is considered the equal
Of Campanini.
Jerome Hopkins does not like the
slippery do" to make musical
bread of. Like Theodore Thomas,
he prefers the positive "do." He
thinks that on this subject Mr..
Thomas happened to stumble upon
Just the only sensible remark to be
found in his late screed upon
Music in ScribneT'S Magazine"
Edward a. Mcdowell, a young
New Yorker not yet 20 years of age,
after playing in concert in Darn
stadt, has been elected professor of
the pianOfOrte in the Conservatory
of that place. Mr.. Mcdowell is a
pupil of Carl Heyman, and the Ger
man papers already praise his Eek
traOrdinary individuality and ad-
vanced technique"
The public will not let Mdme.
Anna Bishop rest from her labOrs.
When she came to the United States
last year, many of her old admirers
prevailed upon her to sing at "just
one concert" Her success was so
pronounced that she has since been
over-run with applications to sing
at concerts, and has again yielded to
the solicitations of friends. She is
announced to sing this week at the
Boston Music Hall-her first APP
pearance in Boston for eighteen
years.
On the Saturday that Mdme.
Adelina Patti opened IN LA Som
nambula," at the Theatre DIES Ma
tions, Paris, above 100000 were
booked for the sixteen perform
ances. The house was crowded in
every part, among the distinguished
visitors being the president of the
republic, with Mdme. and Mile.
Grevy, the Rothschilds. the Due de
Bojano, Baron and Baroness En-
LANCER, NJ. and Mdme. Jules Ferry,
the Countess Roumanoff, and a host
of others. Mdme. Patti, who sang
magnifcently, had an enthusiastic
reception.
The impression that there is a
vast amount of musical taste exist
ing in this city is a great mistake.
People love the opera because it is
fashionable to attend. 1t is show
both as regards the performance