The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-29
MUSIGAL NOTES.
Wilhelm is in Melbourne.

| son, the cOSO OI WulCH VIII 10 dDOu'
$4,000.
DIR. Arthur Sullivan has gone on
cruise with the Duke of Edin'
burgh to Russia.
Herr Rlchter's concerts in London
have called forth the highest enco-
miums from critics.
Miss Minnie Hanks Carmen" has
been one of the greatest successes
of the London season.
The Chicago Saengerfest proved a
disastrous financial failure, a loss of
nearly $4,000 having been sus-
tanned.
Rafael Joseffy, the well known
pianist, is likely to give two con-
certs in this city some time during
this coming fall.
Colonel Mapleson, after pro-
vincial season Of opera In England,
will sail for the United States on
the 9th of September.
Two Stradivarius violins, dated
1714 and 1870, were sold at the Hotel
DrouOt, Paris, last week, for 1900
frs. and 1850 frs. respectively.
It is said that Mdme. Marie Roses
American contracts will be can
celTed, her engagements in England
keeping her there till next spring.
Louis Mas has been chosen coE-
ductOr of the Boston PHILHARMONIC
Society. Mr., Mas is a graduate of
Leipsic, and a thorough musician.
ANY professional or amateur COM
pany who desires to perform the
comic opera of Patience" is at
liberty to do SO. So says an author
ity.
The management of the Imperial
Opera House, Vienna, and the Thea
tire ROYAL, Munich, forbid artists to
receive calls during the progress OF
the piece.
The price Of tuition at the Leipsic
Conservatory is 100 thalerS per year,
equal to $50 in our currency; and
the charges at Stuttgart about eight
thalers less.
David Pepper, the violincellist,
has been honored by the presence of
the royal family at two concerts
given recently at Copenhagen. He
also played at court, and the King
has decorated him with the order of
the DansbrOg.
Nh. Mapleson will withdraw from
the management of Italian opera in
London and devote himself eXclu-
sively to giving operas in the Uni
ted States. It is concluded that
London cannot support two Italian
opera-hOuSes during the same sea-
son, hence Mr.. Mapleson leaves the
field to the Brothers eye, of Covent
Garden.
Richard Grant White is writing a
History Of Music in America" for
Magazine. We under
stand it is to comprise sketches Of
the famous singers and instru-
and the time of their ap-
pearance in America, reception,
ability, etc. His first installment
will consist Of history of opera in
America.
Manager Samuel Colville says:
IF light opera could be given here
with the perfection Of detail it re-
ceives abroad, I think it would sue
coed much better than it does. l
saw La Mascotte' abroad, and the
American performances of it bear
no comparison, although l will say
that we have artists who are fully
competent Yocally."
Miss Eulalia Risley, of Houston,
Texas, pupil of Nine. Marchesi, who
in concert, for the first
time, in Vienna, recently, has been
engaged by Mr.. Maurice Strakosch
for five years. She is said to pos
sess a cOntraltO voice of great rich
ness and beauty of timbre, with a
extending over two Octaves
and a half from the lower G.
We respectfully suggest, says the
Home Journal, that Count GeZa
Lichy, the one-armed piano-forte
virtuoso, and Baroness Alphonse
Weiss, the recently discovered one
armed artistic, strike up partner
ship, and as one has a wonderful
left and the other wonderful right
hand, they would constitute very
whole.
Mr.. Carl Rosa has arranged for a
grand season of English opera at
Her Majesty's Theatre, London, be-
ginning January 14th, 1882, during
which the principal novelties will
be an English version of "Tann-
hauSer," by Mr.. J. p. Jackson; Mr..
Villier Stanford's yelled Prophet" "
and new version Of Pauline" Mr..
Carl Rosa is also in negotiation for
an English version Of Signor Boito's
"Me6stofele."
Adelina Patti says: 81 wish to
visit the home of my youth while
my voice is still at its best, and l
would not like the Americans to
say, Patti has come merely to get
money. ," She contradietS the
statement that she would demand
such extravagant prices as twenty
dollars seat, and says that the
matter of the price Of seats is left
entirely with her own manager. Her
stay IN America viii not exceed four
during which time she eX-
poets to give about thirty concerts.
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