New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-06

In the first act he was mutfed up in troubadOurs
cloak, and funne-shaped boots which reached TO
scavenger. Besides, he had not been willing to
sacrifice to the demand of the sage magnificent
pair of whiskers. We are going to have in few
days II Trovatore," Madam B. singing Azucena.
have known people less crazy who were sent to the
IL adhOuse.
He passes few criticisms upon other artists, and
when he does speak of others it IS generally in cor
dial terms The following sketch of the personnel
OF concert company is free and amusing, but en-
tirely good-natured. The date is 1868:
We are in town. My company consists of Made
Carlo Patti Vonst f Behena nfgno am
myself. Also Max Strakosch agent and inpressario:
Ashforth, tuner, to whom Is intrusted the duty of
overlooklng the packing and unpacking of my
pianos. Marie. lady's maid 10 Mademoisele Cor
der; Emile, BrignOlis valet and Firrnin, my con-
hdential servant, valet. majordomO, secretary, and
| factotum, who has been for many years my Alter
| ego" and who tyrannzes over me with that good
natured familiarity which all servants think they
have right to exercise over those whom they have
for many years willingly taken care OF for their
| master.
| Such is the list of names of our "Concert
troupe" now come to the members OF IT, Made
Cordr has not P6stty 6t she is FeGh
appear TO belong to her countrywomen. She has a
flexible voice, which she uses with much art. She
was educated at the Conservatoire de Paris, where
| she took the first prize. An excellent musician
rar@ ars she can read what she sings, and does not
singers, of not learning until after having been
taught, like canary bird on the bird organ, for
L ~
tai German, who paints flowers, is alwars asleep, is
very ugly ana processes an absolute aversion for
| the duties OF the toilet.
Brignoh Is. as you talready know one of the most
seductive tenors that can be imagined His voice,
winch reminds mn me OF Names has marvellous
reads Remains Life of Jesus" and is enraptured by
the beauties Of his style Behrens is Young
good musician, and has good heart. He has two
weaknesses twbO has them not ~ The first have
TO tell yon, is to make puns. He is constantly
thinking this notebook and pencil in hand during
The concert, in the carriage, morning evening and
after dinner how he may diStort word to make
pun on it. His second is being fervent disciple
of Brillat-savarin. Behrens in every little place,
finds means to have decacics prepared for him
self. We have made him superintendent of provi-
SONS, ana he overlooks the getting up of meals
phiegmatc American, looks after the pianos with
the same love that an English coachman looks after
his horses. He is the best tuner know.
Strak osch, my agent impressario and friend. a
me Fellow, Is active as he alone can be- Dcvivo,
second agent is Neapolitan, has excellent
young Englshman, third agent, with a very
large nose good fellow. worker, poor but
agent.
We blessing to hotel proprietors, whose
purses we i'll, and tor whom we are also an excel
lent advertisement the newspapers never fail to
mention the hotel where put up
GOttschalk was easily impressed by his audiences
and studied them with amusing particularly.
He declared that he could tell by their demeanor
whether there was professor in town hostile or
Music, Masoa's Musical HorId or The Home Journal
had the most subscribers there. But although au.
diences were strangely capricious their composition
was always substantially the same. He begins to
| enumecate the constituent elements:
First, the young girls from the boarding-school
may be permitted to confess that it is the most
interesting element of the audience and that upon
which my attention most willingly rests. Last
Hope" and t "Pastorei% the lrst doubtless
thanks to the small talk between the malicious and
awkward young girl, and the amorous chevalier,
have generally the privilege of awakening in an
talon on the lett or right wing.
Next he remarks the local Beethoven who is
not celebrated, and whose immaculate and delicate
taste cannot be pleased with the plain water-gru
served up to the barbarous vulgar" Then he
wanders of TO other things and forgets to finish his
analysis. 1t was the young girls, he says who
filled the first place Sometimes they put him out.
AT Hartford, he writes: Kind audience. Faces to
make one play false notes i'll the front row."
AtRoehester have seen some of the most charming
types of women that have ever crossed the dreams
of an old bachelor! Outside of nv exceptional
position of pianist and old bachelor this is the ele-
ment which dread the most in nv concerts-it
gives Inc absence of mind and wrong note il very
quickly struck Suppose / have to make lean to
reach a black Key at the extremity of nv key
close to tho Tarpelan; my finger. not well assured
because my eyes are my audience and my spirit
trayerses the field slips, and from the Capitoline
summlt-D sharp, for eXampe-is ANONYMOUSLY
precipitated into the Tarpcan depths of natural
to my eonsternaton and to the JOY of the pianist
never be equalled but by their bad will in discover
ing accomplishments
AT Bethlehem, Pennsylvania his concert was at
tended by :" two hundred and odd pretty yonng
girls belonging to a seminary, and afterward there
was dance ut the hotel in which these7 damsels
participated till late hour. When he went away.
The professor of the place and some young people
escorted us to the station. The whole seminary is
at the windows; there Is nothing to be seen but
waving handkerchiefs; we descend the hill the
young ladies ascend to the upper stories the1lormer
windows are soon invaded. The road makes a
turn; again last look cast behind. | perceive a
very small white point which waves above the ton
OF the roofs. Iwave my handkerchief in answer to
this unknown little friend lnay God bless hcrl; no
more-nOthing more
Gottschalb's theory that audiences are subston-
italy alike, or 10 his phrase that there is only
one public is not quite in harmony with the scorn
and wrath which he pours out upon certain places
where his entertainments prospcred:
Reached Paterson by rail in one hour Ny tuner
goes To the m1Sc-seller who dspOscs Of nv tickets
He has sold nine tickets New-Jersey is the poor
est place to give concerts in the whole world except
enaes to- g1e ere as rs se mSe on a1 a my
tanned at different epOchs that have given con.
certs there re-, Eiizabeth eighty persons Orange, no
visited it, in 1856 with Madame Bostwick gave a
result Of $i5 gross receipts, expenses $40, profit s.
TO divide among the artists had the mprudence
months ago Result, $40 gross receipts; audience
icy, the premises going to wreck. could not even
succeed in making Them applaud me. The only
manifestation that l obtained was u blast of a
whistle which faeetous rrentonlan lanced at me
after Murmnrcs Eoens." After the concert a
gentleman came to ask me if stow effets Eolens"
in my piano. New-Jersey is incurable. Concerts
will never tax there. Harry Sanderson himself
also tried chance at New Brunswick take notice
that it is the most liberal place of ali in New
Jersey for concertsl, gross receipts, first concert
sly, second concert Sl2. 1 must nevertheless
state that the negro minstrel REPRESENTATIONS
always draw the crowd