The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-09
MUSICAL NOTES.
Talexy, the composer, is dead.

Moscow wants an Italian opera
company.
| Verdi is remodelling his Simon
Baccanegra."
Somebody Knowsl" is the latest
popular London concert song.
! Miss Eliza Weathersby's health is
improving. She is still in London.
Forty thousand operas have been
written since 1000. So says an Italian
author.
Hans Won Bulow has given a
List evening at Pesth. List was
present.
1t is asserted that America now
has over 400 artists of national
reputation.
The new comic opera "Mascotteo
is i'll preparation at the Gaiety The
atre, Boston.
Mile. Donadio is engaged for eight
nights in Rome, osing in "Dinorah"
and al Barbiere."
Brahms first symphony, &C minor
was somewhat coldly received at a
ANNSA4S LAAAoA NOhNC1Ns
The London Bach Society has
given a fine concert, conducted by
Herr Otto Goldschmidt.
The very latest comic opera by
Suppe, Der Gascogner," is nearly
ready for production in Vienna.
Rumor says that Emma Thursby
will come to this country next season
with large concert combination.
Sembrich has made a great success
in "Dinorah" at st. Petersburg,
where she has been re-engaged for
next season.
Mrs. Agnes Benton, New York, is
organizing troupe Of 800 children
for the production of the Operetta
of " Cinderella"
S. B. Mills requests The Courier
to say that he has not decided to
give a series of concerts in the great
cities of the west.
A music teacher once boosted that
he could speak six languages. but"
said a suburban critic, 'he cannot
cannot play the piano in any one of
them"
London music lovers are flOcking
to hear the new comic opera, LA
Belle Normande," adapted by Alfred
Maltby. The people like it but the
critics do not.
The Soldene Opera Company are
performing in California. They
have given "0liVette," "Chilperic,"
/" Billee Taylor" and the "ChimeS
of Normandy"
1t is said that James G. Bennett,
Of the New York Herald, has finally
closed with Johann Strauss for a
months concerts, paying him S22,-
600. A costly entertainment.
"Olivette'' is now running
smoothly and drawing large
audiences at the BijOu Opera House.
Selma Dolaro, Carleton and the two
PeakeS have become quite popular.
Vieuxtemps, the renowned viO-
linist, since he has been in Algiers,
has recovered from his nervous i'll
ness to that degree that he is able
to play on his instrument again and
compose a little.
Mr.. Carl Rosa will probably bring
his English opera company to the
United States next season. 1t in
cludes several Americans, among
them Misses Julia Gaylord, Of Bos-
ton, and Josephine Yorke, of Gin
clnnati.
Mr.. Sims Reeves gave his last
ballad concert in London on the Sth
of March, but it did not prove to be
a real farewell, for Immediately
afterwards he was announced 10
sing at an Irish ballad concert on
the following week.
"All-Pve-Eat" is the name of a
very amusing burleSque upon "Oli-
vette," given at the Gaiety Theatre,
Boston, during the week. Much of
the original music was sung. Mr..
Frank Howard sang the "serenade"
in the first act so well that it was
encored.
Constantin Steinberg, the cele-
brated pianist. August Wilhelmj and
Letella Louise Fritch are perform
ing at Baldwin's Theatre, San Fran
cisco. No doubt they will give US
a call on their way east. The Lin
CARDS play at the same theatre on
the alternate nights.
The newly-formed Boston Orches-
trail Society gave for its first pro-
gramme, Mozart's G minor SYM
phony, Beethoven's "Leonore" over
ture, a selection from Mendelsshon'S
music to Midsummer Nights
Dream" and the GdGgio from Rub
instein's Ocean Symphony"
Annie Cary told a correspondent
that in Pittsburg the secretary of
cremation society came to her and
wanted her to sing for the benefit of
its furnace fund, and actually had
the impudence to offer as in induce
ment to give her free cremation
whenever she should need it,
He drew his breath with gasp
ing sob, with quavering voice he
sang, but his voice leaked out and
could not drown the accompanies
clamorous bang. He lost his pitch
on the middle A, he faltered on
lower D, and fOundered at length
like a battered wreck adrift on the
wild, high Huntington Ha1Okeye.
Johannes Brahms has been play
ing at Bremen. To the programmes
of concerts given there he contri-
bUted two new OYertureS, one
Tragic" and the other an ''Academ-
ical Festival" The first was appre-
ciated only by connoisseurs, but the
second, containing divers students
song, was greeted with hearty and
unanimous applause.
The distribution of instruments
in the New York Festival Orchestra
is announced as follows: Eighty
violins, forty violas, thirty violon-
cellOs, twenty double bass viols.
six flutes, four oboes, two English
horns, four clarionets, eight bas-
soons, twelve horns, sixteen trum-
pets, sixteen trombOneS, four tubaS,
ten tympani, three harps.
The american Art Journal says:
Teachers in the California valleys
say that the vocal structure of young
California is incapable of successful
musical development, and some
who have taught for ten years say
they have never yet found native
Californian with a fine voice. There
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