The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-17


w!IbelmI Is playing with much success
+! 10 Australia.
carIosta Patti and Der husband, De
Munck. the yioionceIlIst, have been giving
concerts IN Palermo.
Nine. Marie Roze will remain In England
next winter, singing In oratorios ana con-
Frsuleln Marie Krebs is now taking the
cure AZ the Elster Baths, In Saxony.
Mfr. John stetson will begin his term OF
,nanapement of Booths Theatre August
9otb. with the play OF "Michel Strogon."
Mr.. Fred. Godfrey, the famous band
master OF the Cold Stream GUARDS nas pc
come insane, and has been placed IN an
asylum.
An opera by Lescbefisky, the HUSBAND OIL
Madame Essipcff, Is TO be produced in
Vienna In November. 1t Is entitled DE
Ersta Falte."
NJ. Coquelin will appear at the Lonoon
GaIety Theatre, next year, with DINER mem
bers OF the Coincide FRANCHISE.
movement is on foot in Galveston,
Tex,s 10 bring Theodore Thomas and bis
orchestra 10 that city for series oil SIX con-
certs.
New Broomsn is the title OF new
comedy by Mr.. II. j. Byren, lately pro-
dnced at Dublin, with Mr.. Edward Terry
| in leading part. II is reported SUCCESSFUL
The Windsor Theatre, New York, will be
opeped for the new season tonight, WIN
Mr. BARLEY CampbelPs play OF "The Cal
lev SIaye,v Miss Maude Granger and Miss
| Gnssie De Forrest personatDg the opposing
female characters.
Annie Louise Cary has retired from the
stage permauently. Annie is one OF the
verv few women TO leave the stage in the
zenith OF her fame and the prime OF young
life. and TO be regretted by the public.
There are no supelf luous lags about her.
"When " The Messiah Is given in Gin
cinnau next Christmas, Theodore Thomas
will take on a full band from New York for
the accompanimenls, the local orchestra
being, apparently, inefficient. Thomas VIII
also give two symphony concerts, in addl-
ton TO the performance OF Handlers ora
toriO.
The Leipsic Gewandhsus will celebrate
double anniversary this year-that oil the
foundation in 1881 Of the Thomas Schule,
TO which the long prominence OF Lelpslc
as musical centre is mainly due; ana that
of the erection OF the present concert nall
the first concert in which took place on
| November DIST, 1881, under the direction Oh
Adam Hitler. A certain VOigt has recently
beuueatbed {, 900 marks TO the GeWandhaus
Concerts Society, os the condition OF their
giving every year, or at least every TWO
years, model performance OF Beeth0Yen's
Choral Symphony.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has concluded
an arrangement with Pond g. Bachert Tor
the coming season. She will give series
OF concerts commencing September 10Th, IN
Chicago, supported by company whlco, II
il said. will be OF high order Oi excellence.
Miss Kellogg will sing four times week.
saws Major Pond, and receive $500 concert.
The contract was signed In this city on
Friday. Miss Kellogg announces her IN
tention to be to sing in st. Paul, Minnesota
and a number OF cities in Iowa ana the
| Missouri country In which she has not yet
appeared.
A congress OF musicians, assembled IN
connection with the Milan Exhibition, mas
recently concluded its lobors, and makes
some very excellent suggestions, embodied
| in The following resolutions: Adoption III
orchestras OF contrabasses withfour strings,
preserving, however, a certain number OF
contrabasses with three strings. Obligation
on students OF the horn 10 practice on the
natural horn-i. e., without plstons. Oo-
locations on pupIs for the trumpet 10 study
on the E fat trumpet. They to be strictly
forbidden 10 replace this trumpet in orches-
| tras by cornets-a.pi,tons. Adoption Of
| trGmboues OF various types. Adoption OF
the French diapasOn. The Italians do not
seem TO have set much value on the recon-
mendatious Of the congress, for the Roman
municipality has recently issued orders Tor
the public schools 10 use diapason IN
| which Also. In the French pitch, A
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