The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-27
MUSICAL NOTES.
Ferrants and Brignoli have left
the Saalfald CONCERT trOune.

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For some reason Cincinnati is not
to have Patti concert. She feels
disappointed and grieved.
Kitten, the pianist, has given
thirty-seven concerts, and has
played 493 pieces, in Australia.
Anton Rubinstein will conduct
the first performances of his opera,
Nero" at the National Theatre,
Pesth.
Nine. Marcella Sembrich is en-
gagged for the two next Italian sea-
sons IN st. Petersburg and Moscow
at $1,000 night.
On Aug. 1st nearly one hundred
and ten thousand persons visited
the Chrystal and Alexandria pal
aces, London.
Mr.. Max Maretzek continues his
concerts in Cincinnati. Anna Teresa
Berger's cornet solos are a feature
of the programmes.
Mr.. Brinley Richards is seriously
unwell. and has been ordered by his
medical advisers to give up for a
time all professional business.
Hayerly's black minstrelS ap-
peared at Her Magesty's Theatre,
London, on April 80. They did not
succeed as well as the "Mastodons."
An orchestra of twenty-four
trumpets. artistically directed by
Kosleck, is one Of the unique attrac-
tiOns of the Berlin Geological Gar
den.
Mr.. Henry Distin, the well-known
cornet maker, is now a member of
Crooks band, which plays every
Friday evening at the Battery Park,
New York.
Mr.. Pond has engaged Miss Kel-
lOgg for fifty concerts, and guaran-
tees to pay her $4,000 % per week
and her travelling expenses. She is
to sing four times in each week.
Claude Duval; or, Love and
Larceny" is the title Of a new opera
by the author and composer of
billie Taylor" 1t will have its first
representation in London on the
Both inst.
Milan with a population of $780,
900 has seventeen theatres and
various places of amusement; while
London, with almost 100000 of in
habitants, contains only twenty-five
theatres.
The library selected by Herr
Georg Henschel for the Boston
Symphony Orchestra contains 279
numbers, viz: SO symphonies, IS
overtures, II concerts and 126 mis-
cellaneous works.
1t is said that Anton Rubinstein
intends retiring from public life,
owing to the constantly increasing
trouble with his eyesight. He pur-
poses devoting himself in the future
to composition only.
A split has taken place in the
management of the, now famous
Richter concerts in London. Herr
Richter, as conductor, and Herr
FRANKIE, as first violin, will continue
to form the heads of one orchestra !;
and Herr Hate, as conductor, and,
probably, Herr Wilhelmj: as first
violin, will constitute the heads of
the other organization.
a distinguished young lady has
been singing in aristOcratic circles
in Madrid, rendering with pure
soprano voice the aria from Som
nambula," "Ah! non credea mi
rarti," and afterwards, at the caba-
letta, "Ahl non giunge," displaying
a fine baritone voice, eXecutsng the
music with a brio and spirit as if
it were her natural register.
The London Figaro says of a lis
ing American tenor, who has been
in Europe three years: We are
pleased to note the advancement of
the young American tenor, Signor
Rasini.4 His recent performance
at Spezia justifies US in predicting
for him an unusually brilliant
career. He combines a fine voice
with a good school of singing, and
is intelligent and natural in his act
ing"
Mr.. Fred. Godfrey has been seized
with a brain disease, and placed I'M
der confinement in an asylam. For
many years bandmaster of thesCold-
stream guards, and celebrated both
in London and the provinces, Mr..
Godfrey was probably one of the
best known military band and dance
conductors of the day. Some time
ago he suffered stroke of paraly-
sis, which has directly led to the
present attack.
Anton Rubinstein has presented
copy of his opera "The Demon"
to the baritone LasSalle, writing on
the first page these words: "a
demon has rendered a man happy.
This demon was Lassalle; the man,
the author Of the opera. In re-
membrence of such event, this man
has cOnsecrated an eternal rememb-
rance to that demon. A. Lassalle,
from Anton Rubinstein, London,
June so, 1881"
Sigpor Unthan, an armless violin
list, is the current rage at the opera
house in Florence, Italy. He plays
the violin and also the cornet bet
ween the acts Of the opera, and
draws a large audience. 1t appears
that one of the audiencn did not