The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-16
MUSICAL NOTES.
Mdme. Rubini is dead.

Inc Boston Music Hall organ is
said to be the greatest in the world.
An English-American company is
singing "PinafoTe" at Hong-KOng,
China.
The ground for the new Opera
House in New York will be broken
on May lst.
Miss Amy SherWin sang at the
Philharmonic concert given on the
I'd instant, at Boston.
'Olivette" is now being given by
a score of companies. 1t is becOm-
ing a second "Pinafore."
-Four thousand dollars is the price
paid for Faure's services at three
concerts given at Monte Carlo.
Dengremont partakes solely of
fish That diet will mack-a-rel good
viOlinist of him.-MuSicaL Record.
A young lady from Chicago,
named Emma Roenheld, has made
quite a success in opera in Santiago.
Master Harry Hamblin is winning
great praise for his singing and
acting in "Pinafore' and bells of
COrneyille."
There is a place of amusement in
San Francisco that furnishes 1.-The
Bells Of Bonneville" and a glass of
beer for 25c.
New York City is made melodious
at the present time with the rehears-
ing of monster chOruses to be sung
at the May Festival.
1t was Ferdinand Strakosch (and
not Maurice, who is in London)
who was injured at the burning of
the Nice Opera House.
Ludwig, King of Bavaria, has con-
tributed the sum of $4,000 to make
up the deficiency required to enable
Wagner to bring out "Parsifal."
Gustav Satter has been in Boston,
and some of the critics have said,
= His day is past" Did they mean
any allusiOn to Satterday.-The |
Score.
The citizens of Tecumseh, Neb.,
have signed a paper stating that |
they will not pay over soc. to wit |
ness any operate or dramatic enter
5ainment. Poor Tecumseh.
The man who took seat in the |
orchestra when his ticket was for
the second balcony, felt badly at |
having to change. In fact, he was
moved two tiers.-BOStOn Post.
Donna Juanita'" not "Inanita,"
as some of the papers have it, by |
Suppe, will have its first pTeSenta-
ton in this country at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, New York, May |
10th.
According to the Partisan, Patti
is still in full possession Of her mar
vellOus artistic qualities; the artists
who appear with her are, as was
he case last year, worse than
The reconstructed opera by Verdi,
entitled " SimOn BOccanegra,"
out last week, Thursday, at
Milan, was a great success. Verdi
vas called before the curtain
1wenty-three times!
"The Star-Spangled Banner" and
Yankee Doodle were played lately
" the bands at a celebration in
Va, for the first time in
public since the war. Both were
greeted with vOciferous cheers.
The new edition of Worcester's
contains 1000 additional
words. This increase was neces-
itated, says the Transcript, by the
train brought on the language by
TT critics and writers on music.
Recently Mrs. J. w. Mackay gave
ball i'll Paris and impaired a new
interest to the dances by engaging a
.roup of singers to sing the waltzes
o the instrumental music, which
vas furnished by the best band to
Ie obtained.
The Musical Record says: Mdme.
emily Soldene has made such fail
Ire in San Francisco that it is more
han likely that her opera bouffe
Ompany will be disbanded there.
wen the popular "Olivette" did not
eem to save the season.
Donadio, the prima donna, had a
ARROW escape from death at the
Vice calamity. She will be we'll
as a member of the
brought over by Max
,trakOSch some years ago, Albani
'eing in the same troupe.
The De Beauplan French Opera
of which Mdme. ANDRE is
he prinlG donna, has had quite a
uccessful season in New Orleans,
It. Louis and Chicago. The company
will begin a weeks engagement at
he Boston Theatre, May 9th.
The voice is OF all instruments the
most difficult one to study, and to
)ring perfectly under control. No
wo voices are exactly alike. A
lifting position is a very bad one
n which to practise. All singing
hould be done in standing po-
itiOn.
Mr.. Julius Eichberg's charming
.omic opera, 1.-THE Doctor of Alcan-
ara" is to be given at New Bedford,
Mass. We are glad to see this opera |
coming into such, general favor
the country. 1t should,
md probably will, become as popu-
ar as "Pinafore," "Olivette," Doc
,accio," "Fatinitza," and the other
light musical works. = Musical
Record.
Camille Saint-Saens declines to |
to the Renaissance Mu-
,icdle, a French organ of the music
If the future" and especially favor
lble to Wagner. He says: Il shall |
pc as much as you please for Wag- |
ler against Brahms, and for Wag-
her against Verdi, but-for Germany
against France, NeverP' a German |
replies that Wagner has troubled
.he Germans long enough, and that |
France, as a matter of justice,
should take her share.
A correspondent of the Musical
Record says: "How few people
know that Miss Kellogg came within
an ace of falling victim to the Nice
Opera House tragedy. She has been
at that city for some weeks and
goes to the opera every night that
there is a change of bill. That it
was her intention to go that night l
have not the slightest doubt.
she is very slow in getting
ready to 60 anywhere, and her slow
ness on this occasion probably saved
her life"
Manager Maurice Grau is de-
lighted with his success in Cuba and