, 1881-08-21
MUSIC.
The Close of the Summer.
Might Concerts.
Summary OF the Musical Season
of l88O-'8t.
The Emma Abbott Opera Troupe
and Its Next Season. =
Concert and Opera News at Home
and, Abroad.

| NoACCit 4Au opera NEWS at Homo
and, Abroad.
The series Of summcr-,liglt concerts AT
the Exposition Building has closed. They
commenced July II, and have numbered
forty-two in all, divided as follows: Five
COMPOSERS nights (Beethoyen, AIendelssohn,
Mozart, Wagner, and Scllubert), five SYM
| phony nights, five request nights, and
twenty-seycn which may be classesl rs popu-
lar nights. The programs have been strictly
orchestral, with one exception, when Mr..
Boscovitz and his pupil performed AIozart's
+ tlat concerto, with orchestra.
An analysis Of the programs shows a splen.
did array Of music. Some complaint has
been made Of the repetitions. In reply to
this it must be considered TINT the
orchestra was organized for the occa-
sion, aud that thirty Of the fifty men
had never played before with Thomas
except in 4 few individual cases. To
have made every program completely fresh
one would have required al1-day rehearsals
during the entire forty-two concerts. This
would be more than any human conductor
could endure. Even suppose that he could
have accomplished it, what condition would
lis men have been in at night? just how
much there is to this charge mar be seen
when it is considered that the forty-two pro-
grains represent nearly 500 numbers, and that
he has repeated ninety-eight of them.
Among the familiar works which he las per-
formed are Nassenet's "Scenes Neapoli-
taines -; Saint-SaCns' ''Danse 31acabrc" and
"Phaeton"; Berlioz's ''Damnatlon Of FAUST
selections; Liszt's "Preludes," Second and
Sixth Rllapsodics; Schubert's "Rosa1nunde,"
selections: AIehde1ssolln's mid summer
Nights Dream" music and the "I:uy
Blas'' and ''Calm Sea- of his concert
overtures; Bacll's aria, prelude, ct,orale. and
fusue and Third Suite; Beethoven ScDter,
dante, op. Ii; Dyorak's .siavonie @ II RI,ap sa
sotty"; liotflnann's Hungarian Sulte'';
the Mozart concerto in E fiat; and Bizet's
@'L'ArleSieEne Suite"
The programs have been rich in sylnpho-
nies and symphonic fragments, Including
Scltubert's Unfinished and Ninth; Alendels-
sohn's .':.Italian'': Schumann.s Fourth;
and Seventh: the 'sJnpiter" Of Mozart. ; land and
the Fifth OF lsubinstein; besides the Andante
Of the Second and the .Allegrctto Of the
Eighth Of Beethoven: the stnerzo of Mendels..
Haydn's "surprise"; the allesrctto Of Mozarts
ttat; and The second movement Of tho In
Wide :. fahore and ID fha Ra march movement OF the
In nallct music we have had 4 brilliant and IN
usual seiecnon including Faust tGounod',
niastsIn hu
:ut Ba6a 1Gnerubn' uts "9ueen t:he Of sneea Goa- ID
mark, :.sylvla" Deli6esl ..Kenzi; iwagncr',
and tho Air de Ballet" tGuiraud>.
in Mr: Thomas prosrams. and at Of his operas
have been reepresentcd: The Flying Dutch
the ! 1Xorsp'eI, a1 Ass scem5sr, and @f1syer:
anr a mpo 11a ,na wfd ed
troduction. *' Dance Of tho Apprentices" :" Pro-
cession Of the Mestersdngers." and "Greetlng
e s"s sne aaas ae tae
Fire Scene; ".Siegfred'' by the ...Idyl1' and
IS Waldweben" and the "Gottcrdlmncrung
suurs q and KAISER Marches % and the :Faust Faust
Overture
Tho most striking feature Of the programs has
Sefore in this COUNTY, s;I Including the ballet music
to hubinstein's Nero and the " Demon" and
his Fifth symphony: saint-sa1n's barcaroIe,
Overture Hofsuarn's i @swessesplehe ] h'ed and
Carnival Scenes; Codes SUMMER Day in the
Country: and Delibcs' Sylvia
season that the attendance has been larpe-very
large rs compared with that Of 1s77, though at
that time Mr. THOMAS had to contend with un-
OF the labor strikes. The largest house Of this
season was last Friday evening, when the Wag-
ncr program was repeAted. showing that the
people. md that, whether they fully un-
dcrstand 1t or not, thorc IS something in 1t that
been ~ successful. as si the expenditures we're in
tho vicinity of $.D,000, and the receipts about
$:ho3o This, considering the extreme length OF
Of Mr Thomas' fr.onds entertained the orc6es-
tra after the concert ut Fscher's on the North
Side with handsome supper. ut which were
present also several Of the musical people Of the
city and Mr. Thomas himself. who IS very enthu-
siastc over the good work his impvoviscd orches-
TT y has done: The supper was comptlmens ~9f t,
go to Milwaukee for short season. and OH tho !
18th they will commence two weeks season In |
concert WIS crowned with It profuson of how-
egs sent in by some Of the Indy patrons. Mr.. |
Thomas will depart with the best of good
wishes. and leave many pleasant memories be,
Of we'll deserved credit Is due to Mr. Milward |
Adams. the manager, who was so long associated !
with the lutte Ge>rgc e. Carpenter. and who t
succeeds him. Under Nr. Adams thoughtful |
and efficient supervision everything has beeu !
done th2t was possible s to MAJ maSe ~ ehe e. concerts
ability is that he hns succeeded where |
many thought he would nut, that he has con- |
lncnded himself to the gratitude ut Mr.. Thomas |
patrons, and to tho confidence Of Nr. Thomas
him SELF.
CLOSE OF TIE SEASON OF 1sso-'S1.
With the close Of the Thomas concerts the
season Of lssO and 1881 comes to close. and
short retrospect uf its work will be Of interest.
During the season :s5 concerts have been given.
which may be classed as follows. Hershey !
school, 6G; knight Templur ConclAve, ;; l4icse- !
gang HelmendMhl, Il Boscovitz, ;: Lewis ChAnl-
ser Concerts. s: Lieblin9 recitais, T.: Apollo
rtub s: Beethoven Society. d; L3tEl. =: Nu5l-
:4t College, i; Riye-king. ?; Hemenyi. 2.
Thomas Winter Concerts II: LioscganT Sym
ohuny Concerts, 5: Zach and Handel Society, l;
yeudelssohn Quintet Club, .; Fisk Jubilee, j:
siingerfest, 7: Lcutner. =; Thomas summer night |
.oncerts, II; miscellaneous, ST. The debu1s
Made in couccrts have been Mrs W: II; sher-
vood, p,auo; Fred Roscovitz, piano; Sig. Libcr-
lti+ cornet; John Shelton, cornet; Miss Hattie
Mclean, alto: George Henschel. baritone; Herr
Richter, violin: Laura Dellini. soprano' Annie
T. Norton, soprano; Alfred Hill. bnsso, Keute /
seiguard soprano; 3lrs. X. B. Caldwell, So
>runo: Y. C. Tower, tenor: Constnntln Stern
,crE, piano; Frederick Archer. organ: Flora L.
7rosr+ soprano; Nine. Pesehkd Leutner, So
,rano; and Emma Doualdi Soprano. 4. /
There hnye been eighteen opera seasons, as
-olows: Miles Juvenile opera company. Hoo
cy's, Aug. III. 1ss0. to Sept. /. s performances:
ibbort troupe. Grand OperA-llouse. Sept 20 to
]ct. i, III performances: Leayitt's burIesqne
roupe, Haverly's, Nov - to Dec. ). 10 perform
noes; Sunkosch troupe, Hnyerlys, Dec. to I
Dec. l8 II performances; Ideal opera company,
;rand Qpern-House, Dec i5 to Dec. 10, per-
o1u1nnces: DOyley Carte troupe. HnyerEs.
an. 10. 1851. TO Jan. IL, 8 performnnce es: Bi1ou
omic opcra company. Hooley's Jan. - to JAN
o. performances: So1dene troupe, Mctfcker's, |
an. 81 to Feb. j, eight performances: Mapleson ]
ro,1pe Hayerly's. jan. 81 to Feb. l., fifteen per-
Beauplan troupe, McVlcker's, s, March !
to April .. fourteen performances; Comley-
barton troupe. Hooley's. March - to april 9,
ishteen performances; D'Oyley Carte troupe, |
1 fr A1,rjf ftxnu |