The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-06
MUSICAL NOTES.


in England.
of Lemmens-Sherrington has bee
or named singing teacher at the Brui
:, sells Conservatory.
- In all Italy at the present tim
- there are seVenty-seYen theatre
a representing operatic work.
~ Marie Geistinger has signed al
~ agreement with Manager G.. AMBER
e to perform next season in Londol
:, n for forty nights.
A. Miss Minnie Hauk has several en-
a gagements in England. She has no
' yet decided whether to return tt
: America next May or not.
VI The orchestra of Parma is com
d posed of 100 professors. comprising
e the master conductors Bosom, Rossl
II Bacci, Ferrarini and Usiglio.
T At the end of the fourth act OF
'Traviata," recently performed at
a. Monte Carlo, the whole audience
e rose and paid Patti an ovation.
:. Boito's "Mefistofele" has been sue
I cessfully produced at Warsaw, with
|, Madame Singer as Adrgheritd, and
: SignOr Customary. in the title role.
The fourth performance of Ber-
llioZ' ''Damnation of Faust" under
/, Mr.. Charles Halle, at ST. James
!. Hall, London, was given January
29th.
. S. b. Mills, the well-known plan
list, is preparing to make a profess
Isional trip to California, together
with the New York Philharmonic
Club.
"Billee Taylor" the last comic
opera, and will be introduced to New
York and Boston audiences this
week.
! Constantin Sternberg, the Russian
lpiano VirtuoSO, is on tour through
the southern states, and is meeting
with enthusiastic audiences every
where.
During May and June a series of
nine grand concerts, conducted by
Herr Hans Richter. will be given
all these being at st. James Hall,
London.
Verdi is reported to be busily en-
gagged on his opera "OtellO." 1t is
to be first given at Vienna, Frau
Materna taking the part of "Des-
demona."
The report that the King of Bava-
ria has subscribed 100000 marks to-
ward the performance of Wagner's |
''Parsival at Bayreuth, in 1882, has
been confirmed.
The receipts of the Mapleson
opera season of two weeks at Chi
cago were over $4,000. The largest
receipts for a single performance
were S7,005. The opera was "Lohen-
grin"
1t is now believed in England,
proof having been recently dis
covered, that DR.. John Bull, an
organist, composed God Save the
King" 1t has generally been attrib-
uted to Lulli or Handel.
A Venetian is reported to have
made violin of porcelain, having
great richness of tone. The strings |.
are all of metal, and the bow is the
old fashioned shape, being curved
to almost a semi-circle.
Mr.. Frederic Clay. the composer,
has accepted commission from Mr..
Alex. Henderson, of the Folly The
atre, London, for comic opera, the
librettO of which is by Mr.. Burn
and, the editor of Punch.
The Musical Record says: One of
the best octave" pianists who has Ii
hnnn hnnT1 ~ fhiC -
and we have not forgotten the late
Mr.. Harry Sanderson), is Mr.. Frank /
Glider, who is now a resident of {
Boston. h
George F. Bristow's opera, rip l
Van Winkle,'' with a new libretto l
by j. w. Shannon, will, in all prOba-
Dility, be produced by the Boston {
Ideal Opera Company. The manu-
script is already in the hands of the
Mr.. Harry Hunter, well known as i,
The impersOnator of the Lone Fish :
erman in "Evangeline" and of char !;
acters in other musical plays, died !
in Cincinnati on Tuesday. He was :
engaged to Miss Louise Searle, of :
the same company. :
A young amateur musician of
Joseph Cadieux, has fin I
ished a trapezoidal violin having I
straight cuttings, after system in
vented by Savart. This violin has Is
other peculiar qualities, and is said S
to be founded on good ideas. \
Mdme. Gerster demands $4,000 to !
sing at the seven concerts of {
he New York Musical Festi- :
val. The managers are compelled /
10 accord to what is considered an :
extraordinary eXaction," because =
here is no other dramatic soprano =
II the country. Z
1t is rumored that a fund of oyer f
100000 has been raised among the i
patrons of music in Boston, i
md that the money is to be used in t
lefraying the expense of bringing
)ver an orchestra from Europe. T
These musicians are to be eStab- @
ished here as permanent orches- i
IA. a
The following are the bells of the Y
low completed Cologne cathedral 4; +
Emperor sounding c QS70; a
'Pretiosa. sounding G GAS; "Spe- S
yioasa," sounding a GAO; Three t
Kings" sounding B (1SS0), and Ur- I
;ula," sounding + QS62). 1t is said f
hat it takes twenty-SeYen men to /
ing Emperor" a
The expenses of the Paris Opera I
or the year 1880 were IS O,OOO. l
The troupe S250OO0; copyright and G
poor taxes, 100000; gas, $4,000; c
sweeping, $500; mise en- scene of
Aida" $4,000; "Compte Ory," Q
100000; a new ballet LA Korri-
gane," $4,000. Summing up, the re-
;eipts, including the subvention, did I
not cover the expenses.
Joseffy, the pianist, thinks that :
Mr.. Arbuckle, the cornetist, has too +
much brass and therefore not his 9
equal and for that rea- :
son he would not play at the same =
concert at which Mr.. Arbuckle was :
20 perform solos. The cCrnetist .
,alls Mr.. Joseffy "snob," a puppy" .
md person" Less solo epithets :
md more harmony gentlemen. If
A celebrated maker of jewsharps I
las been discovered in New York. /
He came to that city from Ireland
n 1852. His grandfather ana father S
we're makers of jewsharpS in Bel 2
facf and his hT-Othar-c GRO Oft Drnca,nf | z