The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-01
MUSICAL NOTES.

Mr.. VIM. Horace Lingard is il
New York.
Mrs. Alice Dunning Lingard has
sailed for Europe.
Mr.. Charles II. Drew is summer
ing at Cleveland, Ohio.
Dengremont, the young yiGlinist
intends leaving for Paris soon.
Campanini says he made $4,000
in the United States last season.
Mr.. Victor Maurel has repeated
his former success as Hamlet in
Paris.
Franz Rummel is in London. He
recently performed at the Crystal
Palace.
Mr.. John Howson has sailed for
England, intending to return home
next season.
Mr.. Frederic Archer will, at an
early day, give series of organ re-
citals in Chicago.
It is said that Patti, Gersler and
Nilsson will sing in the United
States next season.
Rubenstein is in London. His
first piano recital was given in St.
James Hall on the I'd inst.
Levy says that he is to receive
$500 and expenses a week, during
the summer, at Brighton Beach.
1t is said that Campanini has been
engaged to bring over a company
for the new opera house in New
York.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin will rejoin the
Emma Abbott Opera Company next
season, under the management of G..
d. Hess.
Mr.. VIM. Castle intends to form a
comic opera company for next sea-
son to do several light works new to
this country.
Mr.. Carl Rosa has ended the long
est opera tour on record at Dublin.
His company has been on the road
since the first week Of August last
year.
Gayarre, the Spanish tenor, is said
to be wonderfully artistic and per-
feet in his style of singing. Many
consider him the greatest living
tenor.
The most powerful inducements
have been presented to Miss Emma
Thursby TO have her appear in opera
in London, but she firmly and per-
sistently declines.
The seats to witness Gilbert and
Sullivan's Patience" are engaged
over a month ahead. No such sue
cess for light or heavy operas has
hitherto been known in London. So
says the London press.
A young lady having died with a
guitar in her hands, a Bostonian
regrets the fact. but would not object,
says the New York Herald, If a few
young men should die with ac-
cordeons in their hands.
Strange to say, Miss Emma Alb
bott is, by advice of SignOr Brignoli,
to appear in "Traviata' next season.
This is the opera in which she re-
fused to appear in London, thereby
breaking her contract.
Herr Neumann intends to travel
with the "Trilogy" and perform it
in Paris, London, st. Petersburg,
New York and Boston. Herr Neu-
mann is the manager who recently
produced Wagner's great work in
Berlin.
Major J. B. Pond made an offer
to Mdme. Adelina Patti of 100000
for a series of 100 concerts in the
United States. She asks 100000 to
sing at fifty concerts-SS,000 for each
concert, or, in other words, for about
thirty minutes work.
News comes from London that the
new opera Of Gilbert and Sullivan,
Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride"
is a great success, the enthusiasm
over it eclipsing even the JaGrore
created by "Plnafore." The full
score of the opera is already pub
lished in this country.
The first libretto for an Italian
opera was written in 1884, by GiuliO
Rossigliosi, who afterward became
Pope Clement TX. First he intro
duced saints, demons, angels, vir-
tues, pope's nunciOs, etc., Whe all
sang and danced together to music
composed by Stefano.
The Norwich musical festival,
England, is fixed to begin October
18th. 1t will last four days. est.
Paul." 1.-The Messiah" and Berloiz's
"Faust" will be among the leading
works. New and original compost
lions by F. COwen and Sir Julius
Benedict will be produced for the
first time.
Mr.. and Mrs. DLackay, of Cali
fornia, presented Mdme. Adelina
Patti with novel gift on the occa-
sion of a recent performance IN
Paris. It was a parasol made OF
opening rosebuds on a framework
lined with white satin. The man
ager held the parasol over the lady
when she was called out.
An interesting series of perform
ances of Wagner's operas IS to be
given at Munich about the 1st OF
September. "Rienzi," Der File.
gende Hollander," "Tannhauser,,
aL ohengrin,', Tristan und Isolde,
and Die Meistersinger" are to be