The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-23
MUSICAL NOTES.

y
ire at Nice had scenery painted OIL
paper!
] Foreign critics declare that Miss
! Minnie Hauk is the only perfect
Carmen on the stage.
"OliVette" is in its tenth week al
the Galety Theatre, Boston, and still
draws large audiences.
New York has a Gaelic Choral
Union for the development and
preparation of Irish music.
a short time since it was doubted
whether Boston could support one
orchestra. Now it las four.
-Four shares in the stock of the
Academy of music were sold at
auction a few days ago for $4,000.
Campinnii receives a salary of
$4,000 per month. Gerster's salary
is $4,000 per month, and all ex-
.penses.
a felon on one of the fingers of
Mdme. RiYe-King has obliged her
to cancel several of her concert eu-
gagements.
The Boston people are enthusiast
tic over the marvellous performances
OF Mr.. Frederic Archer, the famous
London Organist.
Miss Kate Field alluded TO her
hOarsneSs last week as "a quick
change Of voice from high soprano
to bassO profundo."
Col. MaplesOn viii bring over next
addition to his Italian
opera company-an opera comique
company. So he says.
On the evening of April 9th, Gil
more gave his seYenty-third cOnsec-
utIye concert at Roster u Balls
Concert Hall, New York.
Rosina Isadore, the prinld donna,
who had such narrow escape from
the burning opera house at Nice, it
is a native of st. Louis.
The latest comic opera in England
is called Jeanne, Jeanette and
J eannetOn." The ibretto is by
Robert Reece and the music by La
comb.
There is an advertisement in
an English paper that is interesting.
Two boys are wanted fer a church
at Bournemouth, who "have good
treble voice and ear"
Nine. Pauline Lucca has been
compelled to give up her engage
ment for April, at the Royal Opera
House, Berlin, in consequence of the
result of marriage.
A new conservatory of music is TO
be erected at Liege, at a cost of
$4,000 francs, towards which the
contributes 100000, the
province 10000, and the town $780,
Co.,
Miss Blanche Roosevelt had a
narrow escape from death in New
York, a few days ago, her carriage
cOlliding with a street railway car.
She was bruised but not seriously
injured.
The Boston Score says that the ar
5icles by Miss Kellogg on japanese
Music" and 7. Thomas Musical
Possibilities of America" are
worth the paper they are
written on.
"Billee Taylor" has passed its sixty
fifth representation at the Standard |
New York, and continues
TO draw large business. 1t is said |
that the popularity of the opera
rivals ''PinafOre."
According to an advertisement |
in an English professional paper a
tenor and an alto are wanted for a
lObleman's private chapel. and the
applicants must either be of the Oc-
;upatiOn of carpenter or painter"
Won Bulow, now director of the
orchestra of the Duke of
Meiningen is reported to be training
his musicians to commit their scores
20 memory and to play them with
1ut notes. Such performance
may be possible, but, we think,
rather impracticable,
A correspondent of the Herald,
who has seen la Mascotte" in Paris,
says: "WhOever introduces La
MascOtte' to the American market
viii make a mint of money, that is
certain. The music is even more
than that of 'Olivette,'
Dy the same composer"
The season of Italian opera by
Her Majesty's Opera Company is
over. Colonel MaplesOn has again
disappointed the public. His prom
sed Minnie Hauk in her round of
did not put in an ap-
pearance, and only one new opera
has been given during the season.
1t is reported that Max Vogrich is
the author of the orchestral scoring
Of the new two act comic opera.
i The Enchanted Isle" which will
have its first representation at the
BijOu Theatre, New York, early in
May. The librettO is said to be eX-
ceedingly ingenious, and the music
considerably above the "Billee
Taylor average.
The great musical topic of the day
is the New York Musical Festival,
TO be given during the first week in
Nav. AT the two auction sales of
tickets for exceptional seats, s 5000
was realized. The sale of tickets
for admission to single concerts
on the 18th inst. 1t is
said that the festival promises to be
one of the grandeSt and most elab-
crate musical undertakings of New
York.
'An Indignant Bass" asks: "Why
should the pOSSess0rs of baritone
voices be doomed to the representa-
ton of roles the handspring of
whose action is always Yillainy of
the deepest dye, and the tenors be
cast for the parts which portray
everything that is heroic and
lovely? He would have operatic
reverse the parts. He
thinks that the strong, hearty. full
Favored baritone wonld be the
faYOrite of the fair sex, and there
fore should be cast for the success
full lovers, and that the tenOrs should
be relegated to the parts of
scheming, tickle, half-hearted rascals.
Such a departure would, no doubt,
create a new sensation.
Nine. Murio-Celli, the popular
voice trainer, gave an operate per-
Torrance at Chickering Hall, New
York, recently, at which several of
her pupils took part. The numbers
were made up of scenes from LA
Traviata," Lucia" LA Favorita,"
IL Trovatore" and Faust" The
orchestra, of twenty-eight pieces,
was under the direction of Sig.
Arditi. Many prominent artists