The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-20
MUSICAL NOTES.

Cl0 cOfn6C WlC1 success.
"Boccaccio" has been quite sue
cesSful in San Francisco.
Charles MAYER, the distinguished
London flute player, is dead.
Mr.. J. Edward Ditson, of the firm
of Oliver Ditson & Co., is dead.
List has injured himself severely
by falling down stairs at Weismar.
Thirty-three performances of
"Aida" at Palermo brought in $780,
| 900 francs.
Joseffy will give one grand con-
cert IN this city, about the begin
ming of November.
Vieuxtemps has died rich and is
said to have left property amount
ing to 100000 francs.
"The Mascotte" has passed its one
hundredth performance at the Bijou
Opera House, New York.
The Prince of Wales recently held
the infant child of Sir Julius Bene-
dict at the baptismal font. Honored
child.
The Emelie Melville Opera Com
pany is said to number fifty people.
The repertory will com prise sixteen
operas.
The Mechanical Orguinette Com
pany has received an order from
Shanghai, China, for their orgui-
netteS.
The Mendelssohn Quintette Club,
Of Boston, sails from San Francisco
on a concert throughout Australia,
on August 9th.
At the National Theater, Ham
burg, siXty-three operas were repre-
sented the past season, fourteen of
them being quite new.
Miss Clara Louise kellogg has re-
turned from Europe after more than
two years absence. Her plans for
the future are not yet determined.
"Pinafore" is to be revived at the
Oakland Garden Theatre, Boston,
shortly. A coarse burleSque of it
is being played at the Forest Gar
den Theatre, Boston.
1t is reported that 100 seats and
all the boxes in the Academy of
Music, New York, have already
been engaged for the ensuing season
of the Mapleson Italian Opera.
Emma Thursby has been received
with great favor in Copenhagen,
She is now making a short tour in
Sweden and Norway. Her voice is
always highly spoken of by critics.
Nine. Trebelli is said to have per-
formed with much brilliancy and
effect a role in Rubinstein's opera,
al DemoniO," recently produced at
the COvent Garden Theatre, London.
Napoleon Verger. the eminent
baritone, has terminated triumph
antly the season at the Imperial
Opera House, Vienna. He has been
eminently successful in all the roles
he essayed while there.
A telephone experiment was re-
Gently made in the BalbO Theatre,
Torino. AT the distance of 600
metres the audience heard suffi-
GENTLY well, but the words were
better heard than the singing.
Marie Roze was so successful in
singing at the German embassy in
London recently that at the close of
the concert she was presented to the
Crown Prince and Princess by de-
sire Of their Imperial Highnesses.
Mdme Adelina Patti opens her
season in America at SteinWay Hall,
New York, on Wednesday evening,
Nov. 9th. She will give thirty
nine concerts i'll all. The title of
the company is The Adelina Patti
and Nic0lini Concert Company"
Manager Henry E. Abbey, of New
York, has engaged Mdme. Christine
Nilsson to appear in opera during
the season of 1882. He said to a re-
porter that he had offered Patti
$4,000 a night, but she demanded
$4,000. He thinks her a spoiled
child
A new tenor. named Lemarroy,
has been discovered at Dieppe. He
had the good fortune to make the
acquaintance Of a lady patron, who
became so much interested in him
us to marry him. This lady moves
in high society. and considers it a
great honor to have discovered a
second Mario in Lemarroy, a simple
and lowly fisherman.
Miss Annie Louise Cary has re-
ceived from Manager Mapleson a
letter couched in the most flattering
terms, urging her to relinquish her
idea Of retiring from the operate
stage, and to accept an engagement
with him the coming season. In his
letter Mr. MapleSon tells her that
she ought not to think of retiring
from the operate stage until some
one appears to take her place who
can fill at least a small part Of her
shoes.