New-York tribune., 1881-12-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
"The Passing Regiment" at Days Theatre has
passed its tiftieth Representations
Children are pleased at Bunnells Museum. The
proprietor has prepared SPECIAL programme for
their benefit.
Miss DavenpOrt's engagement, which is to begin
at the Fifth Avenue Theatre tomorrow afternoon,
VIII last two weeks.
The singers at The concert in the Casino this even
ing, will be Mile. Marie Vachot, Mile. Lauri
and signor Ravelli. of Mr. Maplcson's Opera Com
pany.
The comedy of Mother-in-Law" has struck the
holiday humor of the hour, and it will be kept
upon the stage of the Park Theatre throughout the
present week Several advantageous changes have
been made in the text There will be a special matt
nee of "MOther-in-Law" tomorrow
Handel's Messiah was performed by the Jersey
City OTatorio Society, Louis c. jacob, conductor,
on last Thursday night. The chorus numbered 200
voices and the orchestra thirty instruments. The
solo parts were sung by Miss Ida Iubhcl, Mrs.
Florence RiCe-knOX. Mir George simpson ahd MI.
biacgrane Coke. Mr. Samuel T. HrIch S'' at lhe
organ.
Miss Carlotta f. Pinner a cousin Of the pianist
Max Pinncr is announced to make her debut in
opera in Sluzzio, Italy to-day. Miss Pinncr is
New-York LADY, who went 10 Europe to study sing
ing three years ago; before that time she was
pupil of SiCuOT AgrdmOlte. SHe also TOOK lDsifuc-
tons from Nine. La Grange, IN faTls
Mr. Rafae JoscGy has returned to New-Yorl from
a tour in Calior and the South. His yi5itto San
Francisco stirred up musical enthusiasm which re-
suited in the formation of a Philharmonic Society
for the purpose Of giving orchestral concerts. Mr..
Joseffy viii play vt the next concert of The New
York Philharmonic Society on January IA.
Mary Anderson's season will begin at BOOTHS
Theatre on Monday, January 2. Her rcpcrtory
will be as follows; For the first five nights,
Romeo and Juliel"; Saturday matinee, Pyg-
malon and Galatea"; Saturday night, The
HunchbacA" Miss AndersGn's company is said 10
be larger stronger and more thoroughly adapted to
her plays than ever before
Mr.. Robert Stocpel the well-remcmbercd COM.
poser and musician, has returned to Ne" York,
after a long absence in England, and has been en-
Raged to conduct the musical department Of Days
Theatre. He will enter upon this duty in January,
sncceeding Mr. MulicnhaueT. Mr.. Day has put
the comedy of "Odctt." in rehearsal, and TINS
piece will shortly succeed The Passing regiment"
George Fawcett Rowe appears at Toronto, to-
morrow night as uicatobtr. Mr.. Clinton Stuart has
been engaged in his company bat subsequently
win appear for one week at the Union Square
Theatre in this city, replacing MT Walden Ramsay,
and finally will join Mr. AID Mrs. Florence. hr.
Stuart expects 10 produce the French comedy of
Jack" before Easter
The Greek play of Edipus7 will be presented at
the Globe Theatre, Boston, On January -, Win MI
George Riddle as The hing aud Miss Georgia Cay
van as Jocasta. Assurance is again vousch4fed that
the stage trapinrs and the music viii be excellent.
MIR Riddle will speak in Greek Miss Cayvan in
English. II somebody now could be induced to
intcrject little Russian the bliss of the occasion
would be complete.
Mr. Maple=on's fall season of Italian opera az the
Academy of Music came to end yesterday after
noon with repetition of :" Les HuguenOts" instead
of Faust as first announced. The cast was the
same as on Wednesday evening, except that SignOr
Rayelli sang the part of Raopi instead Of Signor
Campanini TIE change weakened the performance
as compared with the first though Slgnor RaveIs
fresh voice gave the music OttcntlmeS with great
beauty. He was, usual, deficient in action.
Mr. Martin l.. life, formerly of the SaXe-Nlenin-
gen Dramatic Company, has lately gwen a recital
of Hamlet" IN London, and The Globe says his per-
formance is remarkable and full of merit" SIR
Fiffe appears 70 be endeavoring 10 do in London
what Locke Richardson has brilliantly done in
New-York-only Mr. Richardson recitcs, without
book. and in a dramatic method discriminating the
ebaracters), ten or twelve OF the great plays Of
Shakespeare instead of one, and does tins IN pure
English-whiclI, of course, is not 80 delightful as
broken- windod German-Englsh, or English with a
Gallo or MaccarJnIc accent
The first concert of the New-York Chorus Society
IS announced ior January -, with public rehearsal
on the afternoon Of the preceding day. The solo
perfor7ners will be Miss Hattie ScheI. Miss Emily
Winant, Miss A. Wurrnb, Mr. Theodore j. Toedt,
Dir. Max Treumann, Mr. ffanZ RenuneiU ana Mr
Rafael Josefy. The programme is as ioiiows
Choral Fantasia minor. opus 80 beethoven
%asc %8cf e Gdpus Tranaas Faso
Hocfnr5e IRON :. Beatrice ami Bencdick !" Gnanu
cDo9is Wake Wake the Dawning Day IS %ear%
(Sd Aeu die Meistersinger Won Numbers"
Wagner
The critics in Europe arc very busy trying 10 find
ont the character OF the work which is occupying
the attention of NJ. Gounod just now. Once it was
said that he was working on opera for the
Opera Comique then 1t was whispered that he was
Whiting a grand opera, and that the subject was
that upon which Mendelssohn once worked, the ro-
mantle legend Of the LOrcley Now comes 1t Figaro
with solemn assurance that NJ. Goun0d is at work,
but not on al opera at all lie is setting poem by
Louis Gallet which is not, properly speaking, dTa
matte work, but a series Of scenes relalng IN part
to the loves of HelOise and Abelard, and turning
also on the struggles of the famous philosopher
against the doctrines of his times The work Is said
to be in four parts and the composer has not yet
made up bis mind as W what to do with It,
Cincinnati has a musical club composed Of the
leading neutrality-suspicious. and amateur-in
the city THIS club, aside from its social features,
cultiyates chamber music aud arranges celebrations
Of the birthdays of the masters. About year ago
the president of the club pad into its treasury
handsome sum of money 10 be offered as prizes for
the best and second best string quartet composed
nv a musician resident OF Cincinnati or vicinity