New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

John F. Owens, The comedian, hrs been engaged
by the Madison Square Theatre rs a member OF the
company Tor hye years.
Schubers One.act operetta Die Zwings-
brucder" {" The Twin Brothers " was recently p r
formed in the I1ufoperu theater IN Vienna. 1t had
been revised BIS local musician.
new oratorO by Joachim Rapf entitled The
Last Judgment and Paradise was performed last
month in WeImar bv the members of the Court
Opera, the chOIIs aud the pupils OF the school OI
Music.
new musical director has arrived from Ger
many for the Thaa Theatre. His name is Sally
Simonsohn, and he will begin his work with the
study of StrauSSs last ODeretta, Der LustIge krIeg"
{" The Merry War
+. II. Governs scandinavian Symphony was
performed last month by the Philharmonic Society
in Vienna. Ii is said to have been the inst time
that the work of an English composer has been per
formed in the Austrian capital. Herr Hans Renter
suggested it to the SOcirty and il accepted by
unanimous vote. correspondent OF me DdrJ
eeJrdph that alter the first movement the
composer had the sympathy OF the audience and
that after the last stratus Of the n0it0 hddbO -
San mer Evening the FjOrd'l Mr. COwen was
the object of an ovation, and. lea by Han. Richter
was called four times to the conduct9rs de h
to acknowledge personally the applause his music
had elected lie again repeatedly called be-
foe the audience after the last two moveIn' nts,
and when the concert was over the whole orchestra
applauded with the public.
The musical compositions of the late Prince Con-
sort, which have Just been published in London at
the instance of the Queen, consist OF about thirty
songs one or two chOraies, Tie Deum. an anthem.
"A short cantata entiued 4" mvOcazIOne alIArmoni q
for chO us and solo voic s. and melO iy for violin
with pianoforte accOmp lniment. OF them The ST.
Jaaess Gazette says that these recreations OF tie
Princes leisure no rs may tauly claim very good
place among amateur musical compositions. IL can
not be said, indeed that they present any evidence
of what can be called musical genius in the higher
sense; and though the hands that wrote were those
Of the Prince ConsOrt, the voice Is not nfTequently
the voice of Mendelssohn. But when these were
written Mendelssohn was the adopted idol of the
musical world; and, in initiating hsmarked though
charming mannerisms. the royal composer was only
shining if il were sin, III the company ot many
professional composers of acknowledged learning
and repute IN ali the songs the nelody-generally
pleasing and in some instances, very full of feeling
is SPONTANEOUS in effect and seems to nave arisen
naturally out of the emotions evoked by the NOrls:
The accomDanmcnt>. too, have sufficient variety oil
design without oyeTweIgltIng the voice part ii IL
TO be wished that as much could be SAID Tor many
songs which are put forth with much more am
btIouS claims Or the anthem, Ont OF tho
Deppp the same reviewer saws that II l. solemn ana
pathctc IN tone ana there T. real beauty In the tI0.
For there is Mercy with Thee" He also says that
the church compositions oi the royal amateur 90
not cvIBce the acquaintance with and feeling TOT
organ effect which might have been expected see
lng that their composer was. as we know from an
o'ten-uuot Il letter of hende lssOhns, an organ
PLAYER and that his manner of touching the lnstru-
ment commanded the approval 81 Mcndtlssohh'
who was q keen critic of the aesthetics OF organ
nloving The accompaniments 10 tue church pieces
here, if meant for an organ WOuId nave ~ pe hu'"
modified III detail"