Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-10
NOTES BOTH MAJOR AND MINOR.

in San Francisco.
Mrs. Ospood says she will probably
make England her home.
Johann Strauss Is in the Tyrol, Austria,
completing "Venetian Nights"
Blind Tom has been assiduousiy study
ing the flute, and with much success.
The Boston Musical Record calls MAX
Maretzek "that intermittent grumoaer. "
Twelve years were consumed 6y
Gounod in writing the music OF ine
Redemption"
The monument to Bellini will De IN
augurated in his native city OF Catahia
next month.
Strauss new opera, Venetian Nights,
will not be ready for production before
January next.
Patience reached its 5OOth repre-
sentation at the Savoy Theatre, Lon
don, on Sept. 9th.
Mapleson will commence ten
week' season of Italian Opera in New
York October 10th.
The Boston Ideal Opera Company
will produce a new opera next season
entitled "Coquettina."
Minnie Hauk is at Coburg OH invita-
ton of the Grand Duke Ernst, study
ing the principal part of an opera from
his pen. !,
Nine. f. A. Richardson, colored
pianiste, has been electrifying the
borders at Rockaway Beach during the
past week. -,
The date of Nine. Nelson's farewell
concert in Albert Hall, London, Is
October 18th. She sails for New YORK
on the l4th.
Mr.. Carl Hermann, q pianist VINO
has been playing with success In Russia,
will arrive in New York at the begtnn-
ing of October.
Mierzwinski, the tenor, will receive
$1,000 night, the same sum as Patti.
So at least say the French papers which
he has inspired.
Hans Won Bulow, not deferred by the
results of his previous matrimonial
speculation, has married Mile. Schawzer'
of the Grand Ducal Theatre.
Emma Abbott opened her season ut
Lima, o., with her new opera, king
for DAY." the costumes for which are
said to have been especially imported
and to he very elegant.
The Philadelphia Church Choir
Opera Company enter on what promises
to be a successful season, under the
management of Grau and Snyder.
Their dates are filed for thirty-two
weeks.
The New York Tribune says: "The
Cecilia Club of Boston will do violence
-, In hi nv DlvlnU
portions of Die Meistersinger' and
'Parsifal,' with pianoforto ACCOMPANY
ment."
Mons. Pinguely has written new
round dance, entitled "The Princess.
II is most graceful, and is q compromise
between the waltz and racquet. 1t will
be taught In all the Eastern dancing
academies.
The contralto of the Nilsson Company
is Miss Hope Glenn, an Iowa girl. Del
Puento is the baritone. The tenor Is q
Swedish nobleman, whose voice Ii
highly spoken OF, and whose name il
jaw-breaking.
"Ernani," one of the Verdi's most
exactipg operas, is to be done at beer
garden In San Francisco. Oh! Tom
bora, Oh! Moses! what is opera COM
ing to? We can not tell; but where 1t
is going to We see plainly.
AS a proof of the widespread interest
manifested in the production of
"Parsifal," ii is stated that on July %,
the day Of the first performance, A.
900 words were telegraphed by various
newspaper correspondents.
Emma Abbotts repertoire is announced
as including Elixir of Love, King for a
Day, The Colleen Bawn, or the Lily Of
Killarney, Rigoletto, SOnnambula, Car
men, Faust, Mariana, Fra Diavolo,
Lucia, Martha, Mignon, Chimes OF
Normandy, Bohemian Girl, Romeo and
Juliet, Paul and Virginia.
1t it said that Gounod will conduct
his own work, "The Redemption" at
the Festival to be held at Bristol, Eng
land, in October. Among the works
in preparation for the event are: Beeth-
ovens Mass in d, Gounod's new sacred
opera, "The Redemption;" Rossini's
"Moses in Egypt" "The Messiah"
"The Elijah" and part Of "The Crea.
ton" Among the vocalists who will
participate are Mesdames Albani, Patsy,
Tribelli and Messrs. Mas, Santley,
Lloyd and Hilton.
The Ditson and NOvello editions Of
the operas have an infrequent but
troublesome fault. namely, the repro.
auctions in the piano score Of chords
from the orchestral accompaniment
over an octave in extent, and of course
impossible Of performance expect by
pianists of unusually elastic finger. In
playing an accompaniment In public,
pianist who had forgotten to correct
the score, might be thrown out Of time
by an attempt to reach from G TO + I'm
the octave above, striking the inter-
mediate A and & at the same time. The
adapters Of these operes expect alto.
gether too much Of poor humanity II
they fancy The average hand TO be caps-
BILE Of such q stretch.