Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27

Even a tale Of ocean seemed to tell.
How came this shell upon the mountain height!
Ah who can say
Whether there dropped by some too careless hand
Whether there cast when oceans swept the land
Ere the Eternal had ordained the Day?
Strange, was it not far from its native sea,
One song it sang
Sang of the mighty mysteries OF the tide
Sang OF the awful, vast, profound and wide
Softly with echoes Of the ocean rang.
And as the shell upon the mountains height
Sings of the sea,
| So do l ever, leagues and leagues away
| So do ever, wandering where may,
Sing, my home-sing, o my home, OF thee
Helena Modjeska.
Miss Ollie Torbet, a violin player, will
shortly make her debut in concert in New
| York.
Richard Pohl has issued new work, en-.
titled Franz Liszt-Studies and Remi-
niscences."
Xavier Scharwenka has finished his sym.
| phony, which will be produced in Berlin
this winter.
/ A bust of Victor Hugo has been finished
by Robin, whose work has recently made
a sensation in London.
Nine. Sofia Scalchi has signed a contract
with Ernest Gye for three years, beginning
next May in London.
Thomas Agnew has presented Holman
Hunts "Shadow of Death to the art
gallery at Manchester, England.
The new official illustrated Journal Of
Indian ART will appear at the opening OF
the Calcutta Exhibition next December.
John E. Owens will not appear upon the
stage next year. He goes from the Hot
where he will remain quiet.
William H. Thompson, an actor who has
been popular in San Francisco, will here
| after be member of the Daly's Theater
company.-[N. Y. Exchange.
Yokel Ito his son at concert during the
performance of duet)-"D'ye see, Tom,
now it's getting late they are singing two
at time so as to get done sooner.
In the October Magazine Of Art the
widespread theory that women paint
flowers better, as a rule, than men gets
Katharine de Mattos.
Horace Bradley has been awarded the
prize of 81, 900 offered by the Georgia State
Legislature for the best oil. portrait of the
late Senator B. 81. Hill. Seven other por-
traits were handed in.
Reginald Cleaveland Coke, a son OF
Bishop Coke, and who has been studying
in Paris under Bonat for some years, has
returned to this country, and will have
studio in New York this fall.
"How beautifully that woman sings"
la H@ xvhn
geous attire and blazing with diamonds.
& Is she mezzo.soprano? "No, l guess
not l think she is Swede," replied the
other.-[ Exchange.
Miss Cecile Fernandez, the new prima
donna of the McCaull Opera Company, has
arrived at New York from England, and
will make her first appearance with the
McCaull Opera Company in Millocker's
"Beggar Student, shortly to be produced
at the Casino.
A writer on the art of landscape painting
has been discovered at st. Louis, Mo-, by
an English paper. 1t appears that his
view of nature is that it presents "but one
phase of the grand total of the universe,
which is knit together into an inseparable
whole by the subtle, all-pervading bond of
infinite reason.
All artists under the age Of 27 may COM
pete for the So, 600 prize offered by Harper
& Bros. for the pest original illustration ap-
propriate to Christmas, 1884. Designs
may be sent prior to March lst. The money
is to be used in further study OF art.
Three additional prizes of $500 each are
announced.
Carlo Rosa is meeting with great and
continued success in the provincial cities
of England with his English opera com.
pany. Besides Faust, ," Mariana and
' Bohemian Girl, Mr.. Rosa has introduced
the two novelties brought out during the
recent brief season of Drury Lane. =" Es-
meralda" and " COLOMBIA " have both been
given with success.
Mime. Christine Nilsson is to be paid
$1,000 a performance, and to sing ten
times month Nine. Marcella Sembrich,
ST, 500; Mime. Salchi's monthly salary is
S., 600, for ten representations Nine. Ire
bellis at least as much, and probably $S,-
600: and Nine. Valeria's 81, 900. A rough
estimate of the salaries of the principals,
chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera House, monthly, shows that about
500, 600 will be required.
In Fredericksburg, Va, an interesting
fact in connection with the scanty history
of Shakespeare has been unearthed. 1t is
nothing less than the name of one of the
pall.b bearers of the great poet, who is
buried there, ard on moss.covered red
sandstone slab which covers his grave is
still to be read the following inscription
Here lies the bodie of
Edward Heldon practitioner in physic and
ehirurgery. Born in Redfordshire, England, in the
year of our Lord 1542. Was contemporary
with and one Of the pail bearers OF
William Shakespeare Of the Avon.
After brief illness his spirit assembled In
the year of our Lord l618--aged rs.
Merere, the tenor has been shut up in
an asylum, incursbly mad over his pet |
hobby, whistling For years he cultivated |
that hobby, until he was able to emit
blast that would frighten the cab horses on
the boulevards of Paris, and drive cornet |
players wild with envy. Once he was ar
rested and fined for disturbing the public |
peace when he had only whistled an air
while walking home from the opera-loud
enough, however, to wake up every one
within half mile, more or less. On an.
other occasion he was singing in Faust"
at the Grand Opera House, and, having a
cold, gave some false notes. The audience
hissed. Down he spraHg into the audience
and cried "Since you have begun to hiss,
let me tell you that you don't understand
the art In the least. Now, listen" Then
he gave whistle minute long. and loud
enough to make calliope sick. There was
no more kissing, and the opera went on.
At present he believes himself commits
stoned to learn to whistle loud enough to
drown the sounds of locomotive and all
the bells of Netre Dame together and, as
he practices faithfully ten hours day, his
fellow lunatics in the asylum are objects of
PITY Musical Herald.
No one will deny that Wagner was a
man of the most astounding energy, pa
thence and perseverance. He deserved to
have achieved very much higher position
for himself. He had large aims, tremen.
dous ambition, and was inspired and
goaded on by thorough appreciation of
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