Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

1t will be seen that the comparison Of
areas in La Scala and III our new opera
house is as follows:
La Scala. Metropolitan.
Area of auditorium. SO. Fl. 667 s.445
Area OF stage, square IT,. $3.50 $50
The auditorium of the Metropolitan OPP
era House has, therefore, ISL more square
feet of ground than the auditorium Of La
Scala, and the stage of the Metropolitan
has $50 more square feet of ground area
than the stage of La Scala.
The eighth annual convention of the Ma
tionaI Association of Music Teachers has
Just been held at Cleveland, Ohio, continu-
ing three days. The officers elected for the
| current year were /: President, DR. S. w
Penfield, of New York; Secretary and
Treasurer, a. A. Stanley, Of Providence !;
| Executive Committeeman Petersilyea
! of New York; H s. Perkins, of Chicago;
Dr. F. Ziegfeld, of Chicago. An American
| College of Musicians was organized, and
Board of Examiners, which stands as the
/ faculty of the College, was elected. The
| Examiners will sit at future conventions of
| the Music Teachers Association, and issue
degrees to applicants who spass successful
examinations. The degrees will be First,
! the primary, which entities the holder to
| certificate; second, the intermediate which
and the higher, which confers the degree
OF Master of Musical Art"
! Mrs. Langtry sails for England on Satur-
| day and begins her provincial tour at New
/ castle-on-Tyne August 18th. Her plans
after this tour are undecided, but she will
/ take theater either at London or New
/ York, and bring out one new and one
Shakesperean play for her next season.
/ She has engaged Charles Coghlan IS her
! leading man for England. This week she
1 is being photographed like this and photo
/ graphed like that, by Mora, and her pict-
IRE in Japanese costume is calculated TO
| rerayish London. The steamer not being
! large enough to carry over the dollars which
/ she has won in this country, she has very
sensibly invested them in real estate, so
/ that while she is on the water her wealth
will be increasing by the rise in land Mrs
.Langtry has become as established a favor
/ tie here as in England, and her return will
! be cordially welcomed-IN New York Spirit
/ of the Times.
! Harry Edwards, the well-known actor
and also entomologist, will arrive in San
/ Francisco in few days with the Madison
/ Square company, of which he is now
member. He has been away now for five
! years, and Will be warmly welcomed by all
| theater-goers and the public generally.
The Bohemian Club of San Francisco are
preparing fitting reception to be extended
to him. He win no doubt visit Sacra-
mento.
Dion Boucicault and his talented daugh-
ter, Miss Nina, have returned to the United
States after short soiourn in England
Mr. Boucicault says he has had enough of
the United Kingdom and will hereafter re-
main in the United States, which he far
prefers. He win begin his professional sea-
son in Cincinnati, in September next.
Four Partisan theaters receive State cid,
but only two of them are prosperous The
Grand Opera shows deficit Of $4,000 for
the last six months. It is, however, well
for the sake of art that there are some arts
tic enterprises in the world which do not
have to curtail their expenditures.-LCh Chi
cago Current
Gounod's new oratorio, Life and Death, ~
which is to be produced at the Birming-
ham Festival in 1885, will be divided into
three parts. The first part consists mainly
of a MESA pro defunctis, while the second
and third are based upon the first eight
verses of the twenty First chapter of REVEAL
tons.
Emma Abbott's husband denies that
Emma wants to give English opera in the
New York Academy of Music, and loftily
saws that if she did she could buy it." He
adds that she has given more music to the
public in her six seasons than Italian opera
has furnished in its whole American his
tory.
A good story is told of the late Victor
Masse He was one day informed that q
rival composer took every opportunity of
saving that his (Masse's) music was ex-
ecrable He maintains l have no talent"
said Masse; Il always declare he has
plenty We both know we lie
Recent experiments with stringed instru-
ments have shown that much more sonor-
Gus tone can be obtained with metal strings
than with those now in use, although the
labor of playing on them is corresponding
ly increased. Steerwires plated with silver
or copper gave the best results.
London 7f1tth says that the German opera
season in London has been a dead loss
again We trust that this viii not discour-
age operate managers. Wagner is the mu-
sic of the future, and in the course of two
or three hundred years the people may be
educated up TO it,
When the electric lighting Of the Paris
Opera is completed there viii be no fewer