Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-22
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

The recent musical festival at Stuttgart
resulted IN profit of $500.
An English novelty is the Yiscountes,
Folkestones ladies' string band chorus
composed OF $50 aristocratic performers.
George Sweet has been engaged for firs
baritone roles i'll the American Opera Com.
pany, of which Theodore Thomas is di
| rector.
Madame Christine Nilsson starts soon or
concert tour through Sweden and Nor.
way, under the management of Maurice
Strakosch
Mademoiselle Marie Van Zandt is I'll.
mored to be betrothed to a Russian noble
man of high rank, who has been persist.
ent admirer
Clara Louise Kellogg and her concert
company has reached Winnipeg, whence il
intends to proceed to Washington Terri,
| tory and British Columbia.
Emma Nevada, recently announced as
about to marry DR.. Palmer. is now charged
by the Bennett Mackey cable with contem.
plated marriage to Charles Halle, of Berlin
w Il. Sheridan will play Louis XII"
almost exclusively next season. the de
mand for this character by managers
throughout the country being lagely in ex
cess of the otherssOf his repertoire
London musicians have adopted SIS
double vibrations for the treble chords for
the normal concert pitch. This was done
because there was tendency to make con-
cert pitch continually higher and variable
Manager Aaronson, of the New York
Casino, while elated at the great success OF
Nanon," has already begun preparations
Tor the production of Pfngsten in
Florence, winch has nearly approached its
300th night in Berlin.
List is enormously represented to be
wholly dependent upon a small pension
for his support, when, in fact, he is giving
piano lessons at Weimar three times week
at enormous prices, and is turning away
shoals of applying pupils.
Emma Thursby, who since her return
some time ago from Europe has lived in
much retirement, on account of the death
of her mother and sister, has been persuad-
ed to appear in a brief series of concerts
under the management of Max Strakosch.
They are to begin at ST. John, n. B., early
III September.
Adolf Neuendoff, the musical conductor,
will be manager of the Bijou Theater, in
New York for the season of 18S5-S6. He
intends to make it the home of light operas,
and will have strong company. Flotow's
" Stradella" viii open the season, and
Nuendorff's heavy wife, Januschousky, will
he the prima donna.
The Gdulois SAYS Bernhardt is strug.
Cling hard to pay her debts, and works
when other artists rest; but she has
sums OF money. She is educating her sis
ters daughter, and supports "a cousin, who
has eight children and no fortune, making
ii quite certain she will die in the harness. y
Madame Adelina Patti is engaged upon 4
series of articles for Harpe7's NaGa-i,,e. The
papers will be largely autobiographical.
containing "reminiscences of the diva'S in
teresting career. Madame Patti also will
personally pen the papers, part of the
bargain being that the manuscript shall be
handed to the publishers in her own hand
writing.
paper piano is the latest product OF
Partisan ingenuity. The color of the in
strument is cream white and the material
is so tightly compressed that it has a hard
surface and will receive perfect polish.
The tone of the instrument is said to be
very sweet, and its music without the short,
sharp sound that marks every touch OF the
keys of the ordinary piano.
There are many who remember the per-
Torrance at the Winter Garden OF
OtnellO, IN winch the German actor
Dawson played the title role in German,
Edwin Booth was the Iago in English, and
Madame Methua Scheller was Desdemona
alternately in English and German. This
has been surpassed by representation of
Hamlet in Stockholm, in which Hamlet
was Italian, Opheha was Finnish, and the
rest of the characters were Swedish.
In one of the mountainous districts of
Bavaria there is town called Mittenwald,
shut in by snow-clad peaks and dense for
ests, in which every yard is crossed by a
labyrinth of ropes and poles on which hun
dreds of violins are hung up to dry. For a
tcouple of centuries the entire industry of
the town has been making. for which
the surrounding forests produce the best
material. Men, women and children all
have their allotted share of the work, and
violins, yioloncellos, bass viols, zithers and
every stringed instrument, from copy OF
some old and priceless Stradivarius, perfect
in form. color and tone, down to the cheap
est banjo, are exported in great quantities,
all handmade, to every quarter of the
globe--[ Brooklyn Advance.