The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29

| DetTolJ, anu Vdliac6 OI new OrlcdnSs DdLC-
| ing was the chief amusement.
Music.
| Miss Katie Murrel is the soprano soioist at ST.
Mary's Church.
Messrs John Geiger and Alex. Stewart will
visit the Chicago opera festival
| Mr. II. B. Palmer and party of friends, will
attend the opera festival at Chicago.
| Miss Nora Dickey will be the soloist at the
English Lutheran Church. on Easter.
| Mr. Will Riptoe is rapidly improving upon the
violin He also possesses good voice.
| Mr. John Blackedge will sing a solo at Gen.
tralavenue NJ e. Church this morning.
Mr. Baugher will sing tenor solo at the
| English Lutheran Church this morning.
The different churches are busy with Easter
music. which will be very elaborate this year.
| A party of ladies from the Matinee Musicale
contemplate visiting the Chicago opera festival.
| Mrs. Gen. Knefer possesses a remarkably
sweet contralto voice, which she is having culti-
| waited.
| Miss May Miller is making fine progress upon
| the piano, and will soon rank among our leading
| players.
| Miss Amanda Freidgen, is promising pian-
ist, and is devoting considerable time to the prac-
| tice of music.
| Miss Lulu Burt went to Cincinnati Yesterday
| to commence course Of voice lessons at the Col
| lege of Music
At the next Lyra concert Fred LOOMS will
| sing, Thy Sentinel Am l." with full orchestra
| accompaniment
| Tagliapietra's usually magnificent voice was
| out of tune, at times, in the opera of Traviata"
| on Monday night.
| Hymn to Music" is on the programme for the
next Lyra concert, with Miss Pfaffiin and An
| drew Smith as solists.
Miss Adams is doing some good solo work for
the Mannerchor Her voice is particularly
| sweet, mezzo soprano.
The piano playing Of Miss Clara Bretz is
! greatly admired. She is good solo performer,
and is proficient as an accompanies
Mrs. Emil Wulschner is teaching the Sisters
of St Johns Academy the banjo that they may
instruct the pupils of the school upon that in
| strument.
Mrs. j. J. Cole will go to Cincinnati, next
week, to make arrangements with of the
| music houses of that city to publish the compo
| sition she has just finished.
| Mr. Kipp who handles the organ at the En-
| glsh Lutheran Church with skill. is an acquis-
| ton to musical circles. He is German, and has
been in this country but short time.
| 1.-THE Palms." by Fause, beautiful sacred
| solo, which Sig Tagliapetra has sung with great
| success, will be rendered Easter Sunday, by An
drew Smith, at the Mayfower Church.
Mr. L. A Dochez is valuable acquisition to
| the Lyra Society. He has apowerful bass voice,
| which will probably be heard at the last concert
| given by that organization this season.
| Miss Tillie Crane, the New York contralto,
whose voice attracted so much attention in
musical circles, last season, will spend portion
of the summer with friends in this city.
The Danville, Ill, band gave grand concert
/ last week, at which Mime. Heine, and Fred N.
lines, the trombone soloist of Gilmore's band of
New York, played solos with great success
Mr.. Will Rich, one of the genial assistants of
Pfafliins music store, Is trying to tune the re-
fractory voice of a young singer in his home
which is not pitched on the most melodious of
strains.
The first edition of the "Bon-Ton. composed
by Barclay Walker, has been sold, and his pub
| fishers are about to issue second, in which the
composer will make a special mark upon the
time, as he holds that players apt to play the
piece too fast thereby inarring the effect in
tended
Miss Lizzie Abbott, sister of the cantatrice
Emma, lives in Chicago, and supports herself
and mother by her work as stenographer and
occasionally singing at home concerts She has
| fine ZZo-soprano voice, and it is matter OF
some comment among her friends that the
prima donna does not assist her in an artistic
| way, or add more in financial manner, to the
support of the family
Three prominent gentlemen in this city might
have become known as musicians had not the
fates dccreed otherwise. Major Gordon. as a
young man. was quite proficient as yiolinist
Governor Gray studied that instrument with an
ardor IN his early years, while Mr. Austin H.
| Brown never would give up his love for banjo
and devotes his leisure moments now to old
minstrel melodies upon that instrument.
When the curtain went up in the opera of
| "Semiramide,' revealing some of the members of
| the grand orchestra upon the stage headed by
Perry Ingalls, in their Oriental suits of queer
sort of Mother Hubbard style, with turn-up-toed
shoes the reception OF a party of their friends in
the audience, among whom were Chas. B. Foster
and Fred LOOMS, vociferous that for a
moment, the performers almost lost their equili-
| brium
The concerts given by the ladies of the M E.
Church at Greenfield, on Thursday and Friday
| evenings were a grand success. Mrs. DR.. Mar
tin, Mrs. Angie Howard, Mrs. Eben Tyner Mrs
VIM. Hammil and Mr.. Asa New were among
| the vocalists who participated. Miss Gertie
Sproule sang cavatna from Robert le Diable'
| and 1.-THE Switzer's Song of Home" Miss Jennie
| Yelling of this city, assisted in recitatons on
| the last evening.
Next season Mr.. William Castle, the celebrated
tenor, will cooperate with Carl Rosa, in pro-
ducing English operas, on grand scale, in this
country. The partnership of these gentlemen will
be guarantee of a brilliant success. They will
give an entirely new repertoire, with no particu-
lar attraction, but the entire ensemble to be
made up of the best artists, selected from Eu-
rope and this country. They propose playing
oniy VIC large ciees 1neiI opera festivals pelng
conducted on the plan of the Mapleson and Alb
hey ventures. There is no doubt but that
English opera is to take the lead in the next de-
cade, and rich harvest awaits such scheme
Emma Abbott ought to succeed for she is never
happier than when upon the stage A member
/ of her company says she lives only for her art;
that her lie consists of the hours she is before
| the public. She is never happier than when she
| hears the bell for the curtain to rise The least
change or detection in stage business excites her
| to such an extent that she loses command of her
voice for moment, but quickly collects herself.
She would die if she were to lose her voice
"Traviata' is considered her best role by
critics Much of the romantic ardor of this
beautiful composition is lost when it is rendered
| in English. Mr.. Castle has repertoire of
eighty-four operas If he feels uncertain of a
role when he first sings it, he is never easy in
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