Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-01-06
BILL NYES NEW OPERETTA
SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW AND
CHeRCHe IN The MUSICAL LINE.

self Together The Singsd Cat" Offers
Advantages Superior TO All.
! have just returned from n private
rehearsal OF new Opperetta of which
am the author and hasten TO write a
fair. honest criticism Of il for the press.
In this criticism shall try to he per-
fectly frank TO mention any defects,
and yet | shall try to avoid hurting the
authors feelings. | want to score the
Opperetta with merciless hand. and
yet do not wish to give myself need
less pain.
The Operetta itself is called The
5 nged Cat" because it is really so
much better than it seems to be. The
music was composed partly by myself
and partly by Count who plays OH the
ferry boat i'm summer and has his win
ters TO h mself He does not wish to
have his name used, because, ms he says,
lie 8 afraid that foreign powers Will
get on TO 1t and make him come back
To attend TO the Count business again"
He says ii Is very disagreeable TO be
Count and live on long, slim pedi-
gree and what the neighbors bring in
from time TO time.
The orchestra opens the performance
with selection from the "Fying
Dutchman. Difficult as il may appear
the orchestra makes II good selection
from this gentleman, and it is play ed
well aftcr everyth ne is ready. 1t takes
some little time for an orchestra TO get
ready, however. The man who bites
oil the first JOINT of the clarionct
breaIheS few ] quid notes. the first
Vol.n Sounds "a and the gentleman
with the bassoon looks up into Is dark
rccesSes to see if any CAYENNE or
kittens have been depos ted there s,nce
he played last The superintendent Of
the large violin stands it upon end and
feels OF its staccato He then chalks
his bow and the leader whispers in n
low yoice 10 the man who saiivates the
cornet The snare-drum soloist gets
his assortment OF drums into n semi
circle. hangs his triangle where he can
get at il, runs his eve over the
xylophone, slcigh-Oolis bird-call,
picket fence. bones, castanet. cymbals.
Swiss bells and forlss mo. The leader
writes his autograph in the atmosphere
with his 81 OK and the band goes into
committee of the whole with a wild
snort A difficult piece then follows.
Some of the audience are heard TO
state that they W sh it hal been so
difficult that the orchestra could not
have played it.
4 The curta n now rises. and primary
school Of over ght hundred pupils is
seen passing in review across the stage.
singing a song of forty-nine verses,
meantime going through system OF
ealisthenics In making one-night
stands with "lhe Singed Cat" most
any primary school will do with few
rehearsals for this chorus. Get these
children secured in advance and all
thor parents will come to see how the
children look on the stage. | thought
Of this myself.
beautiful soprano now comes on,
accompanied by her vo ce and wonders
where Felix is. She decides to sing a
small song while waiting for him. The
song is an arpeggo with diatonic scales
on 1t. 1t begins low and Tutoring
like the cry Of a wounded clay pigeon,
and gradually scars upward. like the
price of coal, and ends with some ar
fistic gargling which suggests a MARBLE
n the upper reg ster.
AS she gets more confidence in her
ief and becomes more irritated he.
Puse Felix did not get there Mt the
me he said he would, she starts in on
70 second added line below, and with
frescendo and vox populi that starts
gathers in her new dress and makes
man in the box turn pale, she
aims her greatest altitude. while the
ID fiddler becomes so excited that he
rs mostly on the bridge of his in
lment or the coats o We Of the man
sits next TO him
pc prima donna of the "Singed Cat"
n pleasant voice full Of tinlbre and
tallegro movement bordering on
hndante. Mr.. Riley who has heard
SAYS that when she pulls out the
joint on her crescendo and opens
upper register, her mouth looks
unlike a stab in the dark. She
with the whole arm movement.
her action is good as she goes by
Judges stand. She has a selection
c second art called Back 90 the
btains," in which she starts off
"a rtard in which she emits chest
which tests the acoustics of the
that she is ckled to get back to
nounta ns, such as they are, and is
sed with the attitude She has as.
fed in "Tho Damna,ion OF Faust"
{ otherwisc. her conduct has been