The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The seidl Orchestra.


If any of our musical people fail to
attend the grand p rformance by the
celebrated Seidl Orchestra this evening
they will miss one of the grandest must
cal events of the time, and the opportu-
nifty to hear the great Wagner operas in
terpreted as no other orchestra, or group
of singers in the world are able to inter
pref them. The reason is obvious. Fol-
many seasons German opera was in the
ascendancy in New York. 1t was fost
cred by the great miIlionaires of the
country, who virtually furnished sub
sidy. The magnificent Metropolitan
Opera House was it's headquarters. Mr.
Seidl, the conductor, was endorsed by
Wagner himself, as the musician, who
of all others, best understood and pre-
scented his works. Mr.. Seidl conducts
the performance. He has with him the
same great orchestra that he had in New
York. In addition he has set of singers
who, accompanied by this orchestra and
drilled by Mr.. Seidl, gained the great
triumphs in New York that have beer
chronicled from one of the musical world
to the other. Miss Juch, who has been
heard in Portland several times
before, is an eminent artist, and
was the leading prima donna of the
American Opera Company. Amanda
Fabbris is an artist of no mean repute.
The others all bear names familiar to
musical critics. Good seats are still on
sale at Stockbridge's. The City hall
should be crowded tonight.
Yon Yonson.
AS is now generally known, Heege con-
ceived and wrote lyon Yonson,' while
employed as log roller in the fast
nesses of the Wisconsin woods. The
room in which he ate, slept and had his
being was the only one in rude log hut
typical of that wild country. His wax
ing eyes beheld mammoth colored pic
ture. named in lurid print, "The Gener-
ais of the Civil War; Over the primi-
tive fireplace d group which he was told
portrayed "The Presidents of the Uni
ted States" and on the front wall in a
round black frame, President Lincoln
and Family on one side a photograph
of "Grandma Garfield" on the other
s.Nellie Grant, Should he not have
grown patriotice Gus declares that the
only thing that prevented the habitat
ing Of Yon Yonson in blue coat with
brass buttons and making him a thor
oughbred Century hero of he late I'M
pleasantness, was small, square per-
forated card placed on the organ which
said in redworked letters, ''Do unto 9th
ers as you would be done by!' lyon
Yonson'' will be seen at Portland thea
tire tonight.
Wilbur Opera Company.
The liking of the local public for
comic opera and the popularity the Will
bur company as established by their pre-
vious performances in Boston were
strongly shown by the attendafise at the
Grand opera house in that city. That
there should be few vacant seats in the
house when such wretched weather pre-
vailed was surprising circumstance and
and one that must have been very pleas
ing to Messrs. Belknap and Jennings, the
managers. The work was 1.-THE Black
Hussar,'' and it received smooth
spirited and unsteady excellent produc-
ton. There was nothing tawdry about
the costume, the specialties took well,
the general comedy work provoked an
abundance of responsive merriment and
the marching by the chorus was smooth
" executed. The Wilbur Opera Compa-
nv will open at Portland theatre nex'
Monday evening in 1.-THE Royal MILDLY. y
Home Opera Company.
The tickets for "Pinafore,'' to be Civ
en- March 33d, oath and 25th at City hall
are rapidly selling at Chandler's Music
store. Mr.. James G. Bartlett, the well
known Boston tenor, has been especially
engaged for the role of Ralph Rack
straw. Misses Brown, Jordan and True
will assume the respective parts of jose
phine, Buttercup, and Phebe. James P.
Coomes will appear as Dick Deadeye, and
Mr.. John p. WEIGH will assume the role
of Captain Corcoran, Mr. William R.
Reade, as the Boatswain, and Mr.. James
A. Montgomery as Sir Joseph Porter,
connn1efas the list
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