The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-10

fhtt1f NO.uOuDt ner name Will DC an nttrhC-
ton. after the success Of her sister, Adolina.
Why not make a combination Of Gottschalk
and Cariotta Pstti1 According 70 what An
tonic Barili. her step-brother and teacher,
told me last spring. she has q beautiful. hieh
soprano voice. reaching E sharp in alt. She
as Adelina. She has also learned a repertoire
of over thirty Arias and romanzas in Italian
And French, and ais q good number Of Eng
StrAkosch. who had been quietly listen Ing
to my suggestion. exclaimed: de Vivo is
know that she Is a very fine singer. with not
n large voice. hut one that Is sympathetic md
a little metallic. and will DO heard TO great ad-
try. have heard her singing almost every
day. but I have. been a little afraid that her
Graa then answered NV dear Max. you
are wrong on this point. She 10 not so lame
az not to be able 70 walk q few steps on the
she has q fine figure and n beautiful face. and q
fascinating smile With which to CAPTURE the
will and out after she has been rineing = while.
{: good a singer as Bar!Ii says. Let us engage
Grau told strnkosch to go right home. as he
lived in the same house with her sister Amelia.
500 n week for the season and a bencat at
the end OF It. They also engaged her brother.
y Violin, wn and T musician .H : 20 TO yoe COMPLETE T,n the the come phe
pany they engaged Herr $. Behrens. a splen-
did accompanist. who has been for more than
htIty - " " oIlAuN'o W
Italian. English. and German operas. lie re-
sides in Philsdelphia. AID. for the past three
or four seasons has been the manager there OF
the Metropolitan opera company.
The announcement OF the Gottschalk and
Carlotta Patti concert combination made quite
n stir In the musical community. and the news.
papers doomed the forthcoming event, which
was the musical sensation OF the season. Here.
writing. Tor the first time, my memory falls
me. and do, not definitely recall the. place or
the late Of tho 4rst concert; think =, TOOK
September. But j remcmber wildly the rren:
OF Gildd. in "RiGoletto." and in the French
laughing song. which she gave for an encore,
cess by Mime. Pauline Colson.
The reception OF Gottschalk was almost IN
ovation. He was Of medium size. and was a
very pretty young m IN about 90 ears old.
over a smiling mouth. ana lovely. dreamy
eyes. His was the most charming personrli-
known. and he had a great deal Of magnetism:
the most potent OF gifts to an artist. II | we'll
remember. his first number was a piece by
Chopin. wac was his idol among all the plano
comp,sers He was warmly apt Landed. and
was called and recalled. and for an encore he
played a berceuse OF his own composition. The
the Last Hone" II was n tremendous sue
cess; 80 great a one that in u year Mr.. Hall.
his publisher, had sold over 5000 comics Of
famou. transcription Of I'll Trovatore." Tho
concert. was IN emphatic SUCCESS. ana u glorl-
Gus beginning.
After two or three more concerts the COM
pany went TO Boston. where | had been a
week beforehand to arrange Tor two concerts.
The gentlemen OF the press. with whom | had
become well acquainted In the two previous
seasons. doomed the forthcoming advent OF
Gottschalk and Carlotta Patti there. Tho
concerts were given in the Music Hall. which
was crowded Mt both performances. After
over New England with unvarying success.
We came back here and gave two more con-
OF his own compositions. Which the public liked
n great deal more than those Of any other
COMPOSE I They were .ntir Sl new, heIonGins
productions OF which were played by many
~pIanlsts ut concerts and by all the students
and amateur piano PLAYERS in this and foreign
countries for more than n decade.
From here we went e, Philadelrhia and
Tie success OF GottschSlk and CarlStta Patti
was an 1rmous. They were overwhelmed with
applause. recalls. and encores. SO much so that
We gave concerts In Balti more and Washing
ton, whers both of the artists were received
New York especially. and in Boston and Phila-
delphia. had travelled quickly ahead hy wire
among the associated newspapers. Besides
private dispatches all over I g country 10
editors with whom we were well acquainted
and thev would publish them. From Wash
lnGton we visited Harrisburg. Pittsburgh. Co.
lgmbuS. DAYTON; t%,inoinn vi; Indianapolis,
TSrrS iinpte; s. h"ni,i Springfield and bloom
Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse.
Utica, Troy. and Albany. We. came back 10
Gottschalk's first season, which was a series
of trlumphs.
During that long tour OF over six months I
became m AMI an intimate FRIEND LEM OF GostsehHiS, WHO
that on Christmas Day he presented to mo n
500 bill. with the compliLients Of the sea-
tho end Of the season ,irau gave me u nne piece
OF blue cloth for,a winter, promenade" Garment:
! ordered ,,, snr II made up IN sGs Ist e co ,"s y, ana -
him. as lie was the very best friend ] had.
from whom ] really learned my profession. ]
travelling managers. lie was n most energetic
worker, and, he was a self-made ,man who
At a tate.a-tS,c' dinner when NO gave to
Gottschalk., Strakosch and me at an Italian
restaurant n Union square he re-eneescd ms
gagged Go,tschaiE at 81 500 a mouth. The
understanding WAS that should work part Of
cn.ionally, when Grau desired u. for him, as
he Intended TO engage Miss Hinkley. Rrignoli
Mancusi, susini. and Nicola Barlli. with Muzio
vi T BaTSiers al S sssyisiia." "o Nth h% riano acco o"a
panimont, ALL over the country.
Cnrlotta Patti, having made al enormous
success. decided TO 20 10 Europe. She Ind
received a" nrrr from BERNARD Ulman, who
had been notified by Letter from his forme,
closely the continuous success Of Carlot,a,
,Sienor scola, her hrothcr;ln-law; was her
NlNlNtT NNl NAhlItsN dRtll anu lTuNtillUg 'OIl-
panion during the season. and aftrrwRrd In
Eurone. till he died u few years later. lie
advised her to have her benefit at Newark,
where she had not sung. and whence u great
many musical pcople had written tn Stra,
SOsch requesting him to give n Patti concert
there. | offered my services to manage this
clearing more than S. 900.
forget In mention that Carlo Patti scored u
success every where, and became popular.
After tho bsnetlt concert James Nixon. tn,
old circus manager, engaged Curlottn at SA0C
a week. and gave for two weeks pOpu-
lar concerts AZ 20 cents Mt tho old armory
next To the Fourteenth street Theatre. Tn,
concerts were very successful. 1 rtistically ant
financially. and he engaged her to sing "Lucir
di Lammermoor'' In Boston three times in .
week. She accented nm offer of $500. and
engaged me at $50 per week ms manager. Car
lu'tn, though lame, MANAGED 10 walk mos
gracefully, and sang her role divinely, espo
cially tho mad scene. Her success was com
plcts IA q singer. but the result financially
could not find out. as Nixon'H treasurer-it
remember we'll. a Mr.. Brown did not allow m,
to see the receipts. And as Nixon was not II
boston. he cheated me out OF one weeks salary
when | carnc back TO New York ! spoke Il
Nixon about IL. and he told me that he did moi
know anything about It., rs he thought every
body had been paid,
CRrlotta left in July for Paris. where hel
carly European triumphs began. In biddinl
me au revoir she presented To- me n beautiful