The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-28

losing it's glory. At a recent performance
the management endeavored TO I'LL the
house by advertising "Puritani." and when
the audience had assembled played Got
rerdammerung." as they had done for sew
cral consecutive performances. II Is said
chat America takes all the good singers
away from this famous opera house OF Eu-
rope.
Mr.. Ernest SchelIing is playing the piano
In New York, and he is already looked on as
one OF the coming pianists of the cen
fury. Ernest Schelling was born in New
Jersey in 1873. He was taken to Europe by
his father in 1852, where he studied under
Matthias. who will be
as the first f~avorite pupil of Cho-
OF Paris. to which he obtained
entree by a special permit issued by Am
he studied with Pruckner. While there he
was often called upon to play at court for
tine ti@e N Mas a men 99 spent OF in M study wit6 None none
kowsky and LeschetitZky, after which, in
1883. he was with Hans Huber. in Basel.
Shortly after this he made several success
full concert tours through Germany. France,
Denmark and Switzerland. He kept this up
until 1891; He then settled in Berlin. TO
ated in 1898. Since that time he has APP
peared publicly but rarely, d~evoting him.
self to study and hard work
The production of Balfe's "Satanella'' will
take place at the Castle-square Theater,
Boston. tomorrow evening. 1t will be
practically a novelty to the present gen.
Grafton. 1t is over twenty-five years
since it was heard i'm that city, its last
production having been made by the
P~arepa-Rosa Company early in 1872. TIL
opera mas had one other production in this
country since then, as it was revived as a
New York. i'm isSs' When the ballet was
more prominent than Balfe and the COM
pany more noted for its good looks than
for good voices. The characteristics of
Balfe's music in "Satanella'' are similar to
those In The Bohemian Girl and the ia
makes the leading theme of the work. The
music or "Satanella' is calculated TO please
the great general public that enjoys The
The Damrosch Opera Company appears TO
be as rich in sopranos as the Metropolitan
Company fell short of them. Miss Ella
Russell is the latest addition. This is the
gifted prima donna secured for the Indian
apolis May Festival. She arrived from Eu-
rope ten days ago, and last Saturday night
sang in concert in New York and was re-
called eight times. 1t is almost always the
case that an American singer has to win
a reputation abroad before she can meet
with any high degree of favor in her own
land, and Miss Russell, who was formerly
or Cleveland, o.. Is no exception TO the rule.
For ten years she has been most cordially
received in the principal cities of England.
Germany, Italy and Russia, and yet she is
now TO make practically her first appear
ance In America. Particular admiration
has always been excited by the register of
Miss Russelfs voice. which is a brilliant
soprano, excellent in quality as we'll as ex-
tenslVe In its range. Her experience has
been very wide, having included both con-
cert and opera. She has taken the leading
parts in more than thirty of the best-known
operas, and of late years has identified her
self very favorably with Wagnerian roles.
Her debut, which was in 1852, was made in
the LITTLE f0Un Of PrQf0 I'm TIGoonxy uhara
she sang Leonora in III Trovatore." Four
years later she appeared for the first time
in England. In private life Miss Russell is
Nine. Righini, her husband having been a
captain in the Italian army.
There has been g great deal Of talk lately
about a day laborer in the arsenal at
Venice. named Luigi Coccolo, who is try
ing TO make his debut as q composer. AL
though he has never had any musical in
struction, he has studied alone, and has
written two operas. A committee was re-
subscription to defray the cost of produce
ing his works. "Teito rAfricano." an opera,
In two acts can be reduced for about 5000
Cittadella," will cost at least 1000 francs
to produce. Although the committee has
MADE u very earnest appeal TO the Italian
public, only 1000 francs have so far been
raised.
Mrs. Grace Harrington Stults, a young
composer of more than usual promise, is
giving concerts of her own composition in
New York. One programme includes songs,
quartets. pieces for the violin and two can
tatas. The Sleighing Frolic'' and 'The
Singing Leaves" the latter being a ro-
mantle setting of the ballad by James Rus
sell Lowell. SO
Miss Leonora Jackson, the young Amer
lean violinist, who made so successful a de-
but in Berlin last October, with the Phil
harmonic Orchestra, conducted by her
teacher, DR.. Joachim; gave on Feb. 19 in
that city a second orchestral concert, when
she played before q large audience and with
brilliant success the Mendelssohn concerto,
the adagio of the sixth concerto of Spohr.
the adagio and fugue from the G minor
sonata of Bach for violin alone, and the
concerto of Ernst.
The The~aterphone Company is now an es-
tablished institution in Paris and subscrib-
ers who do not want the trouble and ex-
pense OF attending big first nights at the
opera arrange with the company for
switches that night: At the first perfor-
for weeks in advance.
a acknowledgements excursion and pill
grimage TO the Bayreuth festival has been
organized and will be accompanied by w.
Waugh Lauder. of Chicago. The party will
leave New York June 20 and will make a
sixty-eight-day tour. 1t will be a pan
artistic study tour:
Theodore Dubois's new opera, "Aben-
Hamet," has been tried In Rennes. before
producing it at the Grand Opera House in
Paris. and its success seems to have been
complete. The music is said to very melo-
dious and the orchestration is rich and full
of color. Dubois is Ambrose Thomas's
successor as director of the Paris Con-
servatory.
Alfredo Donizetti, nephew of the COM
poser OF Lucia di Lanmermoor," has Just
produced an opera in one act at Sessari
with great success. 1t is entitled "Dopo
fave Maria" 80
The autograph score of Gluck's Opera
comique, "L'Arbre Enchantee," composed
for the court of Maria Theresa, has come
into the possession of the library Of the
Paris Conservatoire.
Mile. Francisco Miss Fannie Michelsen).
the new San Francisco prima donna, has
made another success in concert at Monte
Carlo, where she sang Handlers Bird
song that Melba affects 50 much.
public, and note should be taken of the
fact that the King of Saxony has presented
his private musical library. said TO be a
collection of great value, TO the ROYAL
Library of Dresden.
Members of theaters. opera houses and
concert troupes in Paris have just banded
themselves into a society to have an in
formal dinner together once a month. The
feast is to be called TO the Dinner of a
Il