The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
RARE OLD CREMONA VIOLIN OWNED
BY COLUMBUS, IND, MAN.
Nine. ScaIchi and Her Grand Opera
Concert Company at EngIish's
Dn st. Patrick's Day.

operate artStS. Scalch1 has long been con-
sidered one of the greatest artists in her
zine that the world has ever seen. She is
the famous contralto who shared the hon
ors with Patti until that singer became
jealous, and since then Scalchi has been
the great attraction of all the ideal per-
formances given in London and New York
Because of the rare. nature of her voice
Nine. ScaIchi has been more in demand
than any operate artist either in Europe
or America, and she has the distinction of
having sung before more people than any
artist on the lyric stage. For ten years she
alternated between st. Petersburg, London
and New York, hardly missing one month
in the whole year, and constantly singing
at the various opera houses of the two con-
tirents. Scalchi is also the one contralto
who is complete mistress of the fiorid and
highly dramatic school She sings the i'm
mensely difficult ford music of Arsace in
"Semiramide" as we'll as the heavy and
deep notes that fall to the lot of Amneris
in Aida and Azuscena in "Trovatore."
She excels, however, in the grand operate
boys parts, which have some of the best
music in the entire operate works allotted
to them. No one has ever approached
Scalchi in singing and acting the roles of
Siebel in Faust" Frederick in 'Mignon,"
Urbano in "Huguenots,' Orsino in "Lucre-
tia Borgia Oscar in Masked BALI or
Cherubino in Marriage of Figaro" Seal
chis voice is at once large and flexible and
of noble quality. 1t is owing to her magni-
ficent diction that in all the music she
sings, whether of the classic, dramatic,
comic or sentimental school, she is so very
effective. Associated with the contralto is
Nine. Berneice Pasquali, who is coming
dramatic soprano Of the operate world.
Last season she created a furore by her
singing, splendid acting and youthful beau
ty. Aside from the two artists mentioned,
the tenor and baritone, Signor Pasquali and
Signor Albert, are operate celebrities. In
the operate part of the entertainment
which includes a complete act of grand
opera given in full costume, with proper
scenery, paraphernalia, ETC., the principal
parts will be sung by Nine. Scalchi, Nine.
Pasquali, Mile. Du Bedat, Signor Pasquali
and Signor Albert. The first part of the
programme is made UP of miscellaneous
numbers, in which each of the above named
artists will sing fayyorite number.
The spring season of grand opera in Chi
cago will begin Monday evening, March H.
La Traviata" will be given, with Melba
Van Cauteren, Mattfeld, Salignac, Campa-
mari, Vanni, Viviani, Rains and Stehmann;
Tuesday evening "rannhauser" will be
given, with Gadski, Barna, Mattfeld,
Kraus Fischer, Bispham Van Hoose,
Staudigl, Rains and Schein; Wednesday,
Barber of Seville" with Melba, Van Cau-
teren, Salignac, Campanari, Carbone. Bou-
douresque and 'viviani; Thursday evening
Staudigl, Toronto, Seygard, Cauteren'
hatfield, Goettich, L. and M. Hart
man Krags Bisphat%P e esdsk Rain TGro nt
Kraus, Stehmahn, Bispham breuer ana
Rains, and Saturday afternoon "Faust,
with Melba, Toronto, Van Cauteren. Ibos'
Boudouresque Campanari and Viviani. Mr.:
Damrosch is to conduct the 'Tannhauser,,
''Siegfried - @Die Waikure'' and Faust
and Mr.. Bomboni the others.
''Eiawatha," a dramatic cantata Q7O pp),
by Frederick R. Burton, has just been is
sued by the oliver Ditson Company. The
composer, who is well known as writer
of fiction, is a graduate of Harvard He
took the highest honors there in music, I'M
der john X. Paine, and has published many
successful songs and choruses. In his 'Hla-
watha" the parts chosen for musical set
ting are but traction OF Inc enii q, +S ep1o,
selves that the whole may properly be re-
garded as continuous narrative, with
the chorus, soloistS and orchestra as mar
ratorS, The chief events treated are the
battle with Mudjekeewis, the wooing OF
Minnehaha, including suggestion OF the
wedding festivities, her DEATH the famine,
the prophets gloomy vision OF the future
of his race, and his mystical departure
The cantata is to be given at Yonkers, N.
Y, in April, by the Yonkers Choral Society.
The season at the Boston Museum bids
fair to extend far into May, or possibly
even into June, as one of the late bookings
there is 1.-The Chorus Girl" a musical
comedy, the joint production of Mr.. Charles
Emerson Cook, author of THE Walking
Delegate and Mr. Charles Dennee, Of the
New England Conservatory of Music.
Briefly told, the story concerns the trials
and successes of a very beautiful girl Sc
lected from the chorus to suddenly fill the
place of the prima donna. The music OF
the piece is said to be particularly tune
full, the dialogue racy and up to date, the
situations novel, and the dances, of which
NAL. Mr.. M. b. Gilbert, of Portland. who
trained the cadets in their DANCES, is doing
the same work for Tor, Mr. Socks COMPANY paIiy
opera 1.-The Walking Delegate will be put
on at the Fifth-avenue in April under the
new name of THE Coreans
A new factor has been introduced into
the orchestral question since women have
begun to form bands. The courts of
Braunschweig, Germany, are at present
puzzled by new kind of case A tavern
keeper had, on the strength of a photo
graph engaged band of female players,
but when they arrived he found they were
not nearly as pretty as their pictures, ana
the best-looking one was missing entirely
In consequence mine host refused to en-
gage the band, and was sued for $50. The
gallant plaintiff manager insisted that the
girls were as pretty as their pictures, when
the host denied. AT last accounts the court
was still in doubt as to what decision to
render.
The novelties for the Covent Garden opera
season will include A1assenets "Sappho,"
Mancinelis Hero and Leander" and
Saint-Saens's Henry VIII" Jean de
Reszke will be heard for The first time as
the elder Siegfried. An interesting expert
ment is to be made with the ring operas, of
June and June o. All four parts OF the
tetralogy will be sung without cuts, and the
performances of die Walkure, Sieg-
fried" and "Gotterdammerung" will begin
at o'clock in the afternoon, an arrange.
ment that win make possible an interval or
an hour and a half for dinner between the
first and second acts.
An event took place the other day at the
Grand Theater at Nantes, in France, which
is said TO be without parallel in theatrical
annals. A performance of LA Poupee'' was
announced, and the crowd was so great
that The audience was not seated when the
curtain rose The first act, consequently,
was played amid much disturbance, and
when the second commenced it was hailed
with noisy protests and calls for the man
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