Year: 1877

kellogg on the American School OF


music.


Boston Correspondent Detroit Free Press.


Boston just now is in the midst
of her Periodical musical excitement,
the triennial festival of the famous
Handel and Haydn Society "a So
ciety that, in the opinion of the true
Bostonian, is unequaled by any
other similar organization the world
over. Truth to toll, the people of
the Hub have reason to be proud Of
it ; and any stranger would pardon
their complacency, were he present
during the festival week. The en-
tire musical portion of the commu-
nifty are in holiday trim, while there
ore rehearsals in the mornings and
concerts in the afternoon and even
ings, and it would be quite difficult
to tell that rehearsals were not con-
certs, 30 large is the audience and
so complete is the performance,
were it not that the soloists were
in street costume and all the ladies
of the chorus wore hats. To the
outside world it is concert, for all
who attend have to pay for their
admittance, but less expensive one.
You see it costs fifty cents moro to
see Kellogg and Gary in their fine
gowns fresh from Worth's than it
does to see them in the gowns which
they wear every day.


cARRENo S LOST COSTUME.


Speaking of concert dressing re-
minds mo Of something which oc-
cured at Music Hall last winter.
It was on the occasion of the debut
in Boston of the Swedish ladies
quartetto. Teresa Carreno was to
play, and at the last minute her
dress had not arrived. She had
come on from New York, leaving
her dress, which was a new one, to
tbs sent after her. The evening
arrived, but the gown did not; eight
O'clock, the hour for tho concert,
found black eyed little Carreno
rushing about her room frantically,
while hotel boys were speeding to
all the express offices for the MISS
ing parcel 1t couldn't be found,
and although, as you may imagine,
the fair artist was in anything but
m amiablo mood toward her dress>
maker, yet she would not disappoint
her public, and when her number
came she walked courageously on
to the platform in d plain black
silk travelling dress, with lin en- col
lar and cuffs, and no attempt at Or.
nament. Somehow the story of her
disappointment had crept through
the audience, and when she appeared
she was greeted with Il perfect storm
of applause. You should have seen
her smile; it was like the Joyous
laugh of q child who finds herself
approved where she expected to be
reproved. Well, she made up for
the tribute, for I never heard her
play better in my life than she did
that night. It wouldn't have been
half so provoking had she been the
only lady, and so have escaped
comparison but there were the
four Swedes in white silk and pink
roses Annie Cary, q veritable snow
maiden, in pure white silk, with
powdered hair and ornaments of
diamonds and pearls and Clara
Louise Kellogg, regal in pink Co.'S
tune from Worth's and by their
side the young Carreno, in black,
who yet did not sufferer in compari.
son, clothed as she was by her youth
her sunny sweetness, and her bril>
liam brunette beauty the black
gown was secondary considera~
ton beside oil these.


A GLOW OF PATRIOTISM


has seized the managers Of the pre-
sent concert, and contrary to the
usual custom all the soloists are
Americans. Whitney has returned
from England whore he has
reaped golden rewards in oratoric
festivals. The Britons tried their
best to keep Whitney there, but,
luckily tho Centennial enthusiasm
and the material desire to assist in
saving the Old South Church seized
him, and he turned his back on