Era of Musical Culture.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 3

Era of Musical Culture.

When Max Strakosoh was in perihelion, that is to say, when he was figuring as the great American impresario, he used tocreate a great deal of enthusiasm wherever he went by flattering ambitious young society girls and promising tnem that he would sooner or later elevate them to the positions of prime donno in his opera company. Mrs Thurbor, our modern Calliope— the puissant lady, who holds the American Opera Company' in such an admirable petticoat government — Mrs Thurber, we say, has adopted tactics calculated to create quite as much enthusiasm as Strakosch did. Her plan seems to be to found music schools in the various impressible towns she visits, institutions quite as fascinating, and we may add quite as intangible, as the far-famed air-castles in Spain. Chicago has snapped at the scheme with great gusto. With Mrs Thurber'a genius to plan and with the skilful hands of those grand old minstrels, William Perm Nixon and IN. K. Fairbank, to mould, we are now about to turn out upon tho music world a choice lot of Pattis, Linds, Di Murskaß, Brignolis, Wachtela and Formeses every year ! Louisville, too, is to have a music school. Mrs Thurber is to found it. A fond farewell is to be waved to incline racing tracks, pipelegged two-year-olds, and other bluegrass products. Kentucky is to be metamorphosed into a vast conservatory for | the manufacture of divas and tenors contralti and bassi. As M. T. Cicero remarked to his friend L. T. Sulla, upon hearing that the Seventh ward primaries had gone against the Apuleian law, " Gosh!"— "Chicago News."