STAGS AND STUDIO.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

STAGS AND STUDIO.

(By Euterpe.)

The Choral Society held its first rehearsal of " The Bride of Dunkerrori " on Monday last. The work is very rrplodious. There are only three solo party .in it; and bhey have been allobbed as follows-.—Soprano-Miss Whibaker; tenor, Mr Edwin Hos, kings ; bass, Mr WorralL

News from the court of Hymen finds its way so readily to bhe ladies, and obbains such rapid currency.amongst them, that I presume I retail a well-discussed,item when I mention that at AUJSaints', Church on Thursday week, two of the leading musical amateurs of Auckland (Miss Culpan and Mr Archdale Tayler) are to be united in the bonds of holy matrimony, Both lady and gentleman are deservedly popular, and I fully expect'to hear of, a crowded-atten-dance. Afternoon tea will be served in the schoolroom. !■ • - .-. ' ; - :, . yr, j

The Ponsonby Choral Society will produce Cowan's " Rose Maiden." towards the e_t„ tjf July, and will subsequently repeat it in the Choral Hall.

I have to acknowledge the receipt of two "Jubilee" pieces' of'inusic cbtiiposed and published withni the'colony—one at Dunedin and the obher it Wellihgton'. , Both display musicianly .kill and baste. The first is entitled " Th.New' Zealand Jubilee TMarch," was composed By A: J5. Wilson, of Dunedin, and is dedicated to' His Excellency the Governor. It las been published by Charles Beg^and Co., of Dunedin, and the price is 2s. It is bitten in the'key of A flab, bhe rhybhrn ii well-marked, arid the effect is inspiriting. ;j Ibis well adapted for performance by' a .volunteer brass band;' The accompainmen. to the second figure is rather peculiar fora; ma,rch, being more suggestive of a berdxise. ;Ab bhe end of the second figure a progression is made into bhe key of D. flat,- from which the march soon, reverts to the original key. Toward^ the end a few phrases of me National Antheta, are worked in, but the.time is unduly 'interrupted'therfeby. V' The other original mc&ceau. is of astilmore " taking "cEaracter. Like the march, t is iiisci-bed to the O'overhor, and is en: titled" "The Zealaridia Jubilee Waltz.'?; The composer is r.W. Jones, of .Wellington (who . also composed '', The Exhibibiori Walbz "); ib has been neatly lithographed at the " E'veningtPress" office, Wellington, _hd bhe price if 2s, The introdu'ctiori, which is in C major, has been unmistakably inspired by Wagher . " Tannhauser "March and the predormnarib walbz air in 0 major disbantly reminds one of the celebrated " Venetia." Tile second and third figures, bub particularly bhe labber, are very nice indeed, and reflect great credit upon the com-, poser. I regard the scherzo at bhe end of the third figure? as the gem of the composition. The third and last figure is a repetition of the opening of the waltz proper. I should think tHis Jiibilee "Waltz"ought to sell well in Auckland.

Miss Maggie Knight is off. for America for a rest. I . ! .

The Italian Opera Company are playing to crowded houses at Brisbane.

Miss Genevieve Ward and Mr W. H. Vernon were at latesb accounbs appearing in New York in farewell performances.

Liddy is returning to New Zealand very shortly, bub whab he is bringing with him has not'so far transpired.

" The Mikado " has returned to Berlin, and is again; drawing crowded houses of enthusiastic Teutons.;

Madame Offenbach, widow of the celebrated composer, died in Paris in April lasb.

, G. B. Allen", the husband, of Miss Alice May, the operatic vocalist, is back again in Melbourne after 12 years' absence and wants pupils.

Mr H. Alexander, who went home some time ago to secure some novelties for the colonies, haspurchased an automabon called '' Ali." .He was bo leave for New Zealand by the Tainui on May 19, and consequently is duo in the,'colony to-morrow. He opens firsb in Dunedin on or aboub July 11, and then, goesto Australia for the Exhibition.