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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 13

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1 —i — (Bs Teeble. Ctkr.) v ' ' l J Blanche-Arral Again.' ; •••■••lOnwfr wore-the* utterly? unco® vracing, yarn - about, Madamo Blanche- Arral boing, really "somebody, you knoiv," has ''' 'beon revived, rdo not 1 think that the lovcre? 1 ] iof. musioj care,, whether? Madame, Arral; is'. a< !'. J »-w jprinoossior. a factory girl, so long as sHo 03n t, ( aing—as shes doos—vorj? artistically, the bnl- 4 > >' ■Imtit, .operatic* music: sho v excels. in!. But' tho, ■ '■ ! profes6esvto; bpw <fts,qovorett|.ttho) Blanolio! Arral; jUttaolie of the Austrian; Legation! in< Pifri» v ft 'has been confiding mi a reporter of, the t ' ; . .Herald; Madhmc Arral,, according' to> this' H ( gentleman,, is a-Prnicess: on- her first hus-- - ■' - ; : .band'a Sergius Nicholas do 1 loschkofl. Also her ago is S3, and she "was 1 celebrated all through Europe" as' Claire de i t before. the ■ Prince mot her*"iif tho,,' Hush of her great success" and married her., ! IJien she went to St. Petersburg with her ,husband tor two,years;, Butthere-was her own. l ' ■ :K poisonal family to be coiisideied, "her father , ( Having- Been a count" So, she went, to ' Brussels, to her. noble, anccstrv; !?• ! G . rcturricd ~ to> St.?'. Petersburg 'found that the Pimco was dead, ind his A lUtlllcsii Russian relatives had real ' ,alld, pejsoilali estate,v '.'together■ witlk av large.,'? - ,cum of money belonging to herself" Ever jsitiCß then, she; lias, been- endeavourmg:to -re- ! i: - 1 cover her property and tile third of her hus- ' i band, s estate. ; Some:, of, that sum- of ~ i ? ■ - money belonging to herself" would have been useful at times duirog her Australasian 1 peregrinations.. Sweet are* the: liscs of advor- ; - jtismg. .

The Coming Event. The coming event of the month m the musical world is- the projected visit to WeiJiHgton of Madame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerley Neither ;Ot these artists need an introduction Apart from their fame. lit. Homo; tile names ot both- have 1 been perpetually before) the public slice their land- / ing in Australia; . -The Australian, tour hug - ■ been little less-, than, a triumphal progress. ' ';. It was Clara Butt's original irttentioii to | give 25 concerts- throughout Australia and 1 ' the* Doniuion, but no less than 31 have- tjready been given AMien her tour here and .hoi return-, visit:to Australia-, has bce'n comploted, it is,estimated that G1 concerts will btand ■to her credit. The singers will lcare ' ' ior England on April 28.! No: musical, artist •" "v? who has. visited, the colonies has yet given the , same ■ number of, concerts as Madam# '■ - .w,' Clara Butt. '

An Australian Singer. 1 ' ) ) Mr•. Reginald Gooud's appearance: - m 1 ] : I'aust" , with tho London. Choral-"So- - ■ | ciety, at Queen's Hill (states a Sydney > ,' exchange) will, lead -to more than : one) im- - ■] portant' engagement The conductor, 'Mr, ! Arthur Fagge, e\prcssed himself as "delighted" with tho new basso from Sydney,.' I and immediately secured, him for a perform-- j-rj ance, of Sir Edward Elgar's "Caractaeus", at the Crystal, Palace this; month; arid he is l also i : i to sing, this year at Leeds, Halifax; Bria- ! tol, and other cities.;: His - second appear- ,■ j ance in London was on November 8, at a re- >) cital-eritertainment given by Miss Florence ' ' -.J Almond, when the London "Daily Titlo- ■ - I graph" remarked-, thai; "in his first•' song, iVA Handel's ovor-welcome !l '0! Ruddier than ulie •» " Cherfy/.tho Australian basso so pleased the- '-J audience that they begged for, and obtained, - j an, encore. , Mr, Gooucl hns - a fine, genuine ■ bass voice." , i Notes. As ono result of the,great success of the tour ,of the Besses o' , th' Barn Band, ar- ■ rangements havo been made for a visit to Australia nest ypar by tho celobrated.Aqila- > viva dolle Fonti Brass Band, under the dirtc--1 tion/of Signdr Antonio Taiini, The band hag ■; a. great reputation, aiicl iypn, the-first prize t at the Turin competitions,,-in -1898 • agaiiisfc some 200 other competitors, .. . Tile l, Royal Comic .Opera Company's arri- -1 Val back, m Sydney irith "The Girls -of _ < Gothenberg'' was a theatrical event warmly welcomed, ; The initial'.performanco was!a ' j triumph for the company, quite equal to the 1 - success; scored in; Melbourne. New Zealand tlieatfe-goera will awaitj this piece with in- * tercst., -C-, ' , - -'i

Mr. Mark Hambourg, the talcntod pianist, who'is-.to revisit Australia and New Zealand , this year, was educated'by his father, I'rc- 1 fessor I Michel ; Hambourt;, and by Professor Ler.chetitzky, Vienna' (\vhore he obtained tho Liszt scholarship, 1894)., . His first 1 public appearance - was; at Moscow in : 1888. i:. Ho subsequently performed in London, 1890 (at age of eleven), and has since toured in Australia, America, New.Zealand, South: Africa, ami clsewhcro. :: • ,i - - ' ■