MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5977, 13 January 1881, Page 6

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

The Strauss Band agent is in Sydney.

Miss Pomeroy's company is a success-at Sandhurst. ...... ; .

St. Leon's Circus has been doing good business at Melbourne.

Miss Deakin will sing in " Pirates of Penzance" when produced m Sydney.

The Carlotta Patti , Concert Company were to open in Calcutta on November 15.

Madame Hersee has gone to Melbourne, and it is understood she will be engaged for the opera season there. Tommy Hudson's Surprise Party, now in India, had a most successful season in Bombay, and were next to appear at Calcutta.

Wilson's Circus and Chiarini's combination of Circus and Menagerie are both travelling the Indian provinces, and doinv; well.

Herr Benno Scherek, the famous ■accompanist to Camilla Urso's company, is in Sydney en route to Melbourne. He states Madame Urso intends to settle in New York.

The executors of Alfred Bunn have claimed the copyright of " Happy moments," in "Maritana." Mr. C. Weatherly's song, "When sunny skies," will be sung to the old familiar air.

Miss Christian refuses to surrender her opinion to that of the Melbourne newspaper critics, as to the. correct reading of the opening bar in the "Messiah " duet, "He shall feed His flock."

Mr. N. L. Griffin, the senior partner of the International Dramatic Agency, Melbourne, was a passenger by the mail steamer Bokhara to Europe, to look for novelties for Australia. '

Advices of a private character give us the intelligence that Adelina Patti and Signor Nicolini have had a decided falling out, and that Patti has placed all her business in the hands of Mr. Gye.

The change in the name of the play " Black - eyed - Susan " to "William and Susan," and the alteration of the two first acts of the drama, have been condemned by the' Jerrold family, out of respect to the memory of their father.

, .'.'The Martyr of Antioch," Sullivan's cantata,' or "sacred musical drama," as -he chooses to call it, recently produced at Leeds,' JEuglanti, is said to be strongly reminiscent in parts of "Pinafore." - Sullivan seems to be a one-idea man after all.