MUSICAL NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3307, 11 September 1872, Page 3

MUSICAL NOTES.

Signor Grandi has finally retired from the operatic stage. . There is at Linz a piano bearing the date ISO 3, which was presented to Beethoven by the city of Paris. --~■' The Melbourne Town Council asked the moderate sum of £50 for the use of the grand organ on the occasion of Cagli and Lyster's concert.

The Duke of Edinburgh appeared as a performer at the Civil Service Musical Society's meeting on 27th May, and is said by the Orchestra to have handled his violin with great spirit and conscientiousness. The celebrated cantatrice, Pauline Lucca, who is Baroness de Ehaden by marriage, has writteii from London' to M!' de Mulsen, director of the Itoyal theatres afc Berlin, to say that she will never again set foot in the Prussian capital. Besides laurel crowns, gold medals, and numerous other honours (says the Musical Standard), Verdi has received the sum of £SOOO for the last opera i" Aida." This is more than Beethoven received for all the music he ever wrote.

Melbourne possesses a genius in the shape of a lad named Foorden, from the Blind Asylum, The Argus states thafc his performances'of Mendelssohn's music on the grand organ would have done credit to a player with all his faculties about hiui.

A Welsh choir of 500 voices Was to sing at tlie Crystal Palace on the 4th July. Ifc is composed almost exclubively of miners, colliers, firemen, and their families, from the Soutii of Wales, many of them never having been 30 milea from homo. The power and vigour witli which they sing are said to be thrilling and effective. A new prima donna, Carlotta .Grossi, has .made her, appearance at Drury ; Lane,-in Cherubim's "Due Giornata," given in the Italian* vortion for- the first time in-England.* The Pall Mall Gazette says of Mddle. Grossis

—" Her true soprano voice is of tiie clcare'st, purest qua'ity, and in vocalisation she proved' herself capable of tho mosfc daring flights." The Paris lli'-rnn at Ua-j-Jle. Jfiiitiai/e supplies the following list of salaries to bo paid to singers and dancers':—"Madame Patti, at St, Petersburg, will receive £1000 per month; Mdle. Kifsson, ',£1400!;' Madame' Tolpini, £<i 00; Signer Graziani," £800; Mdlle. Fiorretti, the dtnitftiw, -Wife of M. Verger, tlie baritone,- will receive at the Milan Scala, for a short season, £1000*' Madame Pauline Lucca; at the 2s ew York Academy of Music, luixfc winter, £1400 per month, and a benefit." - - i

At the Boston Musical Festivals-winch • opened on 17th Juno, and continued till tlie 4th July, there were to be 40,000 vocal arid instruaient.il performers. ' Great Britain was to contribute tlie Grenadier "Band, under the direction nf Mr Dan Godfrey, a band of Scotch pipers, and an Irish- band. Strauss and his orchestra were' td go from Vienna, Geudc's band aad a b'a;id of tlie Prussian Guards from Berlin, ,military band from Bussia, aud the JGarde , JLU-puMicane from France, lv is stated that £1,000,000 has been contributed by pensbiis ih the United States towards the" expenses" of. this International festival.''*'A, building .'called the Coliseum, capable of holding,loo,ooopersons, lias been erected. The Committee includes. Longfellow, Ji'mmerson, and Oliver-Wendell Holmes.: ! "■' - ' '■ -■■'•' . A friend of ours (New^York* -Weekly Efi"view)"gives iis this, vivid .description ofthe manner in which a girl of the period makes ready to play and plays'*her grand piano :f— "It.was a young woman, with as many white muslin bounces round: her.as the .planet Saturn has rings. : Skc> gave the music stool a twirl or two, and fluffed on to it like a whirl of soap . raids in a hand basin. Then she pushed up lier . cuifa. as if ahe. was., going to fight.!.for t)ie champion.'s belt.. Then . she worked her wrists and* hands, to limber-em, 1 suppose, and spread out her lingers tilUhey looked asthough they would pretty iriticli coyer iihe key-board, from' the growling end'td thelittle squeaky one. Then those hands;of here madca jump at the keys as if they were a couple of' tigers' corning down on a Hock. oi black and white iheep, ivnd the piand gave a ereat howl as'if its tail had been trod on. Dead st<?p—so .still you ,co.uld hear ''rowing. 'Then ai^tlicirjiuhp, kan<i* attbtlier howl;" as if'thcpi-Whad two* tails ahd you trod on both of 'cm at" onco, and a clatter and scramble aj;Vrst-ni'ig;br juinra, up anddo^-n, back and forward," one han<l over tho other; like a stampede of rats aud mice more than like anything I caß muwe.'"'

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