Er0 of Musical Culture.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 6

Ero of Musical Culture.

When Max Strakosch Was in perihelion, ' that is to say, when he, was figuring as the great American impresario, he used to create 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 donne in his , opera company. Mrs Thurber, our modern Calliope — the puissant lady, , who , holds . the American Opera Company in such »n admirable petticoat; government — Mrs Thurber, we say, has adopted tactics calculated to create'cJuiteaSMuoh enthusiasm as Strakosch did. Per plan seems to be to found music schools in the various impressible towns eh©-viBits,—instifcutione quite as fascinating, and we may add quite.as, in-) tangible, as the far-famed air* castles in Spain. Chicago has snapped at the scheme, with great gusto. , With Mrs Tburber's genius' to plan and with the sk ilful hands of- those' grand < old < minstrels,. William Perm Nixon, and ,N. « X. v Fair bank,, -to mould, w^e ;are now .about, to turn out upon the music world a .choice lot of Pattis, Lincls/Di Mufekas, Brignolis, Wachtels and- Formeses every year ! Louisville, too, is to have a,music school. • Mra< Thurber is to foqnd it. 't, A fond farewell isi to-be waved to incline- racing -tracks, legged two-yeari>olds;> and other. < ibiue', glass products.' >; Kentucky <is, to b*, metamorphosed ■ into a .vast conaervatory- for ; the manufacture of divas? and con? tralti and basai. .'As Mi T. Cicero remarked' to his friend L..T. Sulla., upon.hearing that the Seventh ' ward; primaries < had gone, against the Apuleian -law,. 'V'Gosh.l'V^ " Chicago News.-"- * >< te r<<s ,s>\ %