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Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org 274 THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. Society of Yorl(. URING the present season the Symphony Society of New York will give six afternoon and six evening concerts at Music Hall, the or- chestra being under the direction of Mr. Walter Damrosch. The orchestra has established its reputation as a musical organization of the best quality, and the concerts will be well worthy the patronage of lovers of first-class music. The first afternoon concert will take place Friday afternoon, November 11, at 2 o'clock; the first evening concert will be given Saturday evening, November 12, at 8.15. The celebrated mezzo- soprano, Miss Belle Cole, will make her only appearance in New York previous to her return The Standard. " The Family Circle. " This to England. The following is the program: comedy-farce was written by the French dramat- ist, Bisson, but has been arranged for the Amer- John Philip Sousa and his new Marine Band PART I. ican stage by Sidney Rosenfeld, and is exceed- gave a very successful concert at the Broadway Symphony No. Ill (Eroica), Beethoven ingly amusing. It contains some very laugh- Theatre, Sunday evening, October 30th. Mr. Creation's Hymn, Beethoven able farcical complications. The company is a Sousa deserves all the congratulations and ap- Miss Belle Cole. good one and the acting is excellent. Mr. plause that were showered upon him at the PART II. Thomas Burns, as a much perplexed father, and termination of the concert, and it may be said, Suite for Strings, " Aus Holbergs Zeit, " Grieg Miss May Robson, as an eccentric lodging-house without exaggeration, that the concert was the I. Prelude. keeper, are genuinely funny, and the play alto- best of its kind that we have heard in this city. II. Sarabande. gether has a very attractive presentation. It is A few of the many excellent soloists, which the Ill Gavotte. preceded by "Young Love's Dream," a very band contains, were heard in solo numbers. V. Rigaudon. lively and interesting comedietta. Signor Raffayolo, formerly of Gilmore's Band, Air—Empio Diro Dui sei, Handel played a euphonium solo, as he alone can play Miss Belle Cole. Harlem Opera House. "Jane." Miss John- it, and Arthur Smith played, as a cornet solo, a Bacchanale from Tannhauser (Paris version), stone Bennett. This popular play is proving to fantasia on " Robert le Diable." The vocalists Wagner be as successful in Harlem as it was downtown. were : Mile. Marcella L,indh, soprano, and Sig- Miss Bennett is as sparkling and entertaining nor Galassi, baritone. Rossini's " Semiramide " ip's Surprise as ever, and the rest of the company are capital. overture, Grieg's " Peer Gynt " suite, a " Lohen- The laughable complications of the farce keep grin " fantasia, Czibulka's "Dream After the The girls had been a teasin', in their quiet way, the audience in high good humor. " Chums," Ball," and much popular music constituted the that we a very comical skit, is used as a curtain raiser. program for the band. It was announced from Would get 'em a pianer, but we couldn't quite the stage that the band had been engaged for agree; The Star Theatre. "Diplomacy." Rose and another concert Sunday, November 13th. We'd looked around considerable, but all that Charles Coghlan. The revival of " Diplomacy " Prof. Francesco Fanciulli, of New York, has we had found, is receiving a very demonstrative and encourag- been appointed leader of the band of the United Though nice enough to look upon, had not the ing welcome. The play presents a grand intelect- States Marine Corps at Washington, as succes- proper sound ; ual contrast to the many frivolous farces of the sor to John Philip Sousa. Prof. Fanciulli is an And we had almost gin it up, when one day, day, and the manner in which it is appreciated Italian, having been born in Tuscany, and edu- while in town, by large and discriminative audiences, is a cated in the Conservatory of Music in Florence. We straggled in a music store and heard 'em proof of its intrinsic merit, and also demon- He conducted opera for several seasons in Flor- play a "Crown." strates the fact that the taste of the entire thea- ence, and some fifteen years ago he accompa- They wasn't no musicians, but somehow it tre-going public has not been vitiated by the in- nied an American family to the United States, pleased our ears, congruity of the modern stage. where he has since resided. And fust that either of us knowed, our eyes Professor Hermann's '' black art'' has cast a During his residence in this country, Prof. were full of tears. spell upon the public that results in his hand- Fanciulli has written a number of original com- I wasn't sentimental much, way back when I's some theatre being nightly crowded. He has positions, among others a grand opera, '' Pris- a boy, intensified the deep interest taken in his won- cilla," the scene being laid in New England dur- And used to wonder at it some why people cried derful Chinese sensation, " Ya-Ko-Ko, " by pro- ing the early Puritan times, and an opera com- for joy. ducing another marvelous illusion, entitled ique, "The Sultana," or the " Lily of the Moun- But this pianer made me see that folks are much '' The Mystery of the Caliph of Bagdad.'' The tain," on a Turkish subject, the libretto of alike, various minor feats of legerdemain that he per- which was written by Oscanyan Effendi, a And have a tender chord, somewhere, that some- forms are astonishing and many of them are Turkish Armenian, member of the New York thin ' good can strike. very amusing. Press Club. And so I said to Nancy Jane, while we both He has also written several compositions for wiped our eyes, The Bijou. "Bridget O'Brien, Esq." John military bands, which have achieved pronounced "We'll send this 'Crown' pianer home, and F. Sheridan. In days gone by Sheridan used popularitj^, notably " The Voyage of Colum- give 'em a surprise.'' to delineate an Irish widow in a most comical bus, " "A Trip to Mars," and " A Trip to Man- And you'd a thought, if you'd been there and and catchy manner, and during his long absence hattan Beach," all of which were favorites of witnessed their delight in foreign countries he evidently has not forgot- the late Patrick S. Gilinore, as well as the pub- At findin' a pianer there when they got home ten how to effectively give the impersonation. lic who patronized the concerts of his famous that night, He is supported by an excellent company, the military band. That all the money we had spent on 'em for singing and dancing are good, the eccentric Prof. Fanciulli was strongly recommended by books and schools, drollery of the entertainment is very mirth pro- the late Mr. Gilmore, as well as by the leading Had most of it been wasted, for they acted so voking and the piece is especially well mounted. members of the New York Press Club, of which like fools. he is a member. The new bandmaster left New And yet we couldn't blame 'em for the weak- THE Piano Makers' Union of New York, have York on Monday, October 31st, to take charge ness which they had, decided to issue no journal this year for their of the United States Marine Band. For ma and I, to tell the truth, were e'en a'most as bad. annual ball. WM. SHOEMAKER, of Farmington, 111., will THE Orpheus Club Orchestra has been organ- THE Washington Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar remove to Charleston, 111., where he will en- ized in Bangor, Me., by R. J. Sawyer, W. C. Club has been organized at Washington, D. C gage in music business with Henry Newman. Adams, and others. Chas. S. West, S. B. Clements, A. V. Holmes, and others incorporators. MR. ROBT. GATES, musician and inventor of AN effort is being made in Erie, Pa., to form a four valve brass horn, died at Gallipolis, Ohio, a stock company for the purpose of manufac- F. J. SCHWANKOVSKY, the well known dealer October 226.. Mr. Gates was born in Lancaster, turing pianos. A meeting of the Board of Trade of Detroit, Mich., is spending a few days in Ohio, in 1811. was held to consider the question. town..

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