Show MUSICAL NOTES Botesi is engaged for five concert con-cert at the San Carlos Lisbon According to Verdi pupils should learn Italian traditions regarding music Patti dreads the voyage to America Amer-ica and will probably cross during the warm weather Verdi claims to be a country farmer far-mer and takes his greatest pleasure in discussing weather and crops Albanys young baritone Mr PaulA Paul-A McDonough is at present with the StrackoschHess Opera Company Com-pany Johann Strauss the Viennese composerjs writing an opera com nequin ique for a libretto written by lIen h uiaeosa tie composer lias oeen promoted to the rank of commander com-mander of the Order of the Italian Crown Thalberg had no regular pianoforte piano-forte teacher but took lessons from a bassoonplayer Mitag The greater therefore i tho credit due to his own efforts What are the wild waves saying JohnV sung out Young America to a Chinaman on the beach Washee washee calmly replied 1 the Celestial with a grin The original Olivette when produced pro-duced in Paris according to the statement of Miss Lenoir in the Dramatic News was a rank fail ure Time has improved i There is a report that a serious disagreement has arisen between W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan and that there is little probability of their workincr together aeain Liszt was so electrified when young by the weird effects produced pro-duced by Paganini tho eccentric violinist that he resolved to become the Paganini of the pianoforte Two organgrinders in England travel with the following sign We are English musicians Please encourage home talent Dont let the Italians have it all their own way It has leaked out that the real reason rea-son why the widow of Ole Bull refused to marry Bjornsterne Bjoni son is that she broke three of her teeth trying to pronounce his name Puck According to a New York critic Walter Emerson is rapidly making a reputation in New York musical circles by reason of the grace delicacy deli-cacy and brilliancy of his performances perform-ances on the cornet Thespecific qualities of Thalbergs execution were A welltrained mechanical me-chanical dexterity with great care in details the shakes were like the trills of a canary the chords sounded as if struck by mallets of steel Impressario to Adelina Patti How much madame will be the salary each time for you and Signer Xicolini Two thousand dollars sir And how much for you alone without Signor Xicolini1 Two thousand dollars sir On the 27th of January a testimonial testi-monial concert was given in Cincinnati Cin-cinnati to little Max Banner the child violinist whose performances are exciting the wonder of musicians mu-sicians He is not yet 12 years Ill and it is said that his playing is that of a mature artist his parents are poor bur his expenses are defrayed by occasional contributions of friends and concert engagements Four Boston theatres announce uerformances of the comic opera Olivette The music is said to be I very taking and the songs are all the rage in Paris London New York and Boston I is also said that the piece is destined to a Pinafore Pin-afore popularity The great hit of the piece is The Torpedo and the Whale I gets five or six encores during the evening and is destined to be the song of the day Madame Anna Bishop is announced an-nounced to sing at a concert at Stein way Hall Now York A number num-ber of selections are to be introduced that were rendered at Jenny Linds first concert in America The Madame has been singing I in public almost uninterruptedly uninterrupt-edly for fortytwo years and II her voice is said to bi marvelously marvel-ously well preserved She hurLy I intends giving up public singing and devoting her spare time to teach ins Mr Archer formerly organist musical director at the Alexandra Palace London and musical examiner exam-iner in the University of Glasgow Scotland gave an organ and piano recital at Chickering Hall Xew York on January 22d to an audience audi-ence composed principally of the professional men of the city He is said to be an organist of remarkable ability and purposes remaining in America if he finds that his professional profes-sional services as a performer and teacher of advanced pupils yields him greater remuneration than in his native country Cesare Galeotti a child only 9 years of age is astonishing Italy by his remarkable ability as a pianist and musician He is described as an exceedingly pretty healthy little boy certainly not more than 9 years old He knows eighty pieces by heart and these include works by Beethoven Mozart Weber and even Rubinstein He can play any piece of music given t him at first sight without with-out hesitation He will take any melody given him and make endless and charming variations upon it and will write down on paper the airs he has played with I precision Any air pIa ed once before i be-fore him is immediately a it were photographed on his memory and he will play it not only immediately after but even a week Inter The Queen of Italy is about to place I him at the Conservatory of Music at Milan at her expense Miss Emma Wixon daughter of Dr Wixom of Austin Nevada left her home some three years ago to study singing at Vienna She became be-came a pupil of Marchfcsi and after two and a half years training made JIT public appearan as Ainma in Souinambula She has now I been before the public about six months and during that short time has taken her place among the best artists of the day A correspondent to DwigMs Journal says of Emma Nevada that is her professional name Heller he has been these twnty years music director in our SchillerVerein is a superb violinist violin-ist was in his younger years a member of the orchestra in the court opera at Vienna and has heard no end of the greatest operatic singers I well Holler said to me coming I out of the theatre the other night i that he never heard the Ah non giunge at the end of the Sornnain bula > given with such execution Jenny it Lind herself had not equalled |