Show > MUSICAL NOTES f Levy sings tenor The Hamburg tenor Botel was once a hackdriver Patience combinations are becoming be-coming numerous It is said that Wilhelmj is having a hard time in Australia Sullivans Patience has been drawing fine houses in Chicago The Haverly Minstrels are still at Her Majestys Theatre London Mrs Zelda Seguin Mrs David Wallace is the happy mother of a boyThe The Kennedys have been giving concerts of Scotch music in Toronto Canada Claude Duval will be produced at the Standard TheatreNew York ere long Adelina Patti has been engaged for the Wagner opera series next season in London Miss Emily Melville will sing two years in the United States and then go to Australia Miss Jenny Sawyer of San Francisco Fran-cisco is going to Italy to continue her musical studies Mr Frederick Archer has returned to America and has brought his family with him Thus far Mr Hayes cheap Italian opera scheme has been an artistic and financial failure Anna Bishop is now located in New York and is devoting herself the instruction of pupils Mme Matemas engagement for the May festivals gives the musical public much gratification Miss Gracie Plaisted has left the Emelie Melville Opera Company and returned te San Francisco Hans Richter has abandoned the idea of taking his orchestra on a provincial tour through England Mile Emma Juch pupil of Mme MurioCelli of New York has scored a great success as one of Mr Maples ons prima donni Mr Numann is in London looking look-ing after the preparations for the performance of the Nibelunge Ring at Her Majestys theatre ncxt summer Christine Nilsson is invited by the King of Sween to sing at the celebration of the Crown Princes marriage with the Princes Victoria of Baden The correspondent of the Dramatic Dra-matic Timss St Louis writes Emilie Melvilles opera company I has presentedThe Royal Middy I Madame Favart and Boccacio Boccacio scored the most pronounced pro-nounced success If Messrs Max and Maurice Stra kosch can secure a theatre in Paris they propose to give Italian opera there next snaspn and will give up musical enterprises in the United States for a season Somebody went to a music teachers teach-ers room while he was out and put a cat with her tail in a trap And of course the cat complained and everybody aid Goodness he must have a girl in there practicing grand operaBoston Post Marie Van Zandts engagement at the Theatre Royal Copenhagen is highly successful Though prices are doubled numbers are turned from the doors every time she sings She has appeared in Mignon Don Juan and Le Nozze The new Savoy Theatre London reopened on the 10th October with Patience Mr Arthur Sullivan being conductor and Mr Gilbert director di-rector on the stage The theatre was illuminated with the Swan electric elec-tric light and the effect is said to have been truly beautiful The New York Herald says of MlleYirginiaFerni MrMaplesons new prima donna after her appearance appear-ance as Mignon The honors of the evening fell to Mlle Fenii who as Mignon achieved a positive triumph and proved to be both an actress and a singer of so high an ordor of merit as to stamp her American debut one of the most pronounced operatic successes noted here in several years It takes nearly four years to make one piano three years and some months to season the wood and tltree months to form the parts No less than sixteen different kinds of wood enter into the formation there being eleven in the action alone In an ordinary pianoforte there are 500 screws 170 strings 85 keys and 520 key and tuning pins In a seven octave square about ninetylfeet of veneering is used aud in the action ac-tion alone there are no less than 5072 pieces From the foregoing some conception of the requisities I of a square upright or grand piano may be formed Exchange |