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Musical Courier 1895-11-06: Vol 31 Iss 818, 1895
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1MONTREAL.
2MONTREAL, P. Q., October 28, 1895.
4BELLINI'S Norma was presented at the Théâtre Français last Monday evening. The audience was large. Mme. Essiani took the part of Norma, and gave an ideal performance. She has a rich soprano voice of true timbre quality, her intonation is perfect, her enunciation is clear, and she sings with taste and sentiment. The duet in the first act with Mme. Conti was indeed charmingly executed and nobly delivered, and both received a hearty and well deserved applause. Mme. Essiani has gained the first prize at the Paris Conservatory, and is undoubtedly the best dramatic soprano the management possesses.
6Mme. Conti as Adalgis was good. M. Déo as Pollion was not in good voice, and his performance as a whole was not satisfactory. M. Prévial as Orovese shared the honors of the evening with Mme. Essiani. His performance all through was faultless. The rest of the cast were acceptable, and the chorus and orchestra did splendid work.
8Carmen was given on Thursday night; the house was completely sold out. The performance ensemble was doubtless the best given by the management so far. Mme. Bennati taking the part as Carmen suited her voice to perfection, and her singing and acting from beginning to end were superb, and she carried away the palm of the evening. Mme. Montreux as Micaela was most admirable. N. Barbe as Don José distinguished himself most satisfactorily, and M. Castel as Escamillo met with great success; his interpretation of the Toreador song took the audience by storm and of course had to be repeated. The costumes were adequate, and the orchestra under Mr. Dorél was as usual first class. Norma was repeated on Friday night, Carmen on Saturday night.
10The Glee and Banjo Club of the McGill University of this city, assisted by the Glee and Banjo clubs of Yale and Princeton universities and by Miss Myrta French, soprano, of New York, gave a concert in the Academy of Music on Friday evening last. It was the Students' Night, and the house was beautifully decorated. All the leading professors of the different colleges were present. The audience was the largest the house ever held.
12Miss French's selections were the gems of the evening. She has a clear, sweet soprano voice, well trained, good method, and her delivery of Happy Days Gone By, by Streititzki, and Avril, by Thomas, captivated the audience, and after a tremendous applause she was presented with a laurel wreath. Mr. Emery Lavigne furnished the accompaniment.
14A concert company organized by local managers, composed of Mme. Roberti, soprano; Mme. Helen A. Von Doenhoff, contralto; Signor Del Papa, tenor; Perry Averill, baritone, and Isidore Luckstone, piano soloist and musical director, gave a concert on Saturday evening last in the Academy of Music. The program contained arias, solos, Liszt's sixth rhapsody, the quartet from Rigoletto and the fourth act from Il Trovatore. Mme. Roberti has a fine soprano voice, but her performance was not satisfactory. Mme. Von Doenhoff gave a remarkable dramatic exhibition as Azucena, and her delivery of the aria from Don Carlos shook the house. She came out and sang Supposing, by Bischoff, in such a delightful manner that the audience still demanded another encore, and she responded with Vorei, by Tosti. Del Papa gave a splendid performance, and was likewise encored. Mr. Averill, with his rich, mellow voice, gave a noble performance from the beginning to the end, and scored a pronounced success. After his brilliant delivery of the Dio Possente, by Gounod, he sang for an encore Les Rameaux, by Faure. M. Luckstone performed the rhapsody in a most artistic manner, and for an encore he played a composition of his own. The orchestra, which was picked from local musicians, did fairly well. The company has left for a tour through the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
16H. B. COHN.
18JACKSONVILLE.
19JACKSONVILLE, Ill., October 25, 1895.
21ONE of the best concerts of light music ever given in this city was given last Friday by the Clara Schumann's Ladies' Orchestra. All the music lovers crowded into the opera house, and when the curtain arose the orchestra, very prettily attired, was greeted with much welcome. Many people were disappointed that the program was of the popular order, but generally they were well satisfied. It is peculiar that this organization should offer as a regular program the lightest of light music, and for encores play the better of the classics. Why this is so maybe Director Cronkrite may know, but if he expects to attract as large an audience again his program will have to be of entirely a different character. The orchestra plays well, and without a doubt is the best of its kind on the road. The first and fifth numbers, overture Poet and Peasant, and Rosey's Valse Español, respectively, were the best played pieces. Miss Mignon Course's violin solo, David's Andante and Scherzo, was simply immense, and she was recalled, as was Miss Adam's cello solo, Schumann's Traumeri.
23The Illinois College of Music has a new organ, replacing the old one, and on the same date as the Schumann concert the public were invited to attend the first public recital. Prof. Wallace P. Day gave a splendid program of five numbers.
25Henry W. Kirby, first baritone of Trinity Episcopal Church, member of the Opera House Orchestra, Juvenile Band and other organizations, was severely injured while playing football at Illinois College campus last Tuesday.
27Yesterday morning a "program of études" was given at the College of Music by pupils. Clementi, Craner, Concone, Marchese and Kunkel were the pieces given, a number from each being used. Miss Rose C. Mitchell followed with guitar and mandolin recital, using two of her own compositions.
29Mrs. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop and the Redpath Concert Company are to be here soon.
31Miss Grace Bailey has been engaged as soprano soloist for the Christian Church.
33Mrs. R. M. Hockenhull, the contralto of the State Street Church, has been quite ill, but is recovering.
35The first Conservatory pupils' recital will be given to-day.
37Bos-CHI-JACK.
39Told the Truth About It.—Judge Gildersleeve, in the Special Term of the Superior Court, granted an absolute divorce with $100 a month alimony to Mrs. Lora Campiglio in her suit against Paolo F. Campiglio, an organist and composer. Three co-respondents were named in the application, and a confession by Campiglio formed a part of the evidence. The plaintiff was known as Lora Ludwigson, a concert singer of some note, previous to her marriage to Campiglio, which, she testified, occurred on November 5, 1877, in New Orleans. Her husband is the son of Bianco Campiglio, who died on February 28, 1884, leaving about $50,000, mostly in real estate. One-third of this was bequeathed to Paolo Campiglio, and the remainder was left to his children, of whom there are four, the eldest being about eighteen years old. Besides this money, Campiglio, according to his wife's testimony, received about $15,000 from his mother. He is now organist in a Chicago church, and receives, Mrs. Campiglio testified, $200 a month for his services.
41The suit was commenced in June, 1894, and since then Howe & Hummel, the attorneys for Mrs. Campiglio, have been collecting evidence. The suit was based on acts committed in 1888 and 1889, when the defendant was the organist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 46 Duncan avenue, Jersey City. Carrie Morgan, a member of the church choir, was named as one of the co-respondents. Robert S. Layton, of 117 North Eleventh street, Newark, made affidavit that Campiglio had confessed to him that he had met Miss Morgan secretly in the organ loft of the church and in Chickering Hall, in this city, and that he was the father of her still-born child. The organist lived with his wife and children at Newark. During the year he was employed at St. Paul's Church. In that time rumors circulated freely among the members of the church regarding Campiglio's relations to the young woman, and the Morgans finally moved to another part of the city. After Layton, who was a close friend to Campiglio, had testified, the confession made by Campiglio was read. In it he said that he had been intimate with Layton's wife. Layton and Mrs. Campiglio were the only witnesses called.
43Mrs. Campiglio lives in Harlem. She is a tall, handsome woman, and was dressed yesterday in black silk, with jet and lace ornaments. She wore rich furs and handsome jewelry. Campiglio has lived in Chicago for some years. It is expected that there will be some litigation in the Louisiana courts in enforcing the decree.—Sun.
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