New Music
... Joseth Williams. A pleasing song of medium compass is More and More, written and composed by William A. Aikin. Precisely the same may be said of Recollections, words by L. M. Martin, music by G. Be ...
... Joseth Williams. A pleasing song of medium compass is More and More, written and composed by William A. Aikin. Precisely the same may be said of Recollections, words by L. M. Martin, music by G. Be ...
... DR. JOACHIM.-- Dr. Joachim has returned to England, and on Monday he made his reappearance at the Popular Concerts, lie led Antonin Dvorák's Sextet for strings, which in 1880 first introduced the co ...
... ALL persons who take interest in what is going on in our theatres have learned by this time that the animal who gives the name to the new piece entitled Dandy Dick at the COURT THEATRE is not a foppis ...
... MESSRS. J. B. CRAMER AND CO.-- Two very pathetic songs, written and composed by Lord Henry Somerset, are, Ah, Never More, and O Loved and Lost; both are refined, and will take a good place in a co ...
... THE STORY OF PHILIP METHUEN, by Mrs. J. H. Needell (3 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), is unquestionably a novel outside, and for the most part above, the common order. Its materials are excellent, and t ...
... THE death of Mrs. Henry Wood has reminded more than one writer of the hardships to which novelists are exposed at the hands of the playwrights. East Lynne is perhaps the most popular of all stock piec ...
... IT is a hopeful sign of the possible revival of dramatic literature, properly so called, for which all true lovers of the Stage have long sighed, that some of our best-known po ...
... _ j I Ell I VERDI'S OTELLO.-- Accidents apart, Verdi's latest opera will be produced at La Scala, Milan, on Saturday of this week. A large number of professional musicians and critics (including rep ...
... VERDI'S OTELLO.-- We understand that there is little or no chance of a performance in London of Verdi's latest opera for some time to come. No presentation of the work in the English language will p ...
... MESSRS. J. CURWEN AND SONS.-- There is much sterling merit in The Victorian Age, a cantata for the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, the libretto by F. C. Weatherly, M.A., the music by J. L. Roeckel. ...
... Two volumes of stories, and those translated from the German of an author whose name, to say the least, will be new to most English readers, suggest unlikely material for the most prominent position i ...
... Mr. Irving closed the Lyceum doors on Wednesday, and took advantage of the opportunity to fulfil his promise to give a reading of Hamlet at the Birkbeck Institution in aid of its building fund. The Il ...