Crotchets and Quavers: Or, Revelations of an Opera Manager in AmericaS. French, 1855 - 346 Seiten |
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Seite 349 - THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward- slave, we pass him by, And dare be poor for a" that ! For a
Seite 128 - Jenny looked at me with astonishment. She could not comprehend my proposition. After I had repeated it, and she fully understood its import, she grasped me cordially by the hand, and exclaimed, " Mr. Barnum, you are a gentleman of honor. You are generous. It is just as Mr. Bates told me. I will sing for you as long as you please. I will sing for you in America — in Europe — anywhere...
Seite 156 - Marty sent to this city the greatest troupe which had ever been heard in America. Indeed, in point of the integral talent, number and excellence of the artists composing it, it must be admitted that it has seldom been excelled in any part of the Old World.
Seite 15 - Its principal feature was that everybody could see, and what is of infinitely greater consequence, could be seen. Never, perhaps, was any theatre built that afforded a better opportunity for the display of dress.
Seite 104 - Resolved, That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Committee for the faithful and successful discharge of their duties during the past year.
Seite 16 - ... possessed with the monomania of playing more loudly and vigorously upon his fiddle than any of his subordinates. He trampled on the floor as though he had been determined to work a path through the deal planking, and made a series of most grotesque faces with his nose, mouth, and eyes. In the meantime the other fiddlers, not being willing to allow Signor Lietti's violin a greater preponderance of sound, exerted themselves with a purely musical ferocity, which you have never seen equalled. It...
Seite 122 - Figure to yourself the position of a luckless impressario with a company of Truffis and Beneventanos upon his hands, and the lease of the Astor Place Opera House upon his shoulders, with Jenny Lind and Barnum, real genius and undoubted "humbug," in a strange copartnership, staring ominously in his face.
Seite 17 - Rossini's delicate overture was treated by them, as history tells us that some unfortunate criminals were treated in the Middle Ages. These were tied by arm and leg to the hind-quarters of four wild horses, which were then driven by the scourge in different directions. It will be needless to hint to a man of your erudition, what followed upon this proceeding. At last, straggling and worn out, one after the other, some few completely distanced, and Signor Lietti by no means first in, they terminated...
Seite 134 - I was about so say even of his — obsequies. Yet Charles V. dictated the terms of his interment, himself, and rehearsed it during his life-time. In order to make his Autobiography complete, ought not Barnum to have given us the programme of his funeral rites ? You may imagine, my large friend, for I know you have a superabundance of the vis comica in your imagination, a group of young "Mermaids," crowned with myrtle, opening the procession and scattering immortelles upon his path to eternity.
Seite 16 - diabolical possession" had survived the time of the apostles. It has, my dear Berlioz, and the players upon stringed instruments are indisputably subject to it. Rossini, had he listened to them, would have been of my opinion. After the first eighty bars of the allegro movement, you would, had you been there, upon shutting your eyes, have undoubtedly believed that you were surrounded by a series of sawmills in vigorous operation.