248
39 NCH 14.3.1863.
40 NCH 2.5.1863.
41 NCH 17.6.1865, 24.6.1865.
42 NCH 28.3.1863.
43 For minstrel shows see: Engle; Toll.
44 NCH 13.2.1864.
43
46 NCH 7.5.1864. cf Dictionary of National Biography, Suppl. 2, Vol. I, p. 545. Here it is mentioned that the touring group was disbanded in 1863, but this is obviously incorrect.
47 NCH 15.2.1862. Could it be that the originator of this Company was the same as "G.B.W. Lewis", who built the Astley Amphitheatre in Melbourne in 1854? Cf MacGuire, p. 97, n. 1.
43 NCH 19.11.1864.
49 Smith, p. 243.
50 SCR 5.5.1865.
51 NCH 14.1.1865.
52 SCR 25.1.1865. Probably they first tried their luck in Macao, but there the public interest was very small on February 11 and the next day the performance had even to be cancelled (BGM 13.2.1865).
53 of Appleton, p. 54; about the decline of the benefit system see Troubridge, p. 87ff. 34 Performance 24.3.1852. NCH 27.3.1852.
53
36 NCH 26.1.1856. NCH 28.2.1861. Letter to the "Daily Shipping & Commercial News" 27.12.1861; see also NCH 9.10.1858.
47 Carse, p. 70; this was in the 1851-1852 season. Biographical data are given in Fétis, Vol. VII, p. 229; Born in Bordeaux, 11.5.1815; he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, 25.10.1830, where he became a pupil of the famous flautist Jean Louis Tulou. In 1832 he won the first prize in a competition for his qualités précieuses: beau son, reticulation brilliante dans les traits et belle manière de phraser. He spent part of his life in Britain, where he was engaged as the first flautist of the "Théâtre de la Reine". This should not read Queen's Theatre (as it is translated by Riemann and others), but Her Majesty's Theatre at the Haymarket. In Fétis it is stated that the theatre closed in 1853; in fact it closed for the season 1852-1853 (Howard, P. 111). Rémusat subsequently returned to France to become a member of the Théâtre Lyrique orchestra (Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique?). Pougin, in the Supplement (Vol. II, p. 403) however doubts this: "Je ne sais si le fait est exact; en tout cas Rémusat n'aurait pas tardé à retourner en Angleterre, car en 1856 j'ai connu cet excellent artiste à Londres où il occupait une brilliante situation". He died in Shanghai 1.9.1880. Besides being a soloist he composed a number of concertinos, fantasias, etc for his own instrument.
58 Supplement to Fétis by Pougin, Vol. II, p. 403. of note 57.
59 BGM 4.6.1866, 18.6.1866.
60 Lang, p. 51.
61 A concert of the Philharmonic Society on 26.2.1867 is mentioned in NCH 23.3.1867.
42 NCH 26.2.1859.