Antoinette Sterling
AND OTHER CELEBRITIES
BY
M. S. MACKINLAY, M.A.
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Garcia the Centenarian
And His Times
[Illustration: THE CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA BY JOHN S. SARGENT.
SIGNED BY THE MAESTRO SIX WEEKS BEFORE HIS HUNDRED-AND-FIRST BIRTHDAY.
_Copyright, 1905 by Photographische Gesellschaft._
handwritten signatures of subject & artist included as well]
Garcia the Centenarian
And His Times
Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science
BY
M. STERLING MACKINLAY
M. A. OXON.
AUTHOR OF 'ANTOINETTE STERLING AND OTHER CELEBRITIES'
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Garcia the Centenarian And His Times by Mackinley
- 2: Oxford and cambridge musical club
- 3: ' Mendel's 'Musikalisches Conversations Lexikon
- 4: A fine vocalist and an equally fine musician
- 5: The discovery of the laryngoscope
- 6: Garcia is a fairly common Spanish name
- 7: Who succeeded Ripa as Maestro di Cappella at the cathedral
- 8: One must not forget Don Manuel de Godoy
- 9: When Senor and Senora Garcia left Spain at Christmas 1807
- 10: Came to Madrid for change of air
- 11: Manuel Garcia was at this time just entering his fourth year
- 12: And to retreat beyond the Ebro
- 13: Ansani was nearly twenty when Porpora died
- 14: When Manuel joined his parents
- 15: Much help was received from Zingarelli
- 16: Count Almaviva Signor Garcia
- 17: It may be noted that Lord Mount Edgcumbe
- 18: But to return to the elder Garcia and his family
- 19: At the same time it reached Noia
- 20: Then under the management of Catalani
- 21: Basilio Signor de Begnis
- 22: Matilde di Shabran e Corradino
- 23: Colbran Rossini on his right and Mdlle
- 24: He gave a cavatino sic from Figaro
- 25: The committee had tried to get Catalani
- 26: And at Covent Garden Mrs Siddons reappeared as Lady Macbeth
- 27: Acres Liston
- 28: For the words of which Daponte had been responsible
- 29: Rosina Maria Garcia
- 30: He undertook the tenor parts when his father felt indisposed
- 31: And Madame Barbieri as Barbiere
- 32: Giuseppe Verdi was but a lad entering his teens
- 33: And two operas specially written by the elder Garcia
- 34: And on October 2 the dramatic season of Macready
- 35: This discovery has been fully confirmed
- 36: United States Senator from Virginia
- 37: Monsieur Malibran came upon the scene and offered himself
- 38: The elder Garcia soon found that the duties of impresario
- 39: And then make his debut there
- 40: Is a Siddons Malibran is a Garrick
- 41: Lablache was originally a double bass player
- 42: Owing to this state of affairs the elder Garcia
- 43: Adolph Nourrit came to the house
- 44: Little Muerger was a most charming child
- 45: Unhappily Manuel with his nature found
- 46: The chickens' throttles would cluck
- 47: Sontag which wrung from her the words
- 48: Maria Malibran wished to change this
- 49: Malibran should have been dissolved
- 50: We arrived at the baths of Lucca yesterday
- 51: Until Malibran came to the rescue
- 52: She made frequent appearances at the Scala in Otello
- 53: She was wedded to Charles de Beriot
- 54: Maria Malibran lay hovering 'twixt life and death
- 55: Illustration Pauline Viardot CHAPTER IX
- 56: Pauline Garcia may be said to have sung with her brains
- 57: Non seulement selon le morceau
- 58: Pauline Viardot was twenty two at the time
- 59: Her principal pupils being Desire Artot
- 60: Mais ou trouver le temps de faire ce qu'on voudrait
- 61: And Croelius answered Nine years
- 62: Manuel Garcia was not slow to perceive all this
- 63: ' not 'Vous n'avez pas de voix
- 64: Garcia is satisfied with me
- 65: She could not reconcile herself to Paris
- 66: It may have been this which Meyerbeer noticed
- 67: No wonder that Stockholm went wild with enthusiasm
- 68: Henriette Nissen afterwards Mme
- 69: Madame Marchesi has sent me the following details
- 70: Marchesi went to teach at the Cologne Conservatoire
- 71: Johanna Wagner resembled Genevieve Ward
- 72: Of this period Herr Stockhausen sent me some reminiscences
- 73: When in due course I sang the Elijah in Basle
- 74: Darmes fired at Louis Philippe
- 75: To which Paul de Musset at once retorted with 'Lui et Elle
- 76: Three operas of Donizetti saw light
- 77: At the close of June 1848 Manuel Garcia
- 78: The scheme had been originated by Signor Persiani
- 79: Macbeth Mr Macready
- 80: 000 francs to the Paris theatres
- 81: Soon after Garcia arrived from Paris
- 82: With the part of Urbain transposed for Alboni
- 83: For Julius Stockhausen followed him to England
- 84: Une indisposition en a ete la cause
- 85: Who lived to pass his eightieth birthday
- 86: Levret seems to have used the mirror
- 87: There before his eyes appeared the glottis
- 88: And had even devised a laryngoscope
- 89: When the laryngoscope became a speciality
- 90: Next Czermak and Tuerck took the matter up
- 91: Charles santley and antoinette sterling
- 92: It was an offer of which Santley promptly availed himself
- 93: Where she had been studying under Mathilde Marchesi
- 94: Confining herself to genuine contralto music
- 95: Viardot was taking refuge in London
- 96: With Charles Santley making his operatic debut as Hael
- 97: Mapleson tells the story of its production in his memoirs
- 98: Mephistopheles Gassier
- 99: Donna Elvina Nillson
- 100: With Christine Nillson and Faure in the leading roles
- 101: He moved in punctually on Lady Day 1874
- 102: His activity during the Bentinck Street period was amazing
- 103: Was an especial protegee of Baroness Lionel de Rothschild
- 104: They owed this instrument to Signor Garcia
- 105: A daughter of General Macintyre
- 106: Garcia generally had a pupil singing at these
- 107: He was just finishing a lesson
- 108: With this gentle rebuke at the tremolo
- 109: Than the old maestro rose from his seat
- 110: Hermann Klein answered the questions in person
- 111: And sufficient to explain the laryngoscope
- 112: Acknowledging another notice of the book Translation
- 113: The year after Sarasate's debut
- 114: And the superb Jean Lassalle is added to the company
- 115: Illustration Manuscript Nellie Melba 1906 Photo by M
- 116: Romeo et Juliette is given in French
- 117: The formation of the Covent Garden Syndicate
- 118: When he was in his ninety sixth year
- 119: Realising that the tremolo was a fault
- 120: But guidance in voice emission
- 121: 'If you wish to reach the Heath
- 122: And of his first singing master
- 123: The imitation of instinctive impulse must
- 124: I rem ain y our strul y MGARCI A
- 125: When the maestro was in his ninety sixth year
- 126: Two months before his 100th birthday
- 127: Another came from Blanche Marchesi
- 128: Which was read by Professor Halliburton
- 129: The Danish Laryngological Society
- 130: The members of the Laryngological Society of London
- 131: Of his reply to Sir Felix Semon
- 132: The centenarian said with great vivacity
- 133: And had received Senor Garcia personally
- 134: I think you would say nought
- 135: Les compliments vous appartiennent
- 136: The maestro insisted on coming to the front door
- 137: I congratulate you with all my heart
- 138: And Senor Garcia went to see the piece
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- 142: Manuel Triple claim to distinction
- 143: 86 His advice to Malibran after debut
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