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Angus . I did . It was signed , ' A very popular , but almost starving , dramatic Composer / Cceur dk Leon . What a state of things ! Angus . It is there publicly stated , that Mr . Harriett , the com * poser of the beautiful and most deservedly successful opera of the 6 Mountain Sylph / the first English opera of a really dramatic and concerted character , i has never received one sixpence from the
theatre ! All . What a rascally state of things ! Angus . Mr . Hawes , of whom too much might be said and proved , gives the preference to foreign operas because there i * ¦ no bonus to be paid for copyright' with them , and consequently
money [ can be afforded by the manager for their adaptation : besides which , Mr . Hawes is a publisher , as Barnett and others have probably good reasons to know ; for we have all seen in the published music of the' Mountain Sylph' the dulcet name of Hawes signed above that of the secondary person in the business—the
composer ! Cosur de Leon , Ah ! but Mr . Dulcet Hawes has a precedent for this . It is a standing joke in the profession , that a few years ago , Gutteridge , a piano-forte player , gave a concert at Brighton , on which occasion he had arranged a piece by Handel , abd announced it in the programme as by himself and the other celebrated person ! All . Faugh ! what a state of things I
Angus . Various letters have appeared in the newspapers , indirectly as well as directly touching the licence of the New English Opera-house being compromised by Mr . Arnold forfeiting his word ? This maybe going too far . It has been said , however , by certain professors whose names I know , that the manoeuvre whereby the adoption of foreig n music may be made to look coa-r sistent , is by bringing out , at the most trifling expense , some very
poorly-set new English opera , so that by things of this kind being damned , the managers may be enabled to say that the public prefer foreign operas ! In short , there is so much plotting and intriguing and private jobbing , that real talent has tio fair chance at all ! After receiving nothing for the * Mountain Sylph / Mr . Barnett , according to the principle laid down by Mr . Arnold , is to receive nothing from any theatre for his next opera ! All . Lord ! what a state of things !
Shamrock O'Toole . Och ! I can listen to sich doings no longer . Let us talk of the other pistol match . Mr . Albion . Really we have heard enough reports of pistols during the last month ! Father Zodiac , A good sign , Mr . Albion . When the public g « t sick of hearing about duels , they will not very oft « n b ^ ppei \ . Shamhock O'Toole . But allow me a few words of this Ust indaoent affair . Powerful good fun it is i Young Master D'laraeli ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/11/
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