MUSICAL NOTES.
I have just received Florian Pascal's Music composed for Tra la la Tosca, published by Joseph Williams of Berners Street. Justice was not done to it on the stage at the Royalty, but there are two morçeaux in it which ought to become popular; one being a song entitled "Her Eye," which, were it wedded to serious words, would be highly popular as a contralto song, just as Sullivan's charming "Hush a bye Bacon," in Cox and Box, became "Birds of the Night." Then the Gavotte in this book is as graceful and catching as the Gavotte de Louis Treize, and would be in great request with orchestras and bands everywhere.
Klein's Musical Notes of the Year, a useful and trustworthy historical record, was sent to me, and not "de-Klein'd with thanks." I have just heard that there is a new pick-me-up called "Zingit." What it is I don't know, and I haven't as yet come across the inevitable big advertisement; but what I have ascertained is, that Mr. Edward Solomon, who is now wearing the diamond scarf-pin presented to him by the Guards whom he led on to victory in their recent burlesque engagement, has composed a polka or waltz which bears the name of "Zingit," and which might bear on the wrapper, "If you can't play it, or dance it, Zing it."
(Signed)
Otto Piccolo (du Conservatoire).
Mr. Hubert Vos requests the honour of our company at his studio near Vauxhall Bridge. Very sorry: couldn't get there. "Sic Vos non vobis."
A "Scratch Company."—A Cat Show."
