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He maintained that so far he could only see the matter in a black light, and he brought forward some arguments that sounded very sensible; he criticised the whole Opera as an institution and the public attached to it, and also our staff of singers, of whom he maintained that not a single one understood his part as I intended it; and he exposed all the disadvantages of the undertaking, which I myself could not fail to see as soon as I came to deal with the chef du chant, the regisseur, the ballet-master, the conductor of the chorus, but, particularly, with the chef d'orchestre.
Behind, a little company the chef d'orchestre, the chief maitre d'hotel, the flower girl wondering at his generosity, stood at the head of the stairs to bid him godspeed. He gave a louis to the commissionaire and called for a special carriage. He had almost to lift Marguerite inside. "Dear child," he said, holding her hands, "here we must part for a time not for so long, perhaps. Who can tell?
M. Persiani was the director, and Signor Costa the chef d'orchestre.
Falkenberg led the way up the narrow stairs, greeted Albert with both hands, nodded amiably to the chef d'orchestre, the flower girl and the head waiter, who crowded around him. "For as many as choose to come!" he declared. "The round table! The best supper in France! It is a gala night, Albert. Serve us of your best. Mademoiselle will sing. We are here to taste the joys of life."
The chef d'orchestre, if he is charitable, starts her off with a contribution from his own lusty lungs, and then she oh, her voice is always thinner and more osseous than her arms, and her smile no more graceful than her train! As well think of the simulated trees, water-falls, and chateaux leaving the stage, as the dugazon!
He was the sole support of his mother and sisters, for Louis, as chef d'orchestre in a Second Avenue restaurant, constantly anticipated his salary over stuss or tarrok in the rear of his employer's café. "How much would it take?" he asked Louis after a silence of several minutes. Louis shrugged. "Who knows?" he replied. "Fifty dollars oder a hundred, perhaps."
The year after this Henrietta lost her father, and she went to Prague with her mother, where she played children's parts under Weber, then chef d'orchestre. When she had attained the proper age she was admitted to the Prague Conservatory, and spent four years studying vocalization, the piano, and the elements of harmony.
We must leave Hedger thus, sitting in his tank with his dog, looking up at the stars. COMING, APHRODITE! This legend, in electric lights over the Lexington Opera House, had long announced the return of Eden Bower to New York after years of spectacular success in Paris. She came at last, under the management of an American Opera Company, but bringing her own chef d'orchestre.
The clatter of crockery diminished, the waiters paused in their tasks or crept on tiptoe about the place. Men and women stood up at their tables that they might see the singer better; conversation ceased. And all the time the chef d'orchestre drew music from his violin, and mademoiselle, with half-closed eyes, her head thrown back, filled the whole room with melody.
Presently the uproar of the guitars grew more stentorian upon his ear, and, leaving on his left an astonishing chamber that contained from a dozen to fifteen small round tables, with nothing whatever upon them, the Prophet emerged into an inner hall where, in quite a grove of shrubs hung with fairy lights, twenty young ladies, dressed from top to toe in scarlet, and each wearing a large golden medal, were being as Spanish as if they had not been paid for it, while twelve more whacked castanets and shook bells with a frenzy that was worth an excellent salary, the silly gentleman from Tooting the while blowing furiously upon his flute, and combining this intemperate indulgence with an occasional assault upon a cottage piano that stood immediately before him, or a wave of the baton that asserted his right to the position of chef d'orchestre.
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