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I said to them: "Children, remember that to-day you have danced to the playing of Monsieur Auber, the most celebrated composer in France. Such a thing is an event, and you must remember it and tell it to your children." Miss Adelaide Philips is here singing, but, alas! without the success she deserves.
Some more rational minds have tried to rid themselves of this Italian and German influence, but have mostly arrived at creating an intermediate Germano-Italian style, of which the operas of Auber and Ambroise Thomas are a type.
It was his idea that the Sinfonia, in other words the Overture or Prelude, should indicate the subject and prepare the spectators for the characters of the pieces, and that the instrumental coloring should be adapted to the mood of the situation, thus anticipating modern procedure. He prepared the way for the work of Cherubini, Auber, Gounod, Thomas, Massenet, Saint-Saëns and others.
Auber, who drives out occasionally, is delighted to see that "Our Massenet," as he generally calls him, is getting color in his pale cheeks and his bright and eager eyes are brighter than ever, and he is actually getting fat. PARIS, January, 1866. We have just returned from Nice and Cannes, also from a very disappointing yachting cruise in the Mediterranean, which proved to be a complete fiasco.
Their object was to establish a fund for the assistance of the poorer members of their craft something like the Royal Literary Fund of London. The letter addressed to him was signed by Baron Taylor, Ingres, Ambroise Thomas, Auber, Meyerbeer, Adolphe Adam, Jules Simon, Zimmermann, Halevy, and others.
I don't mean a carriage, but a man who can coach, after the English school system. She asked me to keep her in countenance, and wished me to sing something with the orchestra; but what should I sing? Auber could think of nothing better than "Voi che sapete," as the orchestra would have the music for it, and for frivolity he proposed "La Mandolinata," of Paladilhe.
The little girl, who was pale and thin, but whose eyes gleamed with intelligence, approached him with an air of assurance. "Your name is Sarah?" he said. "Yes, sir." was the reply. "You are a Jewess?" "Yes, sir, by birth; but I have been baptized." "She has been baptized," said Auber, turning to his colleagues. "It would have been a pity if such a pretty child had not.
"Shall I step into the Dark Tarn of Auber and float for you? I'll make a realistic picture, my Master Painter who paints without imagination." And then she darted into the shrubbery and was lost to view. Without further speech the two regained the path and returned to the house. When Éloise was asked by Berenice how long Monsieur Mineur would remain away on his tour, she did not reply.
I said, "I hope you will not think me indiscreet, but I did want to see you and know the most-talked- about person in Paris." In reply he said: "You have the advantage over me, Madame. I have never heard myself talked about." Then the Duke de Persigny said something about my voice. Auber turned to me, and said, "May I not also have the privilege of hearing you?"
I stopped again, confused and frightened, seized suddenly with such a foolish fit of nervousness that I could have shouted or howled. Samson saw this, and said to me, "Come, come; we are not ogres!" He had just been talking in a low voice with Auber. "Come now, begin again," he said, "and speak up." "Ah no," put in Augustine Brohan, "if she is to begin again it will be longer than a scene!"
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