The Apology.

Col. Milward Adams tells us that we got things terribly mixed in our notice of his symphony concerts yesterday morning. He complains that the whole business was wrong; but this was not our fault, but the fault of Col. Adams’s lieutenant, George Fair, who gave us the written notes upon which we based our article. Of course, it pains us deeply to learn that we have misrepresented the colonel’s entertainments, and we hasten to square ourselves upon the record. In the first place, therefore, it appears that Miss Helene Hastreiter is not a piano-player, but a native German vocalist from Louisville, Ky. She was the prima donna of the American Opera Company for a long time; but when Mapleson severed his connection with the organization, she, too, renounced her allegiance thereto, and went into the concert profession. She is an extraordinarily beautiful woman, and the critics agree that her voice is a soprano of the first water. So far from being a lyric tenor, and a native of Massachusetts, M. Timothee Adamowski is a Russian booyar and a piano-forte player of unbridled ferocity and tremendous learning. His name is pronounced Taymotay, with the accent (a la Frongsay) on the ult, the penult, and the ante-penult. Col. Adams was particular in giving us this seemingly trifling 157detail, because, he said, cultured circles would appreciate the art of a Taymotay more keenly than that of a Timothy. This M. Adamowski was born under the shadow of the Kremlin, in Moscow; and he studied music with Tschktsckffky, the old master whose fugues, symphonies, and other opi in B minor are unequalled in the gamut of intricate composition. Our connoisseurs will be glad to learn that in all his concerts M. Adamowski has none but the sign of Spiegelbaum Bros. displayed on the piano-forte he uses. This is another little detail that always adds to the charm of a refined music entertainment.