Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02

tion demands additional rehearsals, for which
herewith anote of 5O0' Tin French cling cents,
pronounced in the same manner as the COM
posers name, l. e., Sem Sahn).-AsneTScGn
AttSicidR
GREAT idea. that Of Frank Van der Stuck
ems He sails to-day to give concert in Paris,
next month. of American works. "Paine's
Island Fantasy" Chadwick's 'Melopomene"
overture; MacDowelTs second piano concerto,
probably played by the talented young com,
poser; Foot's overture, In the Mountains:t
Henry Holden Huss' romance and polonaise
for violin, PLAYER not determined; the overture
''Star Spangled Banner" by Dudley Buck, and
the last but not least. Van der Stucken's bright
and catchy Tempest music.-COuTter.
APRoPos of the difficulties in the quartet Of
the Ninth Symphony finale, against which
Sountag and Uneher vainly protested to Bee
thoven, a New York:connoisseur is reported as
saying: "Sontag and Ungher were great sing
ers, but 1 have been in the audience when
Jenny Lind, Alboni, Mario and Iablache broke
down in the Ninth symphony The singers dld
very well tonight, and, as you say, deserve
credit; still, never expect to hear it sung with
the finish and freedom perfection calls for.
After my London experience don't beneve II
ever has been"
Two more new organs viii shortly be added
to Plttsburgs rapidly increasing list Gran
vile Wood & Son, of Worthwhile. Mich, are
building for the Butler Street M. E. Church
two-manual instrument, with about Is speaking
stops; price, $500. The contract has been let
for three-manual organ; to be put up in the
Vermont builders. The specifications are said
to be unusually complete for the price charged.
S50O0 These will be the first instruments Of
the respective builders in this vicinity.
THE Gernet and Guenther orchestra will
play in series of four summer-night concerts,
to be given in Sewickley under the manage
ment of some of the society men of that place.
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concerts will be given at Baum's Grove
this summer. Silver Lake Grove will also
remain silent Just wait until the Exposition
building is completed and the river bank trans
formed into park, and then there will be a
fne opening for summer night promenade con-
certs on q large scale-something approxima-
ting those that Thomas has given in Chicago,
or the more popular but very good programme
that Neundorf gives in Boston,
THE proposal embodied in the following
card TO the chorus singers should meet with a
hearty reception all around: "You are ear
nestly requested to attend meeting of the
evening next June 8, 1889, ats o'clock, at the
Chapel of the Pittsburg Female College, to
take into consideration the advisability Of
rendering Mr.. Carl Retter testimonial benefit
Owing to the fact the receipts from the
Festival concerts were several hundred dollars
less than the expenses, Mr.. Retter did not re-
ices John w. Echols Joseph A Vogel, Will
lam R: Holmes, Joseph Weldin, Alex. Ross,
committee"
1LL-FATED JoHNsTowN was quite place
for music for its size. Welsh choir meetings
band concerts and other musical events have
been frequent there. Mr.. Eugene G. Hef1ey
principal Of the musical department of Morell
Institute, at Johnstown, was in the city for the
May Festival and reported really remarkable
amount OF private musical activity up there.
In the single season since the depart
ment was started by Mr.. Heff1ey (who |
by. the way, was pupil of Xaver |
of Berlin he has built up class |
of So pupils under his own tuition, with 20 more
under an assistant. Lectures on musical his |
tory, etc, and recitais by himself his pupils |
and eminent artists from elsewheM have been |
among the elements of Mr.. Hef1ey's work |
which, it is to be hoped, may yet continue in |
spite OF the awful catastrophe that has over |
taken the busy little place.
THE most remarkable automatic musical IN
strument yet produced, one may well be-
ieve, is the electric piano, now on ex-
hibition at Mellor & Hoene's. At the
inner end of each key is q small electro
Magnet by means of which a stroke is
impaired as nearly as may be like that deliv-
cred by the fnge% upon the front end. The
circuit for each magnet is made and broken by
'he effect of current of air drawn by tiny
suction bellows down through perforations in
/ sheet OF paper moving over rollers at greater
'r less speed. The perforations, of course, are
70 disposed as to represen; the notes of a
musical composition. This not very complicated
apparatus can be attached, they say to any
ordinary piano, and without interfering at ali
with the use of the instrument in the usual
way. Some of the effects produced are aston
shing, and yet the further these mechanical
'ontrivances go. the more clearly their limIta-
ions appear. The absence of the warm. elas-
ic. human touch and of the artistic Der.
onality lis most keenly felt through all the
learness and bril1iance of the electric machine. |