Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12

Brashear's lectuye at the East Liberty Presby.
terrain Church last Friday evening.
Mr.. JOHN A. WEST, an organist of Chicago
came to Pittshurg the other day to see Manager
Foster. Of the Boston Ideals. about the possible
production of an opera he has just written
Two thousand dollars, pleased
MIR. w. S. wEEDEN is in charge of the old
folks concert to be given next Friday in Ma
sonic Hall, Allegheny, by the Choral Society of
the Central Reformed Presbyterian Church,
assisted by the Alpine Quartet.
EVERYTHING looks auspicious for the popu.
lar success of the May Festival. Nothing but
the doors are left to make the new Exposition
building ready for its inauguration; indeed, il
is likely that most of the five rehearsass to be
held this week will take place in the new
auditorium.
Mr.. AID. NJ. FoERsTER's Romanze for violin
and piano heads the list published by an East
ern musical journal Of. the works by resident
American composers that have been accepted
| by the Examining Committee of the Music
Teachers National Association. Score one for
Pittsburg
A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know why
Miss Rosa Linde tSchaarschmidt), the contralto
so well known here is not to sing at the May
| Festival, as at first announced. No other rea-
son can be ascertainsd than the fact that some
| months ago Miss Linde severed her connection
| with the Juch Concert Company. which formed
the nucleus for the solo list of our festival.
TIE sacred concert to be given by the Bos-
ton Ideals at the Biiou Theater this evening
should net nice sum for the benefit of theSo-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
| and Aged Persons. Mile. de LusSan, Nine.
| RAnemand, Miss Claire, Chevalier Scovel
MessTs. Baxter, Clark, Mertens and cambridge
will take part Mr.. Carl Retter is to oficiate
as accompanist
|, Mr. THEoDoR SALMON, at his recital next
Tuesday evening in the North Avenue NJ. E.
| Church, Allegheny (proceeds for charity. will
play Beethoven's Sonata PsthetiQue, Chopin's
| + mirror Fantasie, LISTS Sixth Rhapsodie and
other less important pieces. Miss Belle Toner,
soprano, and a ladies' quartet will render vocal
| assistance to round out the interesting pro.
! gramme.
NILE. DE LUssAN last night took her leave
of the operatic stage in America, before COM
mencing the three years artistic compaign she
expects to open in London and extend over the
continent. Colonel Mapleson will be her Eu-
ropean manager. Carmen, MdrgheTft0, MIG
non, and aida win be her leading roles; with
Cheru6inO (''Figaro's Hochzeit'o and Leila
| ('Les Peeheurs de Perles") as subsidiary. 1t
is quite fitting that this most promising of
American prima donne should make her fare
well in the city which during her first season
most warmly welcomed her and will always
follow her career with especial interest.
THE enthusiastic praise of good judges who
heard Miss johnson. of Chicago. sing last week
at the New York Philharmonic Clnb concert
has been clinched by the engagement OF the
gifted young soprano by the East Liberty
Presbyterian Church at the very satisfactory
salary OF 81 600 year the largest ever paid here
Miss johnson Will sing two solos at each ser
vice, and the precentor, Mr.. Bearl, will still
lead the congregational hymns, thus making
compromise between the choir and precentor
factions, though it is difficult to see why they
should not engage contralto and tenor, SO
as to have quartet for anthem work and still
have the precentor lead the hymns.
THE Mozart Clubs concerts, with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, at Old City Hall on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings are the
events of the week. First tnight--Mendelssohn's
Elijah" by Mrs Georg Henschel, Miss Ade-
laide Forseman, Mr. Paul Zimmerman and DR.:
Carl Martin, the Mozart Club, and the Boston
symphony Orchestra. Mr.. ]. p. McCollum, con-
ductor. Second night-The Boston Symphony
Mr.. and Mrs. Georg Henschel and Mr.. c. M.
Loefier, soloists. MIR. Loefier has Just been
substituted for Mr.. Adamowsld and will play
a Fantasia for violin by Max Bruch- The rest
of the programme was given in this column
last week There is prospect that the attend
ance will be such as to justify the financial
risk assumed by the Mozart Club in bringing
here the finest orchestra in the country.
Mr. WILLIAM GUENTHER has been an active
factor in Pittsburg's musical life for about a
score of years, and has ever been ready to give
his aie freely to all manner of benefit and
charitable concerts. His friends have good
reason to count on the publics support in,ten-
Qerlng Jne 1aVorlDe nauG1SC MS urSt teSt1m onlal
concert which is to take place at Old City HalI
on the Slst of this month. Mr.. Harry B. Brock
EFT will on this occasion make his Te7atree upOn
a fne Local sTsge aites ms TWO years OF study in
are Mrs. J. Sharp Mcdonald. Miss Auguste
Guenther, Messrs. John and Charles Gernert
and the Haydn Quartet. There will also be an
orchestra of 30 selected players and chorus of
similar size and quality, directed by Mr.. ]. P.
McCollum.
HANS Won BUE1ow has gone back to Ger.
many after a phenomenally successful five
weeks on this side. The clear sl2,O 900 that he
takes with him is large sum for that brief
period, but the artistic value received has been
greater than the American public usually gets
from high.priced exotics. Among the many
pithy and epigrammatic sayings be has left be.
hind him, one of the best is this: II find the
great "a faTis with pianisSs is that they do not
learn to sing and play the Violin; then their
ears would hear more critically the sounds they
produce, and thereby teach them how to
phrase. But the average pianist plays by sight
only, and has no ears. He sees the keys and
tries to execute correctly, but the sound he
produces the effect of his work, is not ap-
parent to him. My advice to young pianists
-old ones won't take advice-is to cul.
tivate their ears and strive to obtain beauty
and expression in what we term phrasing. It
is the real beginning to greatness a per
former"
THE one hundred and fftieth reception of
the Art Society wound up its current season in
an exceedingly pleasant manner. In addition
to the regular programme, Chevalier Edward
Scovel of the Boston Ideals, who was present
as guest fairly delighted that most cultured
and critical Of Pittsburg audiences by singing
an aria from Marquis D'1vray's opera, Lies
AmAnts de Verone,na song from Frederic
Clay's cantata, 'Lalla Rookh." and ballad
the private character of these charming reoep-
tons forbids public criticism, mention should
be made of the extraordinary pleasure mani
Tested by the members and friends present in
listening to Mrs. Josiah Cohen's playing of the
Schumann concerto-all the more exceptional
because at the end of SO solid and rich pro-
gramme as the following:
Concerto. .Mendelssohn
Andante-Presto.
Mrs. A. Israel, Mrs. Josiah Cohen.
Hgaro,s Hochzeit,
Mrs. b. s. Trauerman.
Piano solo Berceuse Grieg
Mrs. Enoch Rauh.
NTERMIss1oN.
Mrs. L. Rauh, MIR. S. Floersheim,
Mr.. Charles Cooper. |
Vocal solo, = Dreams, ...... ..........streletrd |
Mrs. Trauerman.
81 Romanze ...-...-..-..-....G Golterman
MIR. Charles Cooper.
Allegro, Andantino, Allegro. Vivace,
Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Israel.
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