Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
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The Alpine Quartet are to sing at concert
in the Presbyterian Church, at Hutton, Pa,
next Thursday evening.
THE musical critic of the London Times gets
s., $50 year, and an allowance of 81 SOfor every
concert he attends Mr.. Fuller Maitland, the
biographer of Schumann, has received the ap-
pointment.
Mr.. GEORGE RUSSELL CRAIG left yesterday
for further period of European, musical
study covering several years and as many diff
ferent cities and teachers as his fancy may die
tate. Bon voyagel
THE cantata of Ruth" will be repeated at
East Liberty next Thursday evening for the
benefit of the Exposition fund by the same
performers that gave it last week at Sewickley
except that the part OF N0on11 Will De taken
by Miss Irene Sample.
Mr. c. D. CARTER has set the date of his in
tended pupils concert for Mays. The occasion
will be signalized by the first appearance OF
Mr.. Carter's new male chorus, the Orpheus Club,
and by piano solos from Mr.. Beveridge Web
ster, Of late rarely heard in concert
THE sale of season tickets for the May Fes
tival begins next Thursday at Hamilton's.
Over 40 per cent may be saved by buying sea-
son ticket for Sl2 50, IS and S. respectively, as
against seven single tickets for s., s. or ST. BY
the way wouldn't it be well to set the wagner
Night" for Wednesday, May q, that being the
anniversary of the great composers birth
Mr.. LEONARD H WALES has been off with
the Boston Ideals overseeing the rehearsals for
his new opera, "The Lion of Peru which will
be given by that troupe on two evenings of next
week-probably Wednesday and Friday--at the
Grand Opera House. The Ideals have lost Mr..
Neuendorf and his gifted wife, JanuschoYsky;
so Mile. de Iussan will open the week as Mar
gtterite, and Mr.. Ad Liesegang will wave the
baton.
THE benefit concert to be given tomorrow
(Mondayl evening at the Central Rink. Penn
avenue in aid of the family of the late Richard
Prosser, musical superintendent OF public
schools promises to be worthy of its deserving
object, as witness the list of performers:
Children's chorus of 800 voices, assisted by Miss
Belle Toner, Miss Edith Harris, DR.. w: I.
English, Mr.. E. Dermitt, Mr.. D. ]. Davies,
Zitterbart Amateur Quintet, Philharmonic So
ciety, Alpine Quartet. Normal School Glass.
Richardson Quartet Allen School, Apollo
Quintet Accompanies. Mr.. John Pritchard,
Miss Ida Burgy, Mr.. Geo. 7. Marshall. Mr..
Sam Brown. Directors, Messrs E. Rinehart,
d. j. Davies, Meth. Lewis, T. F, Kirk.
GILMoRE's Jubilee" matinee and evening
concert, at the Fifth Avenue Music Hall, next
Thursday, are, of course the prime events of
the week. The advance sale has been remark
ably large and there is every prospect that the
big hall will be filed to greet the popular leader
with his redoubtable band and brilliant
soloists. At the matinee the band will play ar
ture mo. 81, Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsodie, Rubin
STEMS Valse Caprice, Mendelssohn's Scotch"
Symphony 1.-TWO movements) and various popu-
lar numbers, including Gilmore's own national
paniment Nine. Stone-Barton, Miss Campbell,
Messrs. Danckwardt and Whitney will be
the soloists of the afternoon. In the evening
Signorins De We're, Del Puente and Cam
panini win sing; the band will contribute
Wagner's "Tannhaeuser" Overture selections
from Meyerbeer's lie Prophete,' an adapta-
tion of Webers Concertstueck, and other Sc
lections of lighter type, again closing with
the columbia" cannonade.
THIS is what Mr.. George H. Wilson says in
the Boston Traveller of the part taken in the
Handel and Haydn Society's Easter perform
ance of "St. Paul" by Mr.. and MIS-. George
Henschel, who are to be here with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and the Mozart Club May
Is and l6: "Mr. Henschel's singing and de-
claiming. especially in the recitative beginning
20 wherefore do ye these things,n was magnlh.
cent in breadth and expression. He is unde-
niably the most satisfying singer now in the
country. Mrs. Henschel sang Jerusalem"
eXQuisitely; hers is exactly the style and man.
ner for it. In all other portions, while some
vocalIzation quite atoned" Mr.. Hem
schel is famous also as a composer and
conductor; an all round artistic personality
with whom Pittsburg will be glad to get ac-
heard to especial advantage in their own song
recitals; they sing turn about and then together,
Mr.. Henschel accompanying throughout. The
result is an entertainment of peculiar charm,
quite sui qeneriS. Both of them excel in the
rendition of lieder, though in all varieties of
style and sentiment. Why could not such a
recital be given on one of the afternoons they
spend in Pittsburg next month? There are
many who now wish it could; everybody would
fall in line, if assured of the delightful treat in
store,