Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-27

HI.
A charity concert of altogether extraor
dinary proportions is now first announced II
be given at Old City Hall on Tuesday, No
vember 19, for the benefit of that mos
worthy and practical instit tuition, the Pitts
burg Domestic Training School. With thu
imposing array of ''pstronesses" represent
ing this community's Four Hundred, thii
column has not much concern; but it is JUS
as imposing for all that.
The bright particular star of the occasion
will be Miss Emma Juch, who comes upor
specially moderate terms and in spite
of great hindrances as dis
tinct favor on her part and that
of Manager Charles E. Locke toward certain
of the managers of the charity in particular
and the dear public of Pittsburg in general
We have all heard this sort of thing before
in the present case the favor is indisputable.
Miss Juch will have to hurry from the
theater in Baltimore to the train in the
costume Marguerite has just died ia; it is
not designed as a street gown. She will
1lhGWlSc HdNC W OA lEOu buC COACCAA
to the train here. Furthermore, she has lately
declined several offers Of concert engagements
much more convenient and remuneratlve.
Hence the special favor alleged above.
Miss Juch will appear in two numbers. 30
will two of the local organizations participating
the Poco-a-Poco Orchestra and the Philhar-
monic Society-which WILL respectively, open
and close each part of the programme. All
other performers are limited to one appear
ance in order to give time for big list All
the local participants, by the way, have volun-
teered their services gratis.
Miss Agnes Vogel, Miss Mamie Reuck, Mr..
Harry B. Brockert, Mr.. William Guenther. Mr..
J. II. Cuttings and Messrs. Seidle, McCausland,
Bearl and Wagner, forming the Haydn Quar-
tet. 1t is expected to secure several others as
well known or still more 30.
A prime novelty which 1t is hoped to secure is
the phonograph-the gentleman's (no ladys;
it talks back) first concert appearance in Pitts
burg. Negotiations are in progress with Mr..
Edison personally, and If they are successful,
the audience will have chance to discrimin-
ate between brass bands bottled and on tap.
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There is a deal OF sound sense in Mr.. Hender.
sons remarks in the New York Times apropos
of last months Worcester Festival. The fol-
lowing extract therefrom may be especially
commended to our Mozart Club to prick the
sides Of its tagging intent to have analytical
some day:
To suddenly confront raw public with a
series Of concerts of the highest order would
unquestionably be more than hazardous ex-
pertinent But musical taste is less difficult Of
development than the Worcester County Musi-
cal Association imagines. The first step would
be to vigorously exclude all music not of the
very finest quality. That does not necessarily
imply the performance Of the largest and most
serious works. The smaller jewels Of the great
musical treasure box might be first exposed
without dazzling the public eye, and afterward
the larger gems might be produced. For in
stance the Worcester public has never been
invited to feast on such melodious and perspicu-
Gus works as Schumann's D minor symphony
and Mozarts Requiem"
There Is an abundance Of such works which
could be presented to the Worcester public
gestion. And then the programme book could
be made very much more instructive than It
now is with the assistance of little more logi-
cal arrangement of the compositions. At the
festival Just ended three large choral works
were performed-Mendelssohn st PauI.'
Sullivan's Golden Legend and Haydn's 'Crea-
tion. They were given in the order named.
Now, II Haydn's work had been placed
first, Mendelssohn's second and Sullivan's
third, the programme book would naturally
have contained brief and lucid account Of the
growth of the oratorio and cantata, explaining
the difference in character and treatment be-
tween works OF Haydn's day and those of the
present and intervening periods. Such an
essay, accompanied by the performed illustra-
tions, would have materially advanced musical
education in the community.
1.-THE same process could be followed out in
the instrumental and vocal music and no loss.
but rather an increase In the variety of the
programmes would follow. Foundations would
thus be lald for taste and intelligence which
would enable the Worcester public to digest
happily feast Of the new romantic school. The
methods and purposes OF to-day would be ex-
planned in the programme book, and in short
time the music-loying public of the city, which
is too large and important to be so neg
lected, would learn to understand and ap-
preciate cotemporaneous musical thought.
This would result In higher and fuller com.
prehension of the works Of the older masters,
for obviously those who have climbed to the
pinnacle of the mountain command wider
view than those who have assembled but
half way. Systematic educational effort is
what the Worcester festivals need, and the
labor is one that may be undertaken without
fear. 1t has never failed yet, not even In busy,
money hunting New York"
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THE DISPATCH presents its compliments TO
the disesteemed american Musician with
thanks for its latest practical exposition of
what in former issue it called the "amenities
of decent journalism
The use of such petty terms as ''boot-lick-
ers' and "cur" cannot be regarded as out of
place in paper that shows its conspicuously
poor taste in personally villifying Mr.. Higgin.
son because Of his liberality to the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra, and that displays its preten-
that orchestra and Theodore Thomas have cre-
ated competition harmful to local orchestral
efforts in the various places visited.
But the poor Musician, so-called, Is rather to
be pitied than blamed. After all it has said on
the subject. it could hardly help feeling dis
composed just now over the fact that Mr..
Nikisch effected an easy landing on our shores
and has quite as easily shown his quite sufi.
cient capability of leading Mr.. Higginsen's
forces on to greater triumphs than ever. 1t
will hardly feel SO badly or talk so impolitely
after it has had time to cool of bit.
s~s
With the chamber music matinee of the
Beethoven Quartet on Thursday next the
Thomas concert Friday evening, the Mozart
Club cantata, and the big charity concert all
will have brilliant Inauguration. The musi-
clans are preparing fine things for Pittsburg
this season; let us hope that the public will
wortbily respond.
At the beginning It cannot be too strongly
impressed upon the public mind that much
very much, for the near and the further future
depends upon their cordial support of the
Mozart Club. With its extraordinary plan of
campaign, already encouraged by the liberality
of Mr.. Carnegie and others, there is only needed
q reasonable response from the public at large
to insure the greatest musical things that
Pittsburg OF herself has ever accomplished.
Theodore Thomas deserves well of our pub
lie also. His testimonial tour has been enthu-
siastcally received elsewhere, and our town
must not be found wanting. In sending in the
notes for programmes, let us hope the dear
public will bear in mind their privilege of man,
ing single pieces rs well as whole programmes.
If two or three of the most popular" numbers
could be introduced into the first or the third
of the programmes proposed, everybody would
be pleased. The second programme unchanged
would scarcely satisfy many Of the more in
telligent music lovers.
Crotchets and Quavers.
THE Ellis Club, Of Los Angeles, CAL, recently