Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24

built to match the finish. are among the tr.hss
that distinguish the mansion Of Mrs. Ssarle,
formerly Mrs. Hopkins, Of HOpkintou, Mass,
from the home Of the ordinary, everyday kind
OF an amateur.
Mr. EMMANUEL SCEMAUK'S series OF invita-
tion recttals in Kittanning has value to those
present not only in the excellent programmes
uniformly arranged, but in the fact that the
recltalist intersperses the music with talks on
musical form ana the composers and compost
tons represented.
MRS. ]. SHARP MCDONALD, Mrs j. H. Har-
rison, Messrs. g. NJ. Alexander, ]. Harry
Horner. 8. 8. Anderson, A. H. Brockett and
Sam NJ. Brown were among the musical names
ments given by Post 1S2 At Old g Citv Hall On
the last three evenings of the past week.
Mr. WILLIAM H. T. ABORN. assisted BY
Miss Margaretta Ledlie, contralto and Miss
Julia Taylor, accompanist, gave a piano re-
cital at Beaver College on Friday evening the
10Th instant M the programme PgTi D including seisc-
mann, GODDARD, Mosykowski. Paderewski and
Aborn.
THREE recent deaths: Karl Davidof, &C
Moscow, aged 81, violoncello virtuoso Of the
first rank, eminent as a composer for his in
strument as also for orchestra; Henri Tam
berlik, at Paris, aged So, one Of the greatest
italian tenors of the century; Sidney Smith,
at London, composer and arranger Of new
popular piano pieces.
Mr. FRED. H. CLUFF, musical instructor at
Geneva College. Beaver Falls, sends the pro-
gramme for a concert to be given there next
Thursday evening. naming as performers Mrs.
Chalfant. Mrs. Hunter, Misses Coverdale,
Bertha Wilkinson, Moorhead, McAlister,
Name and Maggie George, Mellon, Bruce and
Hamilton, and Mr.. Clun.
PLYMOUTH COUNCIL No. 2S6 Jr. o. o. A. NJ,
gave musical and literary entertainment
under the direction of Bro. Ed. D. Sawyer,
last Thursday evening in Masonic Hall. Allie
gheny. Among the performers were Mr.. and
Mrs. Edw Hunt Miss Agnes Keane, Messrs.
Gohner and Ladebu and Miss Mamie Sawyer.
About 100 persons were IN attendance.
The report that Camille Saint-Saens, the
eminent French composer and organist, has
been engaged for tour in this country next
season, holds out a delightful prospect for
lovers of the king of Instruments" Wouldn't
1t be charming if the $1,000 organ, once talked
of for the new Carnegie Music Hall in Ale
gheny, should materialize in time for its inau-
guration by SaintSaens. Why not?
Mr.. CHARLES c. CoRCoRAN, the favorabIy
known barytone, of this city, will leave, with
his family, next Thursday to spend year or
two on the Continent in vocal study The gen.
tleman wavers between Paris and Florence as
hi4 destination, rather inc1ining toward the
latter. The operatic stage, not pantomime, is
the goal of Mr.. Corcoran's ambition: so he is
not likely to choose a teacher one of whose
specialties, as stated in ore Of yesterdays
papers, is the ''omission" Of the voice.
Mr.. EDWARD H DERMITT has resigned his
position as principal bass Of the surpliced
choir of Trinity P E. Church, to take effect
April l. This announcement cannot fail to be
received with regrets by the cDngregatioa
whose praises he has helped to lead nearly half
as long and more than twice as effectively as
the ancient organ that came out of the ark-no,
out Of the canal boat before the Pennsylvania
Railroad was built Mr.. Dermitt has sung at
Trinity for IL years. during seven of which the
music OF the church was under his direction.
He certainly has richly earned the rest that he
now desires to take.
Mr.. LEO OEHMLER, of Pittsburg. will con-
clude his violin studies under Emil Sauret at
the Stern Conservatory Berlin aboutEaster and
return home in June after a period of travel
and visiting. Mr.. Oehmler's recent work in
the line of composition include string quar-
tet and an arrangement for full orchestra of
one of Jensen's "Wanderbilder" Several Of
the young Pittsburger's songs. which the
writer has had opportunity to look over in MS,
argue his possession of no small gift in this dis
rection, though it is doubtless wise not to rush
them into print until time and experience have
matured their writer's powers.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE's plans for the
great music hall in New York, seem to be ap-
preaching fruition. Nine lots at the corner OF
Fifty-seventh street and Seventh avenue have
been selected as the site for the building. which
is widely estimated to cost from $500 OOO to ST.
100000 and is to include a main hall of 1900
seating capacity and several smaller halls for
chamber music lectures etc. Anybody is well
come to subscribe to the fund, but Mr. Carne-
gle has advanced the money so far and has en-
gagged to supply any deficiency 1t was good
thing for the metropolis when the Pittsbury
Iron King was elected President of the Oratorio
and Symphony Societies.
LAST week the Musical Courier printed a
column and quarter article TO prove that q.
B. Lamperti, Jr., now of Dresden, is the teacher
from whom Marcella Sembrich got the training
that has enabled her to attain her commanding
position on the lyric stage. The substance of
this article including the strongest of "the as
yet unpublished" letters and much else of in
terest in the career of the great maestro, was
published several months ago in this column Of
The DISPATCH in the shape of biographical
sketch with cut) Of Lamperti based upon in
formation received from himself through the
friendly offices of one of his pupils, Mr.. Harry
B. Brocket. of Pittsburg. print news gentle
men; newsP'-as the Courier itself admonisheS
the New York dailies every once in awhile.
THE last concert of the Frohsinn Society in
the hall that has for so many years resounded
with the lusty Heder of Pittsburg's foremost
male chorus, was given on Thursday evening.
The occasion was of special interest also as the
first concert appearance of the new amateur
orchestra that Mr.. Fidelis Zitterbart has been
training for some months. In addition to three
numbers each by this orchestra and the
Frohsinn chorus, under Director Franz Lob
mann, the programme included vocal solos by
Miss Agnes Vogel, violin solos by Mr.. Fred G..
Toerge and Mr.. Zitterbart, and a new quartet
by the latter gentleman. entitled "Ben Bolt"
and played by Miss Zitterbart and Mr.. Edward
Hoffman, vfolins Miss Auguste Guenther,
flute, and Miss Ida c. Burgy. piano. The
Frohsinn headquarters Will hereafter be located
on Penn avenue near Tenth street, in build
ing remodeled for club and concert purposes.
MoRIz RosENTHAL, before sailing for his
European home on the 18th of April, viii make
a brief supplement airy and farewell tour Of the
leading musical cities, beginning with Pitts
burg on the first and second evenings of April
and going hence to Cleveland (which he
skipped before), Cincinnati. Chicago and
Washington-nine concerts in all. He will
again be accompanied by Fritz Kreisler, and
Old City Hall has again been chosen as the
locus in quo. 1t is highly probable that some
twopiano music will be played each evening.
with Mr.. ]. H. Cuttings assistance; an ex-
cellent idea, especially in view of the tre
mendous success achieved by Rosenthal and
Joseffy in similar performances lately given at
Brooklyn. IL is to be hoped that Rosenthal
will draw on his large repertoire for selections
not programmed on his recent visit here and
will choose,his display pieces among those that
have real musical value brahms variations on
the Paganini theme, for instance). The coming
concerts will thereby be made more interesting
o all classes of auditors who would care to
hear the most brilliant pianist that has APP
peared in Pittsburg for many long years.
The Yorktown Not Accepted.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-The York