Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

says: 'Signor Faccio is the first Italian orches-
| ira leader of our times. Under his baton the
Instrumentalists were marvellous, and no or
ehestra can be compared to that OF the
Lyceum, in the execution OF Verdi's immense
| work"
Mr.. JOHN HOWARD, the eminent vocal
| teacher whose previous stay in Pittsburg won
/ him the high esteem of his pupils tamong
whom were such leading singers as Mrs: Jean
w allace Webster, Miss Rosa Weber, Messrs
y. NJ. Bullock, Ross w; Drum and J; n.
two or three months in the city this summer
A CURIOUS paper by an English organist
upon MELODY in Speech" asserts that COW
moos in perfect fifth and octave or tenth;
| dog barks In a fifth or fourth, donkey brays
In perfect octave; a horse nelghs in descent
on the chromatic scale Each person mas MS
fundamental key, in which he generally speaks,
but which he often transeoses in sympathy
with other voices or when he Is excited.
DIR. F. L. RITTER, of Vassar College, cor
rected the generally accepted opinion attribut-
ing to Guillame Franck the writing OF the
''Old Hundreth" psalm. "The tune" writes
DR.. Ritter, 'is due to Louis Bourgeois, who
adapted il from 6 popular air of the fifteenth
century. In the Genevan Psalter, the tune Is
set to the lS4th Psalm. Louis Bourgeois was
born in Paris in the first part of the sixteenth
century"
A LOUISVILLE sparrow found queer resting
place the other day-the interior of an organ
pipe. Queerer yet is the statement going the
rounds of the musical press that the presence
OF this sparrow put the organ out OF tune ior
days, and caused an organ builder to be called
in TO see what was the matter When any dlf-
fculty with single one of the thousands Of
pipes in an organ is enough to move a church
music committee to have the instrument put In
order, the millennium will have arrived.
Mr.. SIMEON BIssELL, of our town, dis
courses learnedly in an Eastern musical paper
a.,
is a feeling portrayal of not uncommon ex-
perience: IF the pupil has ever been pupil
of another teacher or a number OF teachers, as
the case usually is, then the fiery indignation OF
the great discoverer, yea more the great ere
comes down upon the pates OF the voice
butchers who have dared to attempt to teach
what is still mystery to all the world save the
great voice builder"
Mr.. BARNABEE, who returned to Boston last
week after a season of 42 weeks, says: I'VE
have been from Maine to California, played to
standing room only nearly everywhere, taken
enough money to pay everybody all we owed
them, gave ourselves (Messrs. Karl, MacDon-
aid and myself, l l. meanl our regular salaries
We are satisfied, and have health, as well as
wealth, as a result of the hard work of our long
season. Apparently the old favorites of The
Bostonians" had some reason for staying out
West and missing Pittsburg for the first season
In many years.
HERE are two sample programmes from the
series of piano recitals by Mr.. Emanuel
Schmauk, in connection with the summer Nor
NAL Music School now in progress at Kttan-
ming, Pa:
August 7-"Bouree' (from third suite for
violinceIlo), Bach; ''Scherzo," minor op. 80.
Chopin; by the old Cathedral" Geibel by r. T.
Knox: "Murmuring Breezes, I" Jensen-Niemann;
''Liebestraume." Liszt; The Happy Return"
tduet), E. H. Sherwood, Miss Lizzie Schweiter-
ing and E. Schmauk; "Etude," Eb: op. e,
R6einOergef: Forest Scenes. schumann: j,
Entrance; 2 Hunter on the lookout, 9.
Solitary Flowers; 4 waEside Inn; s
eve fr1pnHs tenor solo ReioSsrdt
r. T. Knox; Romance in F." Rubinstein;
''Impromptu," op. 80. No. g. Schubert; Min
uetto," B minor, Schubert; sonata In C." op
violin by E. Schmauk, Miss Mary Lndemann,
Mr.. Blose and E. Schmauk; "Tannhauser
March," WagnerLiszt
CUT this out and paste it in your Grove
supplement; the London Figaro is responsible
for it: Bottesini's name was. perhaps, not con- |
in 'Sir George Groves Dictionary" but it duly |
appears in the "Appendix." In that extraordI- |
nary work the date of Bottesini's birth is put |
down at lS22. whereas as a matter of fact he |
the age of IL but at Is The was indeed nearly |
l4) that application was made by him to be |
admitted to the Milan Conservatory. 1t |
is, moreover, not true there was then |
only one vacant place, and that for a contra
bassist. Indeed. there were two scholarships |
open for competition, one for the bassoon and |
the other for the double bass. The youth |
full Bottesini decided for the latter, SIMPLY be- |
cause be had already acquired certain |
knowledge OF the instrument while under the I
tuition OF his uncle Cogliati. The date of Bot
tesini's first appearance in this country is also
His debut, at any rate according
TO himself. was at Alary's concert at Exeter
Hall, in lS4S, and not at the Musical Union in
June, lS49, while the extraordinary statement
in Groves dictionary appendix, that on the
latter occasion he played the violoncello, re-
quires verifcation.