Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08

Is assured In the 1act that the Mozart CluD mas
executed contract with Manager q. A. Ellis,
for the assistance of the Boston symphony
Orchestra At the two last concerts Of the club,
on May Is and 20 This means that the extra
ordinary pledges for this season made by the
Mozart Club to its associate members will be
carried out in the most satisfactory manner. IL
is not too late for more associates to supscrlDe
and still get more for their $40 than heretofore
LITTLE orro HEGNER, not being the first
to arrive, has naturally made less of sensation
than did his forerunner, Josie Hoffman,, but
the thoughtful critics are quite unanimous in
rating his PLAYING as of higher musical value
and as being Just about as remarkable in point
of technique as that of the mueh-feted Josie.
A point in Otto'sf favor Is that he does not try
to conduct an orchestra or compose original
tunes for newspaper publication. When ne
comes to swing around the circle, we will be
glad to hear him here in Pittsburg.
Miss AGNES HUNTINGTON. contralto well
remembered here, and who has made such an
enormous success as Paul Jones in London,
now has the honor of having three distin-
guished men engaged in constructing new
operetta for her especial use. Bison is writing
the ibretto, and Planquette the music. and
Burnand, the editor of Punch, is putting Bis
sons French into English. Miss Huntington
has Just signed new lease with the Prince OF
Wales Theater at salary said to be the high
est ever paid in the annals of comic opera IN
London.
BISMARCK does not like music. 1t is said
that he has not attended the opera more than
dozen times in all his life, and that since 1866
he has been there only twice: in 1879 to the gala
performance in honor to the golden wedding of
Emperor William l. and in October, this year,
on the occasion of the visit of Alexander Ill,
Gar of Russia, to Berlin. The Prince Chan
cellor once said to the painter, Leubach, that
he had neither ear nor inclination for music,
and that he preferred the music made by an
n a
the ACCORDION to that of any opera in exist
ence.-EL.
ACCORDING to a paragrapher in the PhiEd-
delphid Musical Journal, Patti, the divine
singer, receives the largest wages ever paid to
an artist human or divine. She is paid s. 500
every night she sings in the Albert Hall in
Lendon. Even with this and the expenditure
of IS. 900 for each concert her managers are able
to show profit of from s, 600 to 5000 per
night Patti has earned by her own exertions
more money than any five women that ever
lived on the face of this earth. Her receipts
since she began singing in public 25 years ago,
cannot be much short Of $1,000 OOb, and she has
several years of profitable farewelling ahead OF
her."
THE Boston Quintet Club has been secured
by Mr. ]. b. Cuttings for chamber music re-
cItal at the Pennsylvania Female College next
Friday evening. The club comprises Messrs.
John F. Rhodes and Paul Mende violins;
Adolph Burose, flute and viola: A. Becker,
viola and 'cello and Louis Blumenberg, cello.
The assisting soprano this season is Miss Annie me
Blumenberg, the brilliant 'celo player, two or
three years ago it has attained large measure
Of success through the country, quite dividing
the sutfrages once given to the Mendelssohn
Quintet Club. of which il may be regarded
as an offshoot
In looking over the announcements for the
coming musical season abroad, nothing is more
noteworthy than the manner in which Wagner
is invading the opera houses of all European
countries. Italy's leading opera house, the
Scala will open with "Die Meistersinger."
Spain will hear the Nibelung trilogy, and SO
will Copenhagen under the direction of Svend-
sen. At Brussels Tristan" and 'fSieg
fried" are to be produced in French. and
Pesth is to have several of Wagner's later
works in Hungarian version. And in New
York, of course, Wagner will be the chief at
traction Of the opera season, as usual. 1t Is
now time for Mr. RowDotham or some other
"crank" to come forward and repeat the an
nual assertion that "Wagnerism has had its
ay."-MlGSicdt Courier.
MRS. ScHAARscHMIDT under her new name
Rosa Linde, seems to have added materially to
her already high reputation in the city Of her
former residence by the artistic appendix she
added to the Levy programme. If she had no
prior casus belli with Levy & Co., she would
have one in the fact that since she left they
have gone on with another contralto, but with
the same circulars, Autographs programmes
etc., representing to the public that it is Nine.
Rosa Linde who is still assuming that part. In
one Ohio town the writer last week saw the
windows adorned with the face that is so well
known here, and heard music lovers discussing
the merits of Rosa Linde's singing, which they
supposed they had been listening to in the Levy
concert there on November 26 This is a rank
deception of the public and an insult TO two
artistes that Jules Levy ought to be ashamed
Of
THE Allegheny Musical Association will
make its first public appearance in concert
for the benefit Of the Allegheny General Hos
pltal, to be given in the Fourth q. P. Church,
Arch street and Montgomery avenue, on Tues
day evening of this week. Mr.. W. A Lafferty
will conduct; the chorus win number about 100
voices and the orchestra about 40 PLAYERS, half
of them amateurs that formerly belonged to
the Zitterbart Orchestra, and have been got to-
gether for the occasion bv Mr. Cohlentz. The
choral numbers will be Sir Julius Benedict's
short cantata Legend of st. Cecilia" (text by
Henry F. Chorley) and Schubert's ''Song of
Miriam" for soprano solo and chorus The
soloists will be Mrs. l. C.. Webster, Mrs F. w
Kiefer, Mr.. Beveridge Webster, Mr.. John
Gernert and MIR. Charles f. Cooper Interest
in the debut of the chorus so auspiciously or
ganized year or so ago combined with
charitable disposition toward the worthy bene-
ficiary should combine to make this occasion
more than ordinarily successful