Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01

so. For instance, Mr.. Ethelbert Nevin,
who has just come home from Boston on
visit and who ought to know, declares Cnad-
wick's quintet to be ''the most superb since
Schumann's: no description could do it jus
tiee."
Lovely Rosabelle" was written for and is
dedicated to the Boston Orchestral CiuD, Dy
whose chorus and orchestra 1t was performed
for the first time December III. 1859. IL was
also performed at the Springfield Festival last
month. Mr. Chadwick took the subject oil this
Last Minstrel" where Harold bard
of brave ST. Clair" tells the tale OF
lovely Rosabelle, who tempted the
angry firth It'll the sea-caves rung ana the
wild waves suug" So says the Springfield Fes-
tval programme, which gives complete analy-
sis of the work. From its description oil Chad-
wick's orchestration, it seems the more a plty
that Tuesday evenings concert Will De gwen
without orchestra But it will be pleasant to
hear l5-minute composition by u: w. Chad,
wick, even though the score has to be reduced
to the organ.
A month or so since the New York Evening
Sun printed the following, which comes In
handy just here: A woman who knows tells the
following story of the early life and struggles
OF Clemence DeVere, the young woman who,
during the past winter, has won success as
concert singer in this city that usually comes
with years alone, and who has just been en-
gagged to sing in DR.. John R. Paxton's church
at salary of $1,000 a year. the largest salary
ever paid church singer in this country:
Miss DeVeie is of French parentage, and
until now has always lived abroad. Her father
is French Count and her mother was in early
lite concert singer of brilliant reputation.
While Clemence DeVere was still a little child
the father was stricken with blindness, and, as
the estate was small, the mother was again
obliged to take up her profession in order to
keep the family together: As Clemence, WHO'S
the oldest child, grew older. she developed a
voice that her mother felt demanded every ad-
vantage of a thorough musical training. And
so she worked harder than ever and sang at
night and gave lessons during the day, until by
and by she was able to send the young girl to
the best masters in France and Italy
When the training was over and her
daughter was declared to be secure of a bril-
liant future the tired mother gave the care of
the family and the education of the younger
children, of whom there are several into the
hands of her daughter. And so Miss
DeVere came to New York year ago
and tired-out mother and three or four |
brothers and sisters upon her shoulders. |
She has been obliged to work hard |
and live carefully, even to deny herself the |
comforts Of life, and in the midst of her sue
cesses to evade social claims that might sub |
tract from the time and strength she must give |
to her work.
1t is always good to look upon success, and it
is especially good to look upon SO deserved and
1nselfsh success as this.
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Ine Tree organ recltals at Carnegie Hall,
Allegheny, go on apace, filling the auditorium
Zach Saturday afternoon with delighted
hrong of people whose opportunities for
musical enjoyment have hitherto been few and
ar between.
This is as it should be. For Allegheny City
o create the new municipal Office OF organist
n ordinary to the public-real rulers
# the land-was an admirable exer-
Use of the legislative function. We
iced to realize more clearly in this land of the
rec, that government need not be tyrannical
n even ''paternaP' just because it gives
o the people at large facilities tor
educatIon in something more than
he three RS. Literature, music and painting
all the fine arts-have more to do with good
citizenship than we sometimes think. Let
ne make a nations Songs, and 1 care not"
etc.
Yesterday afternoon, in honor of the Scotch
IRISH celebration, Organist Leonard Wales ar
'anged the following programme, whose ap-
,ropriateness will be readily discerned:
darch IN " tlat....-....... 1mprovised
strauss Autograph Walt1es''......X. E Warren
'Chimes of Normandy (Potpourrij. .Pianquette
Ministry sEf Boy. S :;Kiliarney. ;fhe Harp That
woman. ;, Last Rose of summer, '' ..CruisE cen
Lawn. - ''The Pretty Girl Milking Her cow"
wearing of the Green" and Kathleen
havOurneen.H
e0 b. ''Mollie Bawn'' .......... s. Lover |
Pirates of Penzance'' (Potpourri. ....... Sullivan
Sosn Song 8S Meaev sfdTd andea $
Bells of Scotland" ''Jock o. Hazeldean, -
Comm Thro' tile Rye" Bonnie Doom,
within Mile o. Edinboro' Town." ''Robin
Highland Fling, ,, and Aud Lang Syne.
larch, "Tannhauser, Wagner ;