Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
Crotches and Quavers.


Mr.. W. s. WEEDEN has in charge the con-
cert to be given Thanksgiving evening at the
Smithfield Street NJ. E Church, where Miss
Agnes VogeI and Mr.. Harry B. Brockett Will
assist.
A CHOIR of u well-known singers will assist
at the memorial services to be held by Colonel
John B. Clark Post 162. G. A. R., at Carnegie
Hall, Allegheny, this Sunday afternoon at .
o'clock.
Mr.. LINARD c. WEBSTER is arranging for a
concert, to be given December at New Brigh-
ton. in which Miss Agnes Vogel, Miss Elizabeth
Webster, Mr.. Beveridge Webster, Mr.. Joseph
A. Vogel and Mr.. s. s. ANDERSON will partict-
pate.
Mr. JOHN HoRNER, baritone, will give a
concert at Connellsville Thanksgiving Day. in
the evening, assisted by Messrs. @. r. Broad
berry, c. B. Steiner, George Fischer and Ernst
Rose, of Pittsburg, and an unnamed soprano
from Baltimore.
THE Frohsinn Society will give an interest
ing concert At their quarters next Wednesday
evening. Mr.. FidelIs Zitterbart will play a
piano Nocturne and Mazourka Brillante, of his
own composition, and Mr.. Carl Maeder will
contribute violin numbers.
MISSES MARGARET CROUCH, Edith Harris
and Mamie Reuck and Messrs. John Horner.
w. Cliff. McCausland and Rinehart Mayors
formed the party of Pittsburgers who very sue
cessfully entertained the people OF Beaver
Falls last Thursday evening.
MR.CHARLEs CoRCoRAN the Pittsburg BARI
tone, who has recently returned from his vocal
study in Italy, will be heard for the first time
since his return IN a concert at the North Ave-
nue. NJ. E Church, Allegheny, next Tuesday
evening. Miss Lucille Eldridge, the violinIst,
lately came from Cleveland, and others will take
part.
CLAN MCPHERSON No. SO, of Allegheny,
has secured Lambeths Scotch Choir, from
Glasgow, for a concert, to be given next
Wednesday evening at Old City Hall. A plenti-
full assortment of the good old ballads, gIees.
madrigals and past-songs will be furnished by
the members of the organization, which comes
highly recommended.
NIooLAUs OEsTERLEIN, the proprietor Of
the Wagner Museum at Vienna, will shortly
publish the third and concluding volume OF his
great catalogue of a Richard Wagner Lii
brary," which he believes will then include a
reference to every work which has been pub
lished relating to Wagner and his art works
up to the day of his death, February lS, 1888.
WHAT looks like gigantic contra-bass, fully
ten feet high. but really is a very handsome
and ingenious cabinet for music and bric-a-
brac, stands in a Fifth avenue music store win
dow, attracting considerable attention. 1t be-
longs to Miss Mamie Reuck, the favorite vio-
liniste, and is doubly precious TO her as the
product of her own fathers workmanship.
MRS. Rosa L1NDE (Schaarschmidt) and Mr..
Felix Jaeger, assisted by other artists, gave an
operatic concert in Nine. Won Taube's parlors,
New York. last Thursday evening The Pitts
burg contralto sang an aria from Massenet's
lie Cid" and took the role of Ndncy in the
second act of Martha, !" which, with the Sec
part of the programme.
MRS. KATE MORGAN SMITH, a soprano
whose studies were pursued in Boston and
Paris and whose style and method are much
praised by the local connoisseurs that have
heard her, has come from Buffalo to reside
avenue, East End Mrs. Smith had a large
class of vocal pupils in Buffalo, and has en-
tered the lists here as vocal teacher.
DR.. ALEXANDER EsCULAPIUs MCCAND-
LESS, Lord High Sheriff of this goodly county,
has voice that officially strikes terror to the
evil heart, but which, in its milder moods can
froar you as gently as sucking dove" 1t was
the latter tone-quality with which he obliged
the damsels of the High School Normal Alumni
Association, when he sang at their reunion last
Friday evening. Mr.. Joseph A. Vogel also
obliged on this occasion.
RICHARD STRAUSS has Just produced at
Weimer a third symphonic poem entitled
Macbeth" which is said to be an earlier work
than his other two of the same kind, the Don
Juan" and the TOD und Verklarung.n The
active young composer and conductor has lust
put Gluck's "1phigenie en- Aulide" (according
to Wagner's arrangement) on the stage at the
Weimer Opera House, and is now preparing to
produce the companion work, the "Tphigenie
en- Tauride."
Mr.. CARL RETTER will begin chorus re-
hearals for the May festival tomorrow evening
at 7:3O o'clock in the chapel of the Pittsbure
Female College, Eighth street. Whether the
general rehearsals shall continue on Monday
or be changed TO Tuesday evening will then he
submitted to the vote of the singers them
selves. While no details as to soloists and pro-
grammes can yet be announced, MIR. Retter has
arranged to Join with New York and Buffalo in
a series of festivals covering the first three
weeks of May, Pirtsburg having the second
week. Such a plan assures an array of artists
that could not be afforded by either city alone,
Mr.. ETHELBERT NEvIN was elected to
membership at the last meeting of the Mann
script Society, of New York, an organization of
the leading composers of the country for the
purpose, chiefly. of giving adequate priyate
performances of their own works, with occa-
sional excursions into the realm of publicity.
The society is in its second year, and is thrvin1
in a way that augurs well for the fntnra ~
American composition. MIR. Nevin, by the wav
appeared last week with great success in a con-
cert at Mason Hamlin Hall, Boston, in COM
pany with Camilo Urso, the eminent yiolfnist
and others.
Mr.. W. B. EDWARDS. director and basso of
the Third Presbyterian Church quartet choir.
sends in the following musical programme tn
be given at that church on Thanksgiving Day.
Soprano Solo and Quartet from Mozart,s First
Mass in C.-"We Praise Thee; Lord''. -.
Soprano soio-sI viii extoI Thee, Lord ,, iro trom
the Orations of Eli by Costa. Miss Beesiey
Jubilate Arranged from Rossint's Stabat Mater
Introducing the ''Cujus Amman; and the latter
part of the 'Infammatus''. '.......................
................. Tenor Solo by MIR. +. j. Bussman
Mr. j. H. Gittings the organist, viii play some
special organ music at tn opening and close of
service.
ALFRED GAUL's anthem, THE Ten Vir-
gins" dedicated by the composer to American
choirs and choral societies, had its first produc-
ton in this country last Sunday evening by the
vested choir of st. James Church. New York.
under the direction of G. Edward Stubbs Mr..
Gaul was led to write 1.-The Ten Virgins'' bv
the favor with which his cantata, The HOLY
City," was received by cathedral cholrs Learn
ing of the intention of Mr., Stubs to produce
the anthem, he composed hymn to accompany
it, which was also heard for the first time The
anthem was written only in August and The
hymn in October.
IT is significant of the place that music holds
in the public mind that nothing but the best.
opera attainable would be thought of as the
opening attraction for our handsome new Du-
quesne Theater. The best attainable is GER
tainly what Manager Henderson offers in the
Emma Juch Grand Opera Company. The re-
pertoIre too, is well worthy the occasion.
Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin," "Hugue-
nous ana "t6ROIeILO -lOuE VI Tile SIX operas
have not been heard here al
all or are practically new to the younger gener-
alton of our opera-goers. Faust and '.Tro-
vatore' always draw, of course.
AT the High School chapel next Wednesday
evening will be given a very promising musical
and elocutionary entertainment, as a testi-
monial benefit to Miss E NJ. Simpson, the
veteran teacher of history at our PEOPLES
College," whose grievous and protracted illness
has enlisted the sympathies of her plany pupils
and friends. The manaPementiS is in the hands of