Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
CrotchetS and Quayers,

CrOtchets and Quavers.
SYBIL SANDERsoN is engaged at the Theater
de Ia Monnaie Brussels, for the approaching
season.
CONES, the Brazilian composer, is at work on
a new opera called III Cavaliere Bizzaro" (not
Pizzaro).
LET musical folk make the Merz Library
purchase a general topic of conversation.
That is half the battle.
Mr.. AID. NJ. FoERsTER's "March Fantasia -
op. s, will be repeated by Innes' Band at the
Exposition next Thursday evening.
RUBINsTEIN's paradise LOST will be pro-
duced in Stuttgart this winter, and it is re-
ported that the composer will conduct the
work.
Mr.. CHARLES DAVIS CARTER has been en-
gagged as organist and choir master of En-
manuel P. E Church. vice Mr.. w. h. T.
Aborn, resigned.
THE removal of Mr., and Mrs. James E. Por-
ter to Roanoke, Va, will leave a considerable
gap in Pittsburg's musical vineyard where
both have labored long, actively and efficiently
in various capacities.
Mr.. JOSEPH II. CUTTINGS has engaged the
Boston Symphony Orchestral Club (not the ia
nous orchestra, but a small chamber-music
club) for an evening and matinee. November
Il and .. at the Pennsylvania Female College.
THE Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin
its tenth season in Music Hall, Boston. Tues
day, October l, public rehearsal, and Satur-
day, October II, concert. The season will con-
sist, as usual, of "a concerts and "A public re-
hearsals.
THE Beethoven Quartette Club (Messrs. Carl
Retter piano; Fred. G. Toerge, violin; George
Toerge, viola, and Charles F. Cooper,
yioloncello), have begun rehearsals again, and
will open this seasons chamber music recitals
in october.
MIR. LEO oEHMLER, of Pittsburg. has an en-
gagement for one day each week as violin ill.,
structor and orchestral conductor in the
musical department of the University of Woos-
ter, o. Mr.. Oehmler will spend every Thurs
day at his new post
Divide Musin, the violinist will return from
Europe by the steamer Bourgogne, due in New
York to-day. His company for the coming
season consists of Annie Louise Tanner
soprano; Inez Parmater. mezzo-soprano; Karl
Storr baritone. and Edouard Scharf, pianist
The season will last 80 weeks.
THE fine new Wirsching organ at the Belle
field Presbyterian Church. will be formally in
iaugurated October 8, by Mr. David D. Wood
the eminent Philadelphia organist, with the vo-
cal assistance of the First Presbyterian Church
Quartette choir. Mr.. Daniel NJ. Bullock, pre-
centor at Bellefeld church, is in charge of the
occasion.
On Tuesday last, at Grand Rapids, Mich. a
complimentary concert was rendered to Will
lam LAWN. the distinguished tenor, assisted by
Emilio Agramonte. of New York. and others.
MrLavin sang "The Young Rose" from Adm.
Foerster's collection among Flowers:n songs
by n. H. Alien: and an aria by Ponchielli from
La Gioconda."
The silver wedding anniversary of Director
B, Weis and the Great Western Band was
fifty celebrated in Liede rkranz Hall last Mon
day evening. In their Is wears of united ac-
tivity both conductor and band have attained
a full measure of success and deserve the
hearty congratulations of all music lovers in
the community.
THE congregation of the Southside Presby.
terian Church are preparing for a concert, to
be given on the 26th. The sopranos will be Miss
Margaret Crouch, Miss JENNIE Evans; altos.
Misses Edith Harris, Ella Semple; tenor, DIR.
W. T. English; basso, Daniel M. Bullock;
pianist, Reinhart Mayer. Miss Edith Harris
elocutionist, will assist at the entertainment.
In the series of social Friday evenings held
in the Smithfield Street M. e. Church by the
Epworth League. every third meeting is de-
voted to musical and literary programme
Last FRIDAY evening such an ENTERTAINMENT
given with Mrs Adah Manchester, Misses NJ.
Vrew Lille Reddick and Alice NJ. Reed and
Mr.. A. H. Farland as the musical professor.
UPON the basis of the Merz Library Pitts
burg might readily in few years build up the
very finest and most complete musical library
on the continent. With $4,000 a year for
IL. o
that interest it would be erninently fitting to
have an attraction to draw musical students
and savants also to the big Carnegie buildings.
THE Allegheny Musical Association will re-
sumo rehearsals under Conductor w. A. Laf-
ferty next Tuesday evening. The first work in
hand is Killers "Song of Victory" WHY
should not this chorus do as is proposed by the
Mozart Club-take a subscription from its
members on Tuesday evening for the Merz
Library fund, the total amount to be acknowl-
edged under the association name? 1t is ALWAYS
good for such organizations to be identified
with important movements in local musical
progress
Mr.. CARL ALL, the new director of the
Frohsinn Singing Society. was a well-known
oratorio aud concert tenor in Hanover before
he came to this country which was about
three months ago. The Frohsinn has Just or
ganized feminine contingent of 40 notes.-the
men numbering about 30-and plans an i'm
portant concert at Old City Hall in November,
when Edward Hille's cantata, weber Won
Weinberg" will be produced with an orchestra
of IS players and Miss Agnes Vogel, Mr.. Joseph
A VOgel and Mr.. Straub as soloists.
Mr.. THOMAS F. KIRK has organized an
amateur operatic club of about so members,
designed for permanent existence upon similar
lines to those followed by the Gounod Club of
best memory. An amateur orchestra of II or
Is picked players will aid in the work. Re-
hearsals will begin next Friday evening on
The Pirates of Penzance," for which the
right of performance, with the original score
was personally obtained from Sir Arthur Sui
livan by Messrs- Henry Aland and Geo. E.
Williams, two members of the new club who
have Just returned from England.
Mr.. JAMES P. McCoLLUM, conductor of the