Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02
Crochets and Ouayers.

means of electric action.
Crochets and Quavers.
MRS. WILLIAM b. WOLFE, Miss Mary Bank
ard and Mr.. John Strouss are among the singers
secured for the concert soon to be given on be-
half of the Southside Hospital.
Mr.. RHINEHART MAYER, organist, and Miss
| Horn. soprano, carried musical Pittsburg's
banner into the Second Presbyterian Church,
of Washington. Pa, last Thursday evening.
Miss BERTHA KADERLY is arranging con-
cert at Eurichsville, o.. for the 2Sth inst. when
she will be assisted by Mr.. George E. Williams,
the baritone of St Peters p. Z. Church vested
choir.
THE date of the proposed musical and elocu-
tionary entertainment for the benefit of Miss
E. NJ. Simpson, of the High School, has been
changed to November e. the evening before
Thanksgiving Day.
THE Mozart Club has been obliged to post
pone its first concert until Tuesday, December
2 owing to the delay ill procuring from En-
gland the orchestral score and parts OF Governs
Rose Maiden" the work to be given.
THE Mendelssohn Club of the East End, is
rehearsing Chadwick's choral ballad, Lovely
Rosabelle," for its first concert of the season,
to be given next month. Two more concerts
are in the seasons scheme of this young
chorus, of which Mr.. James p. McCollum is
conductor.
Nor every kind of a concert would be inviting
on Thanksgiving Day. but no doubt Pitts
burgers will find Mr.. Gilmore's popular pro-
grammes 60 down easily on top of the turkey.
Mrs. Ida Euler-Klein and Mr.. Edward
OMahoney will accompany the famous military
band this time.
THE appearance of Divide Musin, the Belgian
violinist and his concert troupe in the Pitts
burg Star Course will take place on the 24th
inst. at Old City Hall. MIR. Musin has won
hrIOh Io lie RI hprir1 hic fun Snns
in this country, ranking among the very best
violinists now with us. Other attractions in
this course are the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers
and the Redpath Concert Company.
Mr. FRANZ RUMMEL's first American ao-
pearance since his season here four years agp
was effected at a concert of the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in Sanders Theater, Cam
bridge, Thursday evening the 10Th ult. He
played Beethoven's concerto in E fiat and
achieved brilliant success. AT his first New
York concert: last Thursday, he played TWO
cuncertos, with the help of Mr.. Thomas and his
orchestra, and scored another triumph.
AT st. Petersburg this season it is intended
to bring out prince Igor,n posthumous work
of the late Alexander Borodin, portions of
which have been performed in the concert
room; also Tschaikovsky's new opera, La
Dame de Pique." At Moscow an unpublished
Anton Arensky. young composer. some of
whose works have gained much notice, is to be
the principal novelty.
A BERLIN society, called the 'Gesellschaft
der Opernfreuude," gave, on the ID inst, per-
formance of two rarely heard works: Mozart's
"Basten u. Bastienne'' and Mendelssohn's
''HeImkehr aus der Fremde.'' Mozarts work
is little operetta for three characters, written
in l76S (when the author was l2), and consists of
an overture, II alrs 3duets and a trio. Men,
delssohn's work is sufficiently well known un-
der the English title of Son and Stranger"
AS appears from the recently translated let
tiers Schumann considered his best works to be
the KfeiSlerfand, PhdntdsieStuecke, Romanzen
and NoveLetten. But he did not overrate even
his best works. When an admirer wished to
have his portrait to place between two of the
greatest composers, ,SchumanD modestly replied:
Don't place me between Beethoven and
Weber, though somewhere near them, so that
may 60 on learning from them all my life."
SAYS the Philadeph phia Times: ''Von Bulow is
not above handling the baton and will conduct
the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in London
during the coming season." The musical world
will be indeed glad 70 learn that the man who
has conducted the premier of some of the
greatest modern operas, the only man who has
ever trained an orchestra to play whole sym-
phonies from memory-that in short, one of
The three four greatest conductors alive
lis not above handling the batonr'
THAT Lamoureux, the famous conductor
and Porel, the present director of the Odeop
Theater, will be the directors of the Paris
Grand Opera, when RItt & Gailhard's term ex-
pires, is now quite well assured, as THE DIS
PATCH learns through another communication
from Mr.. w. d. Holmes, supplementary to his
interesting budget of Partisan news printed a
fortnight ago. This information comes from
high authority and the good news will proba-
bly, be officially announced this autumn.
This paragraph, by the "Raconteurn of the
Music1L Courier, concerns a singer soon to be
heard in Plttsburg again: My friend LAWN.
he hap is md ;o
quite robust in appearance. He is happy and
no wonder. Among his many engagements
par example are: Last night in PHILADELPHIA.
December z IN Brooklyn, Governs St Johns
Eve under Wiskes baton: December 4, at the
LenoX Lyceum, Sullvan's Golden Legend
under the same conductor: December 2g The
Mes-iah,' at Grand Rapids: December 3O
Light OF ASIA in Detroit, and song recital,
Battle Creek, Mich. Very fair showing, Will
lam j. Keep it up"
A TESTIMONIAL concert of unusual propor-
tions is being projected on behalf of Mr.. Bait
hazar Weis the veteran conductor of the Great
Western Band, whose recent long and severe
illness gives proper occasion for such a mani
festation. The concert will take place some
afternoon early in December, probably at the
Grand Opera House. Pittsburg's crack mill
tary band-above named-wiil take part, of
course, and it is expected to develop for this
occasion orchestra of about 80 men from the
nucleus of players who have for some time
been rehearsing informally at the Gernert resi-
dence every Sunday. For testimonial to one
who has served SO long and SO prominently in
our musical army, there will be no trouble in
getting a sufficient number of our best per-
formers to make up a fine large programme
and there ought to be no difficulty about draw
ing large audience.
THE Beethoven Qartet Club announces that,
in its series of six evenings of chamber music
this season, it will be assisted by soloists of in
ternational reputation. At the first concert in
OLD City Hall, November 25. the singer will be
Miss Clementina DeVere. who has already Con-
quered the pittsburg public, as she has most of
the country's musical oenters. On this first
programme BeeIhoven's great "Kreutzer
Sonata" Will appear. to be played by Mr.. Fred
G. ToeIge and Mr.. Car Retter. Del Puente
the well-known baritone has been engaged for
a later cate. For several seasons the Beethoven
Quartet Club has been the only local organiza-
tion of its kind. 1t has done admirable service
in the cause of one of the choicest departments
of music having been actuated always more by
artistic than pecuniary motives. Few of our
musical institutions are as deserving of patron
age and encouragement
THE novelexperiment OF giving matinee in
one auditorium 1.-THE Grand Opera House) and
an evening concert in another (Old City HALL
will be made next Friday by Edouard Strauss
ana his Viennese orchestra. There is nothing
new TO say about Strauss; the huge audiences
audiences of the next day's newspapers rempm-
Der him and his players very well. As Mr.
Strauss seems TO have confined his programmes
This time still more exclusively to the dancae