Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
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An operette by Pauline viardot- Garcia, en-.
titled THE Last Magician" (text by Tur.
genief), has made happy hit in Paris.
BERNHARD STAvENHAGEN, the pianist is
engaged to marry a well-kuown vocalist, Miss
Agnes Dennis, whose change of name will sure.
ly be for the better.
AN admirably chosen popular programme
will be given by the Gernert Orchestra at the
third concert at Park Place Hotel Sevickiey.
next Thursday evening.
IT Is again seasonable to warn the vacating
musician of piscatorial propensities that the
tonic too often on the lips is apt to become
dominant in the knee-joints.
AND row Materna is going into the "fare-
well" business. They say she intends to 20
once more through her principal roles at
Vienna next season and then quit. For how
long? ~
DR.. HUGO RIEMANN viii, 1t is said, resign
his position in the conservatory at Sender.
shausen in October, as he has accepted an i'm.
portant post at Freudenberg's Conservatory at
Wiesbaden.
Trio MATTEL the Italian song writer, resid-
ing in London, has failed and gone into insolv-
ency. He had of late been Specializing in
shares and stocks hence the collapse. Admir-
ers of his songs would fain exclalm; mon e.
GER"
The title Of professor has been officially con-
ferred upon Oscar Raif. the famous piano
teacher Of Berlin. Pittsburgs many musical
professors" have conferred the title upon
themselves. This is truly a distinction with a
difference.
THE MusikdliSche Rundschdu announces the
: impending arrival of Remenyi, the violinist at
London, after a ten years tour around the
world. Thence he viii visit Paris, and subse-
quently return to his native Hungary, not to
get lost any more.
FAccro, Conductor at La Scala, Milan. and
ItaIr hoe,
duced, has been stricken down in his prime
His schoolfellow and friend Boito, who has
hardly left his side since his seizure now writes
that ''all hope of cure is at an end. and the
MALAY slowly follows its fatal course''
SIR CHARLES and Lady Halle have been
conceruzing with great success in Australia.
1t would be kind of Sir Charles to stop of in
Pittsburg on the way home and tell us how he
Las managed to create highly musical atmos-
phere around him during his long and useful
career in manufacturing community like our
cwn-th2t OF Manchester, Eng.
SAYS the Musical Courier: MARQUIS Queux
de Saint-Hilaire, son of old Saint -Hilaire, his
father, recently presented to the Paris Con.
servatory valuable Stradivarius violin, one of
the best preserved instruments of Its kind of
the year 1922" Il the authenticity of the yio-
lin is as doubly certain as the paternity of its
on its acquisition.
ANOTHER instance Of the amazing credulity
of the European papers as to matters Ameri-
can is afforded by the FTdnEfurter Zettung
which is quoted as stating seriously that New
York singer mot only has silver and gold
filling in her teeth, but diamonds also, and that
the effect on the audience particularly in pas
S3geS which require a full exposure OF the
front teeth, Is dazzlInEr'
THE intensely national policy of the German
Governmetis is about to be extended into music
al matters The Prussian Minister of War
music supplied to the army, such expressions
as 'tcrescendo,' piano. etc. being replaced
by their German equivalents. The easiest wav
TO accomplish this reform will be to contine the
bands to playing Schumann.
XAVIER scHARWENKA, the distinguished
composer pianist and teacher, of Berlin, sailed
on the 18th inst. for New York on a pleasure
"trip. In all three branches of his musical
activity Scharwenka has attained first rank
among his contemporaries. he possesses more
over, most genial and interesting personality.
America is glad to welcome him as guest, and
will be yet more pleased, should opportunity
oner, to greet him in his professional capacity
upon the concert stage. Mr.. Eugene q. Hef-
] ey, OF tins CITY, was favored pupil of Schar-
wenka's, by the way.
THE present difference between Gilbert and
Sullivan is not the hrst," says the London
ftgdTo, for after the production of 'Thespis;
or, Inc Gods Grown Older Gilbert wrote
Princess Toto to music by Frederic Clay. and
SalLvaa composed the music of the Zoo to a
noretto by b. G. Stephenson. This. however,
cid not prevent Sullivan and Gilbert from
coming together again in the same year with
Trial by Jury and afterward with 'The Sor-
cereT, the hrst two in the series of comic t,sras
which nave delghted audiences through y
LOOK az TINS Item: Under the direction of |
SerFaiss Wagners -Siegfried' is to be prodncad
for the nrst time in the French lapruapp a, ,be
Theater de la Monnaie, Brusseisn Then a. |
this; "siegtried' and Gotterdamrnerunu, are
70 i9now 66neingoia "a and the 'Walkure' az the |
operas being sung in the Hungarian language )
And then renect tnat the dominant AneIo-
Saxon has never heard one of Wagnar,s 49,
operas in his mother tongue. Are the FranSs
and Huns again to conquer the leaders Of c,y;Is
t1ation. "a ~'A-
IT is announced that Emil Sauer has rec.,,,o,, |
the appointment as chief piano ipstrurfo, A. |
the Royal Conservatory Of Music. Dtesdpn |
1t seems only yesterday that the writer wit. |