Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
GOSSIP OF MUSICAL CIRCLES.

Miss AGNES VoGEL has been engaged to
| sing at a school commencement at Greenyille
| Pa, on the 18th inst
MISS LUELLA ToTTEN, who has been prose
cutting her piano studies under Mr.W. II. Sher.
wood. of Chicago, has come home for a brief
holiday.
SHAKEsPEARE's Tempest with the new
music by Wilhelm Taubert. was produced at
the Royal Theater, Berlin for the first time on
the 9Th inst. with great success.
MISS AGNES VoGEL, Mr.. Carl Retter and
Mr.. Harry B. Brockett contributed the excep-
tionally fine musical programme for the Art
Society's reception at the Pittsburg Club Thea
ter on Friday evening.
MISS ELIZABETH NoRcRoss, daughter Of
the Rev. DR.. Norcross, of the Pittsburg Fe-
male College. has gone to Jersey City as lead
ing soprano of the Hedding NJ. E. Church. The
Nelos of that city speaks in the highest terms
OF Miss Norcross' success at a concert given
there week or SO ago.
EDoUARD STRAUSS and his famous or.
chestra leave Vienna to-day for their American
tour. If they get past Collector Ehrbardts mn.
sical examination, they will be in Pittsbure for
three concerts in the Exposition building MAY
26 and q. The local management gives assur-
ance that any doubts that may have arisen as to
the transformation of Machinery Hall into a
concert hall by that date, are now set at rest
THE close of the ninth season of the Boston
symphony Orchestra-which last week started
upon the Western tour which brings 1t to Pitts
burg for the Mozart Club concerts on the 18th
and 10Th inst.-gives occasion for an extraordip-
ary amount of gratulations by the journals of
the Hub. The Traveller devotes about four
columns last Monday to laudatory review of
the final concert. summary of the season, a
description OF the personnel of the orchestra,
and a forecast of the tour to be begun that
day. Mr.. Nikisch gets enough praise on ali
hands to turn his head.
THE Zitterbart Orchestra gives its first con-
cert on Thursday, the 18th inst. at Old CITY
Hall. Some 80 players-all but three or four of
them amateur-make up this band, which has
been drilled for year or more by Mr. FideIus
Zitterbart Jr. For this concert the Orchestral
numbers will be: Schuberts unfinished Sym-
phony in minor and two MS. compositions by
Mr.. Zitterbart-the 'Domitian'' overture
first time) and fantasia entitled "a ChiId,s
Dream" Mr.. Zitterpart will play violin con-
certo by Maurer with piano accompaniment.
and Mr.. Hugo Raiber will play Mendelssohn's
G minor piano concerto with orchestra, Mr.
harry Brockett and Miss Helene Zitterbart
will contribute vocal numbers.
THE second concert of the Monopgabela
Choral Society. Mr.. Charles Davis Carter di-
rector, will take place at Monongahela Citv
on next Thursday evening. The following So
loists will participate: Mrs. ]. Sharp Mcdonald
soprano; Miss Price Patterson, soprano: Miss
Lemon Taylor contralto: Mr. W. H. Arison.
tenor; Mr.. ]. E. Pettee, tenor; Mr. Louis
Critchlow. barytone; Mr.. Joseph H. Gittinrs
pianist. The concert will open with a misceI, |
laneous programme TO be followed by a ner. |
formance of Codes dramatic cantata, Coma |
la /" for solo and chorus, with pianoforte accom-
paniment. The soloists for the cantata are:
Comdld, Mrs. Mcdonald: Dersagrena, Miss |
Patterson: Melicomd Miss Taylor; King Fin.
gal. Mr.. Critchlow, with Mr.. Cuttings as accom-
PIANIST.