Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-06
MUSIC AND SOCIETY.
The Mozart Clubs Concert Fitting End to
Most Successful Season-rhe School of
Designs Annual Outing Pleasures of


Day.
"Wynken, Blynken and Nod" went homo
last night, in the great-coat pockets of men,
In the dainty gloved hands of ladies and
treasured in the minds and hearts of ALA
delightful souvenir of the Mozart Clubs
concert of this season and, at the same time,
a pleasing recollection of the gifted COM
poser who first put into rythmical
music the quaint child poetry of the
legendary cradle song of the Dutch.
The words Of this beautiful lullaby, written
py eugene Fields and set to music by Ethel
pert Nevin-now on his way across the At
] lantic to Germany-were printed on the
evenings programmes as graceful mark of
respect to Mr.. Nevin. Mrs. NJ Henkler and
,ieoc rae CLUB @ chorus were compelled to sing the
audience which filled Old City Hall to it's
very doors. Like all of the Nevin compost
tlons OF this character this little bit of nur,,
it simply will not be banished
from the brain or tongue. OF the other
numbers on the programme it is hardly
| splendidly done, but space does not permit a
more extended mention of praise Of course
| Miss May Beesley received her usual ovation
after singing the Pages Aria. from Meyer,
and Rafrs There's Way" There
was striking Inanliness and smoothness
about about F; W Beall's barytone solo, "The
sang the first solo, dreams by Strelezki,
with such sweetness of expression as to win
prolonged and enthusiastic applause. The
opening chorus, the Rose Maiden bridal
pronounced by many its best work of q
season full of oreditable achievements. The
balance OF the selections were as follows:
pie; Neidlinger's "Boat Song" by j. Boyd
Duff, Esq: Matters 'Dear Heart" by Miss
Luella Ashe; Ganz's Love Haild a Little
Unto Me-" by Ed Edstrom Saint-Saens' "My
Heart at Thy Sweet Voice. (cantabile from
sampson ct Delila'') }; Jenzen's" Heidelberg
Go nawafas ana se6tes I ana gnoT9s a0ri
Evans, Miss Lizzie Reed, Messrs. Gerding,
Muslin, Bullock and Wagner and the club.
At the adjourned meeting of the Academy
of Art and Sciences last evening Chancellor
Holland warned the members that they
must expect to hear him boom his education
al institution quite frequently in the future.
They said they were satisfied ii he was and
then in the course of his inaugural address,
delivered upon his taking the chair of Presi-
dent of the Academy for the coming year.
Dr.tHolland proceeded to say that next year,
at the "School on the Mount" above Ale
gheny one of the finest courses of lectures on
scientific subjects ever delivered in the
county would be furnished. He stated that
Hon. John Dalzell on Tariff" Prof Riddle
System" Andrew Carnegie on "Some Practi-
cal Business Suggestions" Colonel Andrews
on River Engineering" and Colonel
Roberts on Canals" will contribute to the
course. The officers elected by the Acade-
my are as follows: Dr.. Holland, President;
John A. Brashaer, First Vice President;
G. c. Mellor, Treasurer; George Clapp, secre-
tary. There will be no more meetings until
September.
'FoR the sake of Pittsburg's musical fut-
ure,' is the watchword of the May Festival
Patronesses and the business men associa-
ted with them in arranging for the Supple
mentary Concert to be given in the Du-
quesne Theater next Thursday evening, in
order to make up the Festival deficit. The
same motive actuates the fine list of per- |
formers, now completely given for the first |
time; Miss Agnes vogel and Miss May |
tralto; Mrs. Maurice 1. Coster elocutionist; |
Miss Mamie Reuck, violinist; Mr.. Paul Zim- |
norman, tenor; Mr.. John A. Strouss, bass: |
Mr. Joseph III. Cuttings and Mr.. Carl Retter, |
pianists, with the Festival chorus of several |
hundred persons, unnamed but not union |
ored or unsung. There will also be a gavotte |
of children from fashionable households-16 |
in each set-who have been trained by Miss |
Davis. Miss s. H. Killikelly is to be accred-
tied with arranging for this pretty feature.
the latest and most fashionable of outing |
costumes, carrying umbrellas and hand
bags, chaperoned by Miss Henderson, were
seen at the station yesterday at 1 o'clock
They were, of course, pupils of the School of
Design and were en- route to their summer
slketching field, which, quoting one Of the
Harmony" They expect to be absent about
a week, not longer, as the time of the prin-
cipal, Miss Henderson, is limited, and they
intend returning with all the Drettiest snofa
Of "Edensomething" transferred to canvas
Some of the members of the tourist party
we're Misses Birdie Gill, Elizabeth Hamilton,
Name Murphy, Lottie Ford, Annie Grey and
Mrs. Homer Swaney.
ANNIVERSARIES are all the rage. To be
home or q society without an anniversary
of some kind in the early spring
IL summer would be unenviable indeed
The Helping Hand Society, of Allegheny,
celebrated its fifth anniversary and annual
meeting at its Arch street apartments last
evening. Reports read by the officers were
10 the effect that since the first OF October
66 girls have been associated with the club,
he attendance being 2,l57. The library con-
Circle numbers 80. The statement for the
rear shows the expenditures were 81, ,121 T.
eceipts, ,352 10. The society compares
most favora bly, with other societies of the
anne nature in the United States, according
o the seventh annual report of the New
FORK association.
THE young ladies who form the graduating
lass of 81 at the Pennsylvania College for
omen, and who will receive their diplomas
Iext Monday evening, are already members I
f the AlumnB Association of the college,
aving been initiated yesterday morning at
very pleasant reunion and reception given
or that purpose. The parlors of the college
1ere the scene of the festivity and were
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