Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08

new female chorus and newly picked orches
ira. their veteran male chorus seems to be re
newing its youth for this first public appear
ance IN several years.
Mr. HARRY NJ. MAYS, the baritone, who's
incipient fame while former resident of Pitts
burg has been largely extended by his success
as church and concert singer in Philadelphi:
| during the last year or two, has been brough
back here by the mutations of business, anC
his rich voice will once more be heard in th'
| land Of iron and steel.
Two of New York's leading musical weeklie
have lately printed likenesses of Antoni;
Mielke, of the Metropolitan Opera House, wht
is to be prime attraction at Pittsburg's Ma.
Festival. The Courier says of her: Mrs
MIelke's work during the season has been ad
mlrable, distinguished for musical sincerity
/ and dramatic force"
| 1T is stated that Mr.. Ad. VI. FoersteT's sym
phonic poem, "Thusnelda." is to be given BY
Carl Venth in Brooklyn on the 18th inst; thai
his string trio is to be played at Easton, Pa.
| early next month. and that Mr.. Seidl is going
| to open our May Festival appropriately with 8
| new Festival March" from the pen of Pitts
| burgfs well-known composer.
| MRS. J. E. PORTER, the well-known soprano
will close her ten years of musical activity in
this community with her appearance next Sat
urday afternoon at the free organ recital in
| Carnegie Hall, Allegheny Mrs. Porter ex.
! poets to leave next week to 1Oln her husband
who has located at Roanoke. Va. Many friends
| and admirers will sincerely regret her de,
| parture.
| MANAGERS HENRICKS AND WEBSTER an.
| nounce the postponement from the 10th to the
24th inst of the next concert OF the Star Course
| at Carnegie Hall. Miss May Beesley will sing;
the other performers have not yet been
definitely decided upon. The last concert of
the course which was to come in April has
been abandoned and holders of season tickets
VIII have proportional part of the price re-
funded TO them on application.
at the meeting of the Art Musicale in Mr.
P. J. Bussman's studio last Thursday evening
the programme was carried out by Miss Mamie
Reuck, Miss E. Lewis, Miss N. Becker, Miss
frankie McCreery. Miss E. Oehmler. Miss
Mary Bankerd. Messrs F. J. Bussman, Leo
Oehmler. John A. Strouss F. w. Bearl, Ross
W. Drum and John A. Bell! MIR. Oehmler
played Ethelbert Nevin's 'Habanera" for vio-
lin, which is still hot from the press.
LILL1 LFHMANN is to get 800 f1orins night
for singing six times at the Vienna Court Opera
House. This is said to be the largest fee ever
paid to an artist there; Lilli got twice as much
in New York. Then they say that Jean de
Reszke is to have 81, 900 night during the Lon
don opera season-one of the biggest figures
ever paid there for a tenor-and this is to be
increased by Mr.. Abbey for his services at the
metropolitan, New York, next season. Truly.
me lduuS are tue Singers FL
Dorado.
AT the fourth Peabody Symphony concert,
given at Baltimore last night, was gwen the
first performance of new symphonic poem, by
Mr.. Richard Burmeister. of that city 1t is en-
titled The Chase After Fortune" (Die Jdgd
mach dem Gtueck). and is said to have been In
spred by Hennebergs well-knowb painting OF
the same title. Presumably Mr.. Burmester's
musical translation of the color poem differs
widely from that made by Franz Won Suppe in
bis operetta of the same title, known to Ameri-
can audiences as Glover"
ART SoCIETY's one hundred and sixty-second
reception. to be held next THURSDAY evening, at
the society's rooms Academy of Science and
Art Building. will be particularly interesting.
Mr.. BeYeridge Webster, in his talk on Musical
Motives and Their Manipulation" will use as
examples the ScheTzos in Beethoven's Opus 2
Nos. and 3 and it is hoped to see most of the
auditors bringing their music along. Mrs
Kate Morgan smith, soprano; Miss Elizabeth
Webster, pianiste, and Miss Sybil Smith &C.
will assist in the rest of the pro-
gr2mme.
IN the Vienna MusikdliSche RundSch uu of
February 10 this announcement is made:
Theodore Reichmann will be back in Vienna
in April when he will give a grand concert
with orchestra in the great Ausikyerein's hall
The artist will be heard IN excerpts from The
Flying Dutchman,' Hans Heiling,' VAMPIRE
and 'Walkure.' How's this
Mr.. Retter? Is not the principal baritone of the
festival tied tightly enough to pre-
vent his running away home early? Since the
of Niemann's coming here for the
festival has during the week become an i'm.
possibility, let US trust that this Reichmann
-umor is but canard
"THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH which by the |
way. is one of the leading newspapers of the |
state. devotes from two to three columns to |
matters of interest to musicians every Sunday
leading papers do well if they
leyote half q column to the events in
he world OF music. The comparison is
anything but complimentary to Phila-
Music and Drama, is 4 generous comparison /
1ut it mus be remembered tina Pittsburg does
lot, lik- the Eastern metropolis, possess several
,oou musical monthlies and suth a bright |
weekly to supply the sam dem. nd Aeknowl-
sdgment is also due to Chicago leading musi-
al paper, the Indicator for its kindly refer
.nce last week to the 'well-written musical de-
of this journal.
CoNsTAETIN STERNBERG is coming out to
his neck of the woods at last. That this is good
lews the regular reader will already know from
,ast reference in these columns to this excel
ent pianist, composer, essayist and teacher,
Who is said to be prince of good fellows to
,oot. and who certainly constitutes one |
Sldeawake element in Philadelphia's re-
ent musical existence. Mr.. Joseph
L. Cuttings, of course, brings him here, and
or this recital, to be given next Friday evening
t Old City Hall, has set an absolutely popular
rice for everybody and half as little for musi-
al students. Mr.. Sternbergs programme is
eclectic. He divides it into four
lasses The Classic comes first with Gluck
in saint-Saens, versionl and scarlatti: then
he Romantic" with characteristic works of
,hopin, Jensen and Schumann; next the "Con-
division. represented by Rhein-
eFgeF. NIeode, Blumenschein 1.-THE former
'ittsburger. now OF Dayton) and Sternberg
imself; lastly the Popular" class, in which
lr. Sternberg properly, but courageously
,inds up with what he terms "Humorous
ketches" of his own being it is said, an ex-
ruciatingly funny ola potiJida of musical
ranks and jests, verbal and pianstic.