Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27
THE MUSIC WORLD.
What Nay Be Expected Of the Mozart
Club To-Morrow Evening.
TEACHERS AT CARNEGIE HALL
Furore Created in the Art World by Pader-
ewski, the Pianist.
ODDS AND ENDS OF NEWS GOSSIP

| This will be a gala week for musical
| Pittsburg. Starting with the Messiah
concert tomorrow evening and continuing
| through the three days of day and night ses
sions of the State Association, 1878 expir.
| piring gasps will be literally surcharged
with musical fervor.
The Mozart Club was never in better
| shape to give tongue to the sublime mea-
sures of Handels masterpiece. Conductor
McCollum will swing his baton tomorrow
evening over force that may be confidently
expected to represent Pittsburg's utmost
present capabilities in the departments OF
chorus and orchestra. En- passa'a, this is
not extravagant prophecy, as regards
the latter department. The soloists
will be: Miss Hortense Pierse, of
New York, Miss Adelaide Forseman, OF
Chicago, Mr.. Fredrick w. Jamison, of New
York, and Mr.. Ivan Morawskt, of Boston.
Everyone knows the messiah" and loves
to hear it most of all at this fitting season.
So with the nonresident members of the
State Association present as the clubs
guests, there is every prospect of large
and appreciative audience at Old City Hall.
The social reception after the concert, ten
promises to be equally pleasant in its own
way. 1t is creditable and most appropriate
for our leading musical organization thus to
extend welcome to the musical guests Of
the community.
The Advent of the Teachers.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, each
with three sessions of the Pennsylvania
State Music Teachers Association at Carne-
gie's Hall, Allegheny, will compass an
amount of musical pabulum-spoken, sung
and played-the counterpart of which has
never been had in this community before.
Everyone may go if he wants to-subscrib-
ing his dollar for an associate membership,
paying So for patrons ticket" good for
two admissions to every session or buying q
single admission to any one session for half
a dollar,
The morng sessions will be wholly devoted
to essays, discussion and business. Names
and topics have already been fully set forth
in this department. The only change to be
noted now is the unexpected detention of Mr..
Andrew Carnegie, who had consented to
make the formal address of welcome on
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Carnegie sent very
nice letter of regret, accompanied by a very
nice check, in token OF his good will for the
cause Mayor Gourley has kindly under
taken at this late date to extend welcome
to the visitors.
The afternoons chiefly and the evenings
wholly are devoted to musical perform
ances. With very few excepsfons Pitts
burg's foremost artists and composers are
well represented on the programmes, of
which a full outline has been given.
Among the really eminent visitors who
will be heard, occur such names
berg, Leopold Godowsky and Maurits Leef-
son, pianist; d. D. Wood and AlberG W.
Rorst, organists: William Stoll, violin: R.
Hennir, cello. All of these are men of ma
tional reputation and their performances
may be confidently attended with pleasure
and profit to a high degree.
All in all, the meeting promises to exer-
else great influence upon musi cal life in
Pittsburg and Allegheny, and, at the same
time to assure the permanent success of the
association, with all its untold potencies for
the musical good Of the entire Common
wealth.
Not Away. up o to Promise.
Some good folk in the choir galleries have
been heard to complain of the fact that the
newspapers do not now pay as much attep-
ton to their Christmas programmes as Of
Yore.
While the former custom of printing COM
plete lists of these festival programmes was
a proper recognition of the church choirs "a
most valuable element in our musical life
and deserving of more recognition than is
generally given), there is reason to believe
that the custom fostered a tendency toward
choosing pieces that would look well in
print, but which were beyond the capabili-
ties of the choirs to perform them adequate
1y. Brilliant programmes and slipshod per-
I~orHisaces ~ LOO oi'ti ~ "ens Sosesner.
rernaps WIN less 'enptatlon 70 select
SItteriiiS tiuss, lueIo wIlI De I: Stronger
trend IN the dnectlon OF wortny interpreter
tlon- me presen0 oesuetuoe OF tne custom
reiefTeo 10 may pe' thereiore' qui1e lhnoc-
uous.
without going into details, it may be
h @ t ina Iii 1iIis hara its est ete1y
Ward. - Most of those that held services on on
Cbr;st,nas no. riiI ranaot Tho so,,,a ,,,.n
M mt az 70 'h the ,,,,sia SnaS pay
my piI d sa toIa, IN W
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rhoE E,,. ~ n.d.ro,v.1;
Paderewskl bids fair soon TO have che
whole country by the ears having already
,nsf,a co,pIate cononess Of New York and
pos.on ~, hoe hecor,o On ohiec. ~ So
DoS'on- A0 Los o'S 'So on opJoo0 vi intei-
est to the great public, far outside the dis
tincSVeIy muslcai circ!es; ana WITHIN those
circleS tue ahilysis anu oiscussion OF MS
pi1fimg Is S Tue ii ;1nSorpii'E aopnc o. inc gay.
Even Ut. Wililan Masoh, the dean OF
american planlsOs, mas peen moved TO write
public letters defending the young pianist
from Gne l1npntaIloH OF Pia!lnS bee1hoven
less acequaEey than some otner composers.
He says: 10 me faoereWskl Is as thor
oughly satlslactory an an aronnd player,
SO lar as may pc Jqdgeo from ms new York
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stated IN the courier letter ne is an inspired
play yerLstanfs more nearly on plane with
Lszt than any planlst since Iausig, ana GER
talniy nasa more sym paehetlc ana emotional
touch than mad Llszt.
How Paderewski lmpresses people OF less
musical sensl6llltes may be seen by the
Ioio"lng llNely oescrlpblon from Arthur
bl1sbanes New org letter rto HE DISPATCH.
A great loss to New York, fortunately
temporary, is the departure of Paderewskl,
the Polish pianist. He has left here in a
blaZe of glory, with the two worlds that mu-
sicians care about-the world of society and
that of music--anxiously waiting for his re-