Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
Plans of the Mozart Club to Trans
form Old City Hall Into a
FirSt-ClaSS Auditorium.
A TEN-YEAR LEASE TO BE ASKED.
Getting Ready 10 Carry Out the Broad
Project of Lecture Series
and Free Tuition.
CONCERT FOR THE STATE TEACHERS.
Budget CT News Ions for Levers Of the Art Divine in
This NeighbOrhOOt

The Mozart Club comes TO the front again
with broad and fa--reaching plans, cslcu-
lated to be of much advantage to our musi.
cal community, il they be realized.
At last Mondays rehearsal it was an
rounced that wealthy friend and patron
O. the club had signifed his desire to pre-
sent 1t with a pipe organ, practically
equivalent in size and quality to the
fine instrument in Carnegie Hall,
Allegheny. The enterprising managers
o. the CLUB have for some time
been erdeavoring to obtain from the city
fathers loDg-term lease-10 or Is years
o. Old City Hall, end it is their intention, if
the lease is given, to remodel the old audi
torium completely. The exits will be iu-
creased and improved-a most desirable
feature; the rear halt of the hall will be fitted
with movable platforms by which the seats
VIII rise in tiers; the gallery will be ex-
tended around the sides and improved; the
stage viii be altered into better permanent
snare Tor concert purposes and the new big
organ built in at the back and the whole
hall rescoej seated and fitted up as first
class auditorium should be.
Here Is i chance for Pittsburg to begin
next season with convenient and suitable
concert hall, seating 1.50O or 800 people.
or more on a pinch-just the thing we have
SO sadly needed for Years. The Importance
CT this reea in cur musical life is such as to
give every reason TO all musie-lovers to exert
their influence, ii there were need for it, in
order 10 assure the granting of the lease by
the municipal authorities
In that hall viii be accommodation for
all manner Of high-clasS musical and other
assemolages that now seek in vain for suit
able quarters and are stunted and discour-
aged Tor lack OF them. The presence of a COM
plete concert organ will give opportunity for
Tue organ recitals (and the practice instru-
ment, too) for which SO strong need has
existed AID have proved such popular
boon ID Allegheny, even without the patrob-
age aud overseeing OF such a BODY as the
Mozart Club.
About the first of April the club will
move into Its new headquarters in the Hos
:etter block oil Fourth avenue There ii
VIII have rehearsal room holding 300 or |
more persons, besides half dozen rooms |
ior teaching purposes, etc, several of which |
have been already bespoken. Here the |
club Will at last be in a position to carry |
out its broad plans for series of lectures on |
musical topics and free tuition, which were |
noted at length in this department |
f''AlAN AAAA-C dSo II Is also IN /
concentration to publish from that |
headquarters monthly musical |
Journal 10 be the official organ of the club |
and TO include the Iibrettos for its own con- |
certS and the programme OF the organ re- |
citalS-thereby saving present expenses and |
increasing the circulation of the propesed |
paper The rehearsal room will also. it is
expected, serve as a hail for recital pur-
poses.
Altogether the managers of the Mozart
Club propose to make their new rooms
yerltable head center of active musical in
huence along the most varied and useful
lines, while their hoped-for permanent con-
cert hall and its grand organ are TO fur
nish opportunities for the larger musical
enterprises that should be the frui. of such
Influences.
The plans are laid; the workers are
thoroughly In earnest The greater part
OF the money al first needed is already in
sight II remains for the general musical
public. BY their support and patronage of
what has already long been Pittsburg's fore
most musical organization, to assure and
make permanently successful these admir-
ably framed plans for advancing the COM
mon cause.