Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29

| JULES DE SWERT, the famous Nlotohcciirs
and composer, died at Osteud within the month
as playing the entire Mendelssohn and Beeth
oven violin concertos upon the violoncello.
SOME wag in Boston Is said to have called
Vladimir de Pachman a sChopinzee." he
might also have called him musical guerilla
| in view Of the irregular tactics with wnicn
the little Pole tries to ravish his audiences
ONE of the 1amented Karl Merz's noble.
helpful essays. entitled '.The Sanctity OF
Music" Is issued as q supplement 30 the March
Etude. 1t is good in these degenerate days to
come into contact with such high ideals, SO
suggestively and practically expressed.
THE Marsellaise Club celebrates its second
anniversary next Thursday evening at Odd
Fellows Hall, southsids. Miss Jennie Evaps,
Miss Auguste Guenthef, Mr.. g. Gill, Mr.. +.
| A. Ammon and Mr. William Guenther, with
his orchestra, will take part in the musical pro
| gramme.
MRS. LUCILLE ELDR1DeE-sHAFER conducts
the exceptionally complete and interesting
| musical department of The Epotatfortst q new
monthly Just started in Pittsburg. A lively
sketch of the Karl Merz Musical Library IS Of
| particular local interest. Mrs. Shafer is well
coined into the scribbling ranks.
| SPEAKISG Of anew soprano song by Mr.. Ad.
M. Forester, Of Pittsburg, Presto says very
properly: "Mr. Forester is among the first OF
American composers His name to q piece of
| music is guarantee of its excellence. %. Love
of Long Ago is a charming ballad, possessing
the additional merit Of having original words"
THE Mendelssohn Club. Of the East End, at
last Tuesdays concert, sang g. W. Chadwick's
cantata, "Lovely Rosabelle," Randeggefs
Psalm CL, and several part songs by Caldicott.
| Mr.. James p. McCollum conducted, Mr.. K.
Mayer accompanied. and Miss Lizzie Reed,
MISS Ella Semple and Mr.. C. B. Stelzner con-
| tributed solo numbers.
Mr.. SIMS REEVES, the great English tenor,
is to make his positively last farewell appear
anee in May at the Albert Hall, London. As
| this veterans farewells have been steadily 60
ing on for nearly decade. it will be relief TO
| hear that Sims has simmered down in good
faith at last. He intenas to devote himself to
teaching henceforth.
XAVIER SoHARwENKA is said to be contsm-
plating the establishment IN New York of
counterpart of his famous Berlin conservatory.
1t is said that over three-quarters of the pro-
posed guarantee fund of soc, 600 has been sub.
scribed to induce Mr.. Scharwenka to spend
three or more years in establishing this end OF
the intended International Music Institute.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Musical Courier
recounting beauteous Teresa Carren's triumphs
at ST. Petersburg, says: "Rubinstein was in
the font row at her concerts, and In his en-
thusiastic fashion hugged and kissed her in
binsteil never goes to recitals the South
American pianist had reason to be proud"
What's the matter with Rubinstein's being
the one to feel proud2
ACME COUNCIL No. 29, Jr. o. o. A NJ, will
hold its third anniversary next Tuesday even
ing at Odd Fellows Hall, Southside. Mrs.
Genevra Johnstone-B Bishop. of Chicago who Is
greatly admired in Pittsburg already, will be
the soprano soloist. Mr. Howard M. Yost the
Cleveland barytone, will make his local debut
on this occasion. Mr.. Yost has been singing
through the West the leading parts in the
Messiah. Mendelssohn's flynn Of Praise"
'Damnation of Faust" and other works of the
first rank, and has won high favor from press
and public The Haydn Quartet (male) and
Toerges Orchestra will round oat Tuesday
evenings attractive programme.
MANY of the delegates of the National
League of Musicians want to be classed as
laborers when seeking the supposed assistance
OF the trades unions, but as artists when seek
ing engagements in the permanent SYM
bo RhGny orosestSas a Mas 6e1rE ISganizsd SsI ed, in
Obliged to chose one or the other, however; the
two classes don't mix we'll. 1t speaks well for
the league that the proposition to make for
NAL alliance with the Federation of Labor was
finally voted down. 1t shows that they aim to
be artists sometime. and don't want TO be
switched of on the labor side track That is
right. and it will be better still when the unions
realize that the best way to assure engagements
Tor their members Is, not by boycott or by ex-
cluding foreign artists. but by making them-
selves really worthy of and capable for the en-
gagements they seek.
Mr.. ETHELBERT NEvIN has said good bye
to his native town for an indefinite period. The
wagnerian talk and playing at Mrs McClin-
tock's Allegheny residence Saturday, the
2lst, and the recital on. Monday evening for
the organ fund of Sewickley Presbyterian
Church. twhen Mrs. J.sharp Mcdonald assisted)
were Mr.. Nevin's last appearances here. He
expects to sail, with his wife and little son. on
May 16. to spend several years in Paris and at
other centers, studying, writing and playing
amid the most instructive and inspiring sur
roundings he can find. 1t is no mean ambition,
no low ideal, that could prescribe this course
of action to man who has already been
through such an amount of preparatory work
and active, professional achievement both as
pianist and as composer. Most men would be
quite content to work on along the plane Mr..
Nevin has already attained; his zeal for the |
best and the highest well deserves the rich need
of success which multitude of Pittsburgers |
hope and expect will ultimately be his.
THE closing performances of the great Ger |
man Opera enterprise az the Metropolitan, |
New York, have been occasions of veritable |
triumph for the principal artists, and especially
for Mr.. Anton Seidl, the conductor Looking |
ahead only few weeks, it awakens most |
pleasing o..,a,t antticipations for Pittsnurg's
paid to the singers we are SO |
soon to hear. This is what the World says Of |
Nine. Mielke's share In the last Tristan" per.
formance: ut was Nine. Mielkes farewell to
her American audiences. 1t goes without |
saying thai she was given an ovatiun-and one
that the distin yuished singer has won fairly and
squarely. 1t was said at the close of last season
that we should never find singer to take Lilli |
Lehmanns place. But Mime. Mielke has |
gradually grown to her right proportion, ana
with her assumption Of the role of Bru,lnhitde,
and later of Isolds, she conquered everybody |
by the magnificence of her work. No more 4
thorough and beautiful success has been won
in New ork by any German singer than She"