Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24
Crotchets and Ouavers.

AMONG the big musical schemes already
brewing for the squadri-centennial season,
one of the biggest emanates from the busy
brain of Manager David Blakely, of Gilmore,
Strauss and Marine Band fame He sailed
for Europe last week to engage u celebrated
conductor as an attraction for projected
series of Columbus festivals to be given in
New York Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
and other cities Anton Seidl and Theodore
Thomas will also cooperate, it is said.
A CONSOLIDATION has been arranged be-
tween the Boston symphony Orchestra and
the Boston Singers Society, a compact
choru which, under Mr.. George L. Osgood's
training, has attained an efficiency worthy
of partnership with the country's foremost
orchestra. Such combination can achieve
great results and next years symphony con-
certs will be looked to with even greater in
terest than ever. The chorus will give each
year at least one concert, however, devoted
to unaccompanied works of the great mas
tiers.
WITH the dropping out of Miss Emma Juch,
her opera company has been rechristened as
the Metropolitan Opera Company" and
will be heard, under the management of Mr..
John C. Nolan, in the Columbus Theater,
New York, for a season of six weeks, begin
ming tomorrow. In the company are Misses
Georgine Won Januschowsky, Carlotta Ma
conda and Louise Meisslinger, and Messrs.
Payne Clark (of the Carl Rosa Company,
W nllan stephens, Leo lSUrO1nOnbt .. II. Duu-
lev Franz Vetta, r. n. Knight and Joseph
Witt. Mr.. Adolph Neuendorff is the musical
director and Mr.. viii Parry stage manager.
THE incidental music which added consid-
erably to the effect of Miss Fanny Daven-
ports Cleopatra" last week, is stated in
the programmes to be by NJ. Xavier Leroux
and W. w. Furst, the latter being the
musical director of this company. Does any
one remember distinctly the incidental
Rider Haggard's weird novel, "She," as pro-
duced here last season with Mr.. Furst at the
conductors stand? The music was by no
means the least evident point of similarity
in the performances centering about those
two remarkable Egyptian females. They
ought to call CLEOPATRA, too, melodrama
or, at least, a "a tempest in a teapot
tragedy.
Mr.. GEORGE STEWARDS enterprising chain
of music festivals, already noted in this col
umn, has been progressing finely, The or
chestra and soloists provided by Mr.. Stewart
have already taken part with local choral
forces in festivals at Hartford, Conn,
Springfield, Mass, and Richmond Va, and
have given concerts in New Bedford and Fall
River Mass, Willimantic and Middleton
Conn.,, Washington, Baltimore and Philadel-
phia. In the last two cities Mr.. Tschaikowsky
conducted some of his own music,
the concerts being the only ones
in which he participated outside
of New York; Last week this
ombinationAEith the Arion Club, of Provi-
dence, Mass Mr.. Jules Jordan, conductor)
gave three days festival, in which, of the
four concerts, two were devoted to complete
choral works in the larger form, namely:
BeIiioz's ELIMINATION of Faust" and Men
delssohn's "Elijah," while one of the mis-
celaneoUs concerts included Bruch's "Fair
Ellen. q chorus from the same composers
"ArlHnius'' and Gounod's 'Niallia.n Mr..
Krellbiel writes to the Tribune a hearty com-
mendation of the singing of this chorus of
$50 voices. Are Pittsburg's festivals always
to be thus outclassed by the New England
towns?