Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20
Crotchets and Ouayers.

| Drama. "Mr. J. L. Irwin. a former Pittsburs
violinist, has located in Philadelphia
ARTHUR SULLIVAN is indisposed and vii
probably have to submit TO another opera
! tion. He is only able to work slowly and a.
| intervals.
THE Lutteman Swedish Sextet (malt
voices) will give two concerts, mainly o.
| Swedish compositions, at Old City Hall or
the 29th and 30th of this month.
FRANZ RUMMEL, who has spent the summer
| quietly studying, will be heard this season
in orchestral concerts, historical piano re
citals and chamber music soirees.
Mrs Cos1MA WAGNER has presented tc
each of the $50 performers in the Bayreutl
Festival an edition de lure of the "Parsifal'
and "Tannhauser" text books as souvenir
MISS MAY BEEsLEY, whose European
record as the pupil of Mrs. Won Alosleben
has been made known in this city, and
| whose local record as a cOlOrdtur soprano is
| better known, has now enrolled herself
among our corps of vocal teachers.
| Mr.. SAM NJ. Brown has been appointed
organist of the Shadyside Presbyterian
Church and will have charge of the quartet
choir. of which. thus far, only the soprano,
| Miss Zetta Stewart, and the contralto, Miss
Margaret P. Fraser have been engaged.
PERHAPS a quartet for three stringed in
struments with piano does not belong to the
| same "branch of composition" as a quartet
for strings only; and then, again, perhaps it
does. 1t NAV be on a different twig, but most
people would say it is on the same branch.
THE novelties to be given during the
coming season at theaOpera Comique, Paris,
under the direction of CarvaIho, are Berlioz' 8
"Troyenne," Chappuis' ''Enguerrande," /"
Poise's "Carmosine," 1" Mascagni's "Cavalleria
Rusticana," Delibe's ''Kassya," and Mas
senets "Manon."
THE Gondola Band at Venice is great
4l,,o Alas
pal canals, followed by a number of small
attendant gondolas bearing lanterns, and it
is said that the scene and the soft music
have a "ravishing effect" on the dwellers in
the city of the Adriatic.
IT was q particularly artistic and interest
ing programme that was given by Mr., Theo-
dor Salmon, assisted by Miss Kaderly, Miss
Bankard, Messrs. Brockett strouss and
Maeder, on the occasion of the organ open
ing at Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Allegheny, last Friday evening.
Mr. LEO 0EHMLER extends Pfttsburg's
musical influence by a weekly trip to Green's
burg, as violin teacher at the academy there,
and also by an occasional excursion into
print, like the thoughtful hints for memor-
iZing that appear over his signature in the
last issue Of the Philadelphia Etttde
ALL the rest of the musical world has
familiarly known and loved "Lohengrin"
for whole. generation, but the Partisan
critics on their first hearing last week oracu-
larly declared that the second act is too
long. This is indeed crushing-far worse, in
more senses than one, than the howls of the
outside mob.
THE engagement of Antonin Dvorak as di-
rector of the National Conservatory of
Music, New York, is bright feather in the
oap of plucky Mrs. Thurber, and a truly
forces Dvorak is recognized beyond con-
troversy as one of the half dozen greatest
composers alive.
New York Truth speaks of Tausig as 'the
greatest pianist that ever lived being The
master ofo,r peerless Jose6y." Further along
in the same article Joseffy is placed "on a
pedestal that towers above all living ar
fists" These two sections of Truth might
well be held to be unconstitutional for not
being included in the title of the paper.
MAscAGNI has recently finished grand
opera entitled "L'Ami Fritz The au-
thorities of the Vienna Opera House refused
it because they were asked to pay a certain
sum down and per cent of the gross re-
ceipts. So the first production of al Ami
Fritz" has been secured by the intendant of
the Berlin Opera.
PRESIDENT CARTER gives assurance that the
report of the second annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania State Music
Teachers Association will be issued this
week. The volume will contain matter of
much interest to musical folk ana will be
the opening gun in the strong campaign
that must now be waged preparatory to the
third meeting to be held in Pittsburg in the
closing week of this year.
THE genial "raconteur," of the Musical
Courier, reappeared last week with one of
his inimitable, chatty reviews, devoted this
time to "Cavalleria Rusticana" This is
sample of Brother Huncker's views on the
new little OPERA whose vogue he cleverly par
allels with that of the short story in current
literature: "Afascagni has dramatic gifts of
the highest order, associated with, as is the
case with talented Italians, an exposition OF
these gifts which is not always on par with
their inspiration. In other words, he can be
very slipshod, almost vulgar at times, and
afterward rise to great dramatic heights,