Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
THE MUSIC WORLD.
Favorable Auspices Under Which the
Mozart Club Begins the Season.
ITSHOUSE WARMING NEXTFRIDAY.
The inaugural Concert Of the New Con-
servatory Was Success.
4 SHORT BUDGET OF GENERAL NEWS

Pittsburg's most valued musical organiza-
tion, the Mozart Club, is entering upon this
seasons activity Gts fourteenth is it not?)
under more favorable conditions and with
brighter prospects than ever before.
Thanks to the generosity of its President,
Mr. II. c. Frick, the club Is now provided
with elegant and commodious quarters, that
will, no doubt, compare favorably with
those Of any similar institution in the coun-
try. The entire upper floor Of the re-
modelled Hostetter building, No. " Fourth
avenue, has been arranged to suit the re-
quirements of the club.
The main rehearsal room measures 5Sx30
feet, size amply sufficient for a chorus of
200 voices, we'll within which limit the
club is wisely resolved to remain for years
to come. A movable dais, roomy music
closets and other minor conveniences help
to fit this room for its purposes. Across
the hall is suite comprising two good
sized parlors, about 20 feet square, each
with adjoining toilet room; also, between
the parlors, two smaller rooms, of which
one is set apart as the supreme
executive chamber where the directors and
committees will sit in state. The rooms
are all furnished and fitted up in a really
tains, desks and general furniture are very
rich and tasteful. The walls are adorned
with mirrors, busts, paintings and portraits
of famous composers and several leading
men of the club. Very appropriately, the
most prominent of these adornments is an
admirable life-size oil portrait of the clubs
patron saint, Mozart, done by Mr.. Charles
Wall
AS the clubs own use of the rooms will be
chiefly at night, they can be utilized for
teaching purposes during the day. Mrs.
Kate Morgan Smith, Mr.. James P. Nc
Collum, Mr.. Beveridge Webster, Mr.. John
Prichard and Mr.. Rinehart Mayer have
already bespoken accommodations, leaving
an opening for two or three others on GER
tain days.
Friday evening, when the club will enter
tain its friends and patrons in an informal
sociable fashion. There will be some music,
a few vocal solos, probably, besides the
playing of the orchestral department of the
club. A very pleasant evening will doubt
less be spent
The seasons campaign will include the
customary series of five concerts, to each of
which every associate member receives two
tickets in return for his $40 subscription.
If the conditions-chiefy the financial con-
dltlons-are auspicious, an extra concert
is likely to be given in March.
For the first concert, to be given
about November 10, Massenet's "Eve" is in
rehearsal; it will be prefaced with some
standard overture. At Christmastide the
Messiah" will again be given, as it should
be atthat appropriate season every year.
The third and fourth concerts will be given
on successive evenings in May with the aid,
probably, of the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira, as in past seasons. For one of these
evenings Berlioz's "Damnation Of Faust"
is being considered; the other evening will
be chiefly devoted to orchestral works The
ballad concert in June will close the series.
All who have watched the steady progress
made BY the Mozart Club in past years will
rejoice in the improved conditions now so
generously provided for its work, well as
sured that the unselish enthusiasm of Con-
ductor James P. McCollum and the other
active workers in the club will bring forth
still richer artistic results as the seasons
roll on.