Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
Crotchets and Ouayers.

Crotchets and Quavers.
THE Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm,
has had medal struck in memoriam of
Jenny Lind.
NIcoDE's symphonic poem, "Ode to the Sea" !"
for orchestra with chorus was recently
given at the Berlin Philharmonic concerts
1t is considered one of the great productions
of the year.
THE Brooklyn Choral Society will enlarge
its chorus of 300 to 500, and will give three
concerts in the Brooklyn Tabernacle next
winter. Mr.. Mortimer Wiske remains as
conductor of the society.
MARIE RTTrER-GoETzE, the favorite con-
tralto of the Metropolitan Opera House last
season, has come back from Europe to sing
at the Newark and Milwaukee festivals and
a few other concerts this month.
IT is reported that Montegriffo has been
engaged by Charles E. Locke as leading
tenor of the Emma Juch Grand Opera Com
pany. Locke's perseverance is great. But
then he probably has now nothing to lose;
he is burglar-proof Locke, and, being poor,
he seems determined to be always with us.
MAscAeNI has finished his new comic opera
on the subject of "L'Am1 Fritz" of Erck-
mann Chatrian. The work has been COM
pleted in less than two months. The new
opera contains three acts: its title is "Suzel" :"
and we are told it breathes the perfume of
love and Is replete with fine sentiments.
Ar the last concert given by the Philhar-
monic Society in Stockholm Adolph Jensen's
oratorfo, "Jephtha and His Daughter" with
symphonic poem, hsPhaeton.h and Grieg's
"Olav Tryggvason," for solos, chorus and
orchestra were performed. The conductor
of the society is Mr.. Andreas Hallen.
TERESA CARRENo made phenomenal sue
cess with E. A. MacDonell's minor piano
Concerto at the recent meeting of the Tone
In,
Ehrlich, Tappert and Otto Lessmann praised
enthusiastically tine brilliant playing and
unqualidedly indorsed the Concerto as being
one of the important works Of its class pub
lished lately. Carreno has had great success
everywhere with it on the Continent.
AT the Handel Festival just held at Crystal
Palace, London, the chorus consisted of $50
sopranos, 69s tenors and 100 bassos, total of
over 5000 singers. The band numbered $50
executants, made up of ia first violins, 1O6
seconds, 65 violas, - violoncellos, 81 double
basses, 13 flutes, 2 clarionets, IA oboes, IL
bassoons, 8 double bassoons, 10 horns,
trumpets and comets, trombones, tubas
kettledrums, l grosscaisse and a great
organ in the skillful hands of A. J. Eyre, or
ganist, to accompany. August Manus was
the conductor.
The London correspondent of the american
Art Journal, speaking of the Carl Rosa Com
pany's poor balance sheet this year, says:
ceives O salary of $500 per week, a larger sum
than has ever before been paid to an artist
on tour in English opera. The expenses are,
however, save as to Miss de Lussan, now to
be cut down" That speaks well for our
American singer and serves to show more
over how hard place to fill is that which
the lamented Carl Rosa created for himself.
ACCORDING to the London Lancet music
possesses distinct medical properties, acting
as tonic to the nerves and refreshing the
vascularity of every organ" There are not
q few organs about this town, however,
whose "vascularity" seems to get worse the
more you try to treat them musically. Even
a big allopathic dose of oil doesn't cure them,
and the rest-cure only makes them worse.
Music committees need to be told that moth
ing but heroic surgical treatment, constantly
applied by a skilled organ doctor, can keep
q fine instrument in good health and the
organist in good temper.
ONE of the most interesting parts of Mr.
Wilson's "Year Book" is the excellent index,
because it shows at glance the comparative
popularity in America ofvarious composers.
Some of the Americans, like Paine, Foote,
Buck, Mcdowell and Chadwick, have good
showing. 1t is encouraging to see Bach with
1s entries, but the fact that Franz has only
five indicates the weakest point of our mu-
steal culture--the shameful neglect of Ger
man Lieder in our concert halls. The most
striking lesson given by the index, however,
is most utter disappearance of italian
music. Bellim, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi
together have only 90 entries, while Wagner
alone has 1s3.-Ne,0 York Post.
THE cable dispatch recently printed in a
morning contemporary purporting to give
the list of Mr.. Abbey's engagements for his
season of italian opera was an utter abb
surdity on its face. Neither Mr.. Abbey nor
any other manager would think of engaging
Scalchi, Trebellf and Giulia RavogG, three
contraltos of acknowledged first rank.
Neither would he engage the two baritones,
the dispatch referred to would make it an
absolute certainty that the plucky i'm
presario would meet with ruin Nine. AL
bani's American agent announces that sne
makes it look probable that the list fur |
nished by the Associated Press was correct.
It comprised the names OF Aiban1, NJ Emma Dlnn
brothers.-Ne,o York Times.
Mr.. HOWARD PEW, the genial press agent |
for Gilmores Band, writes THE DISPATCH in
a jubilant strain, not altogether without |
reason, as follows: "The popularity of Mr..
P. s. Gilmore has just been again demon
strated in New York by his making great
success of the promenade concerts in the
Madison Square Garden, place which seats
from 1900 to 5000 people. The Strauss
Orchestra was there last summer when the
garden company lost an enormous amount
of money. Similar concerts were attempted
by the Seidl Orchestra, Cappas Band, etc,
with disastrous results. Gilmore, In his
usual enthusiastic way, has made his season |
drew to close on Thursday evening, with a |
sort OF jubilee concert. On Saturday, his |
band opened its fourteenth consecutive sea- |
son at Manhattan Beach, where it will re-
main during the summer and go to the st. |
Louis Exposition again in September, which
VIII be the eighth season in that-city." J