Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02

| lovers of music hereabouts will have good
cause to rejoice Musical Pittsburg needs
| nothing so much as f1rst-class orchestral con-
| certs distributed through the season. Mr..
| Nikisch's superb band already has obtained
| the firmest hold upon the suffrages of this
| community in its successive spring tours,
| and there Is no reason why 1t should not
| make most successful excursions this far in
| land on the fall and mid winter tours as we'll
| SPEAKING of Manager Charles E. Locke's
variegated career, an exchange says that
| his companies are stranded with monoton-
Gus regularity, the arid plans of Arizona and
the giant forests Of Washington being strewn
with the bones Of starved fddlers and
chorus singers, but Miss Juch and Mr..
Locke increase in adipose and go merrily on
gress be urged to pass bankrupt law while
| this unpatented process of successful failure
| is being publicly used by Mr.. Creditor Escap-
| ing Locke?
MRS BELLE COLE, who has been singing in
London for a number of years, long enough
to have becomea a prime favorite with royalty
| and rabble, is back in her native land once
more. She will first be heard in two concerts
at Chautauqua Wednesday and Friday of
| this week. Mrs. Cole will be remem bered
| by many Pittsburgers AS the exceedingly
Of our May festivals (lss3 was it not2) the
well-known number from Weber's "Abu
Hassan" that some wagg1sh paragrapher on
that occasion christened "Oh, Fat-am-Ir'
MODERN opera, or. as it was originally more
representative" is generally admitted to
have had its birth in the City Of Florence,
the first work of the kind, the Dame, set to
music by Peri, having been produced here
in the year 1894. Accordingly, says the Lon
don Musical Times, "Opera in musica," will
The authorities Of the Royal Academy Of
Music, of Florence, have just decided to
celebrate the event in a suitable manner,
and committee has been appointed for the
purpose of arranging the preliminaries.
MRS. LAURA SoHrRMER-MAPLEsoN is booked
for an American tour next season. II sue
cess can be won by sensational notoriety it
certainly will perch upon the banners of this
young woman. She was reported to have
been poisoned some time ago along with
other inmates of the Turkish Sultan's Harem,
though it is now said there was nothing
harum-scarum about her; she was only
honored BY the Sultan with presents, a
pension and an appointment as court singer,
etc. Then last year she was the recipient of
Henry Mapleson, the younger of the operate
managers who had long been received as
the husband of Marie Roze. They say Mrs.
Mapleson can sing, too.
AT the meeting of leading local spirits of
the Pennsylvania State Music Teachers
Association, called by President Carter last
IuulSOdyg NdIlOuS pldhS W0Fo UlOChcu Oub
looking to the success of the third annual
meeting to be held here next December. 1t
is now time to be getting up steam, and
every music-lover in the vicinity can help
right away by furnishing fuel in Jumps Of
$1 This payment, which should be made to
Treasurer Ad NJ. Forester, will secure to
professionals an active membership, to non
professionals an associate membership and
to both the common right of hearing all the
concerts, essays, discussions. ETC., of the
coming session and the qualification of aid
ing most useful and promising enterprise
for the musical good of the whole State.
A CHOIR of Kafirs gave concert in Lon
don few days ago. The members were
clad in their native African garb. The lead
ers were dressed in war paint, brandishing
shields and spears, while the unimportant
ones we're arrayed in a simple blanket,
which covered their entire body. The pro-
gramme wa: divided into two parts. cover
ing English songs and Kaff1r songs. The
English songs were sung with correct pro-
nunciation, showing the great amount of
training the South Africans must have gone
through. The Kaffir music was remarkable
for the constant recurrence Of what Is
have been agreed on by all musicians de-
scended from Shem and Japhet that "con-
secutive fifths'' are discordant. The swarthy
sons of Ham, however, seem to think they
are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
REMENYI during his three years sojourn
interesting violins. He thus explains how
such precious instruments came to be there:
after the revocation of the edict of Nantes,
when the Huguenots left Ia belle France in
thousands good portion of them went to
settle in Holland; from there they were
shipped to South Africa by the Dutch Gov
ernment, and as they were mostly OF good
families they possessed many valuables,
such as pictures. musical instruments, etc.
which they took with them. In those days
people did not travel with Gladstone bag
Besides, these exiles remained in communi-
costly things In time their descendants
became thoroughly Dutclied,' and did not
play any more the violin. Thus I have
acquired 40 superb instruments, all abso-
luteIy genuine and undoctored old violins."
cit is impossible, even if you would, to es-
cape from the thralldoa Of the one idea Of
Bayreuth," writes correspondent. '"The
shop windows are full of busts and photo
graphs of the 'Meister.' At the booksellers I
doubt If it would be possible to buy any lit
erature that did not bear directly or indi-
rectly on the al, absorbing subject; the very
street boys whistle or hum snatches from
some familiag stirring chorus; post cards and
Of notes-'mystic, wonderful Even the
damasked linen (the one industry of Bay
reuth) is embroidered with the bars of some
motif. The coachman whom you hail from
the market place scarcely thinks it worth
while to ask where he shall take you. He
assumes as a matter of course that you are
going to the Villa Mahnfried, to visit Wag
ners grave (on the first evening when there
house where the poet-mus1c1an at last found
rest and peace after life Of struggle and
disappointment and years of exile from the
land that he loved SO paSsionately, and for
whose glory he did SO much"
THE LONG LEAP INTO WATER