Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
Crotchets and Ouayers.

| A LEFT-HANDED violinist David Roget, has
| Just appeared in Berlin. He is said to play
Bach's music with great accuracy.
THE Emperor of Germany has just con-
| ferred on Rubinstein the cross of Order of
Merit the highest distinction q civilian can
| receive in that country.
| TsoHAIKowsKI intends writing a work for
the Grand Opera, Paris, It is said. Its sub
ject, "The Hero of Our Time" is founded on
a novel by Sermontoff.
A NUMBER of singers from the May Fest-
val chorus, together with Gernert's Orches-
| ira, will add musical interest to Manager
| George c. Jenks' al Jresco "As You Like II, !"
July 23
THE refuge houses for aged musicians.
which Verdi has built in the neighborhood
Of Milan, have been designed by Camille
Boito, brother of the composer of
| "Mefstofele." They will be ready toward
| the end of the year.
MISS BERTHA NJ. KADERLY, Mr.. Harry B.
Brockett and Miss Auguste Guenther will be
the soloists at Mr.. William Guenther's next
summer night entertainments at Silver Lake
Grove, East End, occurring on Thursday
evening Of this week.
Mr.. ANTON SETDL has begun another sum-
mer season of his superb orchestral concerts
at Brighton Beach. With such daily pro-
| grammes and such performances of them (at
| 10 and % cents admission) these ten weeks
ought to witness musical exodus to New
York nearby seaside resort.
A COMPLETE symphony orchestra, to be
composed entirely of women, is being Or
| ganized in New York City by Mr.. D. Blakely,
and during the coming season will be heard
in all parts of the country. Mr.. Blakely is
| now in Europe closing with several high
grade attractions.
THE American College Of Musicians at its
IN orb al ~
| lowing officers for the coming year: Pres
| fdent, e. NJ Bowman, of Newark, N, j.; Vice
Presidents, Clarence Eddy, Chicago, and
| George K. Whiting, Boston; Secretary and
Treasurer, Robert Bonner, of Providence,
r. L.
CHEvALIER EDWARD SoovEI, the American
| tenor now singing SO successfully in Lon
don, has been much pictured and talked
| about in the metropolitan journals. The
Ihedte1 for July contains fine full-page
photograph of the handsome tenor and an
extended biographical article which is
further illustrated by an artistic cut showing
him in the costume of his la Cigale" role.
MR. THEODORE THOMAS farewell season Of
concerts at the Madison Square Garden, New
York, previous to his taking up his resi-
dence in Chicago, begin last Monday even
ing and will end August 10. While at the
garden. Mr. Thomas intends giving weekly
festivals of Wagner, Meyerbeer, Beethoven
LisZt, Mendelssohn and Schubert music
and also special nights of ballroom compost
tions.
IT is pleasure to read the criticisms on
Pbiladelphia's summer opera season con-
tributed to Music and Drama, of that city, by
that excellent musician, Mr.. 8. Behrens.
But is it not rather venturesome to "predict
that IL Troyatore' will outlive all of Wag-
ner's writings?" With all its good points
already been outlived by its own composer,
as shown in "Aida," the Requiem Mass and
"Otello." Anyhow, Just think of such
prediction from a man whose front name is
6ieafrieG
CHARLES KINGSLEY cried when he heard
the strolling flddlers playing under his win
dow: "Who knows" he said, "what sweet
thoughts his own music stirs within him.
though he eats in pothouses and sleeps in
barns" When Kingsley was in California
he told the students of Berkeley University
that he trusted that music would reach the
dignity of a science in the University
| "Music," he said, was necessary to the
rounding and finishing of the perfect char
acter."-Tempte Bar.
To-DAY's services at the Fourth Avenue
Baptist Church will baptise the new organ
in a food of sacred music. Two elaborate
programmes will be carried out by a chorus
of 40 voices, under the direction of Mr.
Simeon Bissell, with Mrs. Birdie Lucas
Tener, Miss Amy Davies, DR.. W. T. English
and Mr.. Barclay NJ Everson, as special solo
eran singer of days gone by, and last but
not least, with Mr. John @. Everson, as Or
ganist, through whose zeal largely the long
mooted organ project has at last reached its
goal
THUS says the Buffalo Courier: "The loss
sustained by the Musical Association in the
recent festival will probably not exceed
$500, a sum too large by far, but yet smaller
than was feared. 1t is great pity that the
men who were so generous in their efforts to
benefit the people should have so little sup
port from the very ones who were expected
to derive the greatest pleasure from the
concerts. Every musician thanks them, and
the profit which was divided by this class is
is not to be estimated" Since misery loves
| company, Pittsburgs affection for Buffalo
| should hereby be largely augmented.
A DISPATCH from Milwaukee, received last
| night, says: At the business meeting of the
Northwestern Saengerbund this morning,
Secretary Canaan was elected President
without opposition, and F. Sclaegel, of the
| Arion Society, of Chicago, was chosen Sec
| retary. The vice president and treasurer
| will be chosen from the societies of La
Crosse, which city has been selected as the
| place of the next fest. The date of the next
| fest was postponed until 1894 because of the
! opinion that the Worlds Fair will over
| shadow all other attractions in 1898. This
evening there will be an artists concert at
| the Exposition building and tomorrow
| there will be grand picnic at SchlitZ Park.
HOME composers Idkc UCu6 Oh JnlS RTate1ul
| announcement in the Musical Courier: "The
Cleveland Gesangverein have offered prize
of $1,000 for a cantata for the National
Saengerfest to be held here in 1892. The con-
test is free for all, and doubtless fine COM
position will be the result Another prize is
offered, believe. for an opening chorus,
only American and Americanized composers
being eligible to compete. hope some of
our Americans who have done successful
work in this form of composition may be in
duced to enter the lists: $3.50 is the amount of
the prize. Mr.. Emil Ring, present director
of the Gesangverein, is director general of
the coming festival, and every effort will be
made to make the affair notable one."
For the month beginning July 10 and end
ing August 10 the little Bavarian town of
Bayreuth will be the musical Mecca of the
world. Present indications are that the
Wagner Festival this year will be the ar
tistic equal of any of its predecessors and
/ will surpass the financial success of the last
| one, which made about $4,000, net profit
With such revenues nothing need be, or will
| be- left undone to maintain the high tradi-
| Gions of that original fOuntain-head of the
| modern music-drama. The three works that
| will alternate during the month are "Parsi-
fal," Tristan und Isolde" and "Tann-
| haeuser." The f1rstis always given at the
| Bayreuth Festivals and nowhere else;
| the last, of which the "Paris version"
at Bayreuth. Fully a month ago the Pal
| Mall Gazette said that 'the greatest satisfac-
| tion is felt by the Wagnerians in London
| at the unusual demand that has been
made for tickets for the Bayreuth Fes-
| tiyal plays this year. All tickets for the
| three performances Of Tristan und Isolde"
have been sold out, as well as those for the
| and for "Tannhauser' on the 22d. Messrs.
| Chappell, the agents in London for the
| tickets, report more favorably of the sales
| here the tickets already sold by them being
twice as numerous as last year."