Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
Crotchets and Ouavers.

Crotchets and Quavers.
A CONCERT will be given by Guenther't
Orchestra at Park Place Hotel, sewickley, on
the 23d inst.
Miss LEoNoRA STosoH has carried OF three
first prizes at the Brussels Conservatoire
She was formerly pupil of Joseph Kasperi
of Washington.
"Nydia," !" founded on Bulwer's "Last Days OF
Pompeii," will be produced at the Crystal
Palace, London, on July 80.
RUBINsTEIN is said to criticise Wagner,
Liszt and Berlioz very severely in the book
| which he is now engaged in writing. He is
| reported as contending that those composers
have retarded the progress of the art of
music.
MISS AGNES HUNTINGTON has bought back
from Rudolph Aronson the American rights
in Planquette's Captain Therese," which
| was originally written for her and produced
| by herin London with fair success. She will
use it in her tour through this country next
| season.
A CORRESPONDENT in Italy writes that
Verdi looks remarkably young and vigorous
| for man Of rs years. His eyes are bright,
| his conversation fluent and clear, and he
| gives the impression of one who has many
years of life before him. We may hear "Fal-
| statf'' yet.
TIE management of Walter Damrosch and
|
| closed an arrangement for series of con-
certs next fall and winter in Baltimore.
| Why not in Pittsburg, too? Comparatively
| slight local effort would doubtless be able to
| secure this boon for our orcheStrally be-
| n1Shted community.
| WALTER DAMRoscH Is reported as saying to q
| Berlin correspondent: "Our people are not at
all musical but those who are are much more
| highly cultivated than the average Germa I. -
Mr.. Damrosch has not hitherto been suspect
| ed of having Irish blood in his veins. More
over the apparent meaning OF this pretty
| paradox is absurdly untrue.
MAsoAeIN1, the composer Of "Cavalleria
Rustioana," which has created a furore
throughout the Continent, is described as a
remarkably handsome young man, 20 years
of age. His skin is dark bronze, his eyes are
black, and melancholy in expression, and
his forehead is broad and high. He Is six
feet in height His face is beardiess.
They seem to be suffering from glut Of
conductors in Germany, says the Figaro. At
Baden the post OF conductor was vacant by
the death of Koennemann. 1t seems that
no fewer than 122 candidates were up for the
post the emoluments of which do not ex-
coed more than Gl5O per annum, 1t was
carried Off by Mr. Kock, a violincellist pupil
OF Haussmann, and the composer of two
symphonies.
MISS CHRISTINE NELSON'S name bothered
the local newspapers on her visit here, many
items spelling it 'Nilsson, - making it identi-
cal with that of the world-famous soprano,
now retired, and who was one time heard
here in the same church edif1ce. One good
woman, thinking the connection closer still,
was heard to remark at the concert, "Why,
she looks good deal like her mother did,
only prettier."
Mr.. IsIDoRE DE LARA's cantata, "The Light
of ASIA" a musical setting of Sir Edwin Ar
nold's fine poem, was announced to be pro-
duced, with scenic accessories at Convent
Garden Theater, London, during the second
week of July. This is practically its first
tions of it have been heard in the concert
room. The principal roles were tt be sus-
tanned by Miss Fames and NJ. Maurel.
AFTER the current month of "The Grand
Duchess at the New York Casino, ending
August H. Lillian Russell's engagement as
Rudolph Aronson's prima donna will expire
by limitation. Deprived of her services, the
Pauline L'Allemand who will be heard in a
version of "La Refine indigo" October Is
Marie Tempest will take her place at the |
head of the Casino forces, and about that |
time Miss Lillian Russell will be seen at the |
Garden Theater as the star of LA Cigale."
THE centennial Of Mozarts death was to be |
celebrated at Salzburg, his birthplace, by ]
notable musical festival during three days of |
the past week. Many of the foremost Ger |
man artists gladly consented to take part in |
the Fest, which opened with the Requiem,
closed with Figaro" and included such |
other representative works as the D minor
pianofoTte concerto, the minor and "Jupi- |
teri symphonies and the ID minor string
quartette. 1t was fitting tribute to the |
memory of the most universal musical genius
the world has known.
THE Che valier Scovel is negotiating with
Edoardo Sonzogno, of Milan, the publisher
of the successful opera, "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" by Pietro Mascagni, with view to
securing the sole rights of its production in
England, where it will probably be seen at
q West End theater in the autumn, when
the Chevalier's engagement with Mr.. Sedger
has proved great success on the Continent,
having, since its production little over
year ago, been played in more than one
hundred and fifty theaterS in Italy, Ger |
many, Austria and Holland.-London Society
NelDS
Mr.. HOMER MOORE, the wellknown bari
tone, is in the city, and will be heard at Cal
vary Church in both of to-day's services.
Mr.. Moore, who was q principal member of
the lamented American Opera Company
during the hey-day of its first season, has
lately been in Munich preparing for the
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Rowe, and is en-
route to Chautauqua 20 deliver q series of
lectures upon the Nibelungen music dramas,
which he illustrates by extracts from the
scores and also by stereoptican views of the
characters and stage scenes.
Mr. LOUIS C. ELsoN in a Musical Herald
editorial on the old Flemish school of COM
position, says: "Much of the old music is
valuable and beautiful. The
of the sixteenth century have
charm that should not be allowed to be un-
Appreciated; the works of Des Pres and Di
Lasso are beautiful and stately music even
when heard in juxtaposition with modern
and even though the seventh
chords, which form such feature of modern
music, (Wagner might be called the apostle
Of the secondary seventh chord) are absent.
1t would be well if teachers, particularly
vocal teachers, would turn occasionally to
these old works and cause their pupils to
study them. 1t may be o fact worth telling
in this connection that the singer who is now
making such a success in Paris and London
Miss Emma EameS-ascribes much of her |
musical ability to the thorough training
which Prof John Il. Paine used to give her
N the old works of Dufay and the Flemish
school of the fifteenth century"
MDLLE. OTTA BRoNY, who is here to give
concert of Danish music at the Princes Hall,
Is a native of Copenhagen, and great IA
Vorite of the Danish Court, but this is not
1er only claim upon the consideration of
She is one of the few pupils
Of Carlotta Patti who has attained any i'm
oortant position in this country. She made
her first appearance in England at the con-
cert which inaugurated the Danish Exhibit
Jon three years ago, and although she has
made her home in this country, she went to
Paris last year to fulfill an important en-
yagement at the Theatre Lyrique. Her con-
,ert promises to be exceptionally interest
ng. because 1t VIII afford English amateurs