Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05

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The dramatic leaven keeps working.
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| Crochets and Quavers.
MAssENEr's dramatic oratorio, "Mary Mag
delene," will be given q scenic production in
Paris soon.
PADEREwsK1, though still i'll from nervous
| exhaustion, il to give q single recital In Lon
don on the Hth inst.
TsCHAIKowsK1s ballet music founded on
| Hofman's "Nusskracker and Mausekonig''
was recently performed in st. Petersburg
with pronounced success.
IT is announced that John Philip Sousa
conductor OF the U. s. Marine Band, will &c
to Chicago to organize a great military band.
He is to get 5000 year and q share OF the
profits.
MRS. NJ E. BAIR, of Braddock, will sing ut
concert to be given in Atlantic City this
month. during the session of the National
Council o! the Jr. o. U. A. NJ.
ADoLPH NEuNDoRF's opera comique, DER
Minstrel" has been produced very success
fully at Amberg's Theater, New York. The
composers gifted wi e, Georgine Won Janu-
schowski, is the heroine, Nancy.
LITTLE NELL-What does the organist at
our church have lookin'-glass fixed over
his head on the orgun for? Little Dick-1
guess that's SO he can tell the choir when
the minister is lookin'.-Good NetDs.
ERNEST GuIRAND's opera. "Bruenhilde," of
which but three of the five acts were com-
plete at his death. is to be finished, it is
stated, by Camille Saint-Saens. A good
tandem team, with the big horse second
Mr.. EDWARD RorHLEpER, with his violin,
will be added to the Cathedral choir this
morning to assist Miss Bertha Gallentin in
Gounod's ave Maria" Marcos Mass will
be sung by the chorus of 27 voices and solo
quartet.
AN effort is to be made to found a Con-
servatoire of Music in Manchester, England.
To successfully equip such school a guar
antee fund OF $4,000 year Is deemed neces-
sary. 1t is thought there will be but little
diff1culty III raising that amount.
Miss MARIE JOACHIM the talented daugh-
ter of Joseph ana Amalia Joachim, made
great hit at the Munich Court Opera House
as Brunnhiloe in Die Walku-e' on May l.
The -iHger1eine Zeitung halls the young singer
as the legitimate succ eSsor to Mrs. Vogl.
SILAs G. PRArr's musical and dramatic al
legory, 1.-THE Triumph of Columbus" is likely
to be produced at New York's own celebra-
ton OF the Quadri-centennial next October.
The orchestral score contains 800 pages.
closely written. II it as good as it is big, all
will be well. p.
THE indefatigable Mrs. Thurber has
secured Edmund C. Stanton, the much
priced director Of the Metropolitan Opera
House. as Secretary of the National Con-
plucky woman is bound to realize her far
reaching scheme Of truly National con.
servatory.
By cable from London yesterday: A new
one act opera, entitled "Pagliaci," {" the words
and music OF which are by new Italian
composer, Cavallo. has met with enormous
success in Milan. Cavallo is promising
riva. OF Mascagni His work has strong
dramatic interest and shows complete COM
mand OF vocal and orchestral writing.
Mr.. ETHELBERr NEvIN, with his family, has
gone to Berlin for q quiet summer after
season of arduous and most successful activ-
ity in Paris, which included no end OF les
sons, six concerts, a series of Wagnerian
lecture-recitals and 300 pages of MS sent to
the publishers. He has just finished some
fourpart music for the "Nevin Club" Of
Cleveland. No Pittsburger-barring Stephen
yet won brighter musical laurels than those
already awarded to EtheIbert Nevin.
Miss EvANeELINE FLORENCE, of Boston, who
has just made her debut in London, is said
by the Guard an to possess probably the
highest voice of any singer now before the
public. If We allow for the enhancement OF
pitch which has taken place since the year
ITO the feats of Agujari have been fully
equaled by Miss Florence. She touched the
high B natural in altissimo in the presence
OF n small audience a few days before tho
concert, and at the concert itself, in q Rus
sian Nightingale song by Alabien, sang the
high G and fat in the concluding cadenza
without any undue effort.
REVIEWING Dvorak's fourth symphony the
London Musical Times says: "It may be mon.
toned that DvoraS has confessed he had a
programme in his mind while composing
this symphony; but what that programme
was he declines to divulge." Sensible An
tonin! He will make good, common-sense
American citizen. 1t would be interesting
now to have this symphony programmed"
by a half dozen ardent believers in pro-
gramme music and gee how far each could
come from hitting the subjects Dvorak had
In his mfnd-and keeps there.
AMONG the treasures that can be seen at
present at the Musical and Theatric Exhi-
bition in Vienna are the vocal and instru-
mental parts OF q chorus from the "Orestes"
of Euripides. the only specimen of Greek
music that has been preserved; the MSS. OF
the first operas ever written, Caccinis and
Peris "Eurydice dated 1600), and Monte
verde's "Orfeo" 1907: Mozart's piano and
violin. with the original scores of the Re-
QUEEN, the G minor symphoy. "Don juan"
etc; original scores of Schubert. Weber
Beethoven and most other famous COM
posers. Liszt is very literally represented,
while Wagner is the only composer for
whom a special building, called the Glib
ichung Hall, has been erected. The originals
of almost all his works are there. having
been forwarded from Bayreuth and by King
Ludwig's heirs.