Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
Crotch ats and Quavers.


success in Paris. Better late than never
even though Hector is too dead to enjoy hi.
success.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is at work again. He
has been conducting choral rehearsals fol
the Leeds festival this week, and to-day he
Is putting the finishing touches to his new
play.
Mr.. GEORGE W. MORGAN. the veteran or.
ganfst, died at Tacoma. WASH, on Monday
organ music in this country, and in his day
accomplished great work.
MIR. FRANZ VETTA, the very promising
young opera singer, succumbed q week age
at Riverside, Cal, to the disease (oUnsump
t1onl that retired him from the stage during
the Juch troupe's last engagement in Pitts,
burg.
VERDI the great Italian composer, is at
present in Milan and has closed with La
Scala management for the first production
OF his latest opera, "Falstaff, !" the coming
season. This news holds good until the
next contradiction.
PATTI says it is easier for a singer to men,
orize her role than for an actress because
the music helps the singer to remember the
words Of the libretto. What a commentary
upon the laziness of singers! The prompter's 8
box obStructs the stage only when opera
is on.
The first Berlin Philharmonic concert this
season will be conducted by Hans Richter.
the second by Moriz Moszkowski the third
by Joseph Joachim. These concerts take
place before Christmas. All the concerts
afterward are to be conducted by Hans Won
Buelow.
MINE HOST MCKELvEY's series of summer
night concerts, with the inevitable dance
attachment, have been very successful in
entertaining the throngs of Sewickleyites
that assemble on the beautiful grounds of
the Park Place Hotel. Next Thursday COM
pletes the set.
SIR ARTHUR SULL1vAN's "Ivanhoe" will be
the principal novelty at the new season OF
the Berlin Opera House, which will open on
August 16 sullivans work will be given in
German, and 1t is expected about Septem-
Der 30 BiZet's "Djamileh" and Verdfs "Fal.
staff' will be the other novelties of the sea-
son.
THERE is no doubt that the relative sal.
aries Of New York priest and choirmaster
are altogether too far apart the former re-
ceiving usually rs or 80 per cont of the sum
total, or as or 5 to l. So writes Miss Fannie
Edgar Thomas after Investigation of the
subject. In Ptttsburg the choirmaster does
not get that much.
Mr.. WILLIAM GUENTHER's next summer
entertainment at Silver Lake Grove comes
Off Thursday of this week. The Amphion
Quartette (Messrs. Henry Gerding. W. McC.
Stevenson, John A. Hibbard and Charles F.
Harris) will sing, and the orchestra will
play Aubers era Diavolo" overture and
lighter pieces.
Mr.. JOHN PHILLIP sousA's resignation from
the Government service as leader Of the
U. S. Marine Band, takes effect August
!, and he will at once proceed to organize
and drill the new band to be provided for
him by the Blakeley Syndicate at Chicago.
It may be presumed that the the
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music; so Mr.. Sousa need not fear those
newspap pers that once welcomed Mr.. Thomas
only little less boisterously than they now
welcome him, but have subsequently at
tackled the great orchestra conductor with
rare virulence and asininity.
RICARDO LEoNcAvALLos oneact opera, 81
Paglia cci,' brought out some time since by
Mr.. Sonzogno at the Theater Dal Verne in
Milan, is sattracting unusual attention among
Italian conn nOisseurs, and great things are
expected from the composer, who is as
yet but % years Of age. He is young artist
of considerable ambition, pupil OF Lauro
Rossi, and is said to be at present engaged
upon q gigantic trilogy, which is to form a
sance. Mr.. Leoncavallo, unlike some of his
Italian conEreres, has gained artistic expert
.ence in visits to Germany, France and Eng
land.
In order to stimulate American compost
tion the Ladies' Home Journal has just made
puDllC I'll dtIIuCtlNo SorIcS VI hUcEdl PRICES
for the best original musical composition by
composers resident in the United States and
Canada. The prizes call for a waltz, piano
composition, pleasing ballad and popu-
lar song. an anthem and the four best hymn
tunes The composition is open until No
vember / next. The opportunity has an ad-
ditional attractiveness since the prize COM
positions will form part OF series for which
Strauss il writing an original waltz and
Charles Gounod and Sir Arthur Sullivan
each an original song.