Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

| commendable object. This might be use
| full hint to Pittsburg's city fathers while
they are engaged in making appropriations
for the coming year.
LAST nights cable tells US: NJ. Lassalle
sailed for New York to-day by the Bour-
goyne to join Mr.. Abbey's troup at the Met
ropolitan Opera House. This will be the
famous baritone's first visit to America, and
he would not have been tempted to cross
the ocean now but for the presence OF his
bosom friends, the De Reszkes, in New York.
Mr.. F. Wv MURPHY, of this city, pur-
poses to go to Europe this month to COM
plete his vocal training. He intends to
study dramatic singing in Milan, Florence
and Paris, and to wind up with a course OF
oratorio study in London. This Will consti-
tute an extraordinarily complete singers
education, If Mr.. Murphy lives to ges
through it ALL
Mr.. GIUSEPPE GILL; the well-known vocal
teacher, announces a concert to be given as
the Auditorium, January 1a, by Nh. 4;
Ltberati. the famous cornetist, with the aid
Of Mr.. Gilli and his pupils, Miss Jennie E
Wooster, Miss NJ Schriver. Miss s. Gavin
and Mr.. d. Moore, beside Mr.. Charles Cor
coran, Mr.. c. W. Fleming and Mr.. NJ. 8.
Rocereto with his Post 8, G. A R., brass
band. A liberal list, surely.
Mo2Iz RosEyTHAL, says the Musical Courier,
hos been earning fresh laurels OF late in
Vienna as well as in some of the larger Ger
man cities, and has been setting the critics
may be sufficiently Mandatory and enthusi-
astic. ETen the hypercritical Hanslick de-
votes the greater part of a recent feuilleton
TO the giant strides he has during the past
year made in his career. He specially refers
to the recently acquired singing quality Of
his touch"
THE new year brought Adelina Patti to our
shores ready for another farewell concert
tour, this time in company with Mrs. Fabbri,
Guile, Del Puente, Novara and Arditi. Be
ing asked what she was going to sing, La
Diva replied: "Whv, nothing new" The
interviewer would have known that without
asking had he been familiar with the career
OF the inimitable cantatrice who increases
only her prices never her repertoire. This
is but one of her many qualities that no one
else can rival.
VAN DYcK, the Wagnerian tenor. is only
30 years old, says an exchange When he
went to Paris in 1888, it was to study jour
nalism, although he was fond of music and
he soon became attached to the staff of La
PdtTie. 1t happened one evening that
Vidal's cantata was to be performed pub
licly al the French capital, and the tenor
Ward, was i'll. With fear and trembling Van
Dyck agreed TO sing the role, and his sue
cess therein determined his future career
But during most of the time since then he
has devoted himself mainly to Wagner's
music.
THE death of Alfred Cellier in London last
Monday is q real loss to the lovers of clean,
sparkling English opera. His best opera,
y,
in Lond on has met a like reception in this
country wherever it has been given by the
Bostonians. The esteemed Musical Courier
should not pronounce Dorothy" failure
for this whole land simply because it did
not happen to be properly given in New
York. Mr.. Cellier had barely completed
new operetta, THE Mountebanks," on a
book by W. S. Gilbert, which was to be pro-
duced in London last week.
MISS MAY BEEsLEY, of Pittsburg, was the
solo soprano in the messiah" as given by
the Minneapolis Choral Association on the
21st ult.; Emil Fisher was the bass and Will
singer the evidently capable and discrimin-
ating critic of the Journal wrote: "Miss
Beesley sang eIcellently. She has much
merit. Her voice is true soprano and her
singing was pleasinglv artistic. She is not
the greatest soprano in the world, but she is
In for yet greater portion of the rather in
praise lavished on the perform
ance by the Times, of Minneapolis.
THE cabled report that Rubinstein was
coming over for another American tour
which report was strongly questioned by
THE DISPATCH last Sunday and of which the
all along, though they did not say so-is
contradicted by tho following cable from
Rome, under date OF December 2s: anton
the Russian pianist and COM
poser, has declined the offer recently mads
him for a concert tour I America. and gives
out that he has ceased playing in public.
He recently accepted an invitation to a din
ner party given in Milan by the composer
Verdi and after the dinner played for two
hours to the assembled guests, among whom
were the composer Boito and the violoncel-
list Patti"