Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
THE MUSIC WORLD.
An American Will Compose the Dedi-
catory Ode for the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago.
THE WORDS BY A CHICAGO GIRL.
A Guarantee That the Nation Will Be
Adequately Represented Upon the
Great Occasion.
THE WORDS BY A CHICAGO GIRL.
THE VISIT OF PATTI TO PITTSBURG.
Budget Of General News Items Of Interest to
Lovers of the Art Divine.

at Pittsburg few hours last Thursday to
discuss with the Mozart Club officers the
plan for great chorus to assist in the open
ing ceremonies
| The freshest bit of news brought by Mr..
Wilson is that the Dedicatory Ode will be
composed for the occasion by Mr.. George
W. Chadwick, of Boston, and not by Mr.. E.
A. Mcdowell, as has heretofore been
| widely stated. The composition of this ode,
the words of which have been written by
Miss Harriet Monroe, of Chicago, is the
| most important special commission that has
yet been given to any American COM
poser, and it is particularly pleasant
to record its acceptance by Mr..
Chadwick, than whom no one more compe-
tent could have been chosen. His expert
ence in choral composition ("Lovely Rosa
| BELLE" for example, will be at once re-
| membered in this community from the AL
.legheny Musical Associations performance
peculiarly fits him for the task at hand. He
| is young and energetic and his music
smacks of the soil more than that of almost
any other high class composer.
One other special commission has been
given to and accepted by Prof. John Z.
Paine, of Harvard. 1t is for an opening
orchestral work in march form and, per-
haps including choral finale. In addition
to these two occasional compositions, the
dedicatory exercises, October IL, 1898, will
include the singing of "The Heavens Are
Telling" and the "Hallelujah Chorus" and
the performance of the march and chorus
from Beetboven's "Ruins of Athens" be-
sides some national songs.
For this and subsequent programmes an
orchestra of about 125 men will be organized
and drilled by Mr.. Theodore Thomas, who
is Musical Director in General for the Ex-
position. Mr.. William L. Tomlins, conductor
of the Chicago Apollo Club, is the Choral
Director who is to supervise rehearsals
and to conduct performances of orator.
los and other important works by
the chorus of 1000 voices to be formed by
the leading societies of Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland, Dayton, Indianapolis, Cincin-
natl, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
st. Paul, Des Moines, Louisville and Pitts
burg. A meeting of representatives Of
these societies with the bureau is to be held
at Chicago next Friday morning Our
Mozart Club, like the others, has been in
vited to send one of its officers, at the e1-
pense of the bureau, to attend this meeting
and incidentally to hear q concert by the
Thomas Orchestra and have a good time
generally.
In the first circular issued BY Secretary
Wilson to the choral societies occurs this
paragraph: 'While it seems AN unneces-
sary proclamation, the Bureau of Music of
the Exposition, at this initid stage lin an
undertaking which in its diversity and art
istic worth will have mo- parallel in the
past, begs to assure the cultivated in music
in this country that the highest standard of
taste and performance will be maintained in
all departments of music, connected with
the six months of the exhibition period in
1898"
A further guarantee that these predic-
tions will be fully realized exists in the
standing and character Of the chairmen in
charge Of The various divisions of the
Bureau of Music These are: Director
Theodore Thomas, General Chairman. Gen
eral divisions: Orchestral Art, Mr.. Theo-
dore Thomas, Chairman; Choral Music and
Training, Mr.. William L. Tomlins, Chair
man; Songs of the People, DR.. George F.
Root, Chairman; Organ and Church Music,
Mr.. Clarence Eddy. Chairman; Musical Art
and Literature, Mr.. W. s. B. Mathews,
Chairman; Musical Criticism and History,
Mr.. George P. Upton, Chairman; Opera
Houses and Music Halls, Mr.. Ferd W.
Peck, Chairman.
1t does really seem as if, at least, the mu-
sical life of this great nation is going to be
adequately represented upon an occasion
that will have the ear of the civilized world.
The plans of Mr.. Thomas and his energetic
coadiutors are far grander and of much
broader scope than is at all generally imag-
ined.
Look out for their announcement
w.
Visit Of the Great Patti.
PATHS evening at the Pittsburg Auditor
ium has been changed from Saturday to
Friday of this week-an alteration that will
please many persons expecting to come In
from surrounding towns and anxious to get
home the same night.
Miss Fabbri, contralto, Guile, tenor,
Del Puente, baritone, Novara, bass, and
Arditi, with his orchestra, will support the
prima donna through the trying ordeal
Each OF them will be heard in several solo
and ensemble numbers, almost wholly of
the elder Italian school to which Mrs.
PATHS traditions adhere.
La Diva herself will sing Eckert's ttEcho
Song" in the first part of the programme.
The second part will be made up of selec-
tions from Rossini's "Semiramide, sung in
costume. This will give Patti chance to
display another handsome gown and to sing
the Del TdSRlO ny HcTSell duu SerDdIQl
ognor" with Miss Fabbri.
The prices of seats and the demand for
them, too, will doubtless be in keeping
with the super eminence of renown upon
which Mrs. Patti abides. And from all ac-
counts of her admirable state of preserva-
tion, the delight and enthusiasm of the
audience here will be upon the same plan as
in the other cities of the land. Viva Patti
Long may she wave!
~
A Fine Organ Programme.
The fine, large Wirsching organ of IS.
Peters and Pauls Roman Catholic Church,
East End, was baptized last Friday even
ing, in the presence of large audience,
and with this by no means watery pro-
gramme:
L Sonata in minor. op. 7o-New...
....................... Oscar Werman
/. Fantasies: II. Pastorale; III. Adagio and
Fuge.
2. la) Harvest Home" "-........-...S .Spinney
(c) ("Christmas Chimes,". .Gade
Mr.. Clarence Eddy.
8. Song, "Salve Regina, Dana
Mrs. Genevra Johnstone Bishop.
4. Toccata and Fugue, in d minor. .. Bach
8. (a) Anegretto. .................. Volkmann
(b) Pilgrims Chorus s.............. Wagner
8. Funeral March and Seraphic Song.
=. Theme, variations in finale. ..... .Thiele
Mr. Clarence Eddy.
9. Aria. "Hear ye Israep'-From Elijah.
a..G.na,;;: uissna MSnaeisohn
on S the Prayer from aDer Freischletz."
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