Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-27

opinion expressed last week as to the i'm
portance of this movement. Here is the
list of the works to be given in the special
series of Sunday afternoon services:
December ll-Schubert: Mass in b.
January 6-Handel: Messiah. Part I.
February 12-Beethoveni Mount OF Olives.
March 12-Rossini: Stabat Mater.
April l6-Gounod: st. Cecilia.
May A-Mendel''ohn' iauiisGai iauds Sion.
June n-Beethoven: Mass in c.
october 16-Haydn: Imperial MasA
November ls-Mozart: Mass No. L.
December l2-Gaul: The Holy City.
1t is the intention of Mr. Carl Rstter,
the organlst and choir-master (whose name
assures the standard of performance), to
augment the regular choir to about 90
voices for these performances. An ade-
quate orchestra will also be engaged and
nothing left undone to make the interpreta-
tlons worthy ofthe music chosen. How good
that is need not be dwelt on. The list
speaks for ITSELF
In further explanation of the plan and
its objects, Calvarv's broad-guage rector.
Dr. George Hodges, writes as follows:
To provide against the oyercrowding of
The tickets may be had of any pew holder,
or OF Mr.. Retter or me. The services are, or
course, free. but there will be an offering at
each service, and it is hoped that the people
ance.
1t seems to me that this series is matter
OF interest to the city. We are working
along the lines of the Art Society and the
Mozart Club in an endeavor to upiift peo-
pies ideas, to provide things worth think
ing about, to help the growth of everything
good. 1t seems to me that this movement is
also demonstration of the right uses of
chnrch a a onnd nf
people in all directions. 1t ought not SIM
ply TO be open for an hour or two in the
morning and evening OF Sunday and locked
up all the rest of the time. Nor are pray
ing and preaching all the uses to which I
can be put.
That DR.. Hodges progressive musical
ideas are not limited to the work of his
own choir has been seen in the past and
will be again shown by the elaborate
service to be sung at Calvary this advent
Sunday afternoon at o'clock by the
Ringwalt Choir. This choir is maintained
by its director, Mr.. Henry L. Bingwalt,
without connection with any particular
church, after the manner of the Leslie and
other London choirs. To-day it will be
aided by an orchestra of IA players and
these solo singers: Miss Irene L. Sample,
Miss Ella Semple, Mr.. Dan E. Nuttall and
Mr. Harry NJ. Mays. After brief choral
service, Spohr's oratorio, 'The Last Judg-
mert," will be sung. A special feature
will be the offertory music, Dr. A. G. Mac
kenzie's Benedictus, arranged for small
orchestra by the composer.
Calvary Church is making record for
herself as one Of Pittsburg's most useful
musical institutions.
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Another enterprise of signal importance is
Mr.. Homer Moore's series of six lecture
concerts that opened last Wednesday at
Old City Hall in the presence of over o
thousand auditors For the last three of
the series, in which the themes will be
Church Music, The Oratorio and The
Opera, chorus is being formed and Mr..
Moore has just determined to engage an or
chestra, too. for the last one.
Before turning to the technical topic set
for discussion on Wednesday evening, Mr..
Moore explained his intentions in giving
this service (wholly at his own expense,
with no charge for admission) in language
somewhat as follows:
The primary object OF these concerts was
to afford an opportunity for my pupils to
test the principles and practice obtained at
their lessons by appearing before each other
and their friends, but upon suggestion it was
deemed advisable to enlarge their scope and
to place them before all who werc interested
in the work. Before proceeding to a consid.
wish to say few words about Pittsburg's
music.
believe that Pittsburg is geographically
SO situated and in population so constituted,
that She can become one of the great musf-
cal centers of these United States. She con-
tains abundant resources in the form Of
energy, enterprise, brains, money, general
culture and musical talent. A centraliza-
tion of these resources, these forces, is nee
essary to give this city the place it ought to
occupy in the musical history of the coun-
try.
When / came to Pittsburg it was for the
purpose of organizing series of orchestral
concerts,in which education and entertain
ment shoul be blended. The programmes
were to be constructed to show the history
OF music in general, ana especially the his
tory of the orchestra. Each number was to
have been explained, analyzed and illus
trated before it was performed, and the
to which they were intrusted by the COM
poser in his score. Lions appeared, natur-
ally enough, in the path of so great an un-
Ser bnt 5eitber abandoneS nor snro
ten. These concerts are to be conducted
along similar lines to those proposed for the
concerts and will in SO much
afford you an opportunity ofjudging OF the
original plan.
am believer in Pittsburg. was never
SO cordially received by any other city in
to open wide those doors TO all who are in
terested in this work, for look upon it as
an opportunity 10 pay back in q small way
the debt of gratitude which owe to you. 1
feel that your presence here is also token |
that you have the musical development and
standing of this great city at heart, and are
In sympathy with us and with every honest
effort to develop to the utmost our home
talent.
Who could do otherwise than give q
hearty Godspeed to such plan so well be- |
gun? Those who were able to be present |
on the opening night say it was thor |
oughly enjoyable and highly instructive
evening.
The American tour of Johannes Wolf, |
and Joseph HOLMAN, 'cellist, |
who are to make their New York debut |
December at Chickering Hall, promises
TO be an important feature OF the current |
reason. Both artists we're born in Holland,
have long made Paris their headquarters
and enjoy q very high European reputation.
The comparative scarcity of great 'cellists
helps Mr.. Holman to a particularly lofty
rank among the masters OF that instrument
Apropos, the Musical Courier says: "Mrs.
Kate Rolla, an American soprano who has
appeared in Italian and French grand opera
It many of the leading opera houses in
Europe during, the last six years, has ar
lived in this city and will make her Ameri-
.an debut at the Wolff and HOLMAN per-
ormances."
Mrs. Rolla is known as Mrs. Kate Wheat
of Wheeling, W. Va, to
nanv of the readers of this paper, who will
,e glad to learn of the auspicious conditions
lnder which her temperance (not strictly
debut) in her native land is to be effected.
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Here are two other items from the same
musical paper that local readers are inter-
sted in. Mr.. Addison F. Andrews, in his