Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11
Crotchets and OuaYers.

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prano, with orchestra, is programmed fol
next Tuesday evening by the Manuscript
Society at New York.
Mr. ETHELBERT NEyIN and his family are
| to-day sailing homeRard from Hamburg or
the GOOD snip Columbia and may be expected
| here in about ten days.
Mr. DAN E. NUTrALL wears yet another
Masonic scalp at his beIt-the musical
directorship of the Shrine. Mr.. Nuttall is 8
Masonic musician of high degree.
The Art Society's brisk activity has rather
run to pictures ana sucn things this season
so ar, but it means all the more i'll The
| future Ior the art of music to which the
society Is equally devoted.
Mr.. THEODORE G. WErTAoH and his piano
forte pupils, assisted by Mrs Adah s.
Thomas, soprano, gave very attractive
pros ranIme IN tile lecture room, Carnegie
Library, Allegheny, last Thursday evening.
WHILE The holiday tours of the Eastern
| college glee clubs are to the lore, it may be
observed tnat our own Western University
has nourlshing glee and mandolin clubs,
whlcn are often heard hereaDOuts, and pro-
pose 10 go on tour themselves next spring.
The Tarantelle Musical Socie. Y is, since
last Tuesday, the name of The band that
formerly had Mr.. Andrew Carne, lie for their
tltular uefty. lie society is an unique COM
olnatIon OF mandUlilis, guitars, zithers and
other Instruments, anu Is under The direc-
tim OF Mr. Ernest K. Kappelsr.
Mrs. LILLIAN NoRDIoA is making a concert
tour, supported by Miss Helen Dudley
Campbell, MIR. Giuseppe Del Puente, Miss
Maud Powell and others. Manager C. A.
Ellis, of the Boston Symphony Orcnestra is
i'll charge OF the tour and wants to make a
date iOr PiItsburg about the middle OF
January.
Mr.. FRANK SADDLER reports amusing ex-
periences among the theater 'orchestras"
while on tue road as conductor Ior tue
musical melo-drama. Gratifying successes
TOO; sucn, or instance, as the nightly triple
recall afUec the elaborate song ne wrote to
close the Iourth act TINS is IN such towns
as Baltimore, Providence, Buffalo, Detroit
and Chicago.
The Mozart Clubs annual Christmastide
performance of "Ths Messiah" TO be given
TINS year on the sSd instant, promises to be
better than ever. Director McColIum said
yesterday: From " hat 1 can CLEAN from ac
credited critics on the Eastern press, We
may expect thoroughly saGIs 'actory work
from Fore1ustadt, KING and Duff. They acGli-
ally Sush over the contra To, and pronounce
her the equal OF any one now ueiore tue pub
nc. By Tue way she Is tue ccntraito at 81.
Patrlck's Cathedral, and King is Solo tenor
~ the Cnurcn OF the covenant
TIE first OF the important series OF
monthly musical services at Calvary
Church, East End, OF wnicn much has been
said i'll this department, will occur this
afternoon at $3.50 clock. Schubert's Mass
in Will be gwen Complete. OrganIst Di-
rector Carl Retter will nave choir of 80 to
IS vuiceS, aL assisting orcnestrn of strings
and horns and these sololsts: .MIss Sara
Nosel, Miss Edith Norton, Sir. Henry Gerd-
ing and Mr. Alex. Fraser Tue expense of
such an effort should Oe remembered by the
llS eners at tile ouertorl; It's lar-e DO ency
Tor good, musical and religious, should be
by all interested IN the COM
niuniJy's higher life.
MISS LILLIAN RUSSELL, who might float
along on her good looks, deserves recoy.
milton for her continued progress in the way
OF artistic singing. Her style and method
are vastly superior TO whas they were a few
years ago, and her voice itself seems to have
gained, rather than lost, by its more skillful
use Sucn phenomenon should not pass
without remark. The very artistic, refined
singing of Mr. Hayden Comm calls for extra
praise, too. Ii all light opera stars sang like
these Two, and all light operas were as good
as La Cisale" (even win the uncalled for
changes and omisslons) there would not be
= corpurals guard drawn by the customary
gay and horse-play affair that masquerades
as opera comique.
LITTLE Miss Gussie Cottlow, of whom
Chicago, with more than usual grounds.
boasts as the best pianist in the country in
her early teens, will be heard at Curry Con-
Servatory Hall Monday evening of this
week. She will play an Andante and varia-
lions by Haydn, Beethoven's Senate, On S.
4 Ballade, Nocturne ami Valse of Chopin's.
Rondo Capriceioso, Rubin
STEMS Valse Caprice and Morceaux
by Schumann, Jensen Nicoda
md Schubert-an ambitious programme Tor
anybody. Miss Mamie Hammer will sing
md Mr. Edward Rothleder will play the
Tiolin, each cuoosing for one piece a home /
work, namely, Mr.. Simeon Bis. /
'eils song, "Why?" and MIR. Al NJ Foers- |
er's Novelette, Ior violin. Op 26