Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
Crotchets and Quavsrs.

LkCOCQ iS bIul WTiIlIG OpCiuSs
Mr.. MILTON HENR1oKs son of Mr.. John R.
Henricks, has decided to go to New York
for year or so OF musical study.
PUccINI, another confrere and alleged
rival of Mascagni, will have new opera
produced by Lago in London this fall
WIDoR, whose "organ symphonies'' are
we'll known, intends adding the chorus In a
new work he is now writing, symphony"
for orchestra, chorus and organ.
Miss GRACE MILLER has returned to her
Allegheny home after a most successful
period of study in the famous Stookhsusen
vocal sch ool ut Frankfurt-am-Matn.
vEReA has thrice won his suit for royalties
upon the dramatic subject matter appropri-
ated from him by the Hbrettists OF "Cav.l-
leria Rustioana." He will get 20 per cent in
Iuture-
RUBENsTEIN has been at Prague lately to
arrange for the performance next month OF
his new biblical opera, "Moses," which is In
five parts and will occupy two evenings. He
considers this his best work.
MISS ELIZABETH WEBSTER, with her mother,
Mrs G. H. Webster, will 20 to New York this
week, intending to sail when the cholera
scare permits for q several years so1ourn
abroad, spent in travel and In study OF
music and other things.
Mr.. FRANK SADDLER is to be the conductor
OR instructor-of an amateur orchestra OF
port. A good-sized class of Harmony pupils
will also be ready for Mr.. Saddlsr's weekly
visits to the neighborlng town.
AMONG this seasons musical newcomers
are Miss Alice II. Ormsby, Chicago con-
tralto, lately vocal instructre 50 at Grove
City College, and Mrs. Radcliffe, soprano,
from Monongahela City, sister Of that
delightful singer, Mrs. Charles H. Kloman.
THE Wagner festival at Bayreuth has been
notable this year for the marked increase in
the number of French visitors. This season
1000 French lovers of Wagner music have
visited Bayreuth against 1000 English ana
American visitors. Inc next IestlVak mas
been fixed for 1894.
LEVY, the famous cornet player, with his
military band, will be heard at the Pitts
burg Exposition from opening day, next
Wednesday, till October L Additional seats
have been provided for the throngs that
gather to hear the music, always the ch1of
popular attraction of the whole show.
Miss LOIS BELLE CORY, of Cleveland, has
been elected to the position OF vocal instruc-
tress at Grove City, Pa, College. The tai
ented young soprano, thus located nearby,
will doubtless be heard here frequently in
church and concert room, as her arrange
ment with the college will leave her free for
such work.
MENDELssoHN's Hymn of Praise" Gsde's
"Erl Kings Daughter" Rubinstein's Para
disc Lost" "The Messiah," and other selec-
tions from Scharwenka's new opera, "Matas-
wfntha" conducted by the composerl, form
nual festival at Worcester, Mass, September
27-3o.
THE illustrious French composer Camille
saint-saens has just published q trio for
piano, violin and cello. The work 10 the
composers op. 90 and is in the key OF q
minor. The finale is said to contain re-
markable four voiced fugue. 1t will prob
ably be heard at some of the chamber con-
certs in which Saint-Saens Is to appear dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
CITY ORGANISE HENRY P. ECKER, Of ALE
gheny, has returned from his foreign trip
and the Apiece repertoire is again on tap At
the Carnegie Hall free "organ recttals" The
two latest programmes show q heroic abb
st1nence from the worst and commonest
class Of pieces that disfgured the former
pieces, which raise the repertoire OF aotual
organ music to the total Of Al. This Is good
rs far as 1t goes, but the legitimate roper
toire will have to grow faster than that TO
dropping back into the slough. .
"A GENOA paper asserts that Verdi mas not
only completed his "Flagstafr' (which Ri
cordi. of Milan, is printing!, but is already
at work on another opera. Verdi, says the
writer, is especially free from modern nerv-
acterized Rossini in his later years His
nature Graves work almost as imperativsly
as 1t did half q century ago Il had intended
Flagstaff to be my last work" he recently
remarked to q friend, 'but since 1 continue
to live and enjoy good health. why should
stop?" He refused, however, toidivulxs the
title and subject OF his next opera until he
had made some progress with the SCORE
The Sunday concerts at sohenley Park go
merriiy on, the "Law and Order triumvi-
rate to the contrary Notwithstanding. Now
that everyone has had chance to see what
keen, pure pleasure is in this way afforded
to the thousands most in need OF It, and how
the concerts can be given without objection
able results or ut all in terfering with the
Sabbath quiet that others prefer, 1t will be
difficult to raise any public sentiment
against their continuance. This has long
since been found out in the other large cities,
shares with US the privilege of applying the
Pennsylvania blue laws to modern condi-
tions Of city life.
CwS.