Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

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Crotchets and Quavers.
JOSEPH BARNEY has been elected principal
Of the Guildhall School Of Music, London,
after q strong competition for the place.
which, though paying but 1900, is one of
such musical Importance as to induce Mr.
BarnDy to give up for it his precentorship
at Eton College worth from $500 to $4,000
a year and a much easier position. After all
there Is such thing as high artistic ambi-
tfon untainted by pecuniary considerations
Mr. CHARLES W. FLEMINe's unique concert,
bringing out sort of an orchestra of some
30 mandolins. guitars and other instruments,
will come off next Friday evening at Car
negie Hall, Allegheny. Mr.. Fidelis litter
bart, pianist; Mr. E. A. Wall. clarinetist: Mr..
Charles F. Cooper, 'cellist; Miss Ella VAN
kirk, violinist: Miss Helen Zitterbart, So
prano, and Mr.. Charles C. Corcoran, bari.
tone, will assist
MR.. MORRIS STEPHENS has resuscitated the
Monongahela City Choral Club, which Mr..
Charles Davis Carter founded some years
ago, and will conduct its first concert of the
new series at the local Opera House to-
morrow evening. The club will sing Schu-
mann's "Gipsy Life" Faning's "Song of the
Vikings" and choruses by Handel and DR..
Whitfield. Miss Blanche Newcombe, vio-
linist, and Miss M. Lenore Taylor, pianist,
will asset. Choral activity in the surround
that our musicians ought to cultivate more
and more.
For the seventh Of the series of organ re-
citals al the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church,
TO occur next Tuesday evening, Mr.. H. G.
Archer will Be the organist. The vocal por-
tion of the programme seems this time to
predominant and make a concert rather
than Il recital. 1t will be supplied by the
Ringwalt Choir OF 80 voices, assisted by Miss
Agnes c. Vogel and Miss Sarah Vogel, So
pranos and Mr.. II. B. Brockett, Jr., tenor.
A small orchestra will also assist. Mendels-
sohn's 95th Psalm will be given by the
chorus.
NYN CRINKLE writes of Patti: I never heard
so perfect a vocalist. / never saw so care
less an impersonator. She seemed to have
given all her life and faculties to the pre-
servation of her voice and appearance. She
never grew careless in her singing. But she
outgrew all desire to be the person repre-
sented- Time never succeeded in betraying
the worn timber of her upper tones. She
had acquired the art of conce alment and
lost the art of portrayal. j never anywhere
saw performance in which the composer
and his work were so inimitably showed into
the background by the personality of a
singer.
Miss ELISE WARREN, whose home address
is Sharon, Pa, and who will sing the lead
ing role of Queen Witocris in the charity per-
formance of "Belshazzar' at the Alvin The
ater next month, won this praise from the
New York Times on her debut in that CITY
} une 8, 1891: "bliss Elise Warren made her
debut In New York last night with q marked
degree of approval She is young, of pleas
ing appearance, and has an exceptionally
sweet and powerful voice. 1t has that rare
timbre that charms the ear with its sympa.
thetic quality, and is yet able to rise above
the concerted numbers and ring out clear
and strong"
SIR AUGUSTUS HARRIS, the London impress
sario, is said to be considering suggestion
from the London Wagner Society to give
performances of Wagner's later music
dramas in the English language next fall.
Good for that society! 1t is matter of sur
prise that Wagner's English-speak1ng ad-
mirers have not long since made strong de-
mand to hear his works in their own tongue.
With Wagner "the plays the thing" the
dramatic idea, expressed definitely in the
words alone, dominates everything. To un-
derstand the words is the "open sesame" to
the Masters music. The vernacular ought
to be used wherever that can possibly be
done.
DR.. HAusL1cK, the great Vienna critic, thus
sums up his impressions of Massenet's opera
comique, "Werther," lately produced at the
Austrian capital: "Many things combine to
make Massenets 'Werther' a thoroughly in
work, aristocratic in spirit, tender
in feeling, with the hearty sympathy of its
hearers rather than their applause as its OBJ.
lect, and atoning for many a tedious stretch
by moments OF marked beauty. .Manon'
offers more variety in music and action,
more color ana life, and Will probably hold
the favor of the public, .rslther than
'Werther.' But both these works, which
without doubt surpass in musical worth
Massenet's grand operas, illustrate the style
Tor which his talent is best dtted-the con-
versational opera, in part merry in part
touching, the opera with music of the
heart"
I'm
Of the New York Times ana the associate
editor of the Boston Musical Herald, in
charge during Mr.. Wilson's absence, 10 Civ
ing a course of six lectures at Columbia Col
lege, New York, under the auspices of the
University Faculty of Philosophy. Sub
jects; 1.-THE Elementary Period" "The
Spirit of Music" /" "The Evolution OF Form"
The Evolution of Style" "The Lyric
This successful course of musical lectures
under such auspices will hasten the time
when the chariot music will be as essential
a piece OF furniture in our college faculties
as the chair OF bellies lettres, which it ought
to be.
THE Art Society's next three receptions,
set for next Friday afternoon, Monday after
noon, the 25.h, and Thursday evening,
the 2sth, at the Academy of Science and
Art building, are to be devoted to series of
on Wagners "Die Meister-
singer" by Mrs. Constance Howard, of New
York. In words and pianoforte tones Mrs.
Howard takes her audience with her right
the famous comedy-ope one act
at each sitting. She is said to be an excel
lent pianist, a brilliant talker and charm
ing woman socially. Mrs. Howard has ap-
peared lately with great success in similar
series given in Washington under the
of Mrs. Levi P. Morton, Mrs. Le-
land Stanford and others of the first ladies
Of the land"
TIE fifth and last concert of the Allegheny
Musical Associations season will be given
next Tuesday evening at Carnegie Hall. The
chorus, directed by Mr.. W. A. Lafferty, will
sing three part-songs by Watson, Lohr and
Gaul. A bewildering profusion of miscel-
laneous numbers is programmed. Miss
Bertha NJ. Kaderly will sing Beethoven's
very rarely heard scotch songs" with yio-
lin and cello obligato by Mr. Fidelis litter
bart and Mr.. Charles F. Cooper. These two
with Mr.. Harry F. Hetzel and
Jacob Coblens will play Rubenstein's String
Quartet, Op IL. Mr.. Homer Moore will con-
Alpine Quartet, composed of Messrs d. III.
n S. Thompson, W. S. Needen
and John A. Strauss, are down for two part
songs. Miss Carrie NJ. Angel, Miss Helen
Mr.. E. M. Austin, Mr. Weeden
md Mr.. Thompson, as soloists, with Miss
Adele Raehard and Mr.. C. NJ. Couch, as ac-
fill out the programme to q
ength that amply justif1es its notice, mo
Encores Allowed"
THIS synopsis has been made of the plans
for Cincinnati's Tenth Biennial May Fes-
tival, May 242s, under the direction Of Mr..