Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19

entertainment that VIII De given ~ tuo
Lyric Club on the afternoon of June 80:
The opera is entitled 'eThe serenaderh :
The libertto is by Sir Augustus Harris
and MI. Walter Parke and the music by
MI. Bond Andrewa On the same after
noon, q new DuoIogue entitled "a
Woman's Shadow" written by Mr.. Horace
Newte, will also be produced.
Crotchets and Quavers.
A PROGRAMME OF American compositions
was recently given in Berlin by Professor
Urban.
R1MsKY-KoRsAKow, the Russian composer,
has completed his opera "Mlada." The date
OF its production is not yet announced.
As director Of the symphony concerts OF
the Imperial Russian Music Society at st.
Petersburg. in place of Anton Rubinstein,
the vfolinist Leopold Auer has been selected.
Mr.. l. V. FLAaLER, the distinguished
organist, Is giving lecture-organ recftals in
New York with great success; WORD Paint
menrs are called.
RECENTLY the valuable musical library OF
the University of Pavia, consisting Of some
10000 numbers, theoretical and practical,
Was presented to the authorities OF the
Milan Conservatorio. by order OF the italian
Ministry OF Public Instruction.
THE two De Reszke brothers have been
engaged for a few performances at the
Vienna Court Opera House this summer.
Their principal performance Will be In
Gounod's Romeo and Juliet" with Miss
Lola Beeth in the part of the heroine.
CoNsrANTIN STERNBERo, tho composer
pianist, met with great success at the recent
Rochester Music Festival He played God
ards Introduction and allegro for piano and
orchestra in most brilliant fashion. Mr..
Seidl conducted. The GODDARD number Is q
geuine novelty.
"Troyens" are rapidly nearing perfection
duction Of NJ. Chapuis' "Enguerraude" at the
Grand Opera, Paris. Think of a city like
Paris only now about to hear its first COM
plete performance OF the most colossal work
OF one of its own foremost composers long
since oead! .--- -.s-=--<---
A P1ANoFoRrE recital was given last Fri
day evening at Beaver Female College by
Director W. II. T. Aborn, and these post
graduate pupils: Miss Belle Andriessen, Miss
MaryV. Brown, Miss Gertrude e. Griflths,
Miss Margaret Perrine, Miss Myrtle Stuart
and Miss Julia B. Taylor. The St. Cecilia
choruses to tile very creditable programme.
THOUGH the season is over, the Art So
ciety has received, since the election Of that
score or more of additional applications for
membership. These names, with any others
that may be received in the meantime, will
be sent ont in two or three days upon the
notices OF the last election to be hold until
the fall season opens. Nothing succeeds
like success! ..--
Mr.. EUGENE c. HEFFLEY, the former Pitts
burger, and his choral society at the Grove
City (Pa.) College, will give promising con-
cert next Wednesday evening. Governs
cantata, "The Rose Maiden" and Ethelbert
Nevtn's choral lullaby, "Wynken, Blynken
and Nod" are the principal numbe9i pro-
grammcd, and the sopran o solos in them will
be sung by Miss Carrie Angel, of Allie
gheny.
Mr.. j. C. BATcHELpER, OF the Detroit Con-
servatory of Music, has just concluded q
spring series of organ recitals tending with
his 73d recital, being the 55Ath of the Con-
servatory concerts) given at st. PauI's
Church, with the assistance Of half dozen
Of his own organ pupils and several singers.
both musical merit and genuine attractive.
ness Would that, our community could
boast of such recitalS!
THE quality of the true artist is best shown
in his rendering of small pieces, TOR, in larger
works-as in scenic paint1ng-the finer de-
tails, the deeper toning, the artistic touches
are either overlooked in, or overshadowed
by, technical bombast, which covers multi
tude OF SINS There are many public per
formers who manage to get through q diff
cult composition Of Liszt's. who could not
play decently simple nocturne of Fields,
because, paradoxtcal Though It may seem,
such pieces are too difficult for them.-Chris
ti0nf.
LOVERS of good sacred music will doubt
less be out in full force at the special serv.
ice this afternoon at 8 O'Clock in Calvary
P. e. Church, East End, by Mr.. Henry L.
Ringwalt and his independent choir Of 80
voices assisted by Miss Irene L. Sample
Miss Sarah G. Vogel, Mr.. Edward Edstrom,
Mr.. Edward 81. Dermitt and Is players from
the Gernert Orchestra. Seats are free, but
the Directors heavy expenses should be re-
membered at tho offertory, as lie supports
the choir wholly for the advancement of
church music.
Mr.. W. S. WEEDEN leaves next Thursday to
make a round of various "Chagtauqua AS
semblies," where he has been engaged to
take charge of the choral work. The first is
at Lexington, KY, and the work there will
close with a performance Of Bradbury's can
tata, ESTHER" July 8: then at Waseca,
Minn., closing with esther" July aS; next
ut Bethesda, o., until August 9, and winding
up at Mountain Lake Park, Nd, with But
terfleld's cantata, "Belshazzar;" On his
intends taking up some light opera or can
tata Tor full scenic production next winter
Let us, hope he will this time find some
work, which, while not too exacting for
is musically worth performing.
UNDER the lead of Frank Van der Stucken
q chorus of 60 of the Arion Society of New
York's active members, accompanied by 200
passive me mbers, will sail for Europe June
Is on the steamer "Wieland," specially
for the purpose of giving concerts
in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipsic, Vienna,
Stuttgart. Frankfort and Cologne,
besides visiting Dresden, Mayence and pos
sibly summer night festival in Bingen-on-
the e-Rhine. Miss Maud Powell. Miss Olive
Mr.. William Rieger and Mr..
Frenz Rnmmel, the well-known American
Arions are to be received by all the leading
German singing societies, including the
Vienna Maennerchor, the Stuttgart Lieder-
kranz and the Cologne Maennergesang-Ve-
be devoted to charitable purposes.
Mr.. j. S. Brown, of Allegheny, has organ
lied a summer normal school of music at
Butler, Pa. for a session Of several weeks,
tomorrow. A large enrolment
Of pupils has been made. Mr.. Brown will
conduct the choral ella sses himself and has
secured from this city Mr.. Beveridge
lecture on .pianistic topics; Mrs. Kate
Miss Blanche Newcomb. for the Violin,
and, in addition, Mr.. Towne, OF Chicago for
theoretical branches. A concert Will be
given every Friday evening during the ses-
sion in the Butler Opera House. These
institutes, particularly when thus
we'll manned land "womanned"), constitute
. great boon to the teachers and advanced
pupils of the countryside, otherwise de-
barred from such advantages.
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