Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
Gro. chefs and Ouayers.

Miss HELEN GRIMES, who has been in New
York studying singing under Mr.. George
Sweet and helping along Gothams choral
| activities betimes, will return home to Pitts.
burg in June.
In the attractive programme of her home
musicale last Thursday evening, Miss Mary
| B. Kier had the assistance OF Miss Bertha
| NJ. kaderly, Miss Blanche NewcomD and
| MIR. Theodore Salmon.
SoNzoGNo, the Milan publisher, is to give
season of Italian opera at the Vienna
| musical and dramatic exhibition in Septem-
| ber and it Is said the performances will be
conducted by Mascagni.
BERLIN advlces say that Lilli lehman is
slowly rallyIng from her recent Illness She
is still weak, but able to enjoy the soft spring
sunshine every day in her garden. II Iilli
needs ''soit spring sunshine" it is lucky she
was transplanted from the American garden
this year.
Mr.. JAMES DoDwoRTH, who begins to-day
an engagement as organist of Trinity p E.
Church, is Englishman said to have been
initiated into the traditions of cathedral
music under Sir John Stainer and to have
studied III Paris with Alexandra Guilmant
in Chicago under Clarence Eddy and in
Pittsburg with Charles Davis Carter.
MRS. FRIDA DE GEBELE AsHFoRTH, the emil
nent singing teacher of New York, among
whose pupils have been numbered Mrs.
Charles H. Kloman, Mrs. Margaret A. Crouch
and Miss Edith Harrs-names well known
in Pittsburg-closed her season the other
day with an interesting pupils concert, the
programme including two songs by Ethel
bert Neyin.
AGKRMAN statistician has ascertained that
during the last Is years Wagner's operas
have been given in German cities the follow
ing number Of times; "Lohengrin 304.
"Tannhauser," 1875; Flying Dutchman."
l,O76; "WalKure," sss; "Meisfersinger." 6sa.
"Rienzi," 464; "Rheingold," 35s; "siegrried.''
322; "Gotterdammerung," 3l4; Tristan" 277;
"Parsifal,"75.
Mr. FRANK ToRRE, hailing from Baltimore.
is quoted thus by a st. Louis reporter: "To
say that at the Pope's services one hears the
grandest church music that the world has
ever known sounds commonplace so far
short does it fall of apt description. I am
something of a connoisseur. have been a pro-
found student Of music all my life and have
most famous organizations, but until
few months ago, when 1 heard
the Pope's choir, had no idea that the
ances. don't see why the big COP operatlc uoro. or.
ganizations don't learn n lesson from st.
Peters and have chorus of boys exclu-
sively. 1t would not suit the baldheads, but
it would please the genuine lovers of music"
Verify, a little knowledge is n dangerous
thing when it can turn the head of (self-
styled) profound student"
THIS item, from Chicago Presto, will be
read with interest by the many Pittsbureers
who knew Mr.. Clark and his lamented wife:
Mr.. Frederic Horace Clark, of this city, is
the author OF a series of "etchings' in what
will be known as "The Artists Unified or
Poetic Edition of Classical Works of Modern
Music" Mr.. Clark's editions.
which will include the Beetho, en-. Schubert |
and Mozart sonatas and symphonies and |
the etudes of Chopin, exhibit these |
works in the ordinary staff notation, but |
each page is curiously enwreathed with a /
series of Sw eeping curved lines designed as |
n capitalization of the small and large |
rhythms or parts of the music and their de- |
velopment in verses, stanzas and groups OF
stanzas" The idea is unique and so cur
doubtless be drawn to it. Mr.. Clark has
also published n music setting to Goethe's |
poem, can den Mond."
Mr. GEORGE II. WILSON writes to the Chi
cago Tribune of visit to the greatest living
Italian composer as follows: Verdi's manner
was perfection and he made my call most
interesting. His appearance is that of q
polished man OF the world just entering
upon old age. He walks erect, and if he
talks with deliberation there is no hesita-
ton in this speech, nor would one think to /
ook at him that he was 81 years old. His
head sits perfectly upon his rather slight
foIm and his clear gray eyes are kindly.
He was dressed in sack suit of black
cloth, his working garb, l fancy, for the
'oom in which he received me adjoined his
study. He spoke of his opera of "Falstaff,"
but as refrained from terview1ng" him
did not learn when it would be completed,
out imagine it is nearly done. Verd's in
;erest In music in the United States is more
han perfunctory, and he is very proud of
he popularity of the Requiem Mass"
lily he said he should visit the Vienna Ex-
libition."