Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
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The Organ for the Fair.
The following letter has been forwarded
to the editor of this department by Mr.
Ecker:
SALEM, O., Dec. q.
H. P. Ecker, Esq, Pittsburg. Pa;
DEAR s1R-I noticed in yesterdays DIS
PATCH q notice which says that FArrand &
Votey will put the organ either in the Music
or Festival Hall at the Worlds Fair. There
is no festival hall, except the Choral Hall,
which is the hall for NIL large concerts.
Choral Hall seats from 8,U00 to 10000 people,
Music Hall about $500. Farrand & Votey
have been given the space in Music Hall,
and we have peen awarded the space for q
large organ in Choral Hall, officially by the
Chief of Department of Liberal Arts. DR.. S.
H. Peabody. Please have this rectif1ed in
THE DISPATCH. or course, Farrand & Votey
desire very much to have space in Choral
Hail. as the Music Hall is insufficient but
we have officially been awarded this space,
and will not give it mp.
If possible please have this men ntioned in
the PAPER. Very truly yours,
The Carl Barckhof Church Organ Company.
Dictated CARL BARCKHoFF.
The item reprinted for convenience from
the Chicago Presto (duly credIted) stated
that the organ was to be built by Farrand
and Votey, 'either in Music Hall or
Festival Hall" That item was aud is cor
roborated by the official circular sent The
DISPATCH by the Bureau OF Music of the
Worlds Fair, giving the complete specifca-
tion of the organ (of size to cost fully
$4,000 or S25, 5,OOo) under the following
statement:
''The Exposition has granted subsidy of
SO, 900 to MessrS. Farrand & Votey, of De-
troit, for which sum that firm will erect in
one of the music halls of the Exposition a
splendid Concert Organ after the following
specifications"
From which it is clear that last weeks
statement must be correct. The organ then
spoken of will be the official instrument
and local contemporaries that have referred
to the Barckhoff organ in that way have
been mistaken.
OF course everyone will be glad to hear
that, in addition to the organ subsidized by
the Exposition, another large instrument Is
to be erected through the private enterprise
of its well-known builders. The more the
merrie-!
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Gossip in Local Circles.
Mr.. Homer Moore's second lecture-con-
cert, to occur at Old City Hall on Thursday
evening, is the chief event scheduled for
this week 1t will be conducted upon the
basis which proved so successful at the first
one.
The subject of vocal technique as en-
braced in "the production and use of tone
qualities" will be discussed and illustrated
during the first half of the evening. Mr..
Moore will analyze and sing songs and
opera selections, showing the actual work.
ing and application OF the principles out
lined.
Before the musical subject is taken up
Mr.. Moore proposes to consider the ques-
tion of how to develop existing musical
taste and talent among the working classes
1t is not unlikely that the opinion of the
audience will be asked upon certain conclu
sions reached and certain methods pro-
posed.
The pupils part of the programme will be
carried out by the Misses Keil. Reahard,
Welty, Gill, Agnew ard Day and Messrs
McWatters, McCutcheou, Rosser and Bull
lock, who will sing an interesting assort-
ment of pieces.
The Mozart Club in the performance of
the "Messiah" on the 30th inst. will use
Robert FranZ'S accompaniments, which are
much fuller than those of Mozart that have
been used heretofore. Nothing has been
eliminated from either the Handel or
Mozart scoring, bnt all differences are SIM
ply additions. There are, of course, no
te1tual changes. A cadence taken from
the figural parts Of the cantilena has been
inserted at the end of the soprano aria,
"Rejoice, o Daughter of Zion," and some
hormonies have been changed, as he has
thought they were more authentic than
those in The ordinary published editions.
The Yale Glee Club at Carnegie Hall
next Friday evening, Ovid Musin and his
company at Old City Hall on Monday the
26th, and 'tpiano conversation" from Miss
Amy Fay, she who wrote Music Study in
Germany" to be be given under Mr.. Fred
erick Lanes auspices at the Hotel Ken
mawr, January II, are among the interest
ing happenings OF the near future.
Did time and space permit, it would be
pleasant to tell how we'll Mr.. Retter, with
his choir and orchestra, performed Schu-
bert's Mass in t at Calvary Church last
Sunday. II was a splendid beginning of
most promising series, sure to help upIift
the standards of church music hereabouts.
G. W. S.