Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31

concert at Masonic Hall last Friday evening
under the auspices of one of the lodges oil
high degree.
CITY OReANIsr H. P. ECKER was assisted in
MS eighty-sixth free organ recital at Car
negie Hall, Allegheny, by Miss Edna Vogler
Elollnlst, Miss Florence Ashbaugh, con
tlalto,and Mr. F. a. Ammon, baritone.
large audience was present
The United States Marine Band has OBJ
| tanned six weeks leave of absence for
another concert tour in March and April,
anu anu VIII probably be heard in PlttsDurg
Miss Marie Decca of Washington, has again
peen engaged as the vocalist.
MR.. JAS. q. HUSEKER, of tlfe Musical
couFfer, was married Il week or so since to
nllss Clio Hinton. the well-known sculptor.
hearty congratulat tions TO the genial Ra-
conteur, VINO has lately been IN ms nhest
iettle, as how could he be otherwlseF
| AN interesting programme was given at
the PENNSYLVANIA College for Women on
FRIDAY evening by Mr.. Joseph Ii; Cuttings
and his pianoforte pupils, assisted by MISS
E1zaheth Waters, soprano, Mr.. Naldemaf
fapenbrock, violinist and the choral Class
The series of classical pianotorte and song
recitals at the Duquesne Conservatory OF
Music, was auspiciously opened on Thurs
day evening by Mr.. CARL Retter, Miss Luella
Totten, Miss Fanny King and Mr.. Louis
Critchlow. The second evening will be
February 25
THE production of the cantata "Bel-
shazZar," in costume, which Mr.. W. 5.
| Weeden has been preparing for the ultimate
benefit of the Allegheny Hospital. will be
given at the Alvin Theater in April. The
members of the chorus are rehearsing each
Thursday evening.
Mr. ETHELBERT NEvINs name appears on
two important Western programmes noted
last week-that of the fourth Theodore
Thomas Concert at Louisville, where Mrs.
Julie +. Wyman was the singea, and that of
the Ladies' Musical Society, Omaha's fore
most organization of the kind
Mn. I. NJ. AUSTIN, whose singing at the re-
cent p. 5. N. T. A. meeting will be remem-
pered, has resigned his position rs director
of the Westminster Conservatory of Music,
at New Wilmington, Pa, to accept the
leadership of the choir of the Second NJ. L.
Church, of Brooklyn, n. Y, at a salary of
$l,S0c year.
THE second meeting tor the organization
of the East Enc Musical Club, which was to
have been held last week, was postponed
till Thursday of this week, on account of a
conflicting attraction. Mr.. Breil reports that
much interest has been manifested and that
the prospects are good for forming an effi-
cient small chorus.
RICHARD WAGNER is making rapid strides
''Lohengrin" was so pronounceda success at
Paris that Bertrand, the new director of the
Grand Opera. has concluded to go to Vienna
in Febl uary on the occasion of the first pro-
duction there of Massenet's ''Werther." and
to engage Van Byck for a future French
production of "Die Meistersinger" at the
Paris Grand Opera.
Mr.. JOHN RICHARDS is to be the beneficiary
of testimonial concert rendered by the Su-
perior Choral Union, occurring heXt Thurs
day evening at Superior Hall, Preble ave
nue., Allegheny. In the 81 numbers of the
lit is just long enough to vote
on age) Mr.. Richards and the chorus will be
Hilan asSsted ,fGs, BY Mrs g. F. MdgeIy, Mrs p Dr.
Miss Annie James, Miss Vierheller, Miss
Dora Stark, Messrs. w. J. Davis, j. F.
Mfdgely. d. s. Harris, Henry Rees, d. J.
and Mark Porritt. Besides this list of per-
formers the audience, too, is expected to
join in the last song and chorus, bearing the
familiar title. "Hen Wald fy MADAM"
MR.CHARLEs DAVIS CARTER has been chosen
oraanist and choir master of Oakland NJ. f.
Church, where he expects to build up q
chorus choir of exceptional efficiency by CIV
ing its members an equivalent in the way of
personal tuition in singing Mr.. Carter ought |
to be encouraged in thus opening up, as a |
puts it, a "source of supply for |
church singers; For his own sake, however,
it is to be hoped that he has some means of |
keeping his singers after he has trained |
them to some degree ofproficiency and some |
other church offers them paid engagements. |
This stumbling block has upset the various |
choirs heretofore organized upon the plan |
now courageouSlv taken mp by Mr.. Carter |
The churches ought TO offer a Joint prize for |
mn infallible mode of forming and more diff |
cult still, of keeping a complete chorus |
choir
Mr. EMANUEL SCHMAUK, of Kittanning, |
whose musical enterprise has already been
noted from time to time in these columns
$ evidently the leading spirit of the
'chubert Quartet, which gave a concert at
hat place last Friday evening. The other
members of the quartet were Mr.. Adolph
De Quinze first violin; Mr.. Robert Friske, |
econd violin. and Mr.. f. d. Weaver, viola,
dr. Schmauk playing the cello for the
lonce. The programme was of a much
higher order than is wont to be offered in
smaller communities and contains brief
notes of the composers and works repre-
'ented that could not fail to be useful to the
audience 1t is worth noting. however, that
he good old church tune" known as
Austria" was not taken from Haydn's
luartet, but rice Uers1. HAYDN subsequently
lsed in the quartet that tune which he had |
originally written expressly as the Austrian
national hymn. The point is worth noting,
because that is the only tune written by
composer of the first rank which any neople |
las taken for its very own, as its acknowl- |
dyed national hymn-a fact which aptly il |
ustrates the spontaneous, unaffected nature |
# "Papa" Haydn's muse.