Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
THE MUSIC WORLD.
An Outline Of the Closing Event of
the Season in Pittsburg.
ORGAN RECITALS IN ALLEGHENY.
Magnificent Amateur Performance Of g
Very Bad Cantata.
A MEDLEY OF GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

This week the musical season of 1891 2
will come to brilliant close in the three
festival concerts at Old City Hall given by
| the Mozart Club with the assistance of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra and eminent
soloists. Although the programmes do not
meet Pittsburg's peculiar needs as they
should, there can be no question but that
this series of concerts stands upon an ar
tistic plane as exalted as that of any musi-
cal events we have ever had here.
On Thursday evening Conductor Arthur
Nikisch and his peerless orchestra (every-
where admitted to be the, best in America
and, perhaps, unsurpassed in Europe) will
play Goldmark's "Rustic Wedding" SYM
phony, Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" over
ture and Wagner's "Lohengrin" prelude
and "Huldigung's ''March." Mr. Eugen
D'Albert, one of the two or three greatest
living pianists, will play Chopin's E minor
concerto. Several violoncello pieces will
be given by Mr.. Alvin Schroeder, the FAM
Gus Leipzig artist, who has never been
heard here.
On Friday evening the orchestra is down
for Salnt-Saens' sym phonic poem, 1.-THE
Spinning-W Wheel of Omphale" and Weberis
"Oberon" overture. Mr.. Georg Henschel,
who conducted the Boston Orchestra during
its first three years and is famous all over
the world as singer, composer and conduc-
tor, will sing WoErrdn,'s romance from the
second act of 'Tannhaeuser," Loewe's
''Erl-King" and Schumann's "Grenadiers."
Part II OF the programme will be occupied
by Niels Gade's strong cantata, "Zon."
given by Mr.. e. H. Dermitt, our own ad-
mired baritone, the Mozart Club chorus
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chestra, with Mr.. James P. McCollum con-
Quoting.
Saturday evening is devoted to Mendels-
sohn's oratorio, "Elijah," given by chorus
and orchestra, under Mr.. McCollum's baton,
and these soloists: Mrs. Georg Henschel,
soprano, a worthy mate for her famous hus-
band; Miss Adelaide Forseman, contralto,
whose merits are as we'll known here as in
the Eastern musical centers; Mr. Paul Zim-
norman, Pittsburg's best-knowr tenor, and
Mr.. Gardner Lamson, the Boston bass,
whose singing in the role of EEyah has won
high praise from the fastidious New Eng
land critics.
The standing of 'sElijah" among the great
oratorios has been thus summarized by
writer: "Musical critics disa-
gree in regard to the comparative merits of
MendelSsohn's two oratorios. While many
claim for st. Paul excellencies not found
in Elijah the latter is Enthusiastically the
most popular, as evinced by its fire.
quent performance at all the great fes-
tivals in Europe and America. 1t is shorter
and more dramatic than HandePs Mes
siah, less theological than Spohr's Last
Judgment and less didactic than the
wondrous Passion Music of Bach. Thus,
while the subject matter of Elijah is full |
of the most stirring incidents, its artistic |
form is sufficiently brief to rivet the atten-
tion of even an unoultivated audience from |
the first recitative down to the last chorus"
Music lovers in this region seem to real
ize that music feast of the very first quail
ty and of quite sufficient quantity is here
offered, even though it has not been
in advance in just the manner
usually adopted for "May Music Festi-
VAL" The Mozart Club is Pittsburg's
most valuable musical institution, and it is
gratifying to note the strong support it is
already receiving from the public at the
box Office for this, the most important Sc
ries OF concerts it has yet undertaken.