The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-01
MUSICAL

Mr.. Gustav l.. Becker, professor OF
music of this city, accompanied by Mrs.
Becker, arrived home on Thursday by
the steamer State of Colorado from
Hull, England. They have been visiting
Europe and particularly that portion of
the s%effete'' hemisphere known as the
Fatherland. Famous cities on the Rhine
were visited. and some time was spent
in Beyreuth, where they were fortunate
and 'Tannhauser," with orchestral eff
fects never heard in performances of
this work in America.
Mr.. Becker returns with impressions
of eminent service to the pupils who
will, at the close of this month. come
before him for tuition.
Liederkranz, Hoboken Quartette Club,
Lyra, N. H. Liedertafel, Teutonia Man
nerchor of Jersey City and Jersey City
Saengerbund met in Pohlmann's Hall re-
last great Saengerbund fest in New
York. This was done to permit mem
bers and friends who did not hear Hud-
son County's singers at that meeting
prizes won on that occasion were ex-
hibited, and when the songs were con-
cluded er-well, refreshments were
served.
Members of the Hoboken Quartette
Club will leave their charming clubhouse
on honda morning next for Laurelton
Grove, where the annual open air con-
cert of glees will take place. Represen-
tatives from other societies have been
invited to take part in the performance
Anton Seidl's orchestra will, this even
ing, at Brighton Beach, play a most in
teresting selection from M~oszkowski's
opera, s@Boabdil.'- This work is peculiar
and not generally known. The ballet
music will be played and it possesses
extraordinary merit in it's construction.
1t is composed of a Moorish serenade,
march, Scherzo valse and Malaguenna.
sing tonight. and clifford Schmidt will
be the VioliniSt.
No meeting of the Schubert Glee Club
has been called. but on the return next
week of the president, notices will be
sent out almost Immediately. The com
mittee to perfect the scheme of reor-
g~anization will make it's report and action
will at once be taken to complete the
plan. Conductor Baier will, with the Elk
ecutive Committee, begin drafting the
programme of works to be presented
at the first concert and the dale of the
first rehearsal will be set at that meet
Not until the return to town of one
of the leaders of the Melopolia Society
will any endeavor be made to arrange re-
inearsals. There will be some changes
in the society consequent upon the de-
parture from town Of prominent mem
bers. Miss Florence Turner is in Paris.
and Mrs. W. Hunter-Brown viii be
busy with studies before entering the
profession. of a concert player.
In October the F~ortnightly Musicale
will assemble at Miss Lucy +. Nelson
] residence, Bergen avenue, to elect Off
GERS. and prepare, for the fourth season'e
work. Among the new things talked
of is the formation of a choir and or.
chestral sextette, after the style of the
Boston Philomela Club. The usual plan
of assigning nights to the study of com
posers will. of course. be followed.
Greenville's Musical Club has rented
| Voss' Hall on Rose avenue for rehear-
sails and entertainments. On September
Z the first meeting will be held. Sand
wiched between the regular practice
nights will be social gatherings, when
friends will be invited. I'VE want to
let them know" said n of the club,
-just how we're getting along in our
practice. We don't play Sweet Marie
and that stuff. not much. Nothing but
| good stiff music goes with us,
The advocates for Sunday concerts in
the Hoboken Quartette Club nave not
given up the hight. They will, at the
resolution permitting the same. In the
meanwhile the Executive Committee has
| hired an excellent stringed orchestra,
| which plays every Thursday evening
while the members are at dinner.