The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-27
sHARPs AND FLATS

Hola is 10 write q llDretto.
Robert Dunbar is singing in Frisco.
Mile. Nikfta is to sing the roll of Car
men.
Lillian Nordica will sing in 1.-THE Mes
siah."
De Pachmann will be heard in Berlin in
December
Puccni's new opera will be called the
''She Wolf"
1t is said that Rubenstein will compose
no more operas.
The Sacred Music Society rehearses
Tuesday evenings.
Calve will sing in Russia this season, in
opera, at st. Petersburg
Leoncavallo has written libretto for
an opera by Buzzi-Peccio.
A cyclus of Wagner operas is to be
given in St. Petersburg during Lent in
1896.
Glinka's beautiful opera, "a Life for
the Gar" is shortly to be revived in st.
Petersburg.
Madame Melba will make an Australian
tour next summer, leaving for her native
heath Aug. l, 1895.
Eugene Ysaye will make a short con-
cert tour in Germany before sailing for
this country in November.
"Hansel and Gretchel," by Humper-
opera season in Strassburg.
A piano department has been added to
the Scranton School of Music, with Pro-
fessor Eckman as instructor.
Another Australian singer who has re-
Gently made a hit in London Is Miss Ada
Crossley, contralto of great promise.
Lii Lehman, who has withdrawn from
the operate stage on account of her
health, will give two song recitals In
Dresden
Sembrich, Calve, Marconi Cotogni and
Nannetti are names of great singers who
will sing during the opera season in st.
Petersburg.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has returned to Lon
don for the winter with his health re-
stored. He will Immediately finish the
music for king Arthur"
Tallie Morgan, the well known musical
| director, will organize a class at Carbon
dale next month and will also resume in
structing his classes at Moscow.
'At Santa Lucia" two act opera of
| the "Cavalleria" type, by Tasca, has been
successfully produced Manchester, Eng,
by the Carl Rosa opera company.
Prof. Halle of Weimar has been APP
pointed Concert Meister of the Berlin
opera orchestra, which position has been
vacant since the death of De Alma.
Sarsate and Sauret will be the violin
soloists at the Philharmonic concerts in
| Berlin, which will be given this season
under the direction of Richard Strauss.
Frank Kneisel, one of the first violin
| lists Of Boston, has recently purchased a
violin from Gruen of Vienna, world ia
nous Stradivarius Q710. The price was
$1,000.
! The 1000th performance of Gounod's
| Faust" will take place shortly in Paris
| In celebration of the occasion Ambrose
| Thomas has been requested to write some
| special music.
Mr. d. A. Evans work upon the pipe
| organ at the Wright-Decker wedding was
greatly enjoyed by the guests assembled
at the First Presbyterian church on
! Thursday evening.
The Seidl orchestra will make three
| weeks tour, beginning on Nov. 19. The
soloists will be Miss Lillian Blauveltt, So
| prano and the Misses Rose and Ottille
| Sutro, ensemble pianists.
Campanini writes that he has made up
his mind to settle in London as teacher
and concert singer. He has been engaged
for the title part in Berliozs Faust at
| the Royal Albert Hall on Dec. 13.
On Nov. IA the new opera house in Alex
! andria, which bears the name of the Khe
| dive, will be opened with performance of
"Lohengrin." The house is magnificently
equipped and seats $500 people.
Januschowski, who sang with the Emma
Juch opera company, had great triumph
as Kiytemnestra in Gluck's "Iphigenia"
at the Imperial Opera, Vienna, recently.
Reichman sang the "Agamemnon."
Four operas have been rendered over
! 1000 times between 1925 and 1893 at the
Paris opera: Boieldieu's Dame Blanche" ,"
1888; Herolds Duel" 1476; Adams Swiss
Chalet" 1909; Auber's BLACK Domino" ,"
| 1l06.
"Jabucco," (the Feast of Apples,) the
| latest opera by Johann Strauss, has been
| secured for this country by Director
Heinrich Conrled. He will give it an
early production here, probably in Eng
lsh.
The Wagner-Verein of Berlin gives four
concerts this season. Three will be con-
Quoted by Klindworth, the fourth by Sieg-
fried Wagner. Lille Lehman and Eu-
gene d'Albert are amongst the soloists
engaged.
There are fully as many unproduced
operas as unproduced dramas. The Bos-
tonians receive on an average one manu-
script day. Mr.. Whitney receives more
than he could tear up, If he devoted all
his time to that purpose.
Nine. Marie Creste, since Ambrose
Thomas refused to award her prize at
the Conservatory, has been possessed with
a desire to get revenge, and among other
things, has placarded Paris with abusive
posters. She has been arrested.
After an absence of two years Frau Mat
erna sang for the first time in the lmper-
ial Opera, Vienna, the 18th of last month.
She will sail in December for New York.
Her tour is to comprise thirty-siX concerts
and will extend to San Francisco.
Two manuscripts of Sebastian Bach
have been found in Grimmitschau; one
composition for three oboes, two violins,
! viola, four voci con organo ct Basso, the
other an unpublished cantata for two
horns, two oboes, two violins, viola, and
four voci con Fundamental,
While in Paris Madame Clara Poole
| met and sang for several eminent conf
posers, who were enthusiastic over her
voice and interpretative faculties, and
who forthwith insisted that she should
take UP their songs and sing them in
her concert work in London.
1t is more than likely that only Ger
man singers will be engaged for the mag
nificent presentations of Der Ring des
Nibelungen" at Bayreuth in 1896. The
company of all nations which appeared
in this years festival, brought down too
much severe criticism for relish.
England is to have its Bayreuth. The
Earl of Dysart, president of the first Eng
lish Wagner-Verein, is the prime mover
in the project. The National English
| opera house will be erected at Richmond
Hill, Surrey, and will be devoted to the
production of Wagner's music dramas.
Won Bulow was in the habit of telling
his pupils that If all the masterpieces of
music were lost, with the exception of
BachfsN"Preludes and Figures" 1t would
be possible to reconstruct from them the
whole of our musical literature. For him
Bach represented the Old Testament and
Beethoven the New.
Montreal is having a winter season of
opera at the Theater Franchise. For the
initial performance Audrans Gillette de
Marbonne" was given. The company is a
French one. With an excellent orchestra
of twenty men under NJ. Dorel, 1t enter
tains the people of Montreal with a selec-
tion from the light operas.
In Boston the Kneisel Quartette will give
eight concerts in Union Hall during the
winter. Numbers of special interest that
will be given are a Svendsen octette for
strings, Sgambati quartette in fiat, the
clarionet quintette and a piano quintette
In + minor of Brahms, and manuscript
quintette by c. M. Loefiier.
They have a curious law in Munich
which has been a dead letter for moro