The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-03

| Again.. Although but IA years of age,
Miss inland possesses a full soprano
voice Of remarkable compass and fiexi-
bility which, under proper care and cul-
tivation, promises to become phenome-
nal.
! We have seen letters from New York
city Offering Mr. Tallie Morgan the
most fiattering inducements to take a
church choir in the metropolis. Mr..
Morgan is admittedly a success as a
choir conductor, and Mills. Moody,
Stebbins Weeden, Bliss, Schiverea,
and many others have public
ly testified to his ability along
this direction, and the proba-
bilities are that in less than one
year Mr., Morgan will be located in
New York.
The Musical Director, Tallle Nor
gan's new monthly journal, will make
its appearance on Nov. Is. 1t will be a
handsome twenty-page journal, and
5000 copies Of the first number will be
circulated free of charge. The. Direc-
tor will contain several pages Of orig
inal music, and the reading matter
will be altogether of local interest.
How to read music at sight will be one
of its prominent features, and this de-
partment alone will make the journal
of great value.
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Miss Guthrie, soprano, of New York
city, will sing at Elm Park church to-
morrow.
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The Epworth League chorus Of forty
voices from the Elm Park church is
rehearsing the cantata, 1.-The Story of
the Cross" under the direction Of Fred
Whittemore. The cantata will be pre-
| sented as soon as soprano has been
secured for the church choir.
John r. Watkins has organized a
choir of 1875 voices. The singers meet
on Wednesday evenings at st. David's
hall for rehearsal and are making prep
| arations to compete for prizes at AL
lentown on Thanksgiving Day.
Among the promising young lady vo-
| calists of the city who bid fair to be-
become celebrated in local musical cir
cles, at least, may be mentioned Miss
Marie Gilgallon, soprano, and Miss Liz
Zie Phillips, contralto. These young
ladies acquitted themselves with credit
at the concert given by the Price Lii
brary association at Taylor on Monday
evening.
SHARPS AND FLATS:
Slmion Blssell, of Plttsburg, has COM
posed an opera called "Luciella."
1t is said that Patti is making arrange
ments for her usual farewell tour in this
country.
M, Ysaye, the Belgian violinist, resem-
bles Wilhemj and has an old $1,000 Guar
nerius violin.
An unpublished opera by Haydn has
been found at Prince Esterhazy's castle
In Eisenstadt.
Wagner's youthful operas, "Die Feen"
and "Liebesverbot," will be given at the
Hoftheater in Munich.
Joceify, Ysaye, Thompson, Bendix and
Lillian Blauvelt will be heard with the
Chicago orchestra in Chicago.
Verdi is composing an opera, Cali
BAN, taken from Shakespeare's Temp
est. Maurel Is to take the title role
Richard Strauss, the composer-conduc-
tor, is on his wedding trip, and at present
Is spending part of his honeymoon at Bel
lagio.
Etelka Gerster has just opened a sing
ing school coupled with stage expert
ments, at her villa, near Bologna, in
Italy.
w. II. Hadow's second series of stud
les in Modern Music" deals with Freder-
iclk Chopin, Anton Dvorak and Johannes
Brahms
Frau Rosa Sucher, Miss Marie Brema,
Mrs. Julia Wyman, Eugene Ysaye Punk
ct Greene are some of the soloists for the
New York Symphony concerts.
The American Concert company intends
to give series of concerts, principally of
American compositions, Thereby giving
encouragement to native composers.
'Jacinta," new comic opern, will
shortly be produced by a cast which
will include Louis Beaudet, Signor Perm
glni, Edwin Stevens and Jennie Reiffarlt.
The Duke Of Coburg has conferred the
cross of the Order of Merit for Art upon
Nine. Nordica, in recognition of her eX-
cellence In the part of Elsa in "Lohen-
grin"
The Hans Sachs festival, at Munich,
will begin on Nov. 4. on Nov the
by Martin Grief, called 'Hans Sachs
will be produced for the first time
After the recent performance of
"Otello"in Paris, Verdi gave 5000 francs
to the opera relief fund, 1000 francs to
the scene shifters, and offered his au-
thors rights for fifteen nights TO the poor
of Paris
Cesar Thomson. the Belgian violinist,
who will shortly begin an American tour,
Is 81 years Of age. When s years old he
showed q fondness for the violin. Mr..
thomson owns u violin which Is 1S5
years old
The virtuoso will in few years be as
extinct as the dodo bird, says the Musical
Courier. He is, after all, modern pro-
duct, not much more than 100 years old,
and he has been on the decline for the
past quarter of century.
Herr Johann Strauss has been in
formed that two live giraffes, male and
q female, measuring In height % feet and
10 feet, respectively, were on their way
to Vienna as a jubilee present from the
eX-Khedive lshmail Pasha.
It has been decided to open the Ger
man opera season in New York with
Tristan and Isolde" with Frau Rosa
Gucher as Isolde, Herr Franz Schwarz
as Kurwenal, Herr Emil Fischer as King
Marcke and Herr Max Alvarv as Tristan
The Carl Rosa Opera company proposes
to produce at Christmas HumperdinclS's
fairy opera, "Hansel ond Gretel,' the Ger
man Babes in the Woods" which has
proved a success in Germany. The IL
biN''O Nii bN pui I4uSllSu ny AOll-
stance Page.
Brains" is the title of comic opera
by two women, Emma Steiner and Kath-
crime Stugg. Della Fox has the opera and
Is reading" II. William Furst the
"lightning composer is now at work on
an Irish comic opera, In which the heroine
kisses the Blarney stone.
Ethel Lynton, who was with the Wang
Opera company last season, and at the
Schiller Opera house, Chicago during the
summer season, where she made n great
success In character parts in opera, has
signed with the Scandal in High Life"
company, as leading lady and prima
donna.
The libretto of Mascagni's new opera,
"Ratcliff,' Is said to be an exact trans
lation of Heine's drama, but. while the
latter Is in one act, consisting of four
scenes, Mascagni has made one act out
of each scene. The translation back
from the Italian into German Is being
done by Professor Taubert.
Miss Kate Rola, who is singing the
title role in "Mirette," in London, is an
American girl-a Virglnlan. She has sung
throughout Europe In grand opera, and
was student at Madame Marchesis in
Paris while Melba was q pupil of the fa-