The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-17
MUSICAL MATTERS.

The Executive Committee of the Schu-
bert Glee Club has made all its arrange
ments for the first concert of the l894-5
/ season, which event takes place on No
vember %, in the Tabernacle. h music
of course has been selected, and snow
being as carefully rehearsed, the artists
and orchestra nave been engaged, and
all that is now hoped for is some other
kind of weather on the concert night
than Schubert weather.
The club has secured the services OF
Miss Ina Lawson, a soprano of unusual
excellence. Besides this %soloist, there
will be Mr.. Krell, who is solo cellist of
York, a musician in every sense, So much
for the artists. now for the music. The
big feature. of the programme VIII pc
Dudley Bucks "In Vocal Combat This
composition, exceedingly beautiful as 1t
is, was written expressly for the Brook
Ign Apollo Cub and dedicated to 1t. In
the note of dedication Mr.. Buck calls at
tention to the rivalry of the tenors and
at the dinner of the club, on which oc-
casion it was the custom to determine
which part sang the better. At the
last dinner the tenors sang. Then u
Remember Me" while the BASES poured
forth all their force in Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep" Mr.. Dudley Buck
has cleyerly woven these pieces INTO one
sing their piece first and the BASES fol-
low. Then both parts are going at once,
producing a wonderful patchwork OF mar
mOn1Zed themes as charming ana Dedu-
tiful as they are diversified and unique.
Another item on the programme which
ought to attract attention Is the ar.
rangement by Mr.. Van Der Stucken of
Home" This is very admirably writ
ten out in four-part style for male voices
much in the way that he has done with
way Down the Suwanee River" which
the club has repeatedly sung in Its con-
certs. Mr.. Van Der Stueken lately prom
Used to dedicate a piece to the Schubert
Glee Club, and the members are anx-
iously awaiting the redemption OF the
A third feature of the music the
next concert will be 1.-THE Ell by Meis-
ter. The effect of the chorus will be
augmented by piano and organ, and those
fail to be attracted by its singular beauty.
Then there will be performed for the
t t.sana time o.n in . 5sF5ss i ca Tsitt Goid py he
man who wrote The Three s~Fishers"
and the same genius and musical poetry
which distinguished the old work stamp
Great Britain is famed. for its sands
over which the incoming tide races
with terrific speed. Many lives are an
nually lost by the race for life between
the rushing stream and the careless pedes
trian. In the work alluded to Goldbecks
rich fancy finds ullSexpression, and in
the weird harmonies and structural eff.
fects may be traced the vivid musical
pAS1AAS IA 1A1(
over the treacherous Sands O'Dee.'
Hill Side Glee Club of this city has
organized a ~quartette which will first
make it's appearance in Emory M. r.
Church tomorrow evening. The music
will be sacred selections of the highest
order. It is to be, noted that among the
congregations of the city few equal and
none surpass that heard in Emory NJ. E.
Church. The services tomorrow will no
doubt be crowded.
Miss Florence Turner, daughter of
Mr.. w. H. Turner of his city who is
now studying music md particularly
voice culture in Paris, had the great
honor paid to her last Sunday by a re-
quest to sing a solo in Notre Dame. One
who heard Miss Turner's singing on that
occasion told the writer that he was so
full of delight at her exquisite singing
that fort he presence of a forbidding
the matter with Jersey City anyway z"
huissier, he would have yelled, Whats
and answered the question himself. Miss
Turner next week will begin lessons
with the famous Marchesi.
Thiesen Amateur Orchestral Societys
lead body is about to be galvanized, and
in some respects this is a pity. While it
is true they raked in dollars and cents
for one charity and another, they made
no real proFress in the musical art and
perhaps spoiled the musical ears of a
dozen people in the district who for their
lives cannot and never will play in uune.
Frivolous dance music, trashy quick
steps and marches, are scarcely calcu-
lated to improve musical taste in Celery
vile and the Theisens never got out of
that stratum.