The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-30
Gathered in the
World of l1elody.
Interesting Notes About Musicians
At Home and Abroad.

Less fault-finding and more encourage
ment would work wonders in the music
| OF every church.
The prominence of the persons having
In charge the testimonial recital to Mr..
Carter at Elm Park church next Mon
| day evening, insures a great success
| The large number who attended the re-
citals Of the two seasons are anxious
to show their appreciation OF Mr.. Car
| ter's efforts. The programme is a very
| choice one, and the participants in
| clude the famous contralto. Miss Kath-
crime Bloodgood, Miss Lillian Gutherie,
soprano, Mr.. Wooler, tenor, and Nr.
| Thomas, bass:
Organ-Fourth Organ Concerto. Handel
Contralto-O Don Fatalie from Don Carlos,
Organ-Selection from Tannhauser.
| Bass-(a) My Little Woman. Osgood
OBJ English Ballad
| Soprano-Selected Songs.
| Organ-Fantasie DE Concert. :. Friedrech
| Tenor-The Sailors Grave.........Su Sullivan
! Organ-Religious March. Guilmant
| Contradictory Disappointment. " Harris
90 IWearing Ava. A. Foote
| Organ-Annie Laurie varied). )........Buck
Entrance by Linden street doors until
! s p. m, after which jefferson street en-
! trance. Let the offering be most gem
erOus as a mark of your appreciation.
| Miss Bloodgood, the contrato, is a
| lady about "a years Of age and of a
commanding figure. so popular is her
| work and voice that this seasons dates
are filed. Her recent dates are with
| Mime. Blauvelt at the Binghamton and
! Memphis festivals and the great Cana
| dian festival at Toronto. Miss Blood
| goods first appearance in Scranton will
| be at Elm Park church next Monday
! evening.
Talie Morgan is working hard for
| the success of the children's musical
| festival that will be held in this city
/ in June. He expects to have in his
chorus between 800 and 600 children,
who will sing some splendid music. one
! chorus of over hundred voices meets
/ every Saturday afternoon at COnserva-
! tory hall, and other branches will soon
| be formed at Hyde Park, Providence,
! Dunmore and the South Side. There is
| no doubt whatever about the success
of such an undertaking, for every one
! will want to see and hear the children.
Tomorrow will close the engagement
of the quartette at the Second Pres
byterian church. and w. c. Weeden. OF
| New York. will take charge of the
music for the coming year. Hundreds
who listened to the charming and cul-
tured voice of Miss Slee will miss her
| greatly. Mr.. Tom. BeynOn. the tenor.
! has been engaged for another year. 1t
J ig, ba ,rf fIr Il.
/ quartette.
Mr.. Chase. an organist of Sedalia,
| Mo, has been engaged 10 succeed
/ George Noyes Rockwell at the organ Of
| the Second Presbyterian church. oct.
/ /. The announcement was made last
! Sunday at the services.
/ Quite a number of our local musicians
are at work preparing for the Wilkes
| Barre eisteddfod, which will be held
in June. John T. Watkins is organiz-
! ing a choir to compete for the chief
| prize.
! The report that Mr.. Carter had re-
! signed his position at Elm Park church
is without any foundation. and Miss
| Dreager will complete the year for
which she was engaged.
SHARPS AND FLATS:
Rubenstein left sSoOcoO.
Whitney Mockridge is singing in Lon
| don.
Franz Rummell has been playing in Lon
| don.
Paderewski will return to America next
November.
Theodore Thomas will spend next sum-
mer in Europe
Mascagni's new opera, 'Silvano," has
! but three roles.
Rafael Josefy will give series of con-
! certS next season.
Sousa's band is on western trip. Gill
mores band is down south.
Rossini was rapid composer. He wrote
| "The Barber of Seville in eight days.
| Gustave Kerker and Richard F. Car
roll are at work on a new comic opera
! Won Suppe intends TO bring out new
opera next season, his first in eight years.
Humperdinck's royalties this year from
"Hansel and Gretel" will amonnt TO s5o,OJo.
The Rape of the Sabines' is the title
of new opera by Dr. NJ. Francisci. of
| Boston.
Adelina Patti has selected "Crispino de
la Comare" for her first performance in
London.
The famous St. stephens church choir
of New York has been disbanded owing 10
hard times.
The spring season of the Abbey & Grau
Opera company at the Metropolitan opera
house will begin April Is.
| A violinist, Herr Burmester. who is said
| to he a second Paganini, has achieved
much success in Berlin recently.
OF Mascagnis three operas, the "Cav-
| alleria Rusticana" alone was n success,
and even that has proved ephemeral.
Herr Genee, the famous composer and
| librettist of light opera, who Is seventy
years OF age, is seriously Ill at Vienna.
Queen Victoria is fond of opera, but 1t
| is said that she heard a symphony con-
cert the other day for the first time in
| thirty years.
| Ed Jakobowski, the composer, will place
his wife, an American whom he recently
married. under the vocal instruction OF
| Marchesi, OF Paris.
| William Peplow, an English lyric singer,
celebrated recently his one hundred and
second birthday. He is stil singing, and
1t is said his voice is strong and sympa-
| thetic.
| The Wagner opera season in New York
has been a financial success. Walter
| Damrosch's share Of the profits amounted
to S25, 600 The total receipts were about
Si60,0o0.
| A Vienna letter says the elder Strauss
himself has grown too old to direct and
very seldom appears in public. They say
that the dear old waltz king is very sersl-
| tive as to his age and dyes his mustachs
| and hair a black Jet.
French newspapers claim that Christine