New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-17
NUSICAL MATTERS.
THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-MR. ALVARYS
BENEFIT-A NEW PIANIST.

opera. Die Meistersinger"
Tsa BY Ma fan %rS ree n p M third song
WEDNEsDAY-wadorf Hotel second viooncello re-,
p. M German Opera ''Die Waika-e.'
fHb ~ r. q Carnegie Hal lecture
Mil a Hntonaa u2r G2Tasn s paEofor reea OF
Sir Mar Nvary 'o' '''''e q S'esff'ed' IN hon'r o'
Hea2sai Of the sym %nsS I ILL., last public
Metropolitan Opera House. p m. German opera
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concert Of The symphony Society. "I'arsifa"
The season OF Wagrerian performances under the
direction OF Mr.. Waiter Damrosch viii end next
Saturday "heh IT VIII be IN order 40 attempt a
study ot It's sicnhcance ANA artistic achievement
Its financial success Is assured success so extrao~
binary ~ 10 Invite wonder and amazenent and re-
fleet the highest credit the foresight and daring
Of M Damrosch. The story Of the four weeks VIII
dumfounh Germany. II IS certainly without parallel
and, indeed The work which Mr. Damrosch has laid
out for this week IS - stupendous as to excite
alarm. If not for Mr. Damrosch knl MS forces at
least FOR the works that to performed. To
give six performances OF the monumental works Of
Wagner wth one conductor and a company so linn
tied in numbers to make substitution practically
impossible seems Ike tempting providence. II Is
at all u be wondered al that Mr. Damrosch ha.
though; it wise withdraw his announcement OF
a concert for this evening. ON Monday evening the
last OF the promised works. Die Meistersinger"
VIII be given. with the parts distributed as follows
Johanna Galsi
Wai,e- Won S,ozlny..........Hcrr Nlcoaus Rothmuhl
osnrr. Herr Conrad Behrens
H"ctuse Rudolph Oherhauser
kothner Herr Emil senser
on Wednesday Die Wa'kdre" will be repeated
with the original cast on THURSDAY there will be
extra representation OF "Siegfried' in ce.ebra-
ton Of the hundredth appearance of Max
Aary In the character OF the youthful, Of that
drama Frday's drama has not yet been announced.
ana on saturday afternoon the season Will come TO
an end with Tristan und Isolde" Besides these
works Mr.. DamrOsch and has forces. aided by the
choir Of the Oratorio Society. Will give "Parsifal"
in concert form Friday afternoon and Saturday
evening the last public rehearsal and concert Of
ths symphony Society. Is work ended here. the
company will give representations in Philadelphia
Boston. Chicago. st. Louis and Kansas City.
Mr.. Alvary will have excellent opportunity to
test his popularity at the extra representation Of
''Siogfred" Thursday evening. He 30 COM
pletcly Identified with the character OF Wagner's
youthful hero in New-Yotk that thinks OF
1t without thinking also OF him. This fact. COM
blrcI with the admirable merit Of his impersona-
ton its pctura lueness grace. strength and beauty
and the love which the public have always shown
for the work. will doubtless make gala affair out
Of the performance. HIS first appearance in the
part which was also the debut OF the drama in
America. took place November 9. 1887. He sang
the role FOR the twenty-hfth time in ST. Louis on
May lNs,. for the hft.eth time on March Is. 1892,
In Hamburg for the seventy-itth time. in Stras-
burg. December g. 1893 TIL now. Mr. Alvary has
sung Siegfricd nineteen times in New-Yor<. TWEEN
y times In Hamburg; eleven times in Munich. eight
cities which have enjoyed the mpersonaton are
New-York. Philadelphia, Boston. milwaukee, Chi
Munich. Ausburg. Bresau; konissberg' Lonion.
Frankfort. Wesbaden, Dusseldorf, Strasburg,
N.f H,is IA s.att nd m tpria nd neX
he expects to give II In ST. Petersburg Mos
COW. Milan. Boulogne Rome, Genoa, Trieste and
other European cities.
In the symphony societys concert performance Of
"Parslfai Mis- Marie Brema will sing the par, Of
Plunkct Greene that OF Gurnemanz, and Conrad
Behrens that OF Khngsor The Flower maidens , WI
Nina settling. Katherin Hike and Ida Gray scott
phony Society course next Thurslay AFTERNOON 4? N
the parors Of Carnegie Han beginning NJ O'Clock.
Henry Holden Huss supplying the illustrations AZ
the pdhoiorte'
next Tuesday afternoon. beginning at o'clock
Mr rg,Eet Greene viii sins thS Whole OF SGaS-
Cornish and Hungarian songs.
Next Thursday afteroon Mile. Antoinette. szu-
a pianist TO our platforms. will give I
a recital In the hall OF the Madison Square Gar
den. The young woman comes to Us under err
tive OF Poland. and was born In Lublin. near war
saw Her grandparents and parents spent much |
OF their lives In Siberia political exiies. or late
she has lived In Paris where her cousin, Madame |
Gorska has cared for the crippled enid or Mr.. |
This great master has given her |
at times for the last five years, and she
has been heard pubcly in Warsaw, Paris, London |
and a number Of provincial British towns. Her |
programme next THURSDAY contains Bee,hovens |
sonata, op. lO9 the Spring" and SPINNING songs |
from MenGelssohn's Songs without Words; the |
same composers "Scherzo Capricci6so Schu- |
mann's 'Carnavar' nll OF 10, "A nocturne. mazurka |
and scherzo by Chopin. Paderewskis Theme |
Varie" Rubnsten's Barcaro.le In q. and Lszts |
thirteenth Hungarian Rhapsody.
william H. Rieger will sing the tenor solos In |
the Boston Handel and Haydn Socety's perform |
ance of Bachs Passion according 10 St Mat I
thew" on April IL. lie Will also sing at the AL |
bany festival on May g.
The programme At the third concert OF the Amer
lean symphony Orchestra, on March ~. VIII con- |
sst OF Schubert's "Unfnshed' symphony, Beetho- |
VEINS pianofOrte concerto in minor played by |
Miss Fannie Richter. Saint Saans's suite, op. 49,
and the overture Spohrs "Jessonda."