New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-24
MUSICAL MATTERS.
THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-"IHlSiAN o1'"
ISOLDE AT THE METROPOLi-
TAN-NEWS NOTES

TAN-NEWS NOTES.
rho calendar OF musical entertainments for the
current week Is as follows:
Sunday metropolitan Opera house' % nton seidl:
fiederkranz Hall. p. m. hrst concert oi ''e
MondayLMetropollta opera House p M ,,. Opera
Sy Abbey epsA crazy:
Tristan und Isolde in German ,1nss p m extra
performance Of Carmen" r.
Friday-Mctropotan opera House. p m' ha
saturday~Metropotan opera House, p m' Iris
tan und Isolde; p. m. raust
The week before us will deserve to stand red IN
the calendar II nothing nterferes to prevent the
performance of Tristan und Isolde In herman ae
the Metropolitan Opera House 1t Is not iikeiy that
anything will interfere for even II MISS Brema
should not be abe TO appear Brangane there IL
an understudy in the person OF Miss OlitZka The
performance will beyond all question be noteworthy
in the highest degree. NJ. Jean de ReszKe ana
Nine Nordica VIII sing the titular roles ana both
are all aglow with enthusiasm for the work we
shall expect them to demonstrate that wagner hs
music be sung even to the satisfactory or tGse
bel The rest of the cast Is scarcely wnit
loss interesting and promising Mss Brema i, Is aI 70
Kaschmann. who calls himself Signor, though ne Is
a German and who was member Of the hrst Me- rho
rOpoitan Opera House Company, kurwenaL me
s for the week Is 5a IN The o M ave
Will sing in "Cavallera Rustcana" and Carmen"
NJ P.ancon in philemon ct Baucls" Nine. Man
a new tenor Sgnor CremonIni. will effect his first
American appearance, and that the cast Of Faust,
evening. will embrace Nine. savlle Mile. Olitzka, N.
Lerbert and VI. P.ancon.
The following BIT Of Information VII be appre
ciatcd by the patrons OF the opera, who have no.
t.ced that there has been decided Improvement
In the ventilation OF the Opera House since last
year: I'm the reconstruction of the opera House
+ta ch0 ~ aNa1a NJ "a
ground floor and galleries, all the air passages
ignored and most Of them were oblterated,
without providing new ones to take their place.
The complete neglect Of the ventilation resulted
I'm almost ntolerabe condition Careful study
made to remedy the trouble showed that COM
plete restoration of the original satisfactory
tenn would be out of the question, and new one
worked this summer. embodying such
features OF the old remained and could be
ayailed Of combined with new arr I., rents
perhaps better. results than before The air sup
@ to- o cubic bic fee fee, per Minute About ha
of this is distributed among the seats at uniform
mainder is introduced on what is called the down
ward principle at a tempera ture or 70 degrees
caliarity OF having the escape Of air from the lower
outlets aided by an exhaust fan. The novelty In
exhaust shaft in the ceiling the escape Of air be-
ing wholly pertpheral-that u.s. from under the gal
prevent draughts from the corridors and sustain
a gentle movement from the auditorium outward
There is question but that the quantity OF fresh
air IS ample. since the entire air OF the house is
changed every seven or ten minutes. but IT is
difficult problem to introduce such an enormous
volume at such rapid rate continuously and not
cause disagreeable draushts"
The first Sunday concert under the direction
of Anton Seidl will take place at the Metropolitan
Opera House this evening. the programme being
as follows:
Grand PolonaIse: LIST
prelude rectative and air from Don carlos
Violin CAndante md FINALE, Mendel.sohn
Nocturne from la Nayarraias .Massenet
Mime. Frances savlie
''' (orchesiraton by svenisen; first time)
AIT from '' 0''A'' NJ Piancon
Franz Ondricek
Overture Bohemian Carnival DENOMINATION
Accompanies Amhurst Weber
The Harlem Oratoro Association. Samuel A.
Baldwin. musical director, announces three con-
certs for the season Tuesday evening January
T. Handles Messiah" will be given, with Nine.
Emma Juch, soprano; Nine Helene Hastreiter,
contrato; J. r. Mckinley tenor and DR.. Carl E.
Duff basso. The second concert will Mon
day. February H. the. programme including part
songs and shorter choral works with Franz
rl s Nen1eissohn's Fiah" viii be gwen Win
oratorio concerts the chorus Of the North New
York Choral Society will be combined with that OF
the formation of these societies is especially the
development Of choral study IN the upper part OF
New York There being music hall In this part
Of the city adapted to such concerts Carnegie
Music Hall has been secured for the season.
The first concert OF the Lioderkranz, which will
be given this evening the hall of that society.
will be principally one of novelties. All the num-
bers sung by the chorus, with the exception OF one
by Cherubni. sung by the female chorus. are new
In America The mixed chorus will sing Evening
at Gogatha" by August Won Othesraven. "Gewit-
ternacht" by F. Hegar who has risen so rapidly
to fame a composer OF choruses for male voices,
is his newest work. a charac teristc and beautiful
composition. but very difficult one. The principal
z5llne ai's iatesf work 'Helden Requiem dedi-
Gated to the memory OF the soldiers who fell in the
might be termed an INTRODUCTION to Mr zoI9ers
have been given this autumn in Ieipsic and Ores
bv Miss Lillian Blauvelt. Mrs Bloomfield Zesler
Will play planoforte solos. The concert will open
with Reznicek's overture 70 Donna ma Dana which
As Walter Damrosch will be on the road with
his German opera company. Frank van der Stucken.
now conductor of the Cincinnati symphony con-
certs, has accepted engagement TO conduct the
second public reseosal and TSnGsrt OF rd me N h
stead Mr.. Van der Stucken also had an offer to
conduct the annual concert OF the ftHlcdi NOc-ttN
or February II. but could not accept II, the date
interfering with his Cincinnati concerts.
Minor Notes: NJ Victor Maurels song rectas
VIII take place In Chickering Hall the evenings
OF January and II and the afternoon OF January
m Selma Kronold who has been singing in
Europe OF late. has Joined Mr.. IIinrichs operate
forces In Philadelphia. .Ondricek Will give some
violin rectals IN this city In January Rivarde
has been engaged FOR the first concert OF the Must
cal Art Society on December H.. Sauret Will play
Mendelssohns concerto at the third philharmonic
concert January 10.
A WEEK or CENTENNIAL CELEBRAINd
The Duane Methodist Episcopal Church. In Hud-
son-st near Spring. will have a centennial celeora-
ton this week. TO which former pastors and mem
hars are invited For to-day the programme Is;