Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-19
IN MUSICAL CIRCLES
Pade1ewski's Fund. Tor Three Prizes to
Composers Of American Birth,
'"The SOrcerer" to BE Done by ANA
Sd
teurs-Other Items of Interest
to Local Musicians.

" eS'1piisH the IullOWlHS trlenillal prizes
for the composers Of American birth with
out any distinction as to age or religion:
1. Five hundred dollars for the best Or
chestral work in symphonic form.
z. Three hundred dollars for the best COM
position for solo instrument, with orches-
ira.
3. Two hundred dollars for the best cham
her music work
In his letter to Mr. Steinway the dis
tinguished pianist says that he hopes
this endowment will prove to be useful,
ard that your younger composers will not
consider as a gift, but as debt, this little
encouragement coming from one who has
round In their land all the happiness to
which an artist can aspire
When the trustees shall have formulated
their plars and made their announcements
OF the time for the reception of competing
works, there should be compositions from
washington musicians, for this city has
some who have already won praise for their
Efforts, and who III contest like the one
proposed will be melted to high achieve
ment.
Mile. Louise Niklta, who is Washington
slri, but who has made, quite a career for
herself, is thus spoken of 10y the American
Register of Paris France:
Mile. Louise Nikita who refused to marry
a Persian prince and change her national
lty,has returned to Paris to make her re-en
tree in a new creation at the Opera Com
ique, after a series of triumphs in Ger
many, Austria and Switzerland. That the
dainty American nightingale Is one of the
prettiest of our musical celebrities in Eu-
rope Is a TACT as positive as it is true that
she Is leafiet on one of the branches of
the family tee of Daniel Boone Of Ken
lucky, and was born at Washington, d. c.,
in 1873, and educated under the personal
instruction of Charles Gounod, Ambrose
Thomas, Jules Massenet NJ. LIE Roy and
Maurice hn NrS
Nellie Armstrong into the present Nine.
Meiba. Mile. Nikta speaks and writes no
less than seven languages; IS an excellent
portrait painter, a talented pianist, regu-
lar contributor to the literary page of the
Presse or Vienna, a firSt-rate billiard play
er and daring bicyclist. She has never
tasted champagne or smoked a cigarette,
mas Travelled all over Europe and the con-
tlncnt several times, and, besides holding
the title of court singer to the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, she has been decora ted
by three kings and awarded gold and silver
medals by German, French and Russian
institutions of learning. Her vocaliZa zion
is said to equal that of Nine. Melba and
In that which pertains to the dramatic art
the American diva is superior. Atassenet
has recently declared that whatever Mile.
Nikita undertakes TO interpret is accom-
plished so naturally that her personal in
dividuality is lost in the idealism of her
Portrayal
1t may interest the readers of The Star
with linrichs a short time ago, won a
notable triumph last week at the May
festival of the Albany Musical Association.
She sang Donna Annals recitative and aria
from Mozarts Don Giovanni" and was
greeted with the greatest enthusiasm.
SeidTS orchestra at the close joining Wig
orously in the applause, and Madame Ma
terna, who sang at the same concert, COM
plimentlng her most highly on her under
standing of and power to render Mozart
superior. as she said, to anything she had
heard in some years.
The annual recital of the pupils of Mr..
john Porter Lawrence will be given early
In jun" and will be of more than usual in
terest Several players who have not rs
yet become generally known to the public
VIII appear, and others well-known to the
musical world will contribute.
Among others, the program will contain
Two pieces or exceptional merit and diff
Guilty, Rubinstein's concerto, in D minor,
played by Miss Grace Hamilton Jones. and
Chopin's concerto, in + minor, by Mrs.
E. G. Preston.
The Sunday Night Music Club met at
the residence of Miss Elsa like and played
program which included the second sym-
phony of Beethoven, and three of the com
positions of MosZkowsk all for four hands
piano and strings with Misses Rebecca
Behrend and Elsa Ulke at the piano. Miss
Florence King played Beethoven's romance
In r, and Mr.. Lovy played the one in G.
paniment.
bert and Sullivan, will be produced here
Tuesday and Friday evenings, the 26th and
10Th Of May, at the National Rifles Hall. in
an elaborate manner, for the benefit of the
Gorcoran Cadets and the Mt. Pleasant
Field Band. The opera is bright and tune
ful, full of funny situations and dramatic
climaxes. Owing to the fact that it has
been a number Of years since it was
The music will be under the direction of
Prof. Geo. w Lawrence, assisted by his
pupils, and the stage will be managed by
Mr.. VIM. H. Conley.
will without doubt give very ereditable
performance. The cast are Sir Marina
duke, Mr.. Charles E. Bell; Alexis, Mr..
Geo. w. Lawrence; John Wellington Wells,
Maxwell; Notary, Mr.. c. H. Cross; Her
cues, Mr.. Robt Small; Lady Zangazure
Miss Eva Whitford; Airline, Mrs Milton
0dell; Constance, Miss Cassie Mae KING ht
rus is large and well drilled and is com
posed of the following: Sopranos, Misses
Maud Combs, Vincent Turner, Emma
Greene Isabella Lapini, Lillian yelling.
ceron, Maud Dreis, Mesdanes E. Mar
ceron, K. Pigeon; altos, Misses Cathleen
Combs, Leona jackson, Gertrude Lewis,
Kate DAILY, Flora DAILY, Mesdames Frank
Nevin, Geo. w. Lawrence; tenors, Geo.
Kehoe. Carl Davis. ]. c. Edward, Malon
Hof, Mr.. Bradley, NJ. B. Casey, Alfred
GaWler; BASES, -. 3. Waters, F. l., VOL
land, Gilmore Ewing, NJ. B. Hoff Randall
Cox. Miss Emily Hewlett is the pianist.
The formal opening Of Sanders & Stay-
mans new piano, organ and music ware
rooms, under the management of MT.
Percy S. Foster, occurs this evening.
and will be inaugurated with a fine
musicale. to which invitations have been
issued. The program will include the fol-
lowing: Hungarian Fantasia, List. Mr.
B. Frank Gebest; Finale Sonata, Paderew-
ski, Mr.. Herman c. Rakemann violin: Miss
Virginia Bestor, piano: Air Der Freischutz
Mrs. Thomas c. Noyes; first movement
Rubinsteins concerto, D minor, Miss Grace
Jones; duet, two pianos, Mr.. John Porter
Lawrence and Miss Blanche F. Sanders
of Baltimore; tenor solo, Mr.. w. D. Nc
Farland; quartet for two pianos. Mr.. Os-
kar Krutzsch, Mrs. Samuel Cross. Mrs
Isabel Bittinger and Miss Matte Bartlett:
baritone solo by Mr.. J. Henry Kaiser. with
obigato violin and piano and organ ac-
compartment; the Madrid Mandolin Quar-
tet. In addition to above Miss Alice Louise
Quinby of New York will attend and play
the Polonaise, E major, by List, on the
novel Janko keyboard plano; DR.. J. w
Bischoff will play the Estey phonorium
that was so much admired at the worlds
fair in Chicago, and Mr.. f. A. Lovy will
play violin solo, Handel's Largo, accom-
panied by the aeolian. Mr.. G. Wright