The record-union., 1897-03-20
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Congregational Church to-
night the long expected, much-talked
Of concert by the Camilla Urso troupe,
under the auspices of the Saturday
Club an organization of ladies of Sac
ramento who are laudibly devoting
themselves to the cultivation of musi-
cal tastes and the promotion of music
study. Camilla Urso is the most ia
nous of all female violinists, in fact,
she is the greatest of all of her sex
with the violin. Though she has been
many years before the public as a
musical artist, she is represented as
still the accomplished player and brill
liant soloist, the foremost of her sex on
the violin. Those who recall the days
of 1869, and the conduct of the great
musical festival in San Francisco in
that year by Madame Urso will remem-
Der how all the State was captured. -
to use a conventionalism, by the Won
derful playing of the woman in that
city, and when she thereafter visited
the interior cities
1t was Camilla Urso who broke down
the barriers of the Paris Conservatory
of Music, and While a mere girl by her
commanding genius compelled Auber
and the directory to admit her, she be-
ing the first woman ever permit
ted to have membership in that great
institution. Miss Minnie Methot has
been heard in California once. and then
greatly pleased with her beautiful So
prano. Since then she has studied two
years under Madame Marchesi in Paris.
and by her art won from Partisan con-
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On her return to New York she was
welcomed at the Apollo Club and won
eminent success, justifying in the judg-
ment of all the critics that she is
worthy to be, as she is. a descendant
of the great Wachtel Edwin H. Doug
lass, the tenor Of the troupe, has never
been heard in California He is repre-
scented to be especially strong in Eng
lish and German ballads and songs. in
this work being especially thorough and
artistic. He is ranked as a lyric tenor
of strong, manly color George II. Wes-
ley, the pianist of the company. is one
of the leading young instrumentalists
of the day. AS an ensemble player he is
credited to California as a first-class in
terpreter. The programme this evening
Will present these features and it will
be seen that they are of a high order:
Madame Urso will play Grand CAPRICE
de Concert" by Ernest Guiraud: it
will be in two parts. andante and allie
gro appassionate; "Reverie,' by Dieux-
temps; THE Witches Dance" Pagani-
mis- master work; Miss Methot will sing
an aria from Lind di Chamaounix -
one of the rarest specimens of Donni-
zetti's genius; songs, (a) San Sans
Toi'' (Without Thee: (b) "Oh. Sorrow,
oh, Sweetness" the first being by Gus
D'Hardelot, and the second by Tchai-
kowski. Mr.. Douglass will sing "Du
Bist die Euh,' by Schubert, In Spring
Time" by Sesta, aria, "M'Appari."
from Flctow's Martha" Mr.. Wesley
will play LISTS hungarian "Rhapso-
die and "Ballade," by Chopin; Miss
Methot and Mr. Douglass will sing the
duet Charity, "'by Faure, and Mag
delin Nimm Dich in Acht" maiden, Be
ware), by George Pittrich
There ought to be crowded house
to- night. The Ladies' Saturday Club
should he encouraged in their effort,
and made whole for the heavy response
bility they have assumed in writing the
engagement. The ladies have not re-
quested it. but in behalf of all humanity
the Record Union" does, that tonight
low or no head dresses be worn in the
high hat under such conditions as will
prevail tonight will be worse than a
nuisance; indeed, mere aigrette is an