The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-18
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Musical Notes. .
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NH USICALLY. this Christmas holiday
AWV season is more than ordinarily
" ~ promising. To begin with, at the
Seattle theater We are 10 hear Gerome Hell
mont said to be most talented and prom
ising young yiolinist. in a programme in
which good music VIII predominant. ON
Christmas day especially fine musical serv-
ices are to be rendered at the various
churches In the city. a task at which The
cEOirmasters. soloists, choruses aud organ
lists OF the city have been working for
weeks past number OF the churches
will have reinforced chorS, w1ile in one
or two instances orchestral selections VIA
form part OF The programme. The Dorothy
Morton Opera Company VIII be here dur
ing the holidays. and will be welcomed by
oil lovers Of real comic cpera-a phrase. by
the way. under which many grieVous sins
have been committed. The choirmasters
of Seattle have endeavorcd TO make the
holiday music a. the churches this year
better than ever before. 81. Marks vested
choir. with some Of the best solois,s IN the
city, Will render parts Of The Messiah"
OF Handel, new and original Sanctus with
contralto SOLO and male chorus. by Choir
master Englehardt, besides much other
very good music. n mass by Carl Maria
Won Weber IS IN course OF preparation
by Cholrmaster Lueben al the Church OF
our Lady Of Good Help. Mr.. Wells "a pre-
programme.
Walter Damrosch has written a patriotic
''Te Deun," which has called down upon
him the hearty approval Of the musical au-
thorties of the metropolis. IL IS called
Manila Ts Deum." A New York musical
writer thus speaks Of II: In the Manila
TIE Deurn' CT Mr. Walter pamr0sCh there
are several numbers which stand to the
-..tfz If ..srs
bugle cali is happy device: the quartette.
TO Thee All Angels Cry Aloud has an
exquisite accompaniment, the Holy, Holy.
Holy" which follows is really beautiful in
melody and ends in a superoly developed
crescenco. and the finale Of the opus is
mastery association Of patriotism and arr.
Mr.. Damrosehs use IF the national hymn
IN the closing stYophes IS dlsniaed and yet
supeviatively affecting. he has produced
a work q which he may wel De proud
both as a composer and as a good Amer
lean
SerDbrjrh. ere soprano and Van Dyck
the tenor. have been carrying of the hon
ors Of a week at the Metropolitan opera
Sembrich created 4 fBrore In "Trayiata,"
the critics declaring that she had ilf,ed
Nerdfs characterless version Of Dumas
play into lts original sphere % emotional
expression The policy iGauKuratca by
Henry Abbey after New York had tired q
seven years ~ unrelevr1 German opera
al the Metropolitan has beer followed This
winter hv NJ. Grau. his former partner
TIE Singers g.ys "Tannhauser" IN German
one rlEnt. ard the rex, sing Romeo ard
juliet "a French. or BARBER = Seville
In Italian. wagner II wei represented IN
'.S.rgfr.ed" Dis va kuTe' ara Der
AelsterslnRer"
There IS alaos. 4 pie hoTa Q, music IN
New York. II addition 70 TIE artists -
N. Metropolitan opera. there are planists.
v!olinists philharmonic orchest1as and
quar:ettes almost w5tEout rGmher. TIE
Boston symphony orchestra pad "a SOC
ord vE=: - NV York thls season lasr
week W.33a7a Ger.cke, whose name "a u8t
a4rknoA u d Seattle musicians. is tina co0~
ductsr * the symphony orchestra hut -
last weeks corceT,s Frank knel&el acted II
-. steai II may - interesting - m1sa-
CA people IL Seattle - EeY@biash The pro