The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-16
NOTES OF MUSIC EVENTS.

NOTES OF MUSIC EVENTS.
The season Of opera at the Metropolitan under the
direction of Walter Damrosch and Charles A. Ellis
will commence tomorrow night. The programme
for the nrst week is as follows: Monday. "La Travi.
ata' will be- sung by Mines. Melba and Van Cauteren
and NM. Salignac. Campanari. vanni. and Stehmann.
signor Bimboni will conduct. Wednesday, Tam
hauser." by Mines. Gaiski. Barna, and hatfield and
NM. Kraus, Bispham. Fischer. Van Hoose. and Rains.
Mr.. Damrosch will conduct. Friday, "Die Meister.
singer by Mines. Gadski and staudigl and MN.
Kraus. stehmann. Fischer, Rains, staudigl, and
Brcuer. Mr.. Damrosch Will conduct At the matt.
nee on Saturday, Faust by Mines. Melbn. Toronto.
and Van Cauteren and MN. hos, Boudouresque. and
Campanari. Mr.. Damrosch will conduct.
The Castle Sqra-e Opera Company will be heard at
the American Theatre tomorrow night in Sir Julius
Benedicts Irish opera, I" The Lily OF Killarney. - and
this opera ought to vary agreeably the scheme OF the
works which the singers are giving. In the cast will
be NM. Thomas Perse. William Wolf. John Reidy.
Arthur Wooliey, Raymond Hitch ;ock, and Mines.
Grace Golden. Ruth White, Gertrude Quinlan. and
Gertrude Rutledge. A special feature will be
the scenery for the opera, which, IL is said,
will be entirely new. Tonight the first
of q series of popular concerts to be given every Sun.
day will take place. Popular music interpreted by
capable singers will be the rule. Tonight Georgine
Won Januschowsky will make her temperance. hav.
ing been especially engaged. Joseph Sheehau. Ruth
White. Raymond Hitchcock. Ernest Gamble. the
Beasey sisters. and the Misses Carroll will be heard.
The programme includes numbers by onenbaoh.
Nicolai. Verdi. and Jahobouski.
The solo.sts at the Metropolitan tonight will be
Mines. verlet, sutro, and Jacoby and Karl Marx.
Anton Seidl will direct the orchestra.
Nine. Nordlca will be the soloist at the third con.
cert Of the Boston Symphony Orchestra TO be given
at the Metropolitan Opera House next Thursday
evening. The following Is the programmes: "Ac-
ademic " Overture. Brahms; Aria, "Ah Perhdo." Bee
thoven; suite-Les Erinnyes (frst time). Massenet;
Elizabeth's Aria from "Tannhauser." Wagner. ana
symphony from THE New World" Dvorlk.
Carl Loewenstein. the manager of the seidI subscrip.
ton concerts at the Astoria. is planning a new series
OF concerts at more popular prices. They will be
given in alternate weeks, with the remaining six of
the subscription series. and will probably be con.
tinued further into the season. The new set OF con.
certs will be given In the afternoons. probably on
Thursdays. and will begin early In February. Mr..
Seidl and his orchestra have been engaged for them,
and the programmes will consist OF serious music.
Eminent soloists are being engaged, and It is pro-
posed to mako the admission low. comparatively
speaking-$l or 81. so for each concert.
Isabel Conant, Louise b. Tyler. and Mabel Watson
will give a concert on Thursday afternoon at the
Windsor Hotel. Miss Conant is said to have IN ex.
wi ihV 'SisS ~ 1iHSb iJVI hub Dteu u
student of the violin for some time. Miss Watson is
q pianist.
The third concert of the symphony Society of New
York. Walter Damrosch, conductor, will take place
on Friday afternoon, Jan. 81, and Saturday even
Ing. Jan. 2e. at Carnegie Han. Mr., Josefy at this
concert will play the Tschaikowsky Concerto. in
which he has not been heard in New York in some
time. Following IS the fun programmes: Part | -
Symphony No /, C minor (Brahms); u. I'm poro sos.
tenuto nlleurn. h anlantn sostenutn. ~ I'm nnrn
a~llegretto e grazIoso; d. adagio. allegro non troppo,
mi con brio. Part lI.-Concerto for piano and Or
chestra Cschaikowsky). 3. Overture to a comedy
(smetanal.
The Kneisel Quartet will give a series OF three
chamber music matinecs on Jan. go. Feb. II, and
March go, at Mendelssohn Hall. These will be In al.
dition to their regular series. Rafael Josefy will
play at two OF the concerts.
The first rehearsal of the New York Choral Associa.
ton. which Is being organized TO sing THE Swan
and the Skylark -" under the direction OF Anton
Seidl at the Metropolitan Opera House on Feb. go,
was held Mt Industrial Hall. 100 West Fifty. fourth
street, last Wednesday night. Onn hundred and
forty-seven voices have been selected out OF about two
hundred and fifty applicants. The chorus master Is
Tallie Morgan. who has had many years OF practical
experience in this line OF work. Additional voices
will be tried at the hall next Sunday afternoon from
2 to 4 O'Clock, and no one viii be- admitted TO mem.
bership after next Wednesday night.
The Henschels Will again be heard In concert at
Chickering Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The pro-
gramme Will include numbers by Handel. Martini.
Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms. Donizetti.
Loewy. and Mr.. Henschel.
An event OF interest to all musical people and to
lovers or bellies iettrrs Is the advent among us OF the
talented Yersin sisters, who have invented a wonder.
fully fine system or phonetics which renders the
study OF French not only easy but absolutely suro
and exact as to pronunciation. Their book Ia exceed
ingly lucid and comprehensive. This as well as the
system has been copyrighted. The Miles. Yersin are
now teaching und leoturins In New York. They viii
lie heard before the sorosls Society next Monday,
Jan. II.
The second Of Nj. Arthur whiting's delightful az.
ternoon6 or chamber music, In conjunction with
mentors of tho Kneisel Quartet, will take place on
Sunday afternoon. Jan. 23, in the building OF the
American Fine Arts Society. 9l5 West Flfty.seventh
street.
Nine. Madeline Frledheim has lately been singing
in London with success, and has been mentioned
with warm praise by several OF tho important jour
mails OF that city AZ having u voice both flexible and
OF pleasing quality. She Is said 10 have sung with
taste and feeling songs by Wagner, schumann. aud
IiSLt. NINE, Frledheim Is q pupil Of Ferdinand
Fechter OF New York.
Mr.. Veron, basso cantanto, pupil Of Nina. Anna
LankOw, has been engaged, through the agency of
Mr.. l.. N. Ruben. by the KAsger Concert Company,
which Is now about to make an extensive tour
thrOuGh the Southern States