The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-24

soloists are Miss Evangelne Florence, Louise
b. Voight. Grace Preston, Katharine Blood
good. Ffrangon Davies. Gwilym Miles. Evans
Williams and George Hamin. Haydns Tho
Creation" and Berlloz's THE Damnation OF
Faust" will be sung. while the chief orchestral
numbers will be Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
and Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony. THE
Lily NymDh" by Chadwick and King
Trojan" by Horatio N. Parker will be
the principal numbers representative OF
American composers. Richard Burmeister will
be the instrumental soloist. Victor Herbert
Will again be the conductor OF the .Pittsburg
Orchestra. for which seventy, MUSICIANS have
bring his orchestra to New York next season.
Y II Ia possible to arrange several concerts
ton heard in the metropolis. Mines. ,schm.
mann mann H Heinz: Brema and Clara Butt and MN.
engaged as soiolsts. One week from Monday
begins the Maine Festival held throughout the
more thOn SsSr voices oha rns
list OF soloists. which Includes Nine Sembrich
and ssome, other well known singers will be
HANDLES oratori9. The Messsh", ehoruses
from hs, M Goun99d,s E.dsmpton" Hossini,s sta,
Maiden" Dudley Bucks Festival Hymn" tho
sooiinninsrns C rSGrn, from Fanst anH the
pntchman ons matnsS will ' Be given f up 70
the works OF Maine composers on Oct -.
Rafael JosefIy will begin hisconce.t tour at the
will then go to the West. whore no Is to give
series Of recitals In the larger cities. Leo
Nine. Suzanne Adams Of the Maurice Grau
Opera Company. He will remain here during
the season.
Lill Lehman is said to have lost many val
liable costumes and jewels through the recent
floods in the Isar district OF Bavaria where she
has been living this summer with her sister. II
she lost the costumes she was accustomed to
I,1a
OF her admirers will regret 1t. The ballet
Cinderella" on which Johann Strauss was at
work when he died. is much more nearly COM
pleted than was at first thought. The FIRST act
Is entirely completed. instrument aton and all.
and number of sketches intended for the
second have been found so nearly completed
that it is thought the ballet will be ready
for performance before the end OF the
present season Among the new works
to be heard this year at the Royal
Opera House in Berlin are Saint -Saens' Sam
son ct Dalia." Eugen d'Albert's. "Kain" in one
act. Siegired Wagner's Der Baerenhaueter"
and Die Grille" by Doeppler. Donizetti's
Don Pasquale" Is to be revived. An edition
OF Alfred Formans translation Of Wagner's
Ring OF tho Nibelungen" and Tristan and
Isolde" into English has Just appeared in Ger
many and will be sold by private subscription.
The translation was made in 1873. about six
months after the publication Of the original
text. Wagner heard the translation In Damn
reuthers house in London at the time Of tho
great Albert Hall Festival The translation
is said to have been work OF affection
on the part Of the composer. who
ceived little or no financial reward for
the work. Hans Richter has renewed
Tor i've years his contract with the Vienna
Opera House. BY its terms he will be able 70
take long leave OF absence annually but Will
not settle in England to conduct the Halle Con-
certs at Manchester. He will be able to con-
duct all but six Of them yearly. The others
Will go to Dr. Nilliers Stanford. Cesar Cui, the
Russian com oser. who is man OF wealth and
Just completed an opera. founded on Dumass
Charles VII" s.. PetersburR is to have n
magnificent new opera house that will he finer
than any other In the world. The Conserva-
tory there has a subvention OF more than
$1250O0 and in Moscow about ons-ha i that
sum is devoted to musical education by the
Government. About 10000 is distributed by
the Government among sixteen provincial
cities In st. Petersburg there are ia
pupils and seventy-nin. teachers: Pietro
called The Trio OF Venice" which deals with
episodes in the life OF George Sand. DIR. Pagello
and Alfred de Musset. Having exhausted all
the Shnkesperean operas. the gossips say now
that Verdi L. writing his autobiography. A new
version OF Don Giovanni" by an Italia COM
poser named Scontrno has Just been an
nounced for production in Florence: but it is
thought that Mozart's work will survive. All
OF Smetana's operas are to be sung at Prague
next winter in ,chronoogical order. The Vi
izetti's Don Pasquale." Signor de Luois was
to have ACCOMPANIED Nine. Melha on her Ger
man tour but It Ia now arranged that she will
not sing in opera in Berlin at all.