The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

will include numbers by Bcnoit Bach, Pierno
Steck. Bruch, Litof Handel Beethoven, Chopin
and Wagner Herman Beyer-Hane and Franz
Kaltenborn will be the soloists Ono week from
tomorrow the programme will be made UP exclus-
lively Of the works OF Verdi. and Saint Saens TO
celebrate the birthday Of these composers Tho
famous Italian will on that day reach the ripe
age Of &c. while the French composer will be 81.
The most popular opera OF Verdi and orchestral
numbers OF Saint Saens will be played
Tonight, at the Metropolitan Opera House.
q concert will be given, under the direction Of
Prof Fanciulli with Dewey at Manila" by tho
conductor. will he the principal number Of the
programme The Seventy first Regiment Band
will play and the soloists will be Martha Hofacher
W. p Chambers and Signor Quihtano.
The Banda Rosa will give its last concert
TO night. at the Madison Square Garden.
Vladimir do Pachmann will mako his fist
appearance in a recital at Mendelssohn Hall.
II is interesting TO lead references TO his aiival
in the summer and has been in this country ever
since Maurice Grau will give the first Of a Sc.
tan one week from tonight Emil Paur will
conduct ,, the theatre orchestra and the solois.s
and Dppel Nine Nevada will Will - be ,r 6eard fiqst
on Nov. IL in another series OF concerts which
begin on that night a. the Mchopotan
three concerts curing the season coming, at Mon
dessohn Hall on Nov. %. Feb o. and March 20
Carl f0 GGn ns' Ed iai SSansE t and
Herman Beyer;H
OF the l'ittsbutg Orchestra are Jan. % and Feb.
chestra, which will be heard 10 Carnegie Hall
c n tSs city nsH Winter shs has song , re
iesp,,tole OF old Italian songs and is mistress
Aesander nG%tl viii give 1 T bis opening con-
cert at the New York College Of Music next Sat.
mtday evening. The ptogramme consists Of
yiolns. and the quintette Opus 81 by Brahms
1da Klein M viii sing songs by Sohqmann M
mold
the Boston symphony Orchestra indicates that
Last week ths tickets Tor the Friday afternoon
concerts, which have face value of Sl2, were
mums, Of which tho greatest was SlS5s This
than $50 was Brought BY any seat in the main
d dod zoo Of the hall The total sale amounted to
higher than those paid last year. For the past
concerts has been sold before. the season began
Walter Damrosch once said that Boston was
the most musical city in the country,
The SUCCESS last year OF the symphony Con
season eleven concerts will be given Six CON
certs will take M place ; on Saturday afternoons in
BY Frank In , addDn
five concerts will be given at Mcndelssohn Hall
on, Saturday mornings for children, with only
a few words OF simple explanation OF the poetic
meaning OF the music
Emma Calve posed for the statue which is TO
ornament her tomb, Just before she sailed last
week. She went up TO Paris from Cabrieres
dressed herself as OpJtelid, and assumed the att-
tude in which she wants To be perpetuated. Maui
rice Grau is to make once more the interesting
experiment that has so far met with little success
Mile. Calves great talents are appreciated by the
critics in every role: but for the public there are
but two operas in which she Is interesting These
are, of course, Carmen" and Faust" The list Of
works in which she has been heard is rather long
for the Metropolitan but scarcely one OF them has
ever reached more than two or three representa-
tons Beginning with "LAmico Fritz" the list
includes Hamlet" Les Pecheurd de Perlcs," ia
Navarrase' and "Mefstofele" among others. But
the public remained away until Mile Calve ap-
peared as the heroine OF the Bzct or the Gounod
opera, in which her drawing powers were always
great This year Mr. Grau is TO sec what can be
done with Massenet's "Herodade" which has
never been sung in this city and is indeed heard
rarely anywhere. Cherubino and Jmiette will
not be sufficient to alternate with the roles in which
Mile. Calve is popular, and so "Herodiade" has
been selected because that opera provides also a
good role for NJ Saleza Nine Mantelli and NM
Plancon and Scott TO be in the cast Mile.
Calve will Of course, sing in "Cavalleria Rusti
cana" with Nine. Sembrich, and in either Il Pagli-
acct" or ia File du Regiment"
The most remarkable cast presented during
the entire season will sing Mozarts I'll Flauto
Magoo" Nine prima do mas will draw the public
with a potency that Mozarts work would never
possess If 1t were sung in the fashion common
abroad. 1t was given nearly forty times last
summer by an opera company that contained
not one singer of eminence, but the audiences
were satisfied with the work and did not demand
Sembrch, who is considered the greatest Mozart
singer of her time will be tle Queen OF the Night
Mime, Eames should be a beautiful sight as Tdmi.
ma and Zelc de Lussan ought TO be well suited
donras are Mines Schumann Heink, Ternina
and Mantei who will sing the three "a les.
ka and Broadfoot The season offers the prom
Use of some interesting REVEALS. Nkolais Tho
Merry Wives OF Windsor" which has not been
in
Heink have frequently sung in the opera together
abroad; Theodore Bertram is a famous Falsta6
IN his Own WI country and rI,tk FrsderiSdks the
Of his greatest successes in Nikolai's work. The
dialogue is the only dra wback to the performance
of the opera. In the Italian versions OF the work
will certainly DO used
Nine flames, who has completed her study
Of Aida" may be heard in that opera during
season whether ali plans for new performances
are carried out or not "Lucrczia Borgia" is
even discussed as a Saturday night possibility,
the principle roles, In spite of Jean de Reszkes
possible absence, the women alone will not give
the peIf9rmances all their quality In II flaut9
dc Reszke and Pini-Corsi will appear
M,EIyLEF'S WESTERN TRIP.