New-York tribune., 1900-09-23


were present at the ceremonies.
Five schools Of music have associated themselves
together and hereafter. under the style OF the
American Institute of Applied Music Of the Cniver-
sity of the State OF New-York, will continue on
broader lines the work done by the constituent
bodies These are the Metropolitan College OF Mu-
Sic the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music the
Synthetic Piano School, the American Institute or
Normal Methods and the Fletcher Music Method
The plan OF instruction OF the new institute en-
braces sixteen departments. devoted respectively
TO pianoforte playing, vocal culture, theory and
composition, organ playing. stringed instrument
-'--.'~e Interpretation and orchestraton, choral
work. church music and vocal sight reading, plano
forte. ensemble and sight reading, history Of mu-
sic and lectures, musical athletics chamber music
and string ensemble. orchestral music normal
panoforte instruction for teachers public school
music, synthetic planoforte instruction, Fletcher
music method. a regular four years course has
been planned, leading up to graduation with di-
ploma and the degree of Bachelor of Music. Among
the principal members of the faculty Dudley
Buck, Albert Ross Parsons, Harry Rowe Shelley
John Cornelius Griggs, F. Presson Miller, Louis
Schmidt. Frank Hunter Potter. Paul Ambrose
Kate s. Chittenden and Lillian Littehales
Miss NJ. L. Pinkham has taken up the
gerial burden laid down by Victor Thrane. and is
looking after the interests of a Portuguese barry
tone the Marquis de Souza. seveking Elsa Rueg-
ger, Ellison Van Hoose and Miss Elizabeth Patter-
son.
Preparations for the season of opera in English
which viii begin next Monday have transformed the
Metropolitan Opera House into hive of activity.
Principals. orchestra. chorus and ballet
hearsing twice day the operas to be presented
during the first week. Faust" the first opera,
will be given complete. including the WaIpurgis
Night Revels Miss Selma Kronold has been n
gagged for the organization, and will make her first
appearance Venus in '"Tannhauser,' the second
production of the week The arrival of Miss De
-pplAt he Of tba htrJ
bill The singers new New-York who Will be
brought forward in this repertOry Miss Phoebe
Strakosch as Marguerite Chauncey Moore Val
entine and Clarence Whitehall as Mephistopheles
in Faust; Philip BTozel TannhAuser. William
PAUL as Wolfram and Harry Hanln the Land
grave In "Tannhauser Miss Ingeborg Ballstrom
Fina. Miss Ragna Linne as Frederick and
/ Leslie Walker Garno in ''Mignon." More IA
miliar names In the casts Miss De Lussan,
Miss Kronold, Mr. Sheehan, Mr.. D'Aubigne, Mr..
Prngle, Mr.. Lind. Miss Condor, Miss Niven. Miss
Slender, Mr. Davies, Mr.. Boyle and Miss Rita
Eland The sale of single seats begins tomorrow
morning at o'clock at the box office.
Mr. Henry Wofsohn has arranged for a series
Of concerts and recitals to he given in this city
! during the coming by the different artists
under his management The first, of the series
VIII be the recital of Mime. schumann-Fe,nk and
Miss Leonora Jackson in Carnegie Hall the
afternoon of october IL Following this will come
the reappearance OF Mime Lillian BlauVelt in
orchestral concert October l6 I'm Carnegie Hall
on this occasion Frank Van der Stucken VIII con-
/ duct the orchestra. Mr.. Wolfsohn will also give
/ a series Of popular Sunday night concerts the
! Metropolitan Opera House beginning late in Octo-
/ ber and continuing through November. at which
/ the best known American ard European artists
! that are available at that time will appear. About
the middle OF November Fritz Kresler. the Austr-
an violin Nirtuoso, will make his reaDpearanCe in
| this city. on the afternoons of November IL and
/ II Ernst Dohnanyi will give two panoforte
recitals in Mendelssohn Hall. On the evening Of
| November Il Evan Williams tenor. and GwylIm
! Miles barytone, Will give recital of Welsh songs
| in Mendessohn Hall. November - Mr. Charles
! w. Clark viii give song recitals, also in Men
| dessohn Hall. Early in January 1901, Mr. and
Mrs. Georg Hensche will be heard in two re-
! citals In Mendelssohn Hall. On January II Miss
! Maud Powell will make her temperance In this
city at an orchestral concert after absence of
| three years. On January Is Hugo Becker, the
celebrated 'cellist will make his American debut
! January % will introduce Kennerly Rumford the
! English barytone. to the American public On
January 20 Miss Clara Butt. the eminent English
contralto, will begin her second American tour
She will make her appearance I'm an orchestral
concert in Carnegie Hall. and later in recitals
| Early in the spring there will be given In Mem
delssohn Hall three combination concerts by sub
scription in which Kreiser. Dohnanyi and Becker
will be the attractions.
John Philip Sousa and his band will give q
concert in the Metropolitan Opera House this
evening with the following programme
! Overture William Tell .... po..,,
Trombone solo, Thoughts ......... Pr,.n
Arthur Pryor.
Suite Egyptian new w).................. rr4D,
Soprano solo. Maid CT the Meadow ........ SSnsa
Miss Blanche Dufied.
| Grand scene. The Night OF Saba" from 'Mens-
valss o.Sto Monte Crsto new l,e BoLto
| (a) Caprice In polka form. Sparkling Women
Han ,as Liberty Efs'las soass
Violin solo. Adaglo and Motto Perpetum'' Relss
Miss Bertha Buctlin
Tarantela Les PHeTar' ........... Pe1.art
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may be found each Sunday in the little ADVERTISE
ments or the people In the narrow columns.