New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

gesture and example urge the dancers. whose
revels become wilder and wilder. Satyrs and Fawns
down from the ledges and join In the rout'
pursuing the Nymphs until the scene Is one OF un-
| controllable frenzy. The Graces become alarmed
and. finding their own efforts at pacifcatioh
| vain they arouse the sleeping Cupids. who send
| shower OF arrows into the jewellers, The love-
stricken fall and the Graces disperse them in
| the background The Cupids clear the cave of
| Bacchantes Fauns Satyrs, Youths and Nymphs
| and themselves swallowed up in rosy mist
| till only Venus Tannhauser and the three Graces
| remain visible. The Graces inform Venus of their
triumph the rude passions of her yassals and
receive her grateful smile. The call of the Sirens
the shores of the lake is heard: the mists are
| dssipated and then is disclosed tablenu of the
| Rape of Europa. This picture vanishes. but only
to give place to another of the tabled meeting of
| Leda and the Swan. This, too. dies away. the
Graces bow gracefully before Venus and disappear.
| The coloquy between Venus and Tannhauser
begins.
| The Fourteenth May Music Festival will be held
Music Hall. Cincinnati, commencing Tuesday
| evening, May s. 1900 and closing Saturday night.
May r. There will be five evening concerts, one on
each evening the festival and afternoon con-
| certs Thursday and Saturday. The choral
works will be performed at the evening concerts.
The afternoon concerts will be devoted to orches-
trail work and to solo numbers by some of the ar
lists engaged for the festival Chief of them are
Nine Sembrch, Nine Schumann- -Heink. Ben Da-
vies and David Bispham The choral works to be
performed are Mendelssohn's est. Paul. Stan
fords ode East to West" Brahmss "A German
REQUIEM and Berlioz's ''Te Deum. The sym
phonies to played by the festival orchestra un-
der the direction of Mr.. Thomas Schuberts
Unfinished" Bethoven's Ninth. Tschaikowsky's
Manfred Liszts Faust" Cesar Franck's in ID
minor The last evening will be devoted TO Wag-
ner excerpts being performed from "Die Meister-
singer" Die Walkire'' and ''Parsifal
1t will soon be time to take something like
musical census in order to find out the extent of
the country's cultivation of the higher forms in
music-the performances of symphonies. oratorios,
ETC., by local organizations. Time was when orches-
trail concerts could be heard in few cities outside
of New-York and Boston, but now they are regu-
lar features of the musical season in Boston, New
York Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl Chicago st. Louis, San Francisco Detroit,
MINNEAPOLIS Kansas City and other places The
same is true of chamber music concerts. Attention
is drawn to the fact that Kansas City has SYM
phony orchestra by the circumstance that its last
concert this season, March %, pianoforte con-
certo by Emil Paur performed at it, The
work is in B nat minor, and was composed some
years ago for Nine. Carreho who is the teacher OF
Mrs. Ella Baokus -Behr. who played it in Kansas
City. It is published, but prior to this occasion
had had only public performance. and that by
Mr. Paur himself in Leipsic. 1t is said that Nine
Carreho will include it in her repertoire this sea-
son. "The Kansas City Journal spoke enthusi-
astically of the work Mr.. Paur. by the way, has
formances In London in the approaching season.
The second of the two Orchestral Concerts for
Young People under the direction of Frank Dam
rosch will take place in the Academy of Music,
| Brooklyn. next Saturday afternoon Following is
the programme:
March from symphony 'Ieonore" Ran
Aria from Linda Mme N 4haHo"9r Pe Ware sapio
Norwegian melodies .Gries
II Cannot Help Loving Thee Clayton Johns
Nine. De vere-sapio.
Overture. -Tannhauser'' wagner
| Herr Hofrath Ernst schuch will conduct
| three numbers at the concert at the Metropolitan
| Opera House tonight. and the programme will be
| as follows:
0Verture 'sakuntala .Godmark
Conductor. Herr schuch ,,,.,,-
A''A -'OH- Nine. schumann- Heink.
ana from Herr Van Rooy
sa's g. ns e@@5pstqr I Her 5.IS sehuah rnoma,
Air du Tamoour Major SLe Psnc6n Gaaa Ih0nas
Aria. III Est Doux, .Massenet
AAAoe"''''ns conductor Herr Won schuch
Miss susan Strong
Songs: .EeIdsinsanet Mnsa sehabfr efabfs
AN Herr Van Rooy.
Dre' N'seu"ef Mime schumann- Henk
Egyptian March strauss
Josef Weiss will give his sixth pIanoforte recital
for this season in Knabe Hall next Thursday even
| ing. The programme will be devoted exclusively
| to Brahms and Mr. Weiss will play the Variations,
| op 81 No l; the Fantasies, op n6; the
three Intermezzi, op. III; the six Prices op 11S:
| the four Prices. op. 49, and the Variations
Hungarian Song. op. 81. No q
Programme of the concert to be given at the
| Metropolitan Opera House next Tuesday evening.
under the direction of Ernst Schuch:
Overture ''I.eonore" Beethoven
Aria: Verdure Clad Haydn
Sembrich.
Andromache e. Achilleus' Max Bruch
| Mime. Schunann-Henk
vorspe! yh esIer
Aria from Der Freschdtz Weber
Overture, Wives of Windsor -Nicolai
Duet Merry Windsor .Nicolai
Nine. Sembrich and Nine. Schumann- Henk
Programme of concert to be given IN Mendels-
sohn Hall next Tuesday evening by Miss Julie
Geyer pianoforte; Mile. Elsa Ruegger. violoncello
| and Gustav Dannreuther. violin:
-Rubinsten
| PianOforte solos:
Rhapsody Brahms
Gretchen Spnnrade' .Schubert-Lszt
Geyer.
Viooncello solos;
lie Cygne' Saint Saens
'Spnnled roper
Pianoforte
Impromptu
This being Passion Sunday there will be a recfta-