New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08

Hungarian and Spanish music, compared Berlioz
and Brahms and ended with appeal for re-
turn in Italy to the good old national type OF
melody.
There is much practical and sound advice In
a letter recently received from Mime. Marchesi the
mother. by former pupil. who has placed 1t at the
disposal of The Tribune. that apology need be
made for placing it before our readers in part and
in translation. Nine. Marchesis correspondent had
written a letter OF congratulation the occa-
sion of the famous teachers jubilee, the fftieth
anniversary of her entrance upon professional
career. In reply Nine Marchesi writes:
To-day these many years seem to me like brief
dream: for with incessant work time flies past
only too rapidly am deeply grieved at the COM b+
to check the decay. but in vain am Infinitely
fond Of declamatory singing. for this everlasting
message to the heart; but in order to declaim
the voice in ali it's registers complete art of song
is necessary and this is growing scarcer day by
Programme of a concert to be given in Associa-
ton Hall, Brooklyn on Thursday evening by Franz
Kneisel, violin; Alvin Schroeder. violoncelo; Louis
Svecenski, VIOLA and Arthur Whiting. pianoforte:
Quartet In A. Op DC ohree movenents) .schumann
Suite Moderne. for pianoforte for three movement9
Quartet in A. op 90 Brahms
]. Burns Brown. for many years in charge of the
& Sons is Ill and in need of help. An appeal in his
behalf issued by committee says:
The physical condition of Mr.. Brown has reached
such a stage as to cause the most serious appre-
fired to his room. where he is being nursed by his
b snq - and mas &c b d
with the of securing until he shall have
that a return to active duties may be made. A
benefit concert was considered most advisable in
order that his friends should all have oppor-
tunity of contributing to the needs of this deserv
ing member of the trade.
The concert will take place next Thursday
ing in Chickerng Hall. and the following artists
will take part Richard Hoffman. pianoforte; Miss
Kathrin Hike. soprano: Tom Karl tenor; John
Cheshire, harp; John G. Frank bass trumpet;
Frank Taft organ; Emile Levy accompanst, and
the Dannreuther String Quartet. Following is the
programme:
(} en- TrovafOre') paraphrase (harp) Cheshire
hanson d amour soprano, - Mrs Beach
vSin ana cello 'fschaikoTsky
.-Ss Rsctn menor, enoI H sqrL
(string quartet Bumenhld
Ave Maria with harp violin and organ accom-
lam P& Meer pianofortel Schubert
"aa-k Hark the Lark (panOfOrte).
Inc Ell TanscfI5ed by Richard Honmanj
Pilgrims chorus '"Tannhauser'' Organ bass
pet and harp, Wagner
"Enoch Arden" Tennysons we'll known poem.
German composer. Richard Strauss. in the form of
a melodrama, recitation of the poem to music.
will be performed for the first time in public in
| New-York Monday afternoon April IT, by David
Bispham, at his recital in Mendelssohn Hail. 1t
written for Ernst Possart, to whom 1t
dedicated, and by whom, during the last year,
1T has been many times performed in various cities
of Germany. the composer presiding at the piano.
Joseph OMara, who was last heard here in An
| drew A. McCormicks Broadway Theatre Opera
| Company, in 1.-The Three Dragons" and in 'The
| Highwayman" has been engaged by Mr.. Maurice
| Grau to appear in grand opera in Covent Garden
| this season Mr.. O'Mara will be remembered as
| possessing a cultivated and sympathetic tenor
voice. This by the way, will not be the first time
he appeared in grand opera, as under Sir Augustus
| Harris's management he sang the title role in
| .Falstaf" in die Meistersinger' he was David to
| Jean de Reszke's Walter, and he has appeared In
| Faust" with Emma Games and in ''Cavalleria
| Rusticana' with Calve.
A musical and dramatic matinee will be given in
| the Waldorf Astoria's large ballroom Friday
afternoon, April 20. from to 5 o'clock, in aid of
| the New-York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hos
| pitaI. An Interesting programme has been ar
! ranged including Marie Brema Mckenzie Gordon
| Leo Schulz Walter Damrosch and orchestra and
! a performance of the play entitled Adelaide
| David Bispham assuming his we'll known imper-
sonation of Beethoven. assisted by Hida Spong and
|
| Mrs w. H. Thompson and Perry Averill
! Earl Gulick the boy soprano who will give a
recital in the Waldorf-Astoria April 49, has re-
ceived the following autograph letter from Presl-
| dent Mckinley:
Executive Mansion. Westminster. ooo
March 81, 1900.
My Dear Master Gulick have g ree STe SIur
| Mckinney and very much enjoyed hearing you
sing and yo 5ot eo TIs9 f9I Sincerely
succesS III yum OO' WILLIAM MKINLEY.
Master Earl Gulick, Carnegie Hail. New-4ork
| City.
Programme Of the concert of the Mannergesang-
| verein Arion this evening:
Overture I'm f'u'''' orchester
'Heinr'ch fFaueh Wannerchor a capelia-
schlussscene obi wagner
Zwei Lieder fir Baryton: 49,. 1,,.,,
Ss's''4's Herr julius scheuch.
| zwei orchesterstucke:
Zwischenspel aus der oper "Gerrit' Julius Lorenz
| Gum ersten Male aufgefdhrt>
Zwei Mannerch6re capella: - .,.-
.'Waldesweben'' (far Chor und Doppelquartet9
Introduction und Rondo caprlccsoso fur violine
Fraulen Anna E. und Dorchester.
Zwei Mannerch6re capela: p,,.- ponr.r
Observation-Disclosures ............. Louis V. saar
Tenor Solo: August Granitza.
| Fraulein
Mannerchor Baryton Solo Gierr julius scheuch}
Minor Notes-A symphonic poem. entitled AL
manson by Charles Kurth. OF this city, played
the last Of this seasons concerts by the Cincn-