Evening star., 1900-09-29
MUSICAL MENTION.

The rehearsals of the Damrosch Society
will commence on the first Wednesday in
October and continue weekly through the
musical season 1t is very probable that
the membership limit of thirty voices will
be increased to fifty or sixty voices. for the
accommodation of a number of well-known
singers who are desirous of joining. The
music committee. consisting of Mr.. John
H. Nolan, Mr.. VIM. M. Mooney and Mr..
Edmund Varela, is preparing an elaborate
seasons program, which Will include, be-
sides the three grand concerts, a number
of musicales of the highest order, for the
active and associate members.
In the library of the society may be
found works of the great composers,
Brahms Wagner Goldmark, Grieg, Baf,
Mcdowell. Mendelssohn, and this splendid
class of music rendered by the society
accounts in part for its great success. lie
Is very likely that one or two orator1os Or
cantatas for male voices will be given this
season, as the conductor Mr.. Varela, has
examined a few works of these larger
forms which will prove highly interesting
and effective. The soloists for the three
concerts will be announced In q few weeks.
1t is quite safe to say, however, that none
but the very best will be engaged, and
every effort will be made to equal the
Brema Pachmann- Campanan combina-
ton of last season.
The society has secured the entire second
floor Of building No. 627 E street for the
exclusive use of its members. These large
rooms, handsomely furnished. will be the
scene of many musical and social affairs.
The following comprise the board of gov
ernors for the ensuing season: President,
George 8. Cooper; vice president, w. NJ.
Mooney: recording secretary. j. Scharf;
financial secretary, w. A. Domer; treas
urer. George p. Tucker; Librarians, DR.. c.
]. Wallace and Jos. G.. Traylor.
Miss Virgine Bestor Is arranging for fire.
quent recitals and musicales during the
coming season. She has taken a much
more commodious studio at SIS 18th street
northwest, a few doors below her former
quarters.
Profs. H E. SALESMAN and William de
Ford have returned from their vacation.
For several seasons past these gentlemen
have been foremost in producing amateur
operas and plays in this city with their
pupils and quite number OF these enter
tainments are being arranged for the COM
Ing season.
The foremost of the younger pianists of
the present day, Ossip Gabrlowitsch, the
Russian player, comes in a short time be-
fore the music-loving public of this coun-
try, and his American tour will include
all the prominent cities from Maine to Cali
fornia. That his name and fame are known
to many is evidenced by the fact that the
demand for his services from nearly all the
leading clubs and societies has been so
great that the management was compelled
to arrange with him for twenty appear
ances in addition to the number originally
arranged for, so that in all nearly sixty
| concerts have been booked for him up to
the present time. His debut in America
will be made at Carnegie Hall, New York
Monday, November r. assisted by Mr.. Emil
Paur and his orchestra of seventy mu-
sicians, and November 16 he will be the
soloist at the inaugural concert Of the new
Philadelphia Permanent Orchestra (Fritz
Scheel. conductor) at the Academy Of Music
in that city. Gabriowitsch WI. be also
heard at the first evening concert of the
Kneisel Quartet in Mendelssohn Hail. New
York, Monday, November 10, and with the
same organization in Boston the following
evening, November 90 Orchestral concerts
at which he will be the soloist will be given
In Boston, Hartford, Springfield Worcester
and Portland early in December, and re-
c!tals have been arranged for in Phladel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington. Brooklyn,
Boston and New York during December
Innes and his band have finished their
work at Atlantic City and have started on
| their tour. They will be heard In this city
next month at the Columbia Theater, and
! from the program announced an enjoyable
concert may be anticipated. Innes is really
| the discoverer of trombone music Nobody
used the trombone as a solo instrument un-
til he led the way. As a trombone soloist
he has never even had worthy imtator
Now he Is credited with having put the con-
cert band at an artistic level with the SYM
phony orchestra, thus establishing what is
practically new era in band music. Scenes
from grand opera, with grand opera stars
| to interpret them, will hereafter be pro-
gram feature Of his performances.