New-York tribune., 1900-10-28
MUSICAL NOTES.
THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-FANCHo
THoMPsON-MUSIC BY THE KNEISEL
QUARTET-NEws NOTES, PRO
GRAMMEs AND ANNOUNCE

MENTs
& M s9o Opera aGuse P peatTe %
p. m, concert by the Kaltenborn Orchestra; Scot
Sy Ed@aT f ana Ca Carl "a
opera aogse p m Tn 1a6ada BY
the Kreutzer Club; South Church afternoon
Monday-Metropoltan Opera House, p m, opera
IN English ''Iohengrin."
M ,5s Hall 2s uSrtsi @ eqnosTt s5 %
m. concert by Nine Mcucci; Mettopo.;.tan .sl.o
Opera House, p. opera in English car
Wednesday! Metropolitan opera House Fau,P; 3 n:
opera IN English; Lohengrin >; 3 p. III; Iooo1ceri
a ase H BTo4byR T fhd Rns5s ss @ concert
IN EEntsh 0ReTa %aT6ls
Church. p. m, free organ recital by Richard
Friday MeetEopolitan opera House. p M opera
Saturday-Netropolitan Opera House. opera In Eng
lsh 2 m, Faust; p. m Carmen
Miss Fanchon Thompson who will make her de-
but with the Metropolitan English Grand Opera
Company as Carmen at the Metropolitan Grand
Opera House Tuesday. is a Chicago girl VINO mas
spent the last two years in Paris. Miss thompson
made her debut IN London at Covent Garoeh as
Stephano in Romeo and Juliet in May. 1898. In
that season she also sang Siebel in Faust" Ter
lima in Fra Davoo" and Lola in "CaVallerla
Rustfcana," The following December she MADE
her debut at the Opera Comique in Paris as Car
men At the Opera Comique she appeared as Car
men, Mgnon. Prince Charmant in Massenets Cen
druon" and Hansel in 'Hansel and GreteL" Her
debut with local organization will be her first
professional appearance IN America.
The week at the Metropolitan Opera House VIII
be devoted 10 repetitons with changes in the casts
.'Iohengrin" will be sung on Monday and Friday
evenings and at the Wednesday matinee Bizets
Carmen" Tuesday. Thursday and saturday
nights and Gounod's Faust Wednesday even
ing and at the Saturday matinee. On Monday
night Miss Tracey will sing Elsa and Mr.. White
hin the King in "Lohengrin'; on Tuesday night
Miss Fanchon Thompson will make her American
debut as Carmen and Mr.. Pringle will sing Esca-
milo for the first time in this city Miss Esty as
Marguerite. Mr. D'Aubigne as Faust and Mr.. Paul
as Valentine will the newcomers in the cast OF
Faust" on Wednesday night. The casts for the
week are as follows:
"LoHENGRIN"
Lohengrin. Nj Wegener
Tha Whitehi NJ boyle
Elsa Miss Tracey Miss stTakoseh
CARMEN"
Carmen Mis-. WlSS Wan suddlfopd
trasq95lIa Miss Bouton
Dancairo. M hnignt
Remendado. Banney
FAUST"
Faust. ................M Mr. D,Aubigne
Mephistopheles Mr. WhtehiI
Siebe- MISS COIoL
Marguerite. Miss Esty
Martha MISS NlVeh
The Mikado." by Gilbert and Sullivan Will be
given by the Metropolitan English Grand Opera
company for the week commencing Monday, No
vernber ; It will be presented with an all star
cast with special matinee on Election Day Tues
Gay, November G.
The Kneisel Quartet Will give this year as II
did last three matinee concerts and five evening
concerts at Mendelssohn Hall Its season will
begin on Tuesday afternoon at 215 o'clock with
the first of the three matinees. The programme
will be follows:
Beethoven. quartet in major. Op. IS, No. 5.
Dvorak quartet No. 2 in f fat major, Op. 81.
The sonata by Strauss will be played by Mr. Alvin
Schroeder, assisted by Mr.. Ludovic Breitner. The
latter is a pianist Web known in Paris. who took
up his residence in New-York last year. making
his first public appearance here with the Boston
Symphony Company at that time
The Beethoven quartet. the fifth of that set of
six which the first the master produced,
published in 1901, dedicated to his aristocratc
patron and friend, Prince Lobkowitz. Beethoven
was then in his thirty-frst year. For five years
he had been at work Of these Quartets.
To prepare himself properly for entering on
branch of composition hitherto unfamiliar him.
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