The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-25
News and Gossip
Music and Musicians

in band material. IT is only just TO admit
that the personnel compares favorably
with similar organizations In larger cities
and the concerts have been equally credtta-
bic. The Central Labor Union, which has
stood sponsor and shouldered the deficit In
CURED so far, has Arranged a last popular
programme to be given at Tomlinson Hail
next Sunday afternoon. at 3 O'Clock. The
soloists engaged are Miss Ida Sweenie, So
prano, Miss Sophia c.. Bradford. soprano,
and Mr.. Thomas Clay Gould, baritone, who
win sing Summer tChaminadel; Come
Denza). respectively. The numbers TO be
given by the Military Band are:
"FestlYal overture
(a) Rainbow Dance .............. Rosey
OBJ 'Cakewalk in the sky".-.--:o'Mara
"Fackletanz" Meyerbeer
From Fireside to Battlefield" eby re-
ou Guest 1000; p DaiDy
Mile. Elsa Ruegger. who made so favor
able an impression at the Symphony con-
cert Monday evening, spent a great deal
of her leisure time with the daughters of
Mr.. AdoIph Schellschmidt, of East Ohio
street. Miss Ruegger and Miss Pauline
and Bertha were students at the Brussels
Conservatory, and Miss Pauline spoke en-
tertainingly Of her artist guest. 1--WE were
curious to see her and see If she had
changed, but she is just as modest and un-
assuming now as when she was in Brus-
sells. She and her mother are charming,
and made many friends here, not saying
anything about her numerous admirers.
They are typical Elsa does just
as her mother bids her, and asks her what
she shall play. In fact, her mother is not
only ~chaperon but also manager. Her
mother told us Elsa was to play for En-
peror William, but owing to his illness at
the time the concerts was postponed. In
the meantime her a-ccompanist left for
Paris, where he had an engagement. One
evening while they were dining the En-
press called to see her and said the EN-
peror was better and wanted to hear her
play. She must not leave Berlin without
playing for me- were his words. While
Elsa was prearing her toilet her mother
sought an accompanist, but had some diff
fculty In finding one. When she secured
one, however, the Empress calculated, .Gott
sic dank.' The imperial carriage called
was kindly received. Her performance
made such a favorable impression that the
Emperor presented her with a brooch of
diamonds and rubies, which she wore at
before other European courts and with
artists like Petschnikoff. Hamburg and
Lachaume you already know. One of the
most interesting things her mother told us
was her apparent predestined prediction
for cello. When but a child of four years
she was given a toy violin and soon mas
tered the rudiments of the diatonic scale,
but instead Of holding the violin as custom
airy she insisted upon sitting down, rest
ing her little instrument on the floor like
a cello and played on 1t in this position.
play otherwise and a real cello replaced
the violin a few years later"
The first rehearsal Of the Oratorio So
ciety Monday evening was we'll attended,
and much interest was shown In the Men
delssohn part songs taken up for rehearsal.
The volume and quality of tone was very
creditable for a first rehearsal, and gives
evidence of careful choice in membership.
Those desiring to join this organization
should present their names to the director,
Mr.. b. Frank Croxton, 442 North Pennsyl-
vania street, tomorrow, or at the rehearsal
tomorrow evening at the Third Christian
Church, Thirteenth and Ash streets. Mr..
Croxton, the conductor of the society, is a
young man who has made music his life
work. After finishing college in Kentucky
he went to New York when but seventeen
years of age, and for five years was a
pupil of the best teachers i'm the metropo-
lis. He has sung with success under the
direction Of Anton Seidl and Walter Dam
rosch, and has made o%ratorio work, a
special study. The first work to be taken
up for rehearsal will be Hadyn's master
piece, 1.-THE Creation" To every musician
this composition is sacred and is Away
STUDIED T6VerenI1y. II Is a WOTk Oh SUCH
stupendous import, masterful construction
and intense purity that it is not astonish-
ing to read that it was not commenced un-
til Hadyn was in his sixty-ffth year. and
required two years for its completion. The
religious fervor of this o~ratorio is made
clear in Haydn's own words: Never was I
so pious as when composing The Creation
I knelt down every day and prayed God to
strengthen me for my work" Upon its
completion and after directing its first pub
lie rehearsal he said: 'One moment I was
as cold as ice, and the next l seemed on
fire, and more than once / feared l should
have a. stroke" This was due, of course,
to his solicitude, but the with
which II was received at that time is still
ringing down the years of time, and
Papa Hadyn's inspired work is the goal
of all sacred musical thought. 1.-THE Heav-
ems are Telling one of the greatest and
best known choruses in the oratorio, will
be taken up for rehearsal tomorrow even
ing. Co~incidentally, this week contains the
16Sth anniversary Of the composers birth,
he being born at Rohrau, a village I'm lower
Austria, March 81, 1872.