The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
Music
AT HOME AND ABROAD

ID M TUNE AMI A6KOAD.
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From an educational standpoint taken
~ the serious and earnest music sta
dent, as well as the insight gained by
the devotees Of Wagner, the lecture and
concert given by the Wagner trio on
Tuesday evening and the herculean task
that Mr.. Damrosch carried through so
triumphantly on the lines Of operatic
discourse, has set him in the light of
being little short of a wonder in the minds
OF the people and audience whom he
held so attentively and intelligentIy
Tor q period of three hours. Mr. Dam
rosch's pfanistic abilities, were he posing
as solo pianist, would place him alone
IN his own individuality and speciality
one of the most interesting musicians of
the day. The company appeared last
evening at the Lyceum in excerpts from
The Flying Dutchman,' 'Lohengrin'
and FTannhauser," with the musical
illustrations by Mr.. Damrosch at the
piano and Nine. Gadsh and David Bis
pham in the solos from the operas The
programme and reception was one Of
the most suspicious ever given in Min
neapolis.
The fourteenth May music festival will
be held at Music hall, Cincinnati, com
mencing Tuesday evening, May 8, $780,
and closing Saturday night May L.
There will be five evening concerts,
one on each evening OF the festival and
two afternoon concerts, on Thursday
and Saturday.
The great choral works will be per-
formed at the evening concerts. The aft
ernoon concerts will be devoted to Or
cheStral work and to solo numbers by
some Of the artists engaged for the fes-
tiVal.
A most wonderful variety is presented
in the selections for the coming festival,
and the compositions selected embrace
those of Beethoven. MendeIssohn, Ber-
lioz, Brahms, Schubert, Liszt, Tschai-
kowski Stanford, Cesar Frank, Strauss
and Richard Wagner. as represented in
the great choral and orchestral works,
besides compositions Of less Importance
from a musical standpoint, but attractive
to the general public.
In the selection of the soloists for this
festival the board have been especially
fortunate.
Nine Marcella Sembrich justly ranks
as the greatest living exponent Of colo
rateur singing, while the country has
had no such contralto as Nine. Ernestine
Schumann-Heink in the past twenty-five
years Ben Davis is considered the lead
ing English-speaking tenor in the world,
and David Bispham one Of the most ar
tistic baritone singers ever heard In this
country. In either solo or concerted
work this -quartette will be found ca
pable of giving more pleasure and more
nearly approaching perfection than any
quartette heard here before. Mrs. Mamie
IIissem de Moss and Louis Ehrgott have
been selected for the important work in
the st. Paul, which requires additional
singers and the festival will open with
this grand composition, one Of the most
important and in many ways the most
attractive Of oratories.
A feature Of a testimonial concert
to Prof. ]. s. Black recently at
Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis, was the
first appearance of Mrs. Jessica Whit
ridge DeWolf, of st. Paul, in that city
since she came to ST. Paul to reside
Dohnanyi, the young Hungarian pianist,
will remain in the United States until the
end of April He will give series Of
recitals in New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia. The great. success Of the young
virtuoso at concerts of the Boston SYM
phony orchestra last week, has created
demand for his appearances in many
cities throughout the country Mr.. Do
hnanyi is under the management of Vert
& Wolfsohn. Next season Dohnanyi will
return here for three months tour I'M
Manager Henry Wolfsohn, of New York,
has closed negotiations with the general
intendency regarding Sousa and his
bands appearances in Berlin have been
completed and contracts signed. SouSa
and his band will play at the New Royal
opera house (Kroll's) from May 20 to q,
inclusive. Then the German tour is laid
out as follows: Hamburg, one week;
Bremen two days; Hanover, two days:
Magdeburg, one day; Leipsic, four days;
Dresden, four days; Neuremberg, one
day; Munich, four days; Wuerzburg,
Stuttzburg, Carlsruhe, each one day;
Frankfort, two days; Wiesbaden, one
day; Dusseldorf two days; Cologne, four
days. Then back to Paris for two weeks,
and later On the band will return to Ger
many for tour of the different watering
places.
The Minnesota Glee and Mandolin club,
of the state university VIII be heard in
a concert at the Peoples church, April s.
The club numbers some good talent
among its members, and is under the
auspices of weil-known patronesses.
The consolidation of operate enter prs
es lately accomplished by Henry Savage
and Mr.. Grau prevents the French Opera
company from gaining entrance to the
Metropolitan in New York. It is to be
regretted that such an artistic and ca
pable organization should be barred from
that city on account of inability to find
suitable location. In the French Opera
company there are artists who are not
surpassed anywhere in the world. For
artistic performance and voice the MEM
bers of this organization have never been
excelled. There are three tenors. any Of
whom can be styled great Two So
pranos, one bass, and baritone, great