Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-21
MUSICAL MENTION.

Mr. Jaspar Dean McFalls has gone to
Buffalo. N. Y, where he will have a sum-
mer school He will also sing in several
cities in the west before he returns to
Washington in the fall.
Nine. Sembrich will tour this country
next season at the head of her own COM
pany, under the management of Mr.. c. L..
Grail The tour will extend from New York
to San Francisco. including all the princi-
pal cities of the United States and Canada,
and in some cities operate concerts and In
other cities full opera performances will be
given The repertoire will be confined prin-
clpally to the operas in which Nine. Sem
brich has been so popular during her past
two seasons in New York, and she will be
heard in THE Barber of Seville" Don
Pasquale, "Rigoletto' and ''Traviata' -
while In some of the operate concerts acts
from Faust" Lucia ETC., will be given.
The tour will begin in December and con-
tinue through April, 1901 Nine Sembrich.
previous to coming to America, will sing in
vienna In concerts, and will give a season
OF opera In Berlin with her own company.
After soiourn Of nearly a month at
Milan. Giuseppe Verdi has gone to his villa
OF st. Agatha Although this illustrious
man VIII soon reach his eighty-seventh
year year, ne Is still occupied. with youthful ac-
tiVity ana marvellous energy, in the interest
OF the Home of Rest for Musicians which
he founded and to which he devotes most
OF his time and money.
AhaSSenet has COMPOSED for the Paris av
position an oratorio called The Promised
Land" He had already written two sacred
lene.'
1t makes the pianoforte seem but a musb-
room OF the hour to reflect that the Tyre
oates from the year 100 B. c., when It was
played upon by Assyrians. Hebrews. Abyss
sitlans, Eeyptians Greeks and Etruscans
A..
Next season Teresa Carreno's tour in
America T viii be under the management of
New York city in November. at a Philhar-
monte concert, and will paw the p fat
minor concerto of Tschalkowsky
Anario ora Jackson, the talented young
european engagements, and will come to
Ihls country under the management of
kouaon g. Charlton to make a long pro-
1eSslonal tour of the United States
II is the custom among a number NJ
ehurches In the city to draw on the home
taieht LOT music during the summer yaca-
o o,on OF their respective choirs. and in this
FALLEN into line. The excellent onartst
whicn sings at this church, and its oreanist
Mt. CAMS OF Baltimore, are ENJOYING a
se Season ,h OF vacation and during their alb
Mckenzie Byrne. Miss Byrne's solo worL
tor the past month has been satisfactory,
her rendition Of Calvary" by Rodney. at
communion service last Sunday being full
OF appropriate expression. Tomorrow
morning she will sing Gounod's THE King
OF Love- During this month the choir
has been assisted by Miss Pearl Evans.
who sang With Contrite Heart" by Nil,
iaro effectively: Miss Catherine Byrne will
assist as will also Mr. Edwin Thomas. who
VIII sing Morsells Rock of Ages" Miss
NJ. Virginia English. SO frequently heard at
Ascension, is officiating at the organ. and
S Ssr work has been highly complimented.
the month Of August in the place of the
regular organist of that church, who will