The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-20
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men was well applauded- but the AHlsfi-
can airs awakened ltveiier enthusiasm
The college of Music of Cincinnati has
just received another gift OF $4,000
Mr.. Henry f. Krehbiei. the distinguish
ed musical critic and musical editor OF
the New York Tribune. has been ap-
pointed by Commissioner General Peck
d member Of the Interna tional Jury OF
Awards on Music
Chicago is to have Il musical college on
the lines of the Art Institute. where
music is TO De taught for music's sake. II
the plans now under consideration do not
miscarry Bernard Ulrich is at the head
OF the enterprise.
Cincinnati's Musical Festival was a
great success. Nine. Seubrich and David
Bistamp being the chief solists.
Ossip Garbrtlowitsch. the most brill
liant and best known OF tho younger
group OF contemporary piano virtuosi. is
announced to visit America next season,
some time in November Garbrilowitsch.
a protegs OF Eubirstein. who first took
him under his wing when the lad sur
prised ST. Petersburg at the early age of
his extraordinary natural gifts and when
ne went to Leschetizky in Vienna It was
70 emerge two years later and aStonish
the musical world by his viriEe, dashins
style. his intellectual grasp and the SEN
suous beauty and euphonlous quality o.
his touch and tone.
A cablegram received by Manager Ru-
dolph Aronson from E5uard Strauss an
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the steamer Saale, sailing from Bremen
October 9th next. for the famous
conductor and his orchestra of fifty nu-
sictans, so that the inaugural concert will
be given on October 20th at the Wal
dorf-Astoria Grand HalD, instead of Oc-
tober 18th, as previously announced,
TransIators and adapters are now at
work on the operas and operettas by
Godmark. Giordano. Won Suppe, ZeHer,
Ziehrie. Lecocq. Came and Johann
Strauss. recently procured by Rudolph
Aronson (while in Europe for the United
States and Canada
The conductor question is looming I'D
bigger aand bigger every year says the
New York Evening Post. and unless it is
settled soon. our orchestral concerts will
be in a bad way. What we need I'M
peraJively is a Nikjsch. q Mottl, or
Weingartner Bus such men earn from
$4,000 to $15,tc0 a year even in Germany,
where they have fixed positions be-
sides. The only way to secure them for
America would be to set UP a guarantee
fund of $1,000. 20 which the imported
conductor might add what ne can get
at our concerts and at the Metropolis
tan. Cannot the generous men who were
about to form a permanent orc1est IRA FOR
Anton Seidl now get together again and
give US what we need much more-2 per-
maneEt conductor?
Neyerbeer's ..AfricalueH was late.y pro-
duced at Elberfeld, Germany, the prima
DONNA being a islrk-hued msriden by the
name of Marsherita PCkahontas, who
claimed to be the daughter of en- lnGian
chief. says thu Musical Age. She has
sung in concert saloons in New York.
And this gifted Indian maiden. we are
told by the E.5erfeId press, possesses
ma gniffcent soprano voice and can sing
in English. German and Italian
Hans Richter. the CELEBRATED conduc-
tor, has resigned his office as Hofkap=.l-
meister'' al Vienna. after IN incunoency
OF twenty-five years.
was said IN some quarters to b due TO
advancing age, stiffness Of tae conduct
ing arm ana natural desire to take
things easily The E:enneSe wi. there
fore be amused 10 read mat DR.. Richter
is now on Il tour with the Berlin Fhti-
harmonic Orchestra. giving U-eiitE-tiVa
concerts in tn same number % differ
ent towns. within twenty-SiN GAYS, arc
on this little trip visiting seven different
countrfes-uameIy. Poland. Bohemia,
Austria, Itaiy, France, Switzerland ard
Germany.
London has just had q musical festival
OF six orchestral and vocal concerts Tae
combined Wood and LamoureuN bands,
two hundred strong. played. and Albaui
and Clara Butt were among the vocal So
Iotsts. Ysaye played the violin
Herr Eduacd Lessen. LISTS successor
as Capeimeister at Weimar, and the
composer of many delightful Ltader. has
just celebrated the seventiath anniversa-
ry OF MS birth Another SEVENTEEN
birth anniversary was celebrate! in Vi
emma on May 18th. viz. that OF Carl Cold
mark, the distinguished opera composer
The dates of the forthcoming t=ienntaI
Hande! Festival at the Crystal Palace
are as follows: Grand full rehearss. Sat
.urtiay. June 18th; Messiah" Tuesday,
June 1871; selection. Thursday, JUNG 21st,
Israel in Egypt, SatufV3y, June "a,
The solists engaged are Nine Aihnni,
Miss AIacintyre, Miss Lillian B.auvett
and Nine Ella Russell; Nine. Marie
IBrerna, Miss Ada crosstey and Miss
Clara Butt; Mr. Edward Lloyd and MIR.
Ben Davies; Mr.. Sanr.ey and Mr.. An
drew Black Conductor, Mr.. August
;Manns. on ssizctioa day the second
and third parts OF Judas Maccabaeus"
will constitute the fist part Of the con-
cert in celebration OF the British success
es in South Africa. This grand sacred
drama. with us five choruses. notably
Fallen IS the Foe" was composed 10
celebrate the Duke OF Cunber.and's VIC
tory " Culloden.
From June to September there viii be
an international music exhibition at the
CRYSTAL Palace, London. TO illustrate the
progress OF musical ART during the nine
teenth century. 1t will include the musi-
cal instruments and appliances con-
structeG or in use during the last hun
dred years, musical engraving and type
printing, a lean collection OF instruments
and pictures, and a NUMBER OF modern oil
ana water-color paintings on musical
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