The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-15

Miss Augusta Cottlow will give a
piano. recital in Mendelssohn Hall. Jan.
.. This will be Miss Cottlows first
New York recital since her return
| from Europe.
The engagement of Miss Aagot
Lunde, the Boston singing teacher to
DR.. Homer Wright has been an
nounced.
Song cycles are more popular this
season than ever before
Percy Belts, of the London Daily
News. describes PATHS only appear
ance in concert there at Albert Hall as
entirely satisfactory. Her voice is but
slightly worn-not much considering
that forty years ago she was singing
with Mario at COvent Garden-and she
delivered the Jewel Song" Wagner's
Traume '-Patti-Wagner, what next?
and Tosti's "Serenade'" with her usual
marvellous art In the face of this prod
ICY the achievements of Sarah Bern
hardt, Lilli Lehman, the late Sims
Reeves, and young Jan Kubelik sink
into insigniffcance. Marriage seems
to agree with Madame Patti-agree in
a way that recalls Henry James novel,
The Sacred Fount." And as the gem
tleman remarked inanother story after
his forcible ejectment from a building:
''Vott a method! VOt d systemn'-
Musical Courier
David Bispham announces that his
Sunday song recital at popular prices
will be resumed this season at Carne-
| gle Hall. The first of the series will
| take place on Jan. 5, and will be fol-
lowed by others on the first Sunday Of
each month. A special request pro-
gram will be given on Sunday after
noon. April o.
Physicians Of the great Charity Hos
n owl
music has power to sOlace and helps
| patients toward recovery. says the
| Musical Courier. They have arranged
| concerts for the whole Of the coming
winter. Solo players on the harp, the
violin and the piano will alternate with
| quartets and orchestral music Every
| patient well enough to attend will be
| asked to do so. Many Of the musicians
| are selected from among the patients
| Others are professionals, who viii give
! their services gratis.
Victor Herbert has rushed into print
! at Pittsburg with the discovery that
/ classics don't always pay. 1T is sad,
/ but true" he remarks, that the aver
/ age man prefers a problem play to
| King Lear" and the thoughtless en-
| tertainment seeker would rather hear
the "seXtette" from "Florodora" than
a Beethoven symphony" Good hea-
| average humanity? We had fiat
tered ourselves that a Chopin cult, a
| taste for TschaikOWsky, might be con-
| sidered a mark of distinction even vet
| in the press of matters more mundane,
says the New York Sun. But MI. Her
| bert really has something TO tell of
how he manages to take that big new
orchestra Of his up and down the land
lOf magnificent distances. Here are some
of his explanations-and it will be seen
| that he makes way for the ladies in
music about as gracefully as did Jus
tice Jerome in Tiitics, pointing out
that men will raise art enough if
women will club together and raise the
money. Mr.. Herbert speaks:
| "One of the surest signs of growth
and interest, to my mind, is the fact
| that the orchestra season originally
| was only ten weeks in length, and was
confined solely to Pittsburg. Now the
| season consists of twenty weeks, both
I at home and abroad, so that we are
J playing almost constantly, and in ad-
! dition this year we are in a position
/ to extend the season for twenty weeks
more. playing throughout the country.
/ l myself shall take care Of the season
/ following our regular one. That will
make in all forty weeks Of constant
/ playing, and that is more than any
/ other orchestra in this country is able
| to do today. It is needless TO speak of
/ the benefit that will be derived by the
| players from this association for such
/ a period. as the results cannot be other
! than greater strength and unity among
/ the players.
This ability TO continue our travels
| for such a length of time is due in a
| large measure to women. Their noble
| instincts have always made them
\ warm friends and supporters of art
and their efforts have done much to-
ward molding public opinion in the ap-
probation Of art. Everywhere we go