The sun., 1901-08-11
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

Tho Kaltenborn Quartet will take part
In the concert at the st. Nicholas Garden
tonight when the full programme will
be as follows: Overture, Robespierre.
LitolfY; Symphonic Poem. 'Tasso.' Lisxt;
American Quartet Dvorak: Waltz,
Beautiful May Strauss; Quintet for
wind instrumental. Onslow; dream music
/ from -Haensel und Gretl' -Serenade,
Saint-Saens: Ride Of the valkyries" from
Die Walkuere' The soloists will be
Joseph Eller. Charles Kurth. Edward
! Wissler, wilhelm Schultz and Paul Pie
schell and little Saul Wolskv. child violin
list. At tho regular Wagner concert on
Thursday evening. the numbers by that
composer win be the Centennial March,
| overture from "Rienz.' transformation
and closing scene from 'Pasiial,' and
selections from 'LohenRrin.' Tho SOLO
lists will be Helene Maigille and Alfred
Bode. On Tuesday tho symphony will
be Schube-t's Unfinished and on the
same evening Leopold winkler will play the
Beethoven concerto In q major. The
programme on Monday night is given
up TO- t9 request , nu,mberS on on Wednesday
Friday the selections are chiefly operstic.
| while on Saturday nights 1t Is more popular
| In character than on the other eveningS.
Helen B. Lawrence, Carl Deis. Mnna Van
Buren,. Louis Heine and Franz Kalten-
| born will be the soloists during the week.
Elizabeth Hazard will sing on next Sum-
day night.
william Worth Bailey, the blind American
violinist. who is to be heard here next winter.
has never played In public before here,
although he has won high praise abroad
He is now 81 and he was born In Fort Smith,
Ark. He showed a talent for the violin
| at an early age and when he had learned
all that the teachers In his part Of the coun-
| try could teach him his parents sent him
to Europe. He studied with Cesar Thomp-
son at Liege and was soon recognized as
player Of talent by Ysaye, Musin and
other Belgian violinists who heard him play
He has for two seasons been appearing
In concert In Europe. Fritz Kreisler and
| Charles Gregorowitsch are 10 be the other
violin virtuoei here Tvador Naches, the
Hungarian player. may also be heard Tho
list Of pianists Is moro numerous and In
ch,des Josef Hoffman. Harold Bauer. Ossip
Gabnlowtsch Eduard Zeldenrist, Rafael
JoseTy and Fannie Zeisler. Punkett
Greene is to return here In the spring for
two months and viii be preceded by two
English singers who have never been heard
before. They are Whitney Tew, basso,
who comes In November, and Gregory
Hast, a tenor, who will be heard first In
the same month. Plunket Greene has not
sung here for several years Clara Butt
another year. Next season she will be
heard only In England Jean Geradv
the 'cellist, will return here after a sue
cessful season In Australia. Emma Ne
vada Ia, after Nine Lehman, TO he the
most notable Of women concert singers
She is to reach Boston and begin a tour
Of the principal cities In November accom-
panied by Signor Pablo. an Italian 'cellist
Nine. lehman will arrive here early in
November and begin her season Of recitals
at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 8. She will sing
in recital In all the principal cities before
| returning to Germany In April She will
| also be heard In Wagner recitas with Rein
hold Hermann. Mime. lehman may go
to San Francisco In the spring
| When Susan Strong went abroad last
| spring she was anxious TO have Mr. Grau
release her from the last year OF her CON
tract. as she is wise enough TO realize that
she needs routine and that she cannot
get IL at the Metropolitan. She wanted
| 20 become a member Of company at one
of the German opera houses where she
might sing many roles and have frequent
! opportunities to appear in the kind Of
parts she was rarely able to sing here. Sho
] received offers from Vienna and Hamburg
and as she got the desired release from
( her contract with the Aaurice Grau Opera
/ Company, she has accepted the Hamburg
/ proposition and II to sing at the Stadt
! Theatre there. Miss Strong showed g.ch
! steady Improvement at the Metropolitan
| that her future seems much more promis-
! ing than il did when she first sang In opera
J az the Academy and Metropolitan. Louise
| Reuss Belize Ia the German soprano engaged
! to take her place with the company. She
has sung In the last two festivals at Bay
reuth and also appeared in tho German
several seasons belonged regularly to any
theatre. She went last wintcr to Hadrid
and barcelona 10 take part In the Warner
performances there Anton Van Rooy's
! rcdngagamcnt assures one brilliant feat
urc 10 the performances Of tho Nihelungrn
Ring. He will also bc heard ~ Wonder
, ctkp and Hdps SCchs. SiCnor Tavccha
who has been engaged for THO Italian buirD
! roles, has ncvcr hoen heard hero before,
although he Is famous bufo in tho coun-
tries whcrc Italian opora is more frequently
given than II IL horc. He has recently
been singing in Berlin with Nine Sem
/ brich's company and his SUCCESS there
lodi TO his cnSo cement by MIR, Grau. Sibyl
Sandersons return will in all probability
lead 10 revival Of -hanon" lIr. GraiI
l. very anxious 10 give Padcrrwskis $ opera.
II tho terms can be- arranged although
last week ho contracts had been signed
The chorus work X very difficult and there
would be- little time for rehearsals, since
the New York season this year Is not to
bs longer than eleven weeks. and a. the