The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22

The most attractive program pre-
scented this season by the Woman s
Club, Worcester Mass, was the one re-
Gently given under the auspices of the
art and music department, Mrs. Carrie
King Hunt, chairman. 1t was mem
bers' afternoon, and the hall was
crowded to the doors. The subject was
Music of Many Lands" and the Varl-
Gus countries were represented by the
following in appropriate costumes;
Miss Bertha. M. Titus, Arabian; Mrs.
Louie Erville Ware, Venetian; MISS
George Coombs, German; Mrs. Mabelle
lynn Childs, Spanish; Miss Edith Vi
ola Ellsbree, French; Miss Abbie Be
mis-, Indian; Mrs. George NJ. Bassett,
Russian Mrs. H. e. Mitchell, Chinese;
Miss Luella Flagg, Scotch; Mrs sam
uel e. WInslow, Neapolitan. Mrs. j..
J.. Brand and Miss Adeline M. Biscoe
were at the piano.-Musical Courier.
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Miss Efie Stewart, soprano. has been
engaged by the Handel and Haydn So
ciety, of Boston. for the performance
of ''The Messiah" Dec. 25 Her Janu-
arv engagements include the concert
by the Troy n. Y. Choral cup.
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The news of the sudden death OF
Norman Mcleod at his residence IN
Boston on Sunday afternoon, Dec. TO-
was received with deep sorrow by ms
Worcester pupils. In the morning Mr..
Mcleod played at the First Baptist
Church, where he has been organlst
and director of music for 70 years. A
large congregation assembled at the
church in the evening for the speClai
musical service, RossinPs "Stabat Ma
To of Mr. Mcleod +
death -
Mr.. Mcleod was member OF the
leading musical societies, a thorough
musician and a successful teacher:
Mr. Mcleod is survived by his widow
and two sons, one Of whom IS STU
dent at Harvard.
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An unpublished work by Mozart
heard for the first time surely merits
attention. This is what is said to have
happened at the first concert OF the
season given at the Paris Conservatory
last sunday. In going through guam
tity of manuscript music, G. Marby,
the conductor of the Conservatory con-
certs, discovered a number of orches-
trail parts of the eighteenth century
covered with dust, which seemed 10
have accumulated since the founding
of the institution. Some of these parts
bore the following inscription IN
French:
Overture for grand orchestra, by
Mozart, Paris. Printed and published
bytheConservatory Press, 1872 Faubourg
Poissoniere." No score was found, but
from the orchestral parts. and which
apparently had never been used, Mr..
Marby was enabled to reconstruct one.
1t is perfectly true that this overture
is quite unknown. 1t forms no intro
duction to any Of MoZart's operas, and
does not appear on the published list
of any of his works, symphonies. sere-
nades or advertisements. The style or
the work is distinctly Mozart's. 1t be-
gins by short solo for the oboe an
dante followed by an Allegro Spirit
uoso. the principal movement Of the
overture.
Tierrot the French critic, in speaking
of the authenticity Of this work, says:
"It is to be noticed that this compo-
sition was published at the COnserva-
tory Press, which. at that period, un-
der the control Of the institution,
brought out many didatic and artistic
works Of the most serious character.
But how came this overture to have
rested so long in the library Of the Par
is Conservatory and to be quite un-
known to the German publishers? 1t
must be remembered that Mozart was
in Paris in 1878. The future composer
Of Don Giovanni came to the capital
Of France to seek his fortune at the
very worst moment for him, as it was
the very year when the dispute be
tween the Checklists and the Piccinists
was at its height, and attracted the at
tention Of musical amateurs TO the eX-
clusion of the claims Of any other com
poser. Mozart had asked for an opera
iibretto. but as this was not furnished
Immediately, he occupied himself with
composition for concerts. On October
3, 177s. in writing to his father, he says:
lie eros. director of the Concerts Spi-
rituels. has bought from me the two
overtures Csymphonies), and the Con-
certante symphony Now 1t is one of
these two overtures (the other one
having been rewritten and published in
Germany that has just been brought
to light" The style is Mozart's, but
tempered a little by the French school,
and the fact that it was written for a
French public the orchestratiOn is that
of Mozarts other works written for
grand orchestra, and so a work pre-
slmably composed by this illustrious
composer has been heard perhaps for
the first time in Paris after lapse Of
1923 years. Better late than never!-
Musical Courier.
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Alexandra Guilmant has handed in
his resignation as organist of La
Trinite, Paris, position he has held for
20 years. The resignation is due to the
strained relations between the organ
list and the cure Of the parish. NJ. ch
Ouef who has been choir organist for
two years will succeed NJ. Guilmant
and NJ. Andre Coedes-Mongin, for