The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-03

Joyed unusual success at the Worces-
ter Festival. Miss Liebling is to make
her New York debut, at an orchestral
concert in the Metropolitan Opera
House late in November.
Whitney Tew is another stranger,
that Mr.. Wolfsohn is to introduce into
this country. His principal bookings
are with the leading choral societies
and in song recitals. Mr.. Tew is to sing
the title part in the Messiah" with
the Handel & Haydn Society in Bos-
ton, the Brooklyn Oratorio Society, the
st. Louis Choral Symphony, the Wash
ington Choral Society, the Philadel-'
phia Choral Union and the Schubert
Club in ST. Paul He is also to give
a number of recitals, the first of which
will be in New York on Nov. IL;
Boston, Nov. H. and then in Buffalo,
Pittsburg, with the Art Society and
the Brooklyn Institute and other socie-
ties. Mr. Tew will remain in this coun-
try until the end of January.
Emil Fisher the well known bass,
is to enter the concert field again and
will also give much of his time to pre-
pairing gifted singers for German opera
and leder singing. Fisher is to make
his temperance in song recital in
conjunction with Nine. Schumann-
Heink in Brooklyn on Oct. IT, Carl
Armbruster is to arrive here about the
middle of October and will open his
tour IN Boston with a series Of lectures
at the Lowell Institute. He will lecture
in New York during January.
Other prominent artists who will be
heard in the West are Mrs. Shanna
Cumming who last week, at the Wor-
cester Festival, sang with success in
both 1.-THE Beatitudes" and the Verdi
REQUIEM" Hissem De Moss who is
beginning her second New York season
with bright prospects, as she Is already
engaged for many of the principal con-
certs, including appearances with the
Pittsburg Orchestra. Nine. Clara
Poole King who has just made re-
appearance at the Worcester Festival;
Nine. Gertrude May Stein Bailey, who
also sang at the recent Festival the
part OF Judith in Chadwick's oratorio.
Nine Bailey's season Is booked for
recitals, 0ratorio performances as well
as orchestral concerts. She is to be
heard with the Thomas Orchestra in
Chicago. Evan Williams and Ellison
Van Hoose are today the most popular
tenors in America and both made dis
tinct successes last week at the Festi-
val.
Mr.. Wolfsohn's principal engagement
will be his singing of the part Of
Elijah" in New York city. Another
of Mr.. Wolfsohn's artists whose star
is in the ascendant Is Miss Augusta
Cottlow, the American pianist. The
latter appeared last season at the
Worcester Festival. This year she is
to play with the Thomas Orchestra,
the Boston symphony Orchestra and
the ST. Louis Choral Society. She
will make her New York debut at an
Orchestral concert early in December
a a q
The Massachusetts State Federation
of Women's Clubs, invitation Of the
Teachers Club of Springfield, will meet
in the hall of the Central High School
Springfield, on Saturday, Oct. 20, at TO-
80.
The program for the morning session
has for subject, 1.-THE Relation of Club
Women to the Public Schools"
The address will be From the Mothers
Point Of View" Mrs. Ellen Adams,
Cambridge; From the Teachers Point
of View" Miss Maria Baldwin, Cam
bridge; What Good Can Women do
with School Suffrage?" Rev. Charles
F. Dole Jamaica Plain;
At the afternoon session there will be
an address by Jacob Riis, of New York,
author of How the Other Half Live"
"Children of the Poor" etc Mr.. Riis
lectured in Worcester last season I'M
der the auspices of the Woman's Club.
The white Federation ticket will be
necessary for admission to the ses-
sions. Luncheon tickets at rs cents
each may be obtained from Miss Eliz-
abeth P. Bigelow, 142 Westminster
Street Springfield, by written order,
with money enclosed, before Oct. IS.
No tickets will be sold on the day of
the meeting.
The Hostess Club will be glad to have
members from out of town meet infor-
mally on Friday evening, Oct. rs, for
social hour at the Clubrooms in the
Y. M. c. A. building on State Street.
The Teachers Club will have dele
gates at trains on Oct. rs and 20. to
meet visitors, and the delegates may be
known by their red badges. Bureaus Of
information will be open at the sta
ton and the High School. Any State
Street car passes the Central High
School.