The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-17

/ The vermont Musical Festival closed
I al Burlington last Wednesday. with a
t program o. Wagner and Mendclssohn
selections
Miss Augusta Mast. Of san Francisco
/ a talented blind girl. VIII make her first
f appearance IL concert October %. Miss
/ Mast graduated from the Deaf. Dumb.
fand Blind Institute al Berkeley. Cal.
+ FIVE years age. and has since occupied
( the position of stcnoErapher TO the
: principal Of the school. she is said
; 10 have remarkably sweet and power
/ ful soprano voice. After the coaccrt.
( in san Francisco Miss Mast VIII 20 10
/ New York 10 study
Lillian BiauveIt has gone to England
+ for three months concert tour. Early
this month Nine BIauveIt appeared 1T
l the Welsh festival, which was held
/ this year at Cardiff. and mas been en-
gagged 10 interpret the principal soprano
role IN Or. Governs Coronation Ode.
( which was written by command Of King
/ Edward and which viii be produced at
/ Norwich
J. EnnbIad. director Of tn Soyal op-
/ era at Stockholm. has been engaged to
I stage the Wagnerian operas which viii
/ be presented this winter al tne Metro
politan opera House Mr. tmblad IS
said TO have made a EatJering record at
+ the Swedish capital. and was once stage
( director at BeyreUth.
Frederick Lamond. the Scottish plan
ist. will make MS debut in Boston No
/ venber 6 with the Boston Symphony
! Orchestra. Later MT Lanond VIII give
a recital II MeEdeisshoR Hall, New
York.
Horatio Parker's st Christopher
was given in its entirety at the recent
musical festival in Bristol, England.
ana created q most favorable impress
sion The composer is said 70 possess
la thorough undeTst anding Of the limita-
items OF voices and orchestra and the
+ English press suggests that an opera
from his pen would prove Interesting
Among the soisists who viii partiei-
pate in the WagneFian season to be
held in Munich next August and Sep
/ TENDER are Van Rooy. Feinhals. Briese-
rnefster. Walter. FriedriChs, LiebRn,
Hofmuiler. Kari MaEg, Charlotte HUM,
/ olive Frcmstadt SchumaHu-H eink,
Kraus. Kuote. TeTnina, Plaiehiu5er,
+ Serger- Bettaque. Nor lea Theodore
/ Bertram. Irrua Koboth and Ella Tor
dek
an organist famine is reported from
] Chicago It Is said that seven churches
of the Windy City are without organists
/ and that there is small chance Of their
! places being satisfactorily filed.
Der LandsknecEt," the new three
/ act opera by Franz We-tber, was sue
4 cessfuIIy presented recently at the Resi-
/ de1z Theater. Dresden The book Is By
( Karl Schwerth.
Humperdinck's new fairy opera.
.Dornroschen. VIII be performed the
I first time. November =. at Frankfurt.
Later the work VIII be presented at
/ Berlin. Leipsic and Munich
A concert will be given IN Berlin next
month for the benefit of the American
/ church there. Geraldine Farrar. the
/ American pEima donna, VIII be among
/ the soIoists-
Richard Strauss completed two new
/ compositions during the past summer.
/ One is a symphony. which is as yet IN
named and the other is a setting for
! Uhland's ballad. --Taillefer."
MendeIssohn's house in Dusseldorf has
been DESTROYED. t was IN this house. in
: 1919 ~, vf--0r1 his -sEs17TT-