The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-28
in MUSICAL WORLD

An effort is to be made to get an en-
doWment fund of at least $4,000 for
the st. Paul Choral club. James Irv-
ing Crabbe, the new manager. of the.
club, will make the attempt to raise
| this amount. He has already COM
menced his work under the supervision
of the executive committee of the club.
1t is proposed that each contribution
of money shall carry with it an asso-
@ciate membership With two tickets for
each concert. On the payment OF 500
a life membership in the club will be
given the contributor. The club will
issue an illustrated year book. or pros.
| pectus Oct. 10 which will give the
names of all the donors to the endow-
ment fund
The soloists selected for the first
concert of the club 1.-The Messiah"
which will be given Dec. Is, are Miss
Kathryn Richards Gordon, soprano;
Mrs. Maude Adams Waterman, con-
tralto; Mr. George Hamlin, tenor, and
Mr.. Gustav Hohnquist, basso Miss
Gordon has donated her service to the
club, Rehearsals are progressing sat
isfactorily. Verdfs Requiem is now
being rehearsed. The attendance at
Christ church guild hall Tuesday night
was between $50 and ITO.
Emil Onet returned last week from
an extended trip abroad. He visited
France, Germany and Italy spending
most of his time in the musical CEN
ters of these countries. Quesnel, an old
pupil of Monsieur Onet, who sang last
year in the Grau opera company, was
to have accompanied him abroad but
musical engagements interfered. The
tenor has been making a short con-
cert tour through Eastern Canada. He
has made no plans for this winters
work but it is not improbable that he
will again be numbered among Mr..
Grau'S Songbirds.
Naturally there is a great differ
ence between the musical atmosphere
at home and abroad" said Mr.. Onet,
discussing his trip yesterday Here
we regard music as a paStime; over
there concert is rigid ceremony. In
Munich, in Berlin, in Dresden and a
number of other European cities if you
are not in your seat when an opera or
important concert commences you have
to wait for the intermission, which
never comes until the opera or concert
is half over. In this country we have
advanced so far that Pc insist upon
late Corners waiting outside until a
musical number is finished, but people
here seem to make it point to be late
for an opera and they would be very
indignant, indeed, if they were not
seated Immediately. People abroad
speak a musical gibberish that would
be entirely unintelligible to any but
educated musicians here. Italy seems
to be enjoying a musical renaissance.
Puccini and Mascagni are the popular
idols. Germany is apparently overrun
with musical students, most of them
Ana 1.i0 oric oil poric a
is taking herself and everybody else
lightly, skimming the cream of the best
the world has to offer"
Mr.. Onet will have studio in the
new Odeon building as soon as it is
ready for occupancy.
The eighth annual tour of the Castle
Square Opera company opened in Bos-
ton at the fremont theater Monday
evening, the initial performance being
III TroVatore,'' with Faust for the
second bill of the first week. The COM
pany this season is the best that Mr..
Savage has ever had, including Ade-
Maud Ramey, Marion Ivell, Ethel
Houston, Du Ere, Joseph Sheehan,
Lloyd D'Aubigne, Winfred Golf, Will
liam PAUL, Francis Carrier, John
Boyle and Parker Coombs.
earle Fischer, the cell1St, Will play
tomorrow evening at the concert given
in Christ church guild hall blythe wom-
en- of the church for the building fund.
Mr.. Fischer's name on the programme
insures the audience a rare treat. The
cellist has but recently located in the
Twin cities and neither city has heard
him yet in public recital. Mr.. Fischer,
however, has played before the Schu-
bert club, giving the club members one
of the musical treats of last season.
He received his musical training in
Germany, and upon his return to this
country in 1899 he was Immediately
engaged by Victor Herbert as second
cellist Of the Pittsburg Symphony or
chestra. Later he became first cellfst
which position he gave up to come to
the twin cities. Besides Mr.. Fischer
Mrs. Gere, the contralto, recently Of
Syracuse, New York, Mrs. Marie w.
Graves and Miss Sans Souci: will ap-
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