Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06
M USICAL MENTION

The managers OF the Choral Society are
taxing steps now to arrange for the admis-
sion OF new members to the chorus for next
year. 1t has been discovered after very
careful study of the wishes of the chorus
that the singers generally prefer a program
containing important works and plenty Of
study
The celebration Of the twentieth year OF
the society this season by the presentation
of three Oratorios will afford an unusual
chance to the chorus to study the best
music and make themselves thoroughly IA
miIiar with great masterpieces 1t is there
fore expected that the chorus will reach
even larger numbers this year than it has
in the past two years.
The seasons rehearsaIs will begin on the
first Monday in October with est. Paul"
This will be continued through October and
November, and about the LIST Of December
the Messiah" will be put into rehearsal
Tor the Christmas performance. After this
st. Paul Will be resumed until il is pre-
scented in February. and the remainder OF
the season will be devoted to the "Crea-
ton"
European musical critics speak I'm the
most glowing fashion Of the triumphs
throughout Germany and other European
countries Of the young Irish violinist Maud
MacCarthy, who is TO come over to this
country LOT ltT lOuTneE IN November
next under the management of Mr.. Henry
Wolfsohn. In addition to her artistic abil-
tiles. Miss MacCarthy is one of the beauties
OF the concert stage. Miss MacCarthy is
to make her first appearance with the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra in Boston, after
which she will play with this organization
in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Hartford. Her New York debut will be
made in a recital.
KOpian no Rnbar,,Eor, 81;
whose extensive repertoire includes the con
certos of Beethoven, MendelSsohn Bruch
NieuXtemps, Wieniawski, Dvorak Tschaik-
owsky, Saint Saens, Joachim, Caesar Cuf,
also the d major Paganini (alI three move
ments not played by any other artist, at
his initial concert in New York will per
form Ernsts f minor concerto with the
famous Wilhelmj Cadenza.
Raeul Pugno. the distinguished French
pianist and composer, is the most noted
of the piano Virtuosi to be beard in this
country during the coming musical season.
His tournee will open in Boston on Octo-
Der Ia, when he will be the sOoist at the
first concert Of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. At this introduction he will play
the Mozart Concerto in + fiat, a work with
which he has achieved an enormous sue
cess during his recent tours in Germany
and England. Following his Boston ap-
pearance Pugne is to be heard in an or
chestrai concert in New York at Carnegie
4ldlA- 1nbuSH ltOl ndNlllS appeared IN puD
lie as virtuosi until the year 1893, Pugno
has made such enormous strides in his pro-
fession that he is ranked with the greatest
masters Of the piano.
Miss Helen Henschel, the daughter of
Mr.. Georg and the late Lillian Henschel,
has just arrived in America and will I'M
dertake her first concert tour, under the
management of Mr.. Henry Wolfsohn. She
will make her debut I'm New York city on
October g. when she will have the assist
ance of Miss Winifred Smith, vioIinist.
Ellison Van Hoose, whose triumphs last
season have placed him in the front ranks
of our very best tenors, will arrive from
Europe on September 10, and Immediately
leave for Maine, where he will sing at the
state festivals which will be given i'm Port
land and Bangor. After this he will be
heard at the Vermont and New Hampshire
festivals
st. Marks Pro-Cathedral choir will sing
tomorrow after vacation of two months
The choir this year will be strictly male
and 1t is probably the only choir in the city
now having the alto parts sustained by the
boys only. BY the LIST of October there
will be twenty-five boys, but for this
month the personnel of the choir will be as
follows, with Ernest T. Winchester or
ganist and choirmaster. Sopranos-George
Cressey, Oscar Herring. Frank Dunkin,