The Washington times., 1902-09-07
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
WASHINGTON MUSIC LOVERS

bonist: Bohumir Kyrl, cornetist; Edward
Shonet. pianist; Leon Provost. feugel-
/ horn, and Earl Pfouts, violinis.-
Mr.. Duss will have a theater Of his
own in New York at SixtIeth Street
| and the Boulevard. He has offered a
| prize Of 800 to the person suggesting
the most appropriate name for the new
| playhouse.
Last Monday night delightful con-
cert was given at the Chautauqua, WASH
ington Grove. by some wcIl-known mu-
sicians OF this city. Among them were
Mrs Kitty Thompson Berry, soprano;
Mrs. Belle Carpenter Hemmey. con-
ltralto; NJ. ". D. Mcfarland. tenor;
Dr. Frank Woodman. baritone. and Mr..
Arthur Middleton. bass. The program
included solos and concerted numbers.
Everybody who participated was corr
daily received. Many people from
Washington went up for the concert,
and the evening proved thoroughly en-
| JOydutc III cVcIy way.
Before making his American debut in
November, Ja-csiav Kocian, the young
Bohemian violinist, will be the soloist
at the Hans Richter series OF concerts
to be given In October in London, Nam
chester, Liverpool. and other English
cities. After the Richter course Ko-
~ xx-ll1 he ho
to be given by M. Lombard, at his ia
nous chateau In Switzerland. Follow
ing that event the young musician will
go to Fee. where. through special in
vitation. he will play before Muley Aa-
dul Aziz, sultan OF Morocco.
The choir Of st. Stephens Catholic
Church will resume its work the first
Sunday Of October, under the direction
Of the organist, Miss Helen Gillen Miss
Gillen has occupied the position OF or
ganist snd directress Of st. Stephens
choir for three years. having succeeded
her mother. who had charge Of the
music ttsre for twenty years. Miss
Gillen is the youngest woman organist
in Washington. and is . talented mu-
sician. She took course in organ in
struction from Prof. Armand Gum
precht, now organist Of st. Patrick's
Church, and became fully qualified to
assume charge Of the choir at st.
/ Stephens when that church was in
search Of an organist.
Miss Gillsn has a wide knowledge Of
| music, is a deep student of harmony,
an able technician. and will enter upon
her fourth year a. st. Stephens well
equipped for the work which has been
mapped out for the choir.
That freak impresarios do not see
presentations Of oddities in the way OF
musical entertainment is soI1ething for
which the public of the Capital City may
be thankful. A series of Perfume
Concerts Is announced from New YORK.
The affairs will be given in Carnegie
Lyceum, the first on October II. The
entertainment will be in the form of
drama called "a Trip to JSpan in Six
teen Minutes" 1t may be sooner than
that If the principals in the sketch are
not satisfactory. The principals. by the
way. will be different "odors,'' assist
ed by two Geisha girls and a dancer.
1t is the idea of the promoters OF this
peculiar form Of drama, to release BY
mechanical process the different odors-
for instance. violet. heliotrope. rose,
etc.-and have them impersonated by
these Geisha girls in appropriate cos
tunes. There is much that is unique
in the scheme. but what of the audience
when the play is over. But maybe
there will be no audience then.
Mascagni's opera. iris which will
be included In his repertoire during his
tour Of the United States. is tragedy,
the scene of which is laid in Japan.
Despite the works which have won more
distinction. particularly "Cavalleria Rus
ticana." Mascagni is partial to iris
From his early youth he evidenced a
fondness for japan and its people, so 1t
was not strange that he should write an
opera around them. He Is said TO have
put his whole soul into this work and
to have spent more time in the working
out OF its detail than any of his other
compositions. The composers liking for
Iris is shared by his admirers in Italy,
and it is predicted that when the opera
Is produced here it will create quite as
great furore as did his celebrated ST.
Gillian romance.
Mozart's skull has been stolen. The
relic was the property OF the Mozart
Museum in Salzburg, Germany. and It's
has caused no end OF q
disturbance. When the famous COM
poser died he was not honored by the
world as he is today, and it is a WE'LL
known fact that no one attended the
funeral not even the widow, who was
suffering from a bad COLI and not able
to go out. The gravedigger made a
note of the location of Mozart's last
resting place. and ten years after was
appealed to by the widow for informa-
ton regarding 1t, owing to the fame
which had in that time attended Mozart's
writings. A small stone was put at
The head of the grave and a garden