New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-23

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by Henry Holden Huss published by C. schirmer.
and The Desire Of All Nations" unfinished
sacred oratorfo by Alfred s. Baker. published by
Novello Ever & Co The work was planned in
three parts, but the composer died while engaged
on Part II. The same publishers have also issued
The Shadows OF the Evening Hours" an anthem
for evening by Samuel A Baldwin.
The Jubilee Annual Festival Concert by the
Temple choir and Temple orchestra will take place
in the Baptist Temple. Brooklyn. on next THURSDAY
evening The choir and orchestra now number over
two hundred members. The chief feature or the
Jubilee Annual Festival Concert will be the first
performance If America of Sir Frederick Bridges
cantata THE Forging Of the Anchor" under the
direction OF z. NJ. Bowman. organist and choir
master Of the Temple. Solos will be sung by Miss
Bessie May Bowman. contralto and Herbert VITA
erspoon bass. Other features OF the programme
will be a part song "Merrily, o." by John T. west;
BlumenthaTs Gather Ye Rosebuds," the soldiers
chorus in Faust" the overtures to Ncolafs
Merry Wives OF Windsor and Ambrose Thomass
Raymond" and three movements from Haydn's
Surprise" symphony
The last of Mr. Arthur Writings chamber music
rectas will place IN the Fine Arts Building at
O'Clock this afternoon. Mr. Whiting Will have the
help of the Knelsel Quartet, and the programme
will consist OF a in A for violin and piano
forte Beethovens string quartet in F major op.
1S5, and Brahmss pianoforte quintet IN f minor
Op. "a
The third lecture in the course Of lectures on
The Ballad" arranged by Miss Newman, VIII take
place in her studio No. 1874 Madison-ave.' next
Thursday afternoon. Wandering Ballads will be
discussed by Mr.. KrehAiel and the discourse Will
be illustrated by Mrs Krehbiel who will sing Eng
lish German French italian, Dutch Swedish ana
Finnish versions of the same ballad.
Mr. g'S
Carnegie Hall next Saturday afternoon.
The annual music festival Of the Gaelic Society,
known as the "Feis Cecil Agus Seanachus," will
he held a the Lenox Lyceum Tuesday evening.
April !. The Gaelic Society aims. through this
annual festival to illustrate the quality as well
as the great and varied extent Of Irish music. but
this year It has gone step further IN Offering a
programme which will be illustrated history OF
the development of Irish music from the fourteenth
century 10 the present time. as far available
types Of composition suitable to the various voices
would allow. Many OF the songs Of course VIII
be In modern words the ancient airs few
Of the popular melodies VIII also be included. and
of the national ballads in English The in
strumental numbers will be the harp and the
piano. and the bagpipe will also he heard. The
Hon. ". Bourke Cochran will preside, and will
deliver a short address on the Gaelic movement.
Miss Mary T. Williamson will play the panoforte
and Mr.. Plunket Greene will sing at the last Of
the new years series of song and violin recitals
under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute Of
Arts and Sciences in Association Hall, Brooklyn,
next Thursday evening.
Miss Mai Myota. a young singer from the South,
will give a concert in Carnegie Lyceum next Thurs
day evening. She will have the help OF Miss
Bessie Bonsal, contralto. Mr. WoodhOuse. tenor;
Obey Speaks, bass; Agnes Sumner Geer. reader;
Florence E. Stroker child pianist: Nine. lorna
bene. accompanst, and the Metropolitan Temple
Orchestra W S. Phasey, conductor.
Josef Holman, Jean Gerardy and Fritz Kreisler
are to appear in concert in the Metropolitan
Opera House Sunday evening under the
management of Mr. Henry Wolfsohn. This WIFI
be the beginning Of tour which these distin-
guished artists will undertake giving twenty-eght
concerts in one month.
Following is the programme Of a pianoforte re-
cital by Josef Holman to be given popular
prices in Carnegie Hail this afternoon:
Fugue, major. Bach
March from The Ruins Of Athens Beethov -Ru6insten
Polonaise, A maJor......... C77on,n
Etudes. G sharp major -
scene de Ballet ...'. ...........-.-..--J Hofmann
Mazurla, A minor scb,,ha-- T ,sy,
Gretchen am spinnrad. -'@'
Spansche Rhapsodie g..
Foreign Items Of Interest.-T'he experiment OF
giving orchestral concerts at cheap prices which Is
making at Cooper Union, this city, has been tried
in Deipsic. Six "VoIksJhjimiche Concerto were
given in the Albert Hall by the Winderstein Or
chestra, and attended by thirty thousand per-
sons. almost exclusively Of the laboring classes.
The admission fee % pfennigs-fve cents. A
similar enterprise in Munich by the Kahn Orches-
ira, under the direction II. Won Hausegger. has
been suspended, owing to Won Hausegger's determ-
nation TO quit conducting and devote himself
clusively to compositon..-...A new opera by Eugen
d'Albert, entitled Der improvisation" had a first
performance in Berlin February 26.... There are
female characters in Massenets LIE Jongleur
de Notre Dame which brought forward in
Monte Carlo recently ...... Emanuel Moor who was
a resident pianist of New-York some sixteen years
ago. has composed opera. Die Pompadour,"
which performed at Cologne a short time ago
Heinrich Zoelner, sometime conductor Of the
German Mederkranz Of New-York, since then Uni
versity Director of Music in Leipsc has been APP
pointed professor Of composition at the Ieipsic
Conservatory in place Of the late Professor Jadas-
sohn......Mss Edith Walker. Of the Vienna Opera
American singer has been decorated with the
gold medal for arts and science by the Grand Duke
Of Saxe-Wenar.
John Philip Sousa Will close his great Southern
and Western tour OF this winter with a concert at
the Metropolitan Opera House Sunday evening
April e AS the band viii not be heard Manhattan
Beach this coming summer, Mr.. Sousa having
signed contract TO play at Atlantic City. large
attendance OF the great conductors admirers TO
this concluding concert is naturally looked for.
Mr.. Emil Paur and his orchestra: Rudolf INrinl
pianoforte, and Douglas Powell barytone will take
part in the farewell concert of Jan KubeIik In the
Metropolitan Opera House this evening. The pro
gramme will be follows:
Symphonic Espagnole for violin Ilo
Pianoforte solos:
Impromptu r sharp minor. ,Ch6nin
Faust for Violin orchestra Weniav,sK