The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-24

"St. Paul."
Miss Katherine Richards Gordon will
sing the soprano role in 1.-THE Mes
siah," which is to be given by the st.
Paul Choral club at the new Peoples
church, Dec. IS.
The announcement insures the ar
tistic and financial success of the clubs
first winter concert. The club has al
ready proven that 1t can handle the
splendid choruses of this great ora
torio with convincing strength and
Vigor, and it needed only the an
nouncement of satisfactory seIoists to
make the first concert an assured sue
cess.
The executive committee Of the
Choral club met Wednesday evening
with Mrs. Henry Downs on Holly ave-
nue.. Mr.. George Hamlin was decided
upon for the tenor and Mr.. Gustav
Holmquist, who, like Mr.. Ramlin, is of
Chicago, will sing the bass role in 1.-THE
Messiah"
In the Verdi Requiem" which will
be given by the club Feb. IL, Shannah
Cumming will sing the soprano solos
and DR.. Carl Duff will be the basso.
concert and the soprano soloist for
'The Messiah" have not yet been de-
cided upon.
Mendelssohn's est. Paul." which will
be the last musical entertainment Civ
en- by the club will have for soloists
Gwilym Miles, the baritone, and Mrs
Jane Huntington Yale, contralte.' The
tenor and soprano soloists are yet to
be selected.
! Rehearsals for 1.-THE Messiah" will
begin the evening of Sept. 16 in Christ
church guild hall. 1t is the desire of
the executive council to increase the
present membership to 175 or 200
voices.
The stage of the new Peoples church
will easily seat that number. In many
respects the new auditorium will be
better suited to concerts, and especially
to oratorio, than was the old church.
The new organ will be so placed that
the platform will rise gradually to the
organ loft, thus doing away with the
awkward break which interfered with
choral work in the old church.
Mrs. c. G. Titcomb and Mrs. Norman
Nash McFarran have charge of the
given at the club women's headquar-
tiers on the state fair grounds during
fair week. AS usual, the Schubert
club, of st. Paul, and the Thursday
club, of Minneapolis, will both take
part in these programmes. The Schu-
bert programme will be given Wednes-
day and the Thursday club programme
on Thursday. Mrs. Nettie-Fuller Sny-
RI
Sans Souci, the pianist, will give the
programme Friday; and the vocal pu-
pills of Mrs. McFarran will present the
Friday programme. Monday Mrs.
Louise Mackay Leslie, the New York
soprano, will sing.
The choir Of st. Johns church will
resume its work Sunday, Sept. z. While
the vested choir has been enjoying its
five weeks vacation, quartette con-
sisting of Mrs. Jane Huntington Yale,
Mime. Won Encke, Messrs. Simond and
Forster had charge of the vocal
music.
Mrs. Jessica De Wolf, who has been
spending the summer in st. Paul, will
leave Sept. for New York city, where
she will spend the winter.
John Jaeger, the tenor of the Apollo
quartette, was given a testimonial con-
cert Friday afternoon at the Mahto-
medi hotel by the cottagers of that
vicinity and the guests of the hotel.
Mrs. Louise Mackay Leslie, of New
York, was the principal soloist. c.. G.
I1tcomb played the piano accompani-
ment.
fG
VIII not come to America this season.
but will remain abroad to fill engage
ments in London and Russia. Rosen-
thai is not coming, neither is De Pach-
mann. Weingartner, however. is COM
ing with his orchestra and with them
D'Albert.
Mrs. Jane Huntington Yale will not
sing with the quartette at st. Johns
church this season. She will sing in
the mornings at the Peoples church.
where Mrs. S. v. Harris will be the
soprano.
st. Johns church choir has not yet
found permanent soprano soloist. 1t
is probable that Miss Gordon will sing
frequently at the church during the
winter, though she will not be per-
manently connected with the choir.
Jean Qe ReSZKe receives the highest
salary of any male singer, his contract
for sixteen appearances being $4,000
and he never fails to stipulate for free
MOTEL expenses and a certain sum for
carriages and horses.
Miss Mccullough, who has been
studying instrumental music with
tranklyn Kreiger, will leave for Ber-
lin Sept. 4, where she will study piano
with Madame Stepanoff and harmony
with Mr.. Glover.
Mrs. Charles o. Kreiger will sing at
the First M. e. Church during August
and at Unity church during September.
A new opera by Antonin Dvorak. en-
utIed "Rusalka," was produced March
SO at the National theater, in Prague.
with marked success. The score of the
new work which deals with popular
Czech legend is both melodious and
highly effective from a dramatic point
of view.
Melba sailed from England the other
day for Australia, her native land
which she left fifteen years ago and
has not revisited until now,
A musical entertainment will be