New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-13

who has been well received throughout the present
tour, as in Australia and in England, where she
has often played with Nine. MeIba, IS to be heard
soIO IGLaoeEs also accompanying several OF
WaitheFs Prize Song n CHARLES E4 H2ff Gilbert T bs siRg
tone OF the Maurice Grau Opera Company. viii
render an aria by Bizet and Nine Media herself
win sing the mad scene from Ambrose Thomas's
Hamlet the waltz song from Romeo and
general request Ardor gl'incensi. from Lucia. !"
Miss Llewella Davies pianist and c. K. North
hutist, are the other members Of the organization
Jacques Thibaud's second violin recital is an
nounced for Saturday afternoon, December 26 in
Mendelssohn Hall at O'Clock. Miss Augusta Colt
low pianist who has Just returned from a six
weeks tour on the Pacific Coast, viii play Griag's
Sonata No. 2, in c minor, with Thibaud.
When David Bispham gives his second public
song recital for this season in Mendelssohn Hall
on Wednesday afternoon, January G. his programme
will consist principally OF songs by the late Hugo
Miss Maud Powell IS introduce a new con-
certo for violin and orchestra when she plays here
next month. 1t is by AreRsky, and she has won
success with it when she soloist at orchestral
concerts throughout Europe. Miss Powell will
make her temperance here with the Philharmonic
when she viii play the concerto by Saint-saens
in minor.
Nine Schumann -Heink is travelling through
France at the present. and after the Christmas
holidays is to sing in ST. Petersburg. after which
she to this country opening her in Bos-
ton January %. when she gives her first song
recital in that city. Her tour until March l will
be principally in the East and Middle West visit
ing the following cities. Boston. Brooklyn. n. Y;
New-YOrk City. Philadelphia Trenton. Syracuse,
Utica. Troy Buffalo. Detroit. Grand Rapids Rich
mond, Cincinnati with orchestral. st. Louis. Mil
Rochester. Boston wIs the orchestral and Mon
treal. Beginning March !. she viii commence q
second Western trip. opening in Philadelphia with
the Boston symphony Orchestra after which she
Duluth, Minneapolis Topeka Kansas City (snging
there in the afternoon and at St. joseph in the
opening in San Francisco on April 1. She sings all
along the coast, including the Northwest return
ing East in time for the Cincinnati May Festival
in the week OF May ..
Miss Suzanne Adams has lust finished a concert
tour at the head of her company. and viii de-
vote her time for the balance OF the season sing
ing IN oratorio miscellaneous concerts and song
recitaIs The tour with her company began
on 0efoPef The = 6Tndai ctes in the Mi5de Wen
and South In the near future Miss Adams VIII
sing in Philadelphia. Baltimore. Brooklyn, Mon
treal, Milwaukee. Minneapolis, Chattanooga and
St. Louis.
six+v-three performances OF Handel's The Mes
siah" already stand the credit OF the Oratorio
Society and before the month is cut two more
will be added. These Christmastde Messiah con-
certs have long enjoyed a unique following in this
civ Beautiful and impressive as the music IS, II
ie because ii expresses the spirit OF the festival
season that the capacity Of Carnegie Hall is an
nuallv tested by throngs OF hearers Since the
Caecilia Society Of London started the custom OF
giving THE Messiah every year al Christmas the
practice has spread over the English speaking
world That was in 17S1. forty-nine years after
Handlers masterpiece was publicly produced in Dub
lin The CaeciIia Society continued this custom
without break until 1851 Long before the Oratorio
Society took up its task The Messiah" fire.
ouent factor IN NETWORKS Chritsmastide music,
The first American performance 10 1act took place
in New York only three days after Twelfth Night
January g. 1770 when sixteen numbers We're per
formed at a concert given by the clerk or Trinity
Church. $1,000, D., ., =,
Professor Fbeuezer ProIt, which was used last
wear for the drst tins in this country (only a
0usens Hail performance In NoVeIn Der, lSd2, under
Froutis baton preceded II in London Will De again
Tsed with slight notifications Thus. PTout steadily
HandeI's dotted quarter note followed by an eighth
note double dot after the quarter, cutting down
The eighth to a sixteenth BY analogy ne snoriens
no STrf syllable Of Behold the Lamp OF tiod in
such a way as to produce 1eTky erect. In such
Sssss Mr. Damrosch clings TO the original version
IN the Theory that the grave character or the music
"a not comDatible with what sayors o. aufupt nesS
In seneraL however. the new FFout eollioE IS ac-
cepted as the standard ,,,,,,. ,.-f.r,,..,,.a
me goio!sts at the two Messiah psIt99FllaLees'
Get FOR Tuesday afternoon ana W eohesday even
- Itaoer7ber - and 3d. viii be Nine. Lamar blau-
VT MISS May Walters. George HnIa-iA ana DaVla
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