The sun., 1903-12-13
NOTES or Music EVENTS.

NOTES or MUSIC EVENTS.
The oratorio Society will give its customary winter
performances OF Handel's Messiah" on Tuesday
| afternoon Dec. 20. and Thursday evening. Dec. 81
| The solo singers will be Lillian Blauveit. May
! Walters, George Hann and David Blspham
| Jacques Thibaud's second violin recital Will be
| given In Mendelssohn Hall Oh Saturday afternoon.
the 10th, at o'clock. Miss Augusta Cotlow. pianist
who has Just returned from six weeks tour on the
Pacific Coast. will play the Gneg senate. No. s..
| In c minor. with Thibaud.
| when David Bispham gives his second public
song recital for this season In Mendelssohn Hall on
wednesday afternoon, Jan. q. his programme will
| be made up almost without exception from the
| songs OF the late Hugo Wolf.
! Miss Maud Powell Is TO Introduce new concerto
by Arensky for violin and orchestra when she plays
| here next month. With this work she has won
many brilliant successes Of late at her orchestral
appearances abroad. She Is to make her reappear.
| ance with the Philharmonic Orchestra In Carnegie
| Hall on jan Sand9.
Jeanne Clerlhen soprano. will give song recital
| at MendelSsohn Hall on Thursday evening and
| Susan Metcalfe will give one In the same place on
| Wednesday afternoon.
The programme Of Frank Damrosch's second
| concert for young people. which takes place on
! sists OF selections from Glueks "Orpheus, an
| air from Haydn's Creation" the same masters S
| Surprise SYMPHONY" aud three numbers from
| The Messiah"
rhe programme for the coming week at tue Opera
| is Monday night. "CaralleHa Rusticana" and
"Paglaccl." with the same casts as on wednesday
last Wednesday. "Rigoletto." with the cast heard
| on .he first night Of the season: Friday, Lohen-
| grin" With Marion Weed Elsa, Edith Walker
~ EYNn an Ss
| aud Muehlmaun: saturday afternoon. Aida" with
Mines. Gsdski and Homer Messrs. Caruso. Cam
panari and Plancon; Saturday night. "Tosca. "
| with Nine Ternina and Messrs. Dlppel and Scottl.
| AT the concert this evening the Misses Fremstad
| and Desarte and MeSsrS. Pancon and Rossi will
sing. and Jacques Thbaud. the French violinis'
will appear. Mr.. Mottl will conduct
Walter DsmrosChs New York symphony Or
ches,rs will play II Tschaikowsky programme at
Carnegie Hall at O'Clock this afternoon.
Adele Aus der Ohe, pianist. and David Names.
| yiolinist, will be the solo artists.
| seventeen ancient and modern compositions
will be sung next Thursday evening at Carnegie
Hall BY the choir OF the Musical Art Society. under
| the direction OF Frank DamrOsch, and
| all but four will then be heard for the
| hrss time in this city. In addition to
| the familiar "Stille Nacht. Heillge Nacht
there will be three other Christmas songs Of early
| German origin. ono. Eocord's oh Freude ueber
Freude, the other two "Weihnachtsgesang" u45?'.
and .We!hnachtsled" uAso being edited by Riedel
| OF Leiphc. Palestrna Ave Maria" In the form
OF plotet will begin the concert and Sweelnck's S
brilliantly written "Gaudete Omnes." with lis
effective spreading OF the voice parts will be another
novelty, Thomas Tomkin's English ballad OF the
seventeenth century "Fusca. In Thy Starry Eyes, "
completes the antique choral list Dmitri Bort
niansky, whose "Cherubim Song" performed In
March 1895 will he recalled by the members of the
Musical Art Society for Its rare harmonic richness.
will he represented by . setting OF Psalm xxx.
Pictures cepic ting every act. scene and character
| from the original production OF Parsifal In Bay
reuth will be shown In the lectures announced by
Mr. Frohman to be given by Mrs. Helen Rhodes
| at tho New Lyceum Theatre on the afternoons OF
Thursday and Friday Dec. II and Is
The popular manifestation OF interest In Wss
ners "Psrs,fal" Is extraordinary In more respects
than one. The people arc not only eager to see
and hear the drama. but also to prepare themselves
! for the representations by study The music shops
have had difficulty in keeping up with the demand
for plano scores reprints OF the bretto have gone
like hot cakes Mr. DsmrOsch' s explanatory readings
| at the New Lyceum Theatre have been heard by
large audiences and the activities OF other ect-
urers grow apace. Mr.. krehbel spoke to an
| overiowing audience at Troy last Tuesday. and
besides his public lecture at Mendelssohn Hall
next Tuesday afternoon he Will deliver two ad
dresses on the subject before more or less private
gatherings. Mcndelssohn Hall will contain not .
able audience TO hear the analytical and critical
study which Mr.. Hertz will illustrate. The Har-
monte Club will have private hearing this evening
\u unqucstionahle novelty will be heard at Car
ncCie Hall Tomorrow night. Tuesday night and
wednesday matinee, when Ted Marks will present
under his managcmcnt for the hrSt time in Nmcrce
Siynoru Isabella RoSau CaScrlnt and her famous
orchestra OF twenty young lady harrtStS and two
risnlsts who will perform grand opera without
words the harpS
For the closing concert of Nine. Meibas sue
cessful tour, which Is announced for next Friday
evening, at Carnegie Hall, Mr.. fls vii
offer the Philadelphia Orchestra OF eighty musicians
Fritz Schcel. conductor, In several interesting
NUMBER also the artists who have been as
sociated with Nine, Meha during this seasons
snQsge genlcnt. which began Oct. H. and included
principal cities from Boston 10 Kansas City
forty concerts In all having been given to crowded
| houses and most enthusiastic audiences. Mile.
Ada Ssssoli, talented young harpist. who has
been very well received throughout the tour
also IN Australia and In England. where she
has often played with Nine. Mcbs, Is to be hear'
ia solo numbers, also accompanying several o
| Nine Mclba's songs; Ellison Van lioosc will sins
| "Wa,hers Prize Song; ". Charles Gillbert. ih
| iavori,e barytonc OF the Maurice Grsu Opera Com
| pary viii render an aria by Bsct, ana Nine
Meiba will sing the mad scene from AmbroS'
Thouas's Hamlet. tho waltz song from Romeo
| and Juliet, several French and English songs aud
by genera, request "Ardor 81 inccnsl from Lucia.
MISS Llcwclia Lavics, pianist. and c, n North
| an,lst ar the other members of tho organization
| Suzaln = Adams has Just finished a concert tou
| a, the head % her own company and viii derot
her time for the balance of the season to sngn,
| In oratorlo. miscellaneous concerts and song re
| eft ais Tho tour with her company commenced o.
oct. s. during which time she has sung In many "
the principal cities In he middle West and the South
In the near future Miss Adams win sing IN Pha
dclphia Baltimore. Brooklyn Montreal, milwaukee,
Minneapolis. Chattanooga and 81. Louis
Pablo Casais the Spanish 'cellist. is TO CONT
| 10 this country next month. making his debut
. | New York on Jan. ~ with the Franeo symphony
| Orchestra. Casals topred this country sewers
, years ago with Nine Nevada. He is now 20 year
old but has already gained wide reputation.
; ilfrcd Relsenauer. the pianist who occupies
: high position in the affections Of European must
lovers Is to open his rst tour here on Jan 90 whet
, | he Is 10 be the sooist with the New York Phil
| harmonic Orchestra, which on this occasion wi!
| be conducted by Victor Herbert.
Nine. Schumann Heink has jus, been a!nglu
In Paris with the Coonnc Orchestra. She Is travel
linz through France. and arer the Christina
| hnUd.y. "a tn snu IN after whic