The sun., 1903-12-27
NOTES OF Music EVENTS.

The feature Of the coming week at the Metro.
politan Opera House will be the second performance
of "Parsifal. which viii he interpreted on Thurs
day. Dec 81. BY the artists who heard at the
the nrSt performance. To morrow night "Lohcn e
grin" will be performed, with Nine Ternlna
as Elsa. Miss Edyth Walker as Ourud. Mr.. krauS
as Lohrnorin. and Mr.. Van Rooy Fredrich ron
Tclrdrlund Felix Motl will conduct Aida"
Is announced for Wednesday evening with Nine.
Gadski as Afd0 Miss Walker as Amncrs. MIR, Caruso
as Rdddmcs. Mr.. Campanari Am0nasro. and
Mr.. Pol Plancon RdmdS Conductor. Arturo
Nlgna. The first performance this season OF III
Barberc di Slviglia' is set for Friday evening
Jan. /, when Nine Scmbrch will repeat her
charming impcrsonaton Of RosinG. In the lesson
scene she viii sing usual the "primavcra" Waltz
OF Strauss, Mr.. Dppel will be the iimdrira, and
Mr. Campanar will az ain be Figaro. part IL which
he c1cels Mr.. Journet vii! this season appear
as B0siiio Mr.. RoSsi will be the BhrtDlo. The
favori,e double bill. composed of "Cava!lerla
Rustlcana" and "Pagliaccl." Is to be given on Sat
urday afternoon. Jan. 2 The opera promised for
the sixth popu ar Saturday night pcrfor nance
on Jan. is "Tannhauser, In which Nine. Selma
Kronold will. for the first time this season. sing
Elisabeth. The Venus will be Olive Fremstad.
Mr. Kraus Is to sing Tdnnhduser and Pol Pan con
will repeat his impcrsona,ion OF the Ldntgrdf. Mr.
Gorltz will appear for the hrs, time Wolfram
Conductor Felix Mottl
No fewer than ten Soloists announced to take
part in the popular concerto to be given at the Metro
poitan Opera House TO night. Miss Edyth walker
will sing an air from "Oberon" and two German
lledcr Miss Marguerite Lemon, tMr, tonred's
most ccent recruit. With Miss Heidclbach
Mr. Dippel, Mr. Goriz and Mr.. Rossi. will be heard
In the quintet from Mozart's "Cosi far lutte. :"
one OF the chief attractions at the concert will be
the finae from LorZing Car und Smmermann
sung by Messrs, Dppel. Goritz. Bass. Muehlmann,
Relss and Dufrlchc, Mr. Dippcl will contribute
two solos and OTTO Gorltz will interpret aria
from Marschner's Hans Heillng." The orchcs-
tra part of the programme includes the overture
to Mcndei Ssohn's Midsummer Nights Dream :"
Griegs Peer Gynt" suite and Wagner'S "Hu' d.
gungsmarsch'
Walter Damrosch will repeat his explanatory
rectals at the piano Wagner's "Nibelungen
Trogy" at Daniel FrohmanS New Lyccum
Theatre on the afternoons of Monday, Jan. A.
Thursday. Jan. I: Monday, Jan. IL. and Thursday
Jan. IA, at half past o'clock The following
artists will assist Nine. Mihr Hardy. Miss Edith
Chapman. Mrs Cochran and Miss Marguerite
Hail. MI Ellison Van hoose and Herr Emil Fischer
This evening Walter Damrosch and the New
York Symphony Orchestra will give their seventh
and last Sunday concert at the West End Theatre
Harlem, and In pursuance OF their plan to give
such concerts In different parts OF the city they Will
begin a series OF downtown orchestral concerts at
popular prices at the old Academy Of Music for
four consecutive sunday evenings. beginning
Jan 8, In response to hundreds OF requests tho
frst part Of the opening concert will be devoted to
selections from Wagncr's "parsifal"
The third Symphony concert for younglpcoplc.
on Saturday afternoon. Jan. q. at Carnegie Hall.
will define and Illustrate tho elimination Of the
classical period Frank namroschS historical
scheme. which this years programmes are
based provided for the study OF the ancient con
trapuntal school of composition at the frSt con
cert and OF tho carly classical workers. Handel
Won Gluck and Haydn at the second. Typical c1-
ampes OF Be. .thovcn and Schubert will afford the
opportunity for this final consideration OF the
early masters. and the three succeeding concerts
will deal with the romantlcists and the modern
writer's Those following this progress OF music
from the fifteenth century onward will thus obt ain
a concise idea of the development OF tho art. Mr..
Bispham win sing some OF Schubcrt'S songs,
The hoard OF directors OF tho New York sym
phony Orchestra announces second series OF
fvc subscription symphony concerts To he given
In Carnegie Hall on flvc successive Sunday after.
moons at O'Clock. beginning Jan. 3. 1901 Tho
success Of the sunday afternoon symphonies
proves beyond peradven,urc the wisdom OF the
low prices for the seats and the time chosen at
which the concerts are given.