The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-01

signed a contract with Mr. Henry
Wolfsohn for such a tour, and imme-
diately a proposition for her appear
ance here is made to the club. Among
the many things being done by the
citizens of Savannah at the present
time towards the general advance
ment of the city the work being done
by the Music Club is not the least
Though largely an organization for
pleasure purposes, it has already at
tracted the attention to our city Of
many people away from here.
Through it's work there have been
people all over the country who have
had Savannah placed before them in
a light that would not otherwise have
been done, and who have come to be-
lieve that a city in which such cele-
brated artists appear as have been
brought here by the Music Club must
be more of a place than it had other
wise been thought to be.
The programme for the meeting OF
the Music Club next Thursday evening
will consist of compositions by the
great masters only. 1t will not only
be an attractive programme from point
of selections, but much of the best
talent in the club will appear on that
evening.
The new Steinway concert grand re-
Gently purchased by the Music Club
will be used for the first time at the
meeting on next Thursday evening.
In her contract with Mr.. Grau for
concert tour through America and
Canada during next season, Nine. Pat
ii stipulateS that she will sing in any
city in America except New Orleans.
In that city she says she fears the
sanitary conditions at the time she
would sing there.
It is reported that at a recent meet
ing of the board of managers of the
Music Club, when the matter of CIV
ing an extra artist concert this season
was discussed, there was some oppo-
sition to the plan on the ground that
too many attra lotions would be given
the members of the club for the mon
ey paid, and because another season
the members might expect the same
thing and dissatisfaction might result
If fewer artist concerts should be CIV
en-. The members of the club pay
nothing for the artist concerts. They
pay certain amount as dues to the
club-the same amount that was paid
before artist concerts were given, and
the same amount which would be paid
were the club to have two artist con-
mission to these artist concerts is Civ
en- the members because they are men,
bers of the club. Season tickets, even,
are not sold. Tickets for each artist
concert are sold to persons not men,
bers of the club, but there is nothing
in the shape of a subscription for a
season during which it is guaranteed
that a certain number of concerts will
be given. No one can subscribe to the
Savannah Mncin (N11h IA in
wise identified with it one must be
elected a member in accordance with
its rules, and such person continues a.
member, year in and year out. mt"
resigning. There is no joining the Grub
for one season. When it was decided
to give artists concerts, there was
nothing to indicate what number of
them would be given in any one sea-
son. The idea was to give as many
as the means of the club would per-
init. Last season only two could be
given. This season two have already
been given, one more has been fixed,
and still another is in contemplat ton.
Next season it may be found that six
can be given or only one, possibly
none, though this is not at all proba-
BILE.
Even this last would place the mem
bers in no worse position than they
We're for five seasons before any art
lists were presented. 1t is said that
some persons have Joined the club
merely for the purpose of attending the
concerts, and that they would be dis
satisfied if in any succeeding season
fewer concerts were given than in
previous one. Some have Joined mere
ly 10 hear some member play or sing,
or to hear the orchestra and the chorus
should the member fail to sing or play
during any one season. Those who had
joined the club merely to hear them
would be equally as justified in enter
tanning dissatisfaction at such a fall
ure. The management desires it I'M
derstood that the members of the club
have not subscribed for a season of
concerts, and that the artist concerts
are something extra, which was never
strictly in contemplation when member
ship in the club was acquired.
The Ferenczy Comic Opera Company
of Berlin will open an engagement at
the Irving Place Theater in New York
on next Thursday evening. The COM
pany, headed by Fraulien Mia Werber,
who is considered one of the best sing
ers on the European comic opera stage,
numbers forty-six members, and sailed
for New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse on last Tuesday The OPEN
ing performance will be Bernhardt's
beautiful opeDetta, THE Sweet Girl,
with Fraulien Werber in the title role.
Last Tuesday in New York
Nine. Nordica sang one number on the
programme at the fifth of Mr. Herman
Hans Wetzlers symphony concerts in
Carnegie Hall this season, after which
she FASTENED to the Metropolitan 20 fin-
ish the last act Of "Siegfried," in which
GhR glgO SINGING that pNRn~
ing.
What promises TO be a most artis-