The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-21
WITH MUSICIANS
AND MUSICAL PEOPLE.

As the season of the Music Club pro-
crosses, the programme at each meet
ing seems to excel the former one. That
of last Thursday night was pronounced
on all sides. one of the best in the his
tory of the club, and neither the chorus
nor the orchestra formed q part of it,.
One of the largest audiences in the ex-
perience of the club heard it, too. The
Programme Committee deserve unstint-
ed praise for their untiring efforts in
arranging these programmes, and es-
pecially in the case of this last one.
They originally bad eleven numbers
for this special evening of the works of
Schumann ana Schubert, and, from one
cause and another this dwindled down
to but four within a few days of the
concert, and they were forced to seek
substitutes. Credit, too, must be given
to those who were willing at so late
date to substitute on such pro-
gramme, and the fact of there being
willing to do so, shows the healthy
condition of the active work of the
members, that there are those prepared
and constantly preparing for just such
emergencies. The splendid success of
the club during the past two seasons
has been largely due to this one fact,
as the class of programmes which have
been given could not have been pre-
scented unless a great deal of work had
been done in preparation of them. Mr..
r. c. Gordon was to have made his
first appearance before the club on
Thursday night, but a slight attack
of grip prevented him from doing so.
He will probably sing at the next meet
ins.
Wednesday evening one of the most
interesting concerts of the season will
be given at the Lawton Memorial,
when MIR. john r. Rebarer will give
a plano recital for the benefit of the
orchestra fund. He will be assisted by
the Music Club orchestra, under Mr..
Joseph Cocoa. This will be Mr.. Re-
barer's first appearance in Savannah,
and there are many curious and anx-
ious to hear him play. BY those who
have heard him in the North he is
said to play with sympathetic touch
and tone of quality which appeals d.
rectly to the soul, at the same time
having a brilliant power and excel
lent technique. His programme will
comprise numbers best suited to dis
play his talent and ability in all of
its best forms and phases, and will
conclude. with movement from the
famous Rubinstein D Minor concerto
played with the full orchestra
The orchestra of the Music Club
has become a we'll known and ad-
mired organization. 1t is gradually
coming into demand and the public
is beginning to realize what an ex-
cellent orchestra it is. The Committee
of Arrangements for the X. of p. an
niversary at the theater next Thurs
day evening have requested the or
chestra to play on that occasion, and
1t will form a very attractive feature
of the programme The famous
Stradella overture will be played as
we'll as a composition of the conduc-
tor. Mr.. Joseph COCOA, entitled In
Beautiful Savannah" written especial
ly for the orchestra and dedicated to
it, and to be played on this occasion
for the first time. Mr.. Coccia has also
written for Mr.. A. B. Levy, concert
entitled Always Friends" which Mr..
Levy win play with the orchestra the
next time It appears before the club.
On that occasion, too, Mr.. Coccia will
have presented to each lady in the
audience a. copy of march and two
step which he has recently composed
for the piano, and which he has or
chestrated for the use of the orches-
ira.
Mr.. Conrled has new soprano for
the Metropolitan in the person of Nine.
Aino Ackte who recently made her
first American appearance as Marguer-
lite in Faust" at the PHILADELPHIA
Academy of Music. A critic writing
of her first appearance, says:
Mime. Ackte has not yet attained
the maturity of her powers, and lacks
that confidence, facility of execution,
certainty of touch, sure command of
all her resources which a larger expert
ence will bring. But she is an ad-
mirable artist, with style which is
really extraordinary"
She made her first New York appear
ance at the Metropolitan as Marguerite
in performance given for the benefit
of the building fund of the French
Hospital, with a cast which included
Nine. Bauermeister. Nine Benton,
Messrs. Naval, Campanani, Plancon
and Dufriche.
Opera at the Metropolitan in New
York generally, if not always, conveys
to the mind perfection in singingl And
yet 1t is reported that last Monday
night a performance of Faust was
given which was one of the poorest
musical efforts ever heard in New
York. The new tenor, Naval, was on
the bill, and is reported to have not
only sung off the pitch throughout the
performance, but to have displayed
thorough inadequacy in power with a
limited compass that caused him to at
tempt his high notes in the falsetto.
Several of the others in the cast are re-
ported as having been equally as bad,
the old and ever reliable Plancon be-
ing the only singer throughout the per-