New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
MUSICAL COMMENT.

that she had won the Wesseley scholarship at the
ROYAL College Of Music in London. the Dement'S Oh
which she had to forego because she could not
afford TO live in the metropolis While she was
playing at Malvern she was heard by Canon Eel
loves who recognized her talent and secured the
money which enabled her to study with Johann
Kruse and Wilhelmj the latter taking her INTO
his own home while she studying with him
in Prague the teacher of KUbelik and Kocian
With him she remained two years, accomplishing
agent winning thirty recalls at her first concert
and receiving the professors own Anlatl Ylonn
as a tribute to her genius. After playing in Vienna
she returned to London and played at one OF MI
then she has given twenty-five concerts in the
English provinces There are Ia t6n9 n Eng
land Read THE first concert was given in BLACK
coo people At this concert the police compelled
| the management to open the doors OF the audi d.
forum three hours before the commencement of
| the concert"
has been singing in opera in Paris for five years
past. will begin American concert tour in De-
| cember. under the direction of Henry Wolfsohn.
M. Ravol Pugno the French pianist will begin
a third American concert tour in November. which
will include the cities and towns of the Pacific
| Coast.
The report comes from Vienna that the house
in which Brahms lived during the last four years
of his life. in which he died, is to be torn
down. 1t has been wide belief that admirer
Of the composer had purchased the house and it's
furniture with the purpose of preserving It from
1853 the house was occupied by the widow and
children Of josef Lanner, the waltz writer, col
league and contemporary of the elder Strauss.
contributor to the Berlin "Tageblatt" settles
a vexed question concerning the authorship of the
familiar Thuringian song "Ach, vie list m0glich
damn which has long been set down true
foIk-song-that is, a song made by the people for
the people. 1t appears that the composer of the
music (Which college glee clubs sing to words be-
ginning How can leave thee was George Helm
1879. died 1861, father of the Mayence conductor
better known than his father though he composed
operas, orchestral works. pieces for the and
songs.
The late signor Tamagno's early life any
thing but romantic. He not born black
smith, like Campanin before he became an artist.
His father the keeper of a small restaurant
in Turin. and a youth the future tenor was a
waiter. I'm later tines says Truth he often
recalled with gusto how he had to acquire the
art of running W and down stairs with twelve
Itres of wine in his hands An operatic career
was always his dream. however, and at the age of
eighteen he made start in the chorus" The
most amusing contribution which Tamagno made
to the stock of operate gossip in New-York
a story which Illustrated his parsimony and pointed
Broadway hotel he put of his socks to soak
in the wash basin: intending to wash them him
Self anq o{Fo to turn eff Pf the Water Wsh Of hooded
the floor of his room ana soaked the ceiling Of
the OF d6@ge H n not & hS he out viii be
mourned with much sincerity by the prtma do4nas
His acting as fhe Moor the extreme of real
ism. We recall when once ne grasped Nine Al,
Violence that the sound of her knees striking the
Ho9se Another time he struck Nine. Eanies's
hands with the roll brought by the Venetian EN-
tngled If they did not ache
Alessandro Bonc.. the Italian tenor, who has
sung in Nine. sembrichs Italian companies and
has frequently been considered as a desirable
acquisition at the Metropolitan Opera House. has
distinguished himself by deserving his wife and
merchant named BeitilL who lives in ValIombrosa.
Bertill is a millionaire and provided Bonct with
catios. the elopement took place while the tenor.
his wife and four children we're TS bs6 at e
covered. guilty pair fled in ar AUTOMOBILE. After
eiUded an engagSment they went to Switzerland.
There talk of police pursuit but that plan was
abandoned Signora Bonci refuses 10 sue for an
absolute divorce. but has asked. or Will ask for
legal separation
The forty-eghth annual festival of the Worcester
County Musical Association will be held in Ne
chanics' Hall. Worcester. on Wednesday Thursday
and Friday of next week. Within the three days
of Thursday and Friday the others on the three
evenings The conductors will he Wallace Good
rich and Franz Kneisel The chorus will number
about four hundred. The orchestra will be COM
posed of fifty members of the Boston symphony
Orchestra, and the solo singers will be Mines
Charlotte Maconda Marie Kunkel Zimmerman.
Corinne Rider Kelsey Isabelle BQuton Bertha
Gushing Child and Helen Allen Hunt; MessrS
George Hamlin. George Leon Moore. Clarence B.
Shirley. Herbert Witherspoon. Julian W aIker ana
Harrison Bennett The solo pianist Will be Harold
Bauer. the solo volinlSt Mile lnez JohNel fol-
lowing are the programmes:
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Selections from Les Beatitudes~ Cesar Franc.5
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Overture 10 Der Fre'schuz' Weber
symphonic Espagnole' lAo
Fart II Of "A Faust symphony =: List
Selections La Domination de Faust -. ;Berlloz
Mr. Wihcrs1oon
THURSDAY EVENING
Suite major FIRST movement ...-..-..... Bach
Te Deum 8ruckner
Symphony in minor No 9.-.... beethoven
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Italian SYMPHONY Mende iasohn
Aria from lie Nozze 81 Figaro Mozart
Rider-Kelsey
Symphonic Poem ''Cieopntra' ID W Chadwick
Planoforta Concerto IN 4 ant minor Tsehaikows,y
Mr. Harold Bauer
Overture Academic Festival brahms
FRIDAY EVENING.
suite from sylvia Ielhes
Nine Maeonda
Al dante and the serenade In Eo1te
ARA from Der Frei'99ntz eoer
scherzo LAppren.i sorcier = puhas
a "A from 4 Promess spos , i'iiiei'i
Entr acte from ''PsllAas Melisahde r. azure