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The Musical w orld
BY oenexra sohns.one-B Bishop:

A LETTER from Buffalo states that
u Archibald Sessions, the well
~ known Los Angeles organist, met
with unbounded success at Buffalo last
Sunday, playing to $500 people on the
great organ built for the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition at the Exposition hall.
The audience was most enthusiastic
and gave him cordial welcome. Mr..
Session is en- route for Europe to spend
the summer in study and travel.
Melba arrived in London last week,
says a cable from there, and will cele-
brate the twentieth anniversary of her
first appearance in opera at Covent
Garden. She intends to mark this oc-
casion by giving popular concert to
the poor people of London. Madame
Melba owns a beautiful home in Lon
don in Great Cumberland place.
s.
Few know that Mime. chaminade, the
French composer who will visit this
country next year, is a sister-in-law
of Moszkowski, the pianist and COM
poser. He married her sister.
Reginald Bland, young violinist of
Pasadena, gave a fine program at the
Shakespeare club house last Tuesday
| night at his first recital. He plays
we'll. has temperament, good technic
and much personal magnetism.
The real name of Leslie Stuart, the
English song writer. is T. A. Barrett.
This will be interesting to musicians.
Until very recently we have not known
who Leslie Stuart was.
Fritz Kreisler is still i'll. and unable
to appear in any of his concerts
booked.
We hope to hear the great English
organist here while he is touring the
states-Sir Frederick Bridge. He opens
his tour in Canada:
Nine. Rosa Linde, the noted New
York contralto, Is i'll and under a spe-
cialist's care in Boston.
f.
James Remington Fairlamb, at one
time United States consul at Zurich,
| Switzerland, and well known as an
organist and composer, died last FRI
day in his home In Flushing of COM
plication Of diseases. He was born
in 1898.
Mr.. Fairlamb studied music abroad
and was decorated by the king of
Wurttemburg with the gold medal for
art and science. He was the organist
and choirmaster of the st. 1gnatius
Episcopal church in New York for
seven years.
Clara Butt and her husband. well
known English artists, have finished
their tour in Australia. Musical Amer
lea says:
Both in Melbourne and in Sydney
Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford
now approaching the end of their long
Australian tour have been giving ex-
ira concerts "as a sort of thank-offer-
ing to the Australian public for the
warmth of their reception" the pro-
ceeds being devoted to local charities.
| In New Zealand they gave twenty-four
concerts instead Of eighteen, as origin
ally arranged, and it is said that even
| in the smallest towns the receipts were
from $4,000 to s2500. They sail for Eng
land on May 5.
Owing to the advent of the Dam
rosch Symphony orchestra for their
music festival Of three days. May IA,
| Is and 16, much interest has been
aroused in the artists who are soloists.
Madame Hissem de Mosse, though a
southerner by BIRTH has lived In New
York since her professional debut
few years ago. In half dozen seasons
she has leaped from comparative OBJ
scurity to the position of the country's
| leading concert and oratorio singer
her work at important festivals having
brought her into widespread promi-
nence Possessing voice pure and
true, brilliant in tone, elastic in quail
ity and always under the most perfect
control, she is particularly well fitted
for the festival work required.
Alexander Saslavasky, the distin-
| gIshed violinist, who is the soloist and
concertmaster, is by birth a Russian.
Studying first in his native country,
under the celebrated Gorski, and later
on in Vienna conservatory under Prof.
Jacob Gruen,. Mr.. Saslavasky comes to
this city well equipped both in reper-
tore and technique.
The other sollsts will include Mr..
Henry Bramsen, cellist, who has toured
Europe as concert cellist with great
success, and Mons. Barerre, a lutte
virtuoso: also SiRnor Addimando, the
well known oboist
Certainly Walter Damrosch comes to