The San Francisco call., 1910-08-28

and Martha" will be sung tonight.
Afterward and beginning tomorrow
night The Love Tales of Hoffmann'
viii be sung with the following cast;
EonlnsDll- -. .---.--.--.
Eugenio Bsrtain. Monday. Wednesday. Friday
and Saturday nights.
Umberto sacebetfi, Tuesday, Thursday. sstur-
Coppelius- Rappertutto Nlirscolo. Achiue Alberti
NathsnIel-Ersnz nz.-.-.--...-...........A A Mesmer
r9II .-le Al; Perron
Bluchaccio- ---..-.--.........-....M NJ Lyon
Seh!elnlll- B. Cernusco
olympa-Julietts-A -Antonia Regina Vicsrino
Srlsa Is Anne Iully
muse ------t---- -Erna Won Ende
For its local engagement at the Gar
rick, beginning September 5, the Bevani
company viii be augmented both vocal
" and instrumentally. IL is promised
and the first weeks repertoire will be
devoted to Faust" on Monday and
Thursday nights and Sunday matinee
with Nine Frery, Margaret Jarmau.
Lucy Van de Mark, Eugenio Battain.
Umberto Sacchetti, Ettore Campana,
Achille Alberti and Alexander Bevani
in the cast. Tuesday. Friday and Sun
Gay nights viii be given TO Verdi's
"R1goletto,' with Regina Vicarino
Edmee de Druex. Estelle Burgess. Um-
berto Sacchetti, Eugenio Battain. Achille
Albert, Ettore Campana and Bevani in
the principal roles Martha" will be
heard Wednesday night and Saturday
matinee, and II Trovatore" will be
sung on Saturday night
Reserved seats viii be placed on sale
at Sherman & Clay's for the San Fran
cisco enga cement tomorrow morning at
2 o'clock
Theodor Nogt was honored recently
by the Pacific states. saengerbund
committee Of which awarded him the
silver prize for the best festival com
position. To A. Buchse of PHILADELPHIA
was given the gold medal Vogt's COM
position is in four part harmony and
viii be sung Saturday afternoon next
at the Auditorium by 40 male voices
George Meyer of Milwaukee wrote the
verses to the song, which is titled
Festival Song Of the Pacific Saenger-
bund-" The committee which awarded
the prizes for the best compositions
was composed Of Dr. Louis Lisser, w
+. Kretschmer and Doctor Kroencka.
Nogt's composition was adjudged wor-
thy Of the medal because of its mu-
sicianly construction, its spirited mel
ody and interesting harmonies-
During the course Of the festival an
other of Nogts compositions will be
given It will be his "Perseus," which
was composed for the Bohemian club
jinks in 1905. Still another honor has
been achieved by Vogt recently. He
has been notified officially that Doctor
Wullner, the noted German barytone,
has accepted his ballade. Jane Grey"
and viii sing It during next season at
his recitals. And that is not the end
of the local composers activities. He
has been commissioned to write the
Christmas music for the Bohemian
club and is now at work on the score
of the pantomin1e.
One of the most effective numbers in
w. J. McCoy's score of THE Cave
Man" which was sung at the Bohemian
grove recently, was Dance of the
Firehies." It's popularity justified TAX
ing il from the manuscript score for
publication. It is just from the press
and bears gracefully its transcription
from orchestral score TO piano.
The San Francisco musical club ex-
poets to be busy institution this sea
son. devoting its energies worthily in
behalf Of good music
II is planned TO present during the
season a group of the great concertos-
one by Bach, for two pianos. the Beet
hoven fifth concerto. Chopin's Z minor
masterpiece and q concerto by Rubin
stein The Spohr concerto for two
violins also will be given, well as
Saint-Saen's concerto for violin.
There will be three programs devoted
70 chamber music, for which, for one
morning concert, the Minetti string
quartet has been engaged, and viii
NAV Dvorak's quintet, which viii be
given with the aid of one of the mem
hers. who win play the piano part. The
string trios will be played by Hother
vVfsmer. Nathan Firestone and Z. Lada.
Wallace Sabin will be in charge of
the choral department of the club,
which will take an important part in
fI7e proposed season of morning recit-
ais Among the. works in contemplation
are Handels duet for soprano voices, a
Mozart .'kyrie" for five voices and
trio by Spohr.
Among the special programs already
srranRed will be one devoted TO the
neriod Of the clavichord. Bach, Rameau,
Couperin and Mozart Will be represent
cd the latter in a sonata for violin and
clavichord.
For its program just before Christ
mas the club plans to present dra-
bruch. It Will be remembered that
Doctor Wullner gave this work at the
creek theater during his engagement
t1 This community. The clubs presen-
+ation. however. will be in English, to
which Max Schining's music, as before,
viii be played
Reviving an old custom of the club,
e hunks" program will be given early
in the season, but nobody save mem
bers viii be allowed to hear or par
ticipate.
The Forthcoming performances of
s7-l,e hffkado'' at the Princess theater
+tie week revive interest in the history
Of that epoch making comic opera
The first performance of Gilbert and
Sullivan's masterpiece was given at
the Museum, Chicago. July 6. 1855. Fer
rjs Hartman participated playing the
49, ~ole The initial production of