New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
NOTES AND COMMENT FROM WORLD OF MUSIC

held. Three Of next seasons meetings
will be held under the direction OF
Leopold Stokowsk. Harold Bauer and
Franz kneIsel The objects OF the So
ciety are stated TO be 80 put within
reach of all music lovers music oid
and new; 20 revive works OF interest,"
and TO bring before the puoNc Amer'-
can composers az well as the latest
European compositions which deserve
a hearing /. also aims 10 bring the
COMPOSER. the artist and the lover or
music into closer relations Officers
of the society are Mrs. J. +. u. Lanier,
president; r. Stroppa- Quaglia, vice.
president; Walter I. Rosen' chairman
Walter F.. Maynard, treasurer, and
Miss +. VI. Cottcnet, secretary.
Alvin Schroeder, formerly with tho
Kneisel Quartet, will next season be
member of the Margules Trio, the
I other members Of which are Adele
Margulies and Leopold Lichtenberg IL
will be the twelfth season Of the or
sanization.
( Mention has been made Of the festi-
val of the Bach Choir az Bethlehem,
F Penn, on Friday and Saturday OF next
week. "The Passion According 70 -.
john will be performed on the hrst
day and the minor mass on the sec
ond. The solos in the two works viii
be sung by Mrs Hlssem ID. Moss and
Mrs Marie Zimmerman, sopranos; Mrs.
Gertrude MAY Stein and Mrs Florence
Milford. contraltos; Nicholas Douty,
tenor. and Henri Scott and Louis
Kreidler. basses. Forty members OF
the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
will play the instrumental parts, with
/ T. Edgar Shields az the organ. The
"St. John Passion" was first per-
formed in its entirety, we believe, at
Bethlehem under Or. Wolfe in the
/ spring Of 1883 and was repeated at the
! festival of 1905.
The EURO Opera Company. after
| three weeks of opera at popular prices
/ in the PEOPLES Theatre, Is TO move 70
! The Cecil Spooner Theatre, 1881 street
and the Southern Boulevard, where ~
purposes 20 remain during the summer:
The repertory Of the first week Will
consist az Carmen" "Rigoletto,"
aida" "Cavalleria Rusticana" and
"Pagliacci" "Traviata" ard Faust"
/ Operas will be sung as sacred concerts
on Sunday evening. At the Standard
Theatre where the Van Den Berg
Conger Opera Company has been Civ
ing "Trovatore" for a week past, there
will be concert this evening, and AL
Of the week the opera will be Ger
men,
There will be a meeting and concert
Of the Humanitarian Cult at Carnegie
Hall next Wednesday evening.
At the Women's Cosmopolitan Club
on Thursday afternoon, Nay 20. at 3
o'clock. Miss Lorraine Wyman and Miss
( Lucine FISH will give an entertain
ment, the entire proceeds OF which VIII
be devoted 20 two French charities.
/ One Of these charities So for the bene-
+ TT Of the delicate children % French
/ officers With the cooperation Of Nine.
/ JoFre. wife of General JoiTre. Mrs. i.
Berkley Smith. who is a French wom-
an, plans 20 devote her seaside home az
! Sallene!les. in Normandy, 20 this WORK
and to take care during the coming
summer OF as many delicate children
/ OF French officers as the charity OF
( those interested will enable her 70.
The second charity Is workshop IN
! Paris which was opened last summer
70 Give employment TO girls and wom-
on who had lost their situations be-
esuse 81 the war. Miss Wyman Will
I've in costume. some old French and
Fnoiish songs, and Miss Finch VIII
give some negro charseteriEations. Tick
sts NAV be obtained az $3.50 each by
writing TO Mrs. Walker p Hines, II
! East SeyenLoth Street. New York.