New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-03
ISTORICAL AND CRITICAL EXCURSIONS in OPERA-lAND
Music News and
Notes of the Week

mold Cont, conductor OF Italian operas.
The technical director is Edward
Siedle and the chorus master Giulio
SETH. Assistant conductors are +.
Romei, ". TyrOler, Fred Jacob and
VI. Fucito. Tickets at from % cents
TO $3.50 will be on sale az the stations
Of the Civic Orchestral Society begin
ming tomorrow.
Nine. Yvette Guilbert will appear
again in New York next season az the
Maxine Elliott Theatre. She announces
a series Of recitals TO be given twice a
week during November and December,
on Sunday evenings and Friday after
Moons, the first 10 take place on Fri
day afternoon. November 3. The Sun
day evening recitals. which Nine.
Guilbert calls Les Neillees Fran
caises," will be like her programme o.
last season, purely vocal and musical
For the Friday afternoon reeita.s,
Les Matinees Parisiennes.' at which
she will comment on her songs in
English. Nine. Guilbert has secured
the collaboration OF several American
literary people, who are interested in
her work.
George Barrere will open his New
York season on Tuesday afternoon.
October 81, at the Cort Theatre. with
a concert by the Little symphony, an
orchestra in miniature which he has
recruited for the furthersnce Of the
more ambitious chamber music com
positions those which lie in the
province Of neither the string quar-
tet nor the wind ensemble, but rather
combine the two.
A concert Of Lonesome Tdnes" will
be given Sunday evening october %,
at the Cort Theatre. by ra.ne Wy
man and Howard Brockway. These
Lonesome Tunes" were collected last
spring by Miss Wyman and Mr..
Brockway or a 3O0-mile tramp IN the
Kentucky mountains, during which
they secured eighty Of these original
melodies, folk-songs Of the mountain
GERS.
Benjamin Rosofsky, d London i'm
presario who has tranferred his bust
ness TO New York, announces that his
first American concert will be held in
New York City about September 90
The programme has not been com
pleted, but one Of the soloists will be
Nine Louise de LARA a young Lyric
soprano.
Nine. de Lara Is a Spaniard who
studied in Paris, New Orleans and
with Pizarrello in New York She
made her operate debut with the
French Opera Company in New Or
leans in Carmen" and "Mignon." She
resigned from that company 20 accept
a contract in Paris but the outbreak
of the war caused its cancellation. She
then appeared as Carmen with Euro a.
the Thalia Theatre in New York. She
is under a long time contract with Mr.
Rosofksy.
Hans Merx. lieder singer, has been
engaged for four song recita!s BY the
Catholic Champlain Assembly, az Cliff
Haven, Lake Champlain, on September
4, 5, and 9. The first three pro-
grammes will be made up Of old Ger
man and Irish folk songs, Gregorian
Chant, classic songs BY Schubert,
Schumann and Brahms, and the fourth
evening will be devoted entirely to
songs OF American composers, such as
Halle, J. A. Hugo. Gilbert, Spielter,
Kramer, George Chittenden Turner and
others.
The Royal Grand Opera Company
opens It's season tomorrow a. the Ma
tional Theatre, Second Avenue and
Houston Street
Mr. Ferrara, the conductor, BY rea-
son OF the war, has been able 20 en-
gage many European artists among
whom are Jose Alvarez, tenor; Eyidge
Vaccari. soprano; 4. Antola, barytone'
Emane!e Critali, Salvatore Sc.arett'
tenors: Dayio Sivani, Ernesto Dele
pie,ro, barytones; Natalie Cer'i' Pietro
De Biasi. Pietro Canova, bassosi Nara
Cristiani. Layinia Darve Sophie Wood
Maria Paggio, sopranos, and Beatrice
Cardona, Maria Stellini, Bernice Mar
shom. mezzo-sopranos. The directors
are Pasquale Psroni and A. Bimboni.
The bill for the week is as follows;
Monday .-...-.--.-...- -'''- 2i.,fe,,e
Tuesday .......-...-. -tt.-t !. $3.50
"wednesday ..-.....'' 49,. - r..,.,--raor
Lu-iH-"' ......... AIDA
SATURDAY Afternoon .-.-.-.- flgoietto
Saturday Evening .-..-.-..--... Nl"e'h1~
sunday Afternoon, ,,,
Cavaller.a Rusticana and Paglaoci
Sunday Evening ........-.-- 1roFatofe