The New York herald., 1921-09-18
VMo Vh0Qfr0S 90 VNolf Attractions
NewOpera Singers
to Be Heard Here
in Gallo Company
Gaetano Tommasini, Tenor,
Among Those Engaged
Notes Of Music.

| Fort,ine Gallo has engaged Arturo
| Papalardo as chief conductor of the San
Carlo Grand Opera Company. which Is
to start its season In the Manhattan
Opera House a week from tomorrow
night, as well as for the subsequent per-
formances in Boston and Philadelphia
and the tour to the Pacific coast
Mr.. Papalardo will make his first APP
pearance at the opening performance OF
La Forza del Destino." He also Will
conduct "Rigoletto" Tuesday night, La
Boheme" Thursday night and III Trova-
tore" Saturday night. Two guest con-
. ductors Henry Hadley and Carlo Peroni,
| also will appear during the San Carlo
season of four weeks in New York. Mr.
Hadley will conduct the Saturday mat
inee of Madame Butterfly" and Mr..
Peroni the Wednesday night perform
| ance Of Aida" in the first week.
| Mr.. Papalardo has conducted opera in
Italy. Russia. South America and on
| two tours in the United States. Mr.
Hadley is already familiar to New York
as associate conductor at Philharmonic
| and Stadium concerts. Mr.. Peroni was
| formerly associate conductor of the
Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome and
has conducted with the San Carlo on
| tour in this country.
Mr. Gallo has number of newcomers
in his organization this year, including
Blanca Saroya. Josephine Lucchcse and
Sofia Charlebois, sopranos; Gaetano
| Tommasini, dramatic tenor; Nina Fras-
cani and Agnes Kraemer. mezzo-so-
pranos; Gaetano Viviano and Joseph
Roger, barytones, and Henri Scott, basso.
Marie Rappold and Anna Fitziu also Will
appear Sylvia Tell again will be the
prima ballerina and Luigi Albertieri the
ballet director. Others of the former
personnel will include Madeleine Kettle.
soprano; Romeo Boscacci and Pietro
Corallo tenors: Arnold Becker, Pietro
| De Biasi and Natalie Cervi bassos.
| Brooklyn Is to have it's first perform
ance of the Messiah" in several years
on Monday evening, December II, when
the Brooklyn Oratorio Society. by ar
rangement with the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences. will sing Handels
masterpiece. Rehearsals will be started
soon under the direction Of Walter
Henry Hall, conductor for the society
and professor of church and choral
music at Columbia University. Singers
who know or wish to study the Mes
siah" have been invited to participate in
the concert. Howard w. Connolly Of 70
! Columbia Heights. Brooklyn, is secre-
/ tary OF the Brooklyn Oratorio Society.
The first meeting i -dvanced unit
| of the PEOPLES Chorus took
place last Monday rening before a
| large audience in the auditorium OF the
\ High School of Commerce. The men,
bers sang the Russian Fairy Tale" OF
A. Gretcnaninoff. the Creation Hymn"
OF Beethoven. chorals OF Bach and
group of part popular songs. These
concert meetings will be continued every
Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Admission
l. free. An oratorio unit is being
formed, and persons desiring to be en-
rolled in 1t should write to the secretary
at 246 West Seventy-third street.
Some advance details have been made
known concerning the forthcoming
American visit of Richard Strauss. A
major portion of the compositions to be
produced by DR.. Strauss will be selected
from his own master works. such as
Life of a Hero" don Juan" and
Death and TRANSPORTATION" The COM
| poser has selected BronIslaw Huberman,
violinist. who comes to this country for
| an extensive tour this season, to give
his violin concerto its first hearing In
America at one OF the three subscrip-
tion concerts to be given in the Metro
politan Opera House.
| DR.. Strauss's chamber music compost
tions will be given in intimate form at
a special concert at Town Hall when
Mr.. Huberman viii again participate. as
viii also Elisabeth Schumann and Will
lem Willeke. On that occasion the COM
poser Is expected to present several OF
| his songs never before heard In America
He also will produce at this concert for
| the first time in America his quartet
for piano. two violins and cello.
DR.. Strauss also has chosen the follow
| ing Of his better known works for presen-
tation at the various orchestral concerts
to be conducted by him: IT'LL Eulen-
spiegel." "Salome's Dance" "Domestica
Symphonic" "Don Quixote" and "Alpine
Symphony" Seven Beethoven sympho-
nies also will be included in the pro-
grammes. as well as works by Mozart.
Weber, Wagner, Berlioz and Debussy.
or the Strauss songs all OF the we'll
known ones will find places on the pro-
grammes to be given by Claire Dux and
Elisabeth Schumann.
"The Beggar's OPERA" written by
John Gay and which for two years has
been playing at the Lyric Theatre. Ham,
1 mersmith. London, will be heard In
America again the coming season. Ar
rangements for a transcontlnental tour
are In the hands of Catharine A. Bam-
man.
Tho company now playing IL was IN
America for brief engagement last
season.
| Tho MacDowell Symphony Orchestra,
Max Jacobs conductor. whose aim is to
promote routine and experience In or
chestral playing, will resume rehearsaIs
Sunday morning. September 25, at York.
Vile Casino. 210 East Eighty sixth
street, where professional and non-pro-
fessional musicians are eligible for MEM
bership.
/ Nine. Anna Pavlowa will start another
American season on October 81 with an
appearance OF two weeks in the Man
haitian Opera House. Four new ballets
produced during the last spring and
summer seasons In Paris and London
will be added to her repertoire for the
coming tour OF her Ballet Russo. Nine.
Pavlowa will also retain the more pop
ular Of her familiar ballets. There will
be about thirty advertisements, a third
Of which will be new to North America.
The new works upon which Paris and