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N. Y. It will be the first performance in the
new Stone Opera House, in that city. Laura
Schirmer Mapleson is the prima donna, Phil-
lips Tomes the tenor, Arthur Seaton the bari-
tone ; Irene Jerome, mezzo-soprano ; Charles
Drew, comedian, and Signor Tomaski, musical
director. The opera has been performed with
much success in Europe. The music is b} r Mail-
lart, and the libretto has been entirely re-written
by B. B. Valentine. Tito Mattei, the well-known
composer, has added new songs. The company
will play at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, for
four weeks, and in December will come to the
Fifth Avenue Theatre for six weeks.
Dr. Antonin Dvorak, who has now entered
upon his duties as Director of the National
Conservatory of Music, will, under the auspices
of that institution, make his first appearance in
a concert to occur at the Music Hall on Friday
evening, October 21st. The program arranged
for this occasion will include two new works by
Dr. Dvorak, and the performance will enlist the
efforts
of Mr. Anton Seidl and the Metropolitan
The oldest and best known hymn writer now
living is a blind woman, Fanny Crosby, of Park orchestra of eighty, of a chorus of three hundred
avenue, this city. She ha.s composed more than voices, and of Mme. Clementine de Vere-Sapio
three thousand hymns, and is now sixty-five and Mr. Emil Fischer as soloists. An oration
will be delivered by Colonel Thomas Wentworth
years of age.
Higginson.
The love of song is found everywhere preva-
The Philharmonic Society's concerts this
lent among the Samoans. With these merry
and pleasure-loving people, song, according to season will be given at the Carnegie Music Hall
Robert Louis Stevenson, is almost ceaseless. on the following dates : November 19, December
*' The boatman sings at his oar, the family at 17, January 14, February 11, March 4, and
evening worship, the girls at night in the guest- March 25. The public rehearsals will be held
house ; sometimes the workman at his toil. No on the afternoon of the preceding day. Herr
occasion is too small for the poets and musi- Seidl will be the conductor. At the first con-
cians ; a death, a visit, the day's news, the day's cert the soloists will be Mme. de Vere-Sapio, the
pleasantry, will be set to rhyme and harmony. soprano, and Mr. Richard Arnold, the violinist.
Even the half-grown girls train choruses of At the second concert Dr. Dvorak will conduct
children for festal celebrations.''
Anton Seidl and his orchestra gave their
THE
second Sunday concert, October 9th, in the
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, before an
audience of twelve hundred people.
The program included the '' Tannhauser ''
overture, ballet music from '' Moszkowski 's
"Boabdil," three of Delibe's most charming
waltzes—"Sylvia," " Coppelia " and " Naila ; "
Schumann's '' Traumerei; " "Slow Waltz,"
by Volkmann, and a dance in the old style by
Gillet. The vocalists were Miss Lillian Blau-
velt and Signor Del Puente.
Eduard Remenyi, the great Hungarian violin-
ist, will appear at the next Sunday night
concert, October 16th.
At the end of the month (October 31), " Puri-
tania '' will celebrate its one hundred and fiftieth
performance, when elaborate souvenirs will be
presented. Several changes have been recently
made in the performance, which now runs
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with great smoothness, and to the apparent
satisfaction of large audiences.
The Musicians' Union, of which the late P.
S. Gilmore was an active member, sent to Mrs.
FACTORY :
Gilmore one day this week $100, this being the
amount which the society is pledged to pay the
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widow of each deceased member. Mrs. Gilmore
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon the
returned the money to the society with a letter,
in which she expressed her thanks, and request- market has met with such success as THE STERLING
ed that the money be given to the widow of the and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
next member of the society, who should be left manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
just as perfect as a piano can be made.
with children to support.
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, and
The Henry Mapleson Opera Company will,
Monday, October 10th, appear in " Fadette". the improvements made this year puts it far ahead of
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his symphony in D major. At the fifth concert
Mme. Camilla Urso will play for the first time
in this country Lassen's violin concerto in D
major.
The Beethoven String Quartet announces
three concerts of chamber music on the evenings
of November 17th, January 12th, and March 9th.
The quartet now consists of Messrs. Gustav
Dannreuther, Ernst Thiele, Otto K. Schill, and
Emil Schenck.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, numbering
ninety players, Mr. Arthur Nikisch, conductor,
will give five concerts in Chickering Hall on
Thursday evenings, November 3d, December
8th, January 12th, February 9th, and March
16th. Mr. Nikisqh has been invited by the
World's Fair Committee to give two concerts at
the exhibition next May, and has accepted.
The love for that beautiful musical instrument,
the harp, has led to the establishment of an in-
stitution in Chicago, devoted exclusively to
instruction on the harp. Madame Josephine
Chatterton, the distinguished harpist, has been
appointed director thereof. The selection of
Madame Chatterton, who resigned her position
in the Chicago Musical College to accept the
appointment as director, was a singularly happy
one, as she is recognized as one of the leading
harpists in this country. She comes from a dis-
tinctly harp family, her uncle, Balsir Chatter-
ton, during his life being harpist to the Queen.
Frederick Chatterton, her father, is the well-
known composer and lecturer in the London
Polytechnic School.
More than thirty-six hundred Bohemians gave
greeting at the Central Turn Verein Opera
House, 67th street, near 3d avenue, to Dr. An-
tonin Dvorak last Sunday night. When the
new director of the National Conservatory of
Music entered the hall, accompanied by his wife,
son and daughter, the whole audience arose and
wildly waved and shouted welcome to the Bo-
hemian composer and his family.
Dr. Dvorak was escorted to a box, and there
was some good choral music under the direction
of Mr. W. Raboch.
In an address of welcome spoken in Bohemian,
Mr. V. Truna congratulated America upon hav-
ing secured '' the greatest master in the realm
of musical composition," and predicted that Dr.
Dvorak will become '' the creator and master of
American national music.''
'' He it is, " said the speaker, '' who has spread
the Czech musical art among all nations.'' An
address of a similar nature was delivered in
English by Mr. J. Janacek.
Dr. Dvorak was then invited to go on the
platform, and after speeches by Messrs. J. Castka
and J. Belsky, was presented with a magnificent
silver wreath bearing the inscription, " To Dr.
Antonin Dvorak, from the Bohemian people of
the city of New York.''
Responding, Dr. Dvorak spoke with much
feeling. He had never dreamed of such enthu-
siasm in America, where, to his great astonish-
ment he had found his works better known than
abroad. He paid a high tribute to America's
wonderful progress, and said that it would be
the crowning ambition of his life to add to the
lustre of America's great fame. He had never
expected such a demonstration in his honor, and
could not find words to convey his heartfelt ap-
preciation. Dr. Dvorak spoke in Bohemian.
A banquet followed at which speeches were
made by Professor J. Reindl, W. Habach, Joseph
Janacek and Frank J. Brodil, chairman of the
reception committee.
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