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Josef Slivinski, the Polish pianist and com- works were scaled entirely on the European
patriot of Paderewski, is under contract to A. M. reputations of their authors and the measure of
Palmer for an American tour. James W. Mor- their success in London and Paris. If the work
rissey will conduct the Slivinski tour for Mr. proves to be popuiar abroad it will be given in
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Palmer. The opening concert will occur on New York.
Thanksgiving night, the second on Saturday
A paper says that Schnorenka'S " Matasinn-
afternoon, December 2, the third Tuesday even-
tha " will be sung in Cincinnati next month.
ing, December 5, and the final performance on
It is undoubtedly Schwarenka's " Mataswin-
Thursday afternoon, December 7. The sale of
tha." The work may be given in New York
seats and boxes for the season will begin on No-
in the spring. This is from the Brooklyn Ragle.
vember 23, and that for single concerts on Mon-
The writer, in calling down the Western writer,
day, November 27. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
has also spelled the name—Scharwenka—in-
Washington and Boston will be visited in the
correctly.
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order named at the close of the New York en-
fl-
gagement. A remarkably satisfactory fact—
THE OLD GUARD IN CHICAGO—A LIGHT MAN-
it is interesting to observe the effect of a good
proving the cultured musical taste of the people
HATTAN COCKTAIL—MME- JANAUSCHEK—
instrument on a good musician. No church in
(created, to a great extent, during the Pader-
" MUST BEHAVE AS M E N " — " DICKEY "
Brooklyn possesses as fine an organ as St.
ewski season)—is the large number of applica-
MANSFIELD SPEAKS TEN LAN-
Agnes', on Hoyt street, and Dr. Loretz was
tions from other cities for Slivinski concerts and loathe to part with it when he and Father Duffy,
GUAGES — HE ONCE PLAYED
recitals.
KOKO-—EFFECT OF A GOOD
the pastor, settled their differences some time
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INSTRUMENT.
ago. A friend told me a day or two since that
It was ever the province (at the least, it seems some ofthe city's best musicians have been ap-
ST. AGNES' CHURCH IN BROOKLYN—POOR SONG
to be) of Abbe Liszt and his school of music to plicants for Dr. Loretz's place and largely be-
WRITERS—THEY DIE IN OBSCURITY—SONGS
attract to himself disciples, who are not only cause of the quality of the instrument which he
AND RELIGIOUS FERVOR—SOME REMIN-
great artists, but who are keen and cultured was accustomed to play. Among them, I un-
ISCENCES— DU CHAILLU'S NEW
thinkers.
No one has done more to illustrate derstand, are Dr. Crowe, who played so long and
BOOK — GLADSTONE *S SCOTCH
these theories, the illustrious founder excepted, so acceptably in St. Ann's on the Heights ; Al-
BLOOD — DR. WALDTERN
alike as an artist and a deep scientific thinker, bert S. Coswell, director of music in the public
— PEGG'S SUCCESS.
YOUNG WHITNEY OF DETROIT—HIS VERSATILITY than Dr. Waldtern Pegg, the eminent European schools and organist at St. Stephen's Church ;
pianist.
WillardS. Groome, organist of St. Peter's; Mr.
—SOME OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS—CON-
The best critics and judges are free to confess Mulligan and others of equal reputation. The
TERNO'S RECOGNITION
IN PARIS—
that his interpretations of the great masters are congregation at the last mass on Sunday in St.
JOSEF SLIVINSKI—WILL MAKE HIS
flawless, and his powers as an executant un- Agnes' Church is always large and made up, to
DEBUT ON THANKSGIVING NIGHT
paralleled. The second feature ofthe young art- a great extent, of music lovers and musicians.
— SCHARWENKA — THE
ist's playing that would enlist the attention ot It is an excellent place to make or help a repu-
EXPRESSION OF A
the listener, is his ability to identify his own tation.
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BALTIMORE BELLE.
individuality with that of the creator whose
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One of the Old Guardsmen, of musical ten- score he is playing. He is brilliant, rugged,
A curious but cruel thing about songs that
dency, who went to Chicago to act as escort to tender, profound, and his impulses of passion entrench themselves in the hearts as well as on
Mayor Gilroy, relates this little story : At the are almost demonic, at times. By turns he slips the lips is that the more popular they are the
close of Manhattan Day two of the Guard in from one mood or school to another, without more unknown becomes the author. John How-
uniform were standing in the bar of their hotel effort or trace of transition. Waldtern Pegg has ard Payne had no recognition until death had
taking a drink, when an uncouth, loud-mouthed massive scholarship and versatility, and in him placed him beyond its enjoyment. Rouget de
Western chap drew close to them, and, upon is the precision of the martinet, united with the L'Isle died in poverty and exile. Prof. Crouch,
catching the barkeeper's eye, called out loudly, boldness and fire of the man of genius.
the author of "Kathleen Mavourneen," lived
" Make me a Manhattan cocktail and make it
for years in obscurity in Baltimore. There are
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light—about as light as Manhattan Day at the
thousands of hearts that have been consoled and
A young Napoleon of enterprise is Fred C. uplifted by "The Sweet Bye and Bye" who
Fair." The boys caught on. When the bar-
keeper had finished his task one of the Guards- Whitney, whose picturesque form is often seen have never given a thought to its writer. After
men, pitching his vo^ce in a high key, com- on upper Broadway. He is a son of the Detroit twenty-six years of service wherever the Eng-
manded : '' Make me a wind cocktail, and if you millionaire, Whitney, the piano man, but his lish language is spoken, a suit has been brought
make it as windy as this windy town is I'll take father's shekels have not checked his energy or in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois,
a hundred of them right now." The kindly in- purchased him an idle moment. Fred is one of by Joan H. Webster to recover royalties from
terchange of Western and Eastern sentiment the youngest theatrical managers in the country, Oliver Ditson and Lyon & Healy, publishers,
and his judgment is excellent. He came in at on this and other songs written by her husband,
was duly appreciated by the bystanders.
the last moment, purchased '' The Algerians,'' Joseph P. Webster. In 1859 a wonderful revival
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and made a success. He was a pioneer in the
Mme. Janauschek has astonished the members Wild West show business, and his first great swept over this country. The feature of this
of the Professional Women's League, who re- feat was to organize a show composed of one revival was the introduction of hymns that bore
cently gave '' As You Like It,'' by her work as hundred cowboys and Sioux with Dr. Carver at something the same relation to hymnology that
the melancholy Jaques. '' If you play men's their head and go to Europe. He erected the songs of Stephen Foster bore to the melodies
parts, you must behave as men," she told the stockades in Odessa and other Russian cities, they superseded. One of these new hymns was
ladies, and she proceeded to give them very valu- and showed to large audiences. After doing called -'Come to Jesus," and all were distin-
able hints, which they accepted gladly from the the European cities he chartered a steamer and guished by simplicity of statement and of music.
famous tragedienne. Mme. Janaushek saw one carried the show to Australia. He landed them
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of the ladies whittling a stick and immediately all safely on American soil in the end. His
The civil war deepened, rather than quenched,
informed her that she looked like a woman versatility is wonderful. He is well versed in
sharpening a lead pencil. Janaushek is, how- Indian lore and speaks several tribal languages. religious fervor, and the first breathing spell
ever, most unassuming and amiable. Her pre- There is hardly anything he cannot do, and he men sat around camp fires and sang '' Come to
Jesus," "Nearer, my God, to Thee," and
sent ambition is to play "Macbeth," to the always wins friends.
children swung their kid boots and smoothed
" Lady Macbeth " of Mrs. D. P. Bowers.
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out their sashes at Sunday School singing,
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A cablegram from Paris announces that Gio- "Come, boys, Come, girls, won't you Volun-
Richard, or rather '' Dickey '' Mansfield speaks
ten languages, paints, writes poetry and keeps vanni E. Conterno, the talented Brooklyn teer ? '' echoing the martial spirit of the time.
the secret of his make up as Hyde from even his musician and son of the well-known band- When the war was over a softer spirit breathed,
fellow players. While on tour he lives in his master, has been successful in his negotiations but the sense of large bodies, of vast communi-
car, which contains a piano and a library. He for the production of his opera, "Christopher ties of wide common interests that the move-
once played " Koko " in "The Mikado, " b u t Columbus," at the Paris opera, Ambroise ments of great bodies of troops, of populous
prefers to illustrate characters in history, and is Thomas, Massenet and others having given their camps and of the ties knitted by the war, were
said to have commissioned certain authors to suffrage for it. The opera was written in Brook- conspicuous in such songs as '' Shall we gather
write historical plays for him, one of which will lyn and excerpts have been heard in local con- at the river ? " " We shall meet in the sweet by
be based on the career of Cardinal Mazarin. He certs, but it was rejected by American managers, and by," The writers of gospel hymns
who said, frankly, that their opinions of such and the composers of gospel hymns, the
is also held in terror by his company.