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QABRILOWITSCH TOURNEE.
/"^LASSED by the best-known musicians
^-^ and critics of the principal European
cities as the foremost of the younger
pianists of the present day, Ossip Gabrilo-
witsch, the eminent Russian player, comes
in a short time before the music loving
public of our country, and will unquestion-
ably achieve new triumphs and successes
during his American tour, which will in-
clude all the prominent cities from Maine
to California. That his name and fame
are known to many is evidenced by the
fact that the demand for his services,
from nearly all the leading clubs and so-
cieties, has been so great that the manage-
ment were compelled to arrange with him
for twenty appearances in addition to the
number originally arranged for, so that
in all nearly sixty concerts have been
booked for him up to the present time.
His debut in America will be made at
Carnegie Hall, New York, Monday even-
ing, November 12, 1900, and he will be as-
sisted by Mr. Emil Paur and his oichestra
of seventy musicians. November 16, he
will be the soloist in the inaugural concert
of the new Philadelphia Permanent, Or-
chestra (Fritz Scheel, conductor), at the
Academy of Music in that city, and he will
also be heard at the Peabody Institute,
Baltimore, about the same time.
Gabrilowitsch will be the soloist at the
first evening concert of the Kneisel Quar-
tette, in Mendelssohn Hall, New York,
Monday, November 19, and with the same
organization in Boston the following even-
ing, November 20. Orchestral concerts at
which he will be the soloist will be given
in Boston, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester
and Portland early in December, and re-
citals have been arranged for in Philadel-
phia, Washington, Brooklyn, Boston and
New York during December.
I n January most of his time will be de-
voted to the Western cities, and his en-
gagements include Chicago, with the
Thomas Orchestra, January 18 and 19 (fol-
lowed by recitals), The Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra (Frank Van der Stucken,
conductor,) January 25 and 26, Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra January 8, and with
the Apollo Club, St. Louis, the Tuesday
Musical of Detroit, and musical organiza-
PHILADELPHIA DOINGS.
tions
in Milwaukee, Louisville, Indiana-
P H I L A D E L P H I A is to have a season of
polis,
Pittsburg, Buffalo, St. Paul and
*• symphony concerts given by an or-
Minneapolis
the same month.
ganization of local musicians, under the
During February he will appear in the
leadership of Fritz Scheel, with Charles
M. Schmitz as assistant conductor. The principal Southern cities, and from Kan-
organization will be known as the Phila- sas City he will go west to the Pacific
delphia Orchestra, and the total number Coast, and for the close of his American
of instrumentalists will be from eighty to tournee arrangements are now pending for
eighty-five.
a short trip with one of the greatest musi-
cal
organizations of the country.
The concerts are to be given in the Aca-
Taken in all, the American engagement
demy of Music. The dates already se-
cured are November 6, December 14, Feb- of Ossip Gabrilowitsch gives every promise
of being one of the most successful ever
ruary 8, March 6, and April 19.
The choir which H. C. Lincoln is train- arranged for any European artist.
ing for the Pennsylvania Christian En-
In appreciation of the great success
deavor Convention is attracting attention,
more than twelve hundred singers having made in Warsaw by the Leipsic Philhar-
been already enrolled. The choir will give monic Orchestra, Baron von Kronenberg,
one concert at the Academy of Music, No- Jean De Reszke's brother-in-law, presented
vember 15.
Hans Winderstein, the conductor, with a
Philadelphia sent $6,368.28 to the Gal- pearl and diamond pin in the shape of a
veston relief fund, which was the result of
crown.
one entertainment.
SOUSA'S RETURN.
A FTER a sensational success on the
**• other side of the pond, Sousa and
his organization arrived home in safety.
As a matter of course, Sousa has been
hunted far and wide by the surveillant re-
porter and to one of the representatives of
this paper Sousa said:
"I have always contended that when
Wagner would cease to be a subject of
partisanship, his influence would be health-
ier and more widely spread, in short, he
would come into a normal condition; he
would be found on mixed programs and
his individuality would not absorb so much
of Germany as it has in the past. There
are many composers who have brilliant
C. C. Mellor has been working all sum-
mer on a biography of his father, which,
when completed, will be an addition to
the musical history of Pittsburg. John
Mellor came to Pittsburg as far back as
1831. He was an organist of ability and
was soon installed in Trinity Episcopal
church as organist and choirmaster. The
position of the elder Mellor gave him ex-
ceptional opportunities to meet all the mu-
sicians of the period from 1831 onward
and he kept copious notes. These, with
stories his father told him, will be used by
C. C. Mellor in the preparation of his vol-
ume.
Victor Herbert's opera, "The Singing
Girl," is to be produced in Europe next
year, and Mr. Herbert will leave here at
the end of the orchestra season, to super-
intend the production.
Assisted by Hans Mettke, violoncellist,
and Herbert A. Davis, baritone, H. P.
Ecker, gave his 479th organ recital recently
at Carnegie Music Hall, Allegheny.
A series of recitals is announced by
Luigi von Kunits and Stephen Leyshon
at the recital hall of the Pittsburg Conser-
vatory of Music.
Kate O. Lippa, the pianist, has returned
from her vacation at Milford Bay and dur-
ing the winter will give at her studio a
series of interpretative sketch recitals,
which she has named "Preludes and Pic-
tures." The programs will include pre-
ludes, with illustrations from Scarlatti,
Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Chami-
nade.
Three classes for the cultivation of chil-
dren's voices are to be started in the East
End under the direction of James Stephen
Martin.
The Pittsburg Orchestra will give a con-
cert in Duquesne Garden Oct. 29 for the
benefit of the Police Pension Fund.
Luigi von Kunits and Professor Joseph
Gittings are organizing a children's orches-
tra, the members of which will range in
age from five to seven years.
Myron T. Barnes has resigned his posi-
tion at the Pennsylvania College for Wo-
men, and has also given up his engage-
ments here.
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.
talents, talent, in fact, that would carry
importance of itself, but they cannot get
away from Wagner's influence and they
simply speak Wagner in another form,
even the great ones."
"How do you find the musical taste
abroad?"
" Exactly as I find it here and every-
where. There are those who love the in-
tricate, the classical, but the larger propor-
tion everywhere are those who love melo-
dy and dash."
"And your own unique marches, Mr.
Sousa, tell me of those and their recep-
tion."
And Sousa laughed and said: " I guess
Hinton will have to do that," and Mr. Hin-
ton, Sousa's secretary, told of the over-
whelming pleasure manifested by all of the
audiences, and also added, "and that it was
genuine was proven by the fact that the
streets were resonant with whistlers, and
they were all whistling Sousa marches."
HENRY T. FLECK APPOINTED.
From more than one hundred aspirants
Henry Thomas Fleck, conductor of the
Haarlem Philharmonic, has been appointed
to the chair of music in the Normal Col-
lege, at a salary of $4,000 per year. Mr.
Fleck's appointment was decided by a
unanimous vote of the Board. His duties
commence on January 1, 1901, but will not
affect the future concerts of the Haarlem
Philharmonic.
j*
The new Symphony Hall at Boston will
be dedicated October 15 by an enormous
concert by the Boston Symphony Orches-
tra, when one of Beethoven's masses will
be presented. The regular season will
open October 20.