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The contract which Mme. Patti has for- MANY CHANGES AT THE METROPOLITAN.
warded to this country is iron-clad and full HP HE Conried Metropolitan Opera Com-
of conditions. She is to be paid $5,000 for
* pany is now duly incorporated. The
each concert, a concert to consist of one solo, directors for the first years are Henry Con-
one concerted number and appear in a scene ried, James H. Hyde, Wm. H. Mclntyre,
from "La Traviata," "The Barber of Se- Otto H. Kahn, Geo. J. Gould, Henry Mor-
ARTISTS' DEPARTMENT.
ville" or "Linda di Chamounix." If, how- genthau, J. Henry Smith, Eliot Gregory,
ever, Patti is indisposed, she may miss a con- Clarence H. Mackay, Henry Rogers Win-
TELEPHONE NUMBER, 1745—EIGHTEENTH STREET
The Artists' Department of The Review is cert. In addition to the stated sum for each throp, Wilfred B. Bremner, Eugene Bar-
published on the first Saturday of each month. concert, she is to be paid fifty per cent, of rington, Bainbridge Colby, John Quinn and
the excess over $7,500 taken in at each con- Walter H. Merriam. This board may be said
LENTEN MUSIC.
cert.
to represent art, finance, and the old and
\\7 ITH the arrival of Lent music has
new elements in society.
It
is
estimated
that
Mme.
Patti
will
sing
*
taken on a somewhat more subdued
in
sixty
concerts
and
that
she
will
receive
In its articles the company specifies pur-
tone—in other words, it has been transferred
from society to the church. Lenten music has the enormous sum of $375,000 for her work. poses of a very wide character. They are
now come to be as characteristic a feature of Mme. Patti is to travel in a private car on "to sustain, encourage and cultivate a taste
church observance each year as are the noon- her tour, all newly furnished, and she is to for music, literature and the arts," to erect,
day meetings and the preaching to the bad have apartments on the ground floor of the maintain, purchase and occupy one or more
men of Wall street which take place at Old best hotels in the cities where her tour is buildings, to give in all States of the United
States operatic, dramatic and other perform-
Trinity and old St. Paul's. At the Church planned.
We doubt very much whether any such ances, to do anything and everything, in fact,
of the Ascension on Fifth avenue they have
outlined some excellent programs in the way contract has ever before been made by a that relates to serious and substantial work
of special recitals. Sunday vespers at the singer, but then Mme. Patti is unique, for, in the primary purpose of the company.
same church are largely given to music, as although she on Feb. 10 attained the ripe
Heinrich Conried has already taken steps
are those at Grace Church, at St. Barthol- age of sixty, she is still by far the most pop- to impress on the artists that he is to en-
omew's under Mr. Warren, at Incarnation ular prima donna now before the public.
gage at the Metropolitan Opera House the
Mme. Patti has written to friends in Lon- changes that will take effect in the control
Church under Mr. Hedden, at St. Thomas's
under Mr. Macfarlane, and elsewhere. The don that she anticipates thoroughly enjoy- of the theatre next year. He has already
most noteworthy Lenten series is announced ing her visit to "the greater United States." abolished the concert bureau that has existed
in the heart of- the shopping district, at the When she made her first success there the in connection with the Maurice Grau Opera
Church of the Holy Communion, Sixth ave- Civil War was just beginning, and the coun- Company.
nue and Twentieth street, where Dr. Mottet try west of the Mississippi was almost a wil-
Some of the singers were really engaged
and his organist, C. Whitney Coombs, will derness. American millionaires were then as more for these concerts than for the opera
hold organ recitals with singing by the full scarce as multi-millionaires are now. Then performances. Mmes. Schumann-Heink and
robed choir three times daily, at 10, 12:30 Pullman palace cars had not been invented; Scheff and MM. Campanari and Bispham
and 5 o'clock, in addition to the regular Sun- now she will travel like a princess, lacking have usually sung more in concert than in
few of the luxuries of palaces put on wheels. the opera. They were sent all over the coun-
day afternoons.
She will be accompanied by her husband, try and were a great source of profit to the
At the "Old First" Presbyterian Church
Baron
Cedarstrom, her third husband, who management, as much larger sums were
W. C. Carl will have a Lenten series of free
is
the
antithesis of her first—Marquis de paid for these concert appearances than the
organ recitals on Friday evenings, beginning
Caux,
elderly
and self-cultured man of the Maurice Grau Opera Company paid the sing-
on March 13. On April 3, the 100th recital
world.
The
Baron
is young and absolutely ers.
given by Mr. Carl in this church will occur.
devoted.
The Church of the Divine Paternity, with
Mme. Schumann-Heink, for instance, re-
Jt
the Oxford tower overlooking Central Park
ceived as much at $900 frequently for con-
NEW CONCERTO BY MASSENET.
West, is to have organ recitals on five con-
cert appearances, although her compensation
1
T
™
HE
first performance of Massenet's new from the Maurice Grau Opera Company was
secutive Thursdays, beginning this week, by
pianoforte concerto was given the much less. Frequently the profits from the
J. Warren Andrews. S. Archer Gibson has
been giving similar concerts in the Second other day in Paris by Louis Diemer. It is concert agency were as great in a week as
Church of Christ Scientist, on the same the first work of this kind that Massenet has those from the operatic performances.
thoroughfare. Sumner Salter has a distinc- written. It is said to be a sort of fantaisie,
But Mr. Conried has decided that it is
tively "concert" auditorium in Mendelssohn not following in the least the traditional form much more important to have sufficient re-
Hall, where the vested choir of the Broad- of the concerto, but rather the free fancy of hearsals to make the performances move
way Tabernacle is regularly heard now. T. the composer. It has three movements, of smoothly and the concert bureau is to be
E. Morgan's New York Festival Chorus is which the third, an allegro, is upon Slovak abolished, and any of the artists engaged
at Carnegie Hall and the West Side Y. M. themes. In this the orchestra is augmented next year must give up the privilege of sing-
C. A. The Eighteenth Street M. E. Church with drums, cymbals, and a "celesta," and the ing in concert.
has special music by an antiphonal robed color and whirl of the movement are said by
The Philadelphia performances, which
choir lately organized. Grace M. E. Church, Arthur Pongin to be bewildering.
have also been given twice a week during
in 104th street, has special music directed
the season, will be postponed until the spring,
JAN KUBELIK WINS A COUNTESS.
by Kate Stella Burr, and at the People's
when two weeks will be devoted to opera
Church, in East Sixty-first street a perform- \KT ELL, well; so Jan Kubelik, whose violin there, just as the seasons are at present given
playing delighted such a wide con-
ance of Gaul's "Holy City" occurred on Fri-
stituency
in this country last year is en- in Boston and Chicago.
day of last week.
All of the artists engaged for next year
gaged to be married. And heaven save the
will
have to be in this city by the middle of
mark! to a widow. Mrs. Kubelik to be, is
PATTI WILL GET $5,000 A CONCERT.
November.
The season will begin on the
A DELINA PATTI, or, as she is known in the Countess Marianne Csaky and relative
30th
of
that
month
and these two weeks will
** private life, the Baroness Cedarstrom, of Coloman Von Szell, the Hungarian Prime
be
devoted
to
rehearsals.
will begin another tour of America on Nov. Minister. She is said to be only twenty-two
Mr. Conried will shortly sail for Europe
3 of this year. She will first appear at the years of age, and a beautiful and cultured
and
return here early in the summer to super-
Metropolitan Opera House in a matinee and woman. The formal betrothal took place in
intend
the alterations and improvements in
in a concert to be given at Madison Square Vienna last week and the father of the Count-
Garden. Then she will proceed on a tour ess has stipulated that a year must elapse the stage of the opera house. One feature
which will extend to Canada, the Pan"Fir before the wedding. Kubelik, it is said, will of these changes will be. a new electric light-
Coast and possibly to Mexico and Havana, reside in Vienna between his tours, on which ing plant to cost more than $30,000. The
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Com-
his wife will accompany him.
afterward returning to New York.
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