THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1891"
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THE 111RLD.
A Practical Plan for a Permanent
Symphony Orchestra for the
People of Pittsbnrg.
HOW IT CAN BE SUPPORTED.
A Guarantee Subscription or a Subscription
TTCiich Shall Be Merged Into an
Endowment Fund.
PE0GEAM1TES AT THE EXPOSITION.
i. Bodfet of General Hen That 'Will Interest the
ICTers of the Art Dirtnt.
It li scarcely necessary ot this day to
Mgne at length before the readers of this
department the proposition that musical
Pittsbnrg needs nothing so much as a per
manent local orchestra of symphonic crade.
tthe overwhelming prominence of the or
chestral department in the modern musical
Jife, the prime importance of orchestral
Tnusio in tho development of the public
taste, the almost entire absence of op
portunity for local music lovers
Rnd students to become familiar
Mith the greatest -works of the
master composers (the greatest -works are
either wholly or largely orchestral) and the
grievous need of our local choral societies
end other performers for t orthy orchestral
pupport all these considerations, and more,
have been frequently set forth in these
columns.
To them is to be added the fact that the
projected new auditorium on Penn avenue
v-ill this season afford the much-needed
ball seating enough patrons to support such
tin expensive series of concerts, and the
tircent desirability of developing such a
permanent musical institution to be in
readiness for the promised Carnegie Music
Jlall, with its noble opportunities for the
further future of the art in this community.
Musical Pittsburg does need a permanent
tymphonv orchestra more, than anything else.
B'he needs it and is ready for it right now.
That is emphatically the need of the hour.
And the man of the hour is herel
ip-
Homer Moore.
Mr. Moore, who has formulated a most
pdmirable plan lor supplying Pittsburg's
orchestral need, is a younp man, though
pot so young looking as the above cut, from
fi photograph taken some years ago. He was
porn in New York State in 1863. But he is
a man of brains and of strong personality.
His father was such before him the Rev.
H. H. Moore, D. D., the well
known M. E. clergyman and philo
sophical -writer. Youne Moore, after
B musicallv spent childhood, -went to
Boston at 18 and for two years studied hard,
Voice culture with Harry Wheeler, German
Zieder with Louis C Elson, harmony and
counterpoint with Stephen A. Emery and
George w. Chadwick, composition and or
chestration with "William F. Apthorp, ora
torio and conducting with Carl Zerrahn. At
Columbus, Chicago, Cleveland and
teveral other places in succession,
tlie next seven years -were spent
in teaching, concertizing, opera
clcging and church choir wort During
this period Mr. Moore organized and eon
ducted several orchestras, was one of the
principal baritones of the American Opera
Company during its first season in New
York, was soloist and precentor at Prof.
X)avid Swing's Church in Chicago, etc His
reputation as a singer has for some years
enabled him to command 150 and more for
& concert appearance. Mr. Moora then
spent a year in Munich, where he
Etudied Ecorcs and orchestral conducting
uth Concertmeister Abel, of the Boyal
Opera, and worked also at baritone roles and
gathering materials for a series of lectures
en "ifibelungen King." Returning last
June, Mr. Moore has spent the summer in
delivering these lectures at Chautauqua and
elsewhere. The members of Calvary and
Ehadyside churches have had a taste of Mr.
Moore's musical qualitiy on his visits to
friends in this city during the summer.
Flan of tho Kew Orchestra.
The present plan in its general features,
fia it has been discussed -with and heartily
Approved by a few of our leading men of
music and wealth, may be best given in Mr.
Moore's own words as follows:
It is intended that the orchestra shall con
sist of from 50 to 56 professional musicians,
including as many of those already resid
ing here as are competent and will heartily
co-operate in the successof the -whole. The
remainder could be obtained in New York.
IThe entire number are to be engaged for the
peason of five months bv contract, accord
ing to which all rshearsals and concerts are
to be provided lor.
The primary intention is to give a series
ot ten concerts one every two -weeks the
season beginning in the middle of Novem
ber and closing in March. Besides these,
three or four concerts will be given in
Allegheny, and two or three short tours ar
ranged through 'Western New York, Penn
sylvania, "West Virginia and Ohio. The
most of the players being on a salary, the
additional cost of these extra performances
would be slight and the burden of the whole
expense would be shared by a greater num
ber of supporters. It is also intended that
the orchestra shall assist vocal societies at
their concerts and support prominent artists
Visiting Pittsburg.
The proposition for the programme pre
sents tne lolh)wing original features. Each
evening's program is to consist of two parts;
me urst iijhiuricui, me seconu .miscel
laneous. Each first part will be devoted to
& single composer, or a single work; each
second part will contain at least one work
by an American composer and two or three
characteristic or brilliant solo and orches
tral numbers. The following composers'
orks have been considered for the first
three concerts, respectively: Mozart,
piano and baritone boIos; Beethoven, violin,
piano and soprano eo1o; "Weber, soprano
and barritone solos. Thee programmes
-will include overtures,symphome,concertos
and operatic selections and will fully illus
trate the various styles of composition that
are especially characteristic of each com
poser. On the basis that one enjoys only what he
understands, an entirely new and most
Valuable departure is to be a feature of these
concerts. This is a verbal explanation of each
number on the programme, its meaning, and
intended method ot interpretation.including
points of tempo, climax, orchestration and
thematic development. It is expected
that in these short talks before the numbers
enough will be said to ghe the audience a
fairly complete idea of what to look for in a
tousical composition and how to enjoy it
-when it comes. It is also intended io print
descriptive programmes, giving a short
biographical sketch of the composer repre
sented and other explanatory matter, which
will be useful to the audience before and
after the concerts.
Soloists vocal and instrumental are to
be engaged for each concert, care being
taken to get the best Beethoven player for
the Beethoven night, the best Liszt player
for the Liszt night, etc., thus obtaining the
best possible interpretation of each com
poser s style and works.
Two plans aro under consideration re
garding the finances; the first is to ob
tain a guarantee subscription of from
515,000 to 520,000 for -each of three
years, to be called on only in case
of deficit, and to sell by subscription
as many seats as possible, employing a prop
er person to canvass the city for that pur
pose. The Eecond is to secure a subscrip
tion of from 515,000 to 520,000, the same to
be paid in ten parts or installments to a
treasurer duly appointed, one installment
to be paid on the day of each concert; to sell
tickets as above stated, and as many as pos
sible; and to invest, upon the recommenda
tion of the subscribers, all money remain
ing with tne treasurer at me enu oi eacu.
season, and thus establish an endowment
land for the permanent support of the or
chestra for all future time. All music pur
chased by the organization for use in these
concerts to be paid for out of the general
fund and to remain forever the property of
the organization, for its use, and as a library
of reference for resident musicians and
muEic students. ,
Man7 Commendable Features.
This plan of Mr. Moore's has cer
tain features that answer to the
present needs of this community in a
marked degree. The subdivision and his
torical progression of the programmes and
the explanatory and descriptive matter,
spoken and printed, are unique points and
of great practical value to such a public as
ours. The plan from an artistic ppint of
view is beyond question the very thing wa
want, and could not fail, if properly sup
ported, to prove the greatest boon our mu
sical community has or could have bestowed
upon it.
The undetermined question is as usual,
the financial one. Theopportunityis a rare
one. A man combining the remarkable
range of qualifications which Mr. Moore
possesses for just this scheme and -who has
as marked a faculty fox organization and
who would, moreover, be willing to under
take tha enormous task of getting the
whole thine under wav. is not to
be secured every day especially for
the modest figure of 52,000 a season, which
he has named for his multifarious services.
The writer takes pleasure in stating une
quivocally his own personal belief that Mr.
Moore is the very man among men to evolve
such an enterprise successfully out of the
somewhat anomalous condition of matters
. musical in Pittsburg.
It has been suggested that the time
honored Art Society, being now authorized
by charter to carry out bucu work, be made
the trustee of the'guarantee fund or endow
ment, and that the financial management
be entrusted either lo that Board of Di
rectors alone or to It in conjunction with
specially appointed representatives of the
subscribers, as may seem best Such a plan
would insure the safe and prudent manage
ment of the funds, without involving much,
if any, further trouble to the subscribers
themselves.
The first question In the face of this ex
cellent and wholly feasible plan is, are
there enough men of means among us who
realize what a great public service they can
render, and who are willing to render it, by
supplying that financial support without
which a new enterprise of such magnitude
cannot possibly, here or elsewhere, now or
any time, be undertaken?
ConldntFlnd the Advertisement.
One of Mr. "Wilson's editorial paragraphs
in the last Boston Musical Herald tells thfc
capital story:
Years ago, when Hastings was the greatest
American composer, the church at Duxbury
was considering, the introduction of new
hymn hooks. A shrewd publisher made
offer of one kind, strictly pure as to verse
and music, containing nothing calculated to
lead the rustio mind from considering the
dire consequences sure to fall on him who
wandered from the paths of orthodoxy. A
second and cheaper offer the publisher
made; hut the hook must contain an adver
tisement. The committee of the ehnreh
P pondered the question long and well, finally
deciding io save n lew smuingg ana ibkb
the books having the advertisement. In due
course they came. They were beautiful to
the eye in their garish colors of green and
white tints the clam doth love. Before us
ing, the parish met at one of the deaoon's
houses to search for the advertisement: it
could not be found. The descendants of
Btandlsh concluded that after all they had
been theviotlmaof a happy mistake: that
the books they had received were free from
the heathenry of the packer of canned
goods or the maker of yeast cakes. So into
the pews of Duxbury meeting house went
tne ereen ana wnite nvmn dook. it was
some months before the preacherread aloud
to nis congregation tne loiiowing stanza:
God of heaven and angels slnr
Eeecham's plus are Just the thing,
ord of love and mcrcj-mlld
Two for a man, one for a'chlld.
Cappa and His Band.
Mr. Cappa's high-class Friday evening
programmes at the Exposition have met a
most appreciative reception on the part of
the public, for whose musical evangeliza
tion they form no mean Instrument. The
attractive selection for next Friday evening
is as ioiiows:
PAUT 17 o'clock.
1. Overture EnTBlat" sfendduomi
2. Knights1 Chorus front "Lohengrin"....
,. -Wagner
z. Duet for flute and clarinet, "Lot Here
the Gentle Lark" -..Bishop
i. w lugeosiem ana a. jeuucci.
4. Traenmerel Schumann
s. waltz carinee ...... ....... ....llutlnteln
6. Loin de llaL GUlet
FAST H-fl O'CLOCK.
7. Symphony (Xo. 6) Pastorale. Beethoven
(a) Allegro ma nou xroppo ibj aceae oy
OK.
..Bosslnl
the Broo.
f. Cor ciSolo 'Innammatns'
waiter Kogers.
8. Diiertlseracnt Espagnolo (l6t tlmeV.Desormli
(1) Segnedllle, (2) llavanaisf. (3) Bolero
de Cadix. (4) Cachnca. (51 Zanateado.
10. Torchlight Dance (No. 4) Meyerbeer
vumuvuugaw ay n . unQm.
Crochets and Quaver.
Mr. Hours Moore has consented to sing
the onertory solo at the lieUencla Presby
terian Church this morning.
Mb. Geobqb Temfustoit Stuoxo, the com
poser, has returned to America after ten
years' residence In Germany, and has located
In Boston.
Miss Assa. E. Scott and Miss Grace Med
berry are new names in the Facnlty of tho
Pittsburg Female College Conservatory of
Music
It Is reported that Alvary's voice has been
seriously injured owing to the overwork at
the Bayreuth festival. His acting, however,
Is said to have improved.
Miss Lilly Schleitxb has returned to her
home In this city after an absence of two
years, spent in study at- the famous con
servatory of music of Leipzig.
Mb. George H. Wilsow, tho widely known
musical writer, has severed his connection
with the Boston Traveller, but his facile pen
w 111 still be busied with the Musical Herald
departments, the Symphony programme
hooks and the Musical Year Book.
The Orpheus Singing Society, under the
direction of Mr. Joseph C. Brell.and assisted
by Miss Bertha Gallentln, Mr. C. C. Cor
coran, Mr. C. "W. Fleming and Mr. H. P.
Eoker, will give a concert at Orpheus Hall,
East End, to-morrow (Monday) evening.
The new 'Westminster Presbyterian
Church, of Allegheny, will inaugurate Its
new organ next Friday evening with a eon
cert. In which Mr. Theodor Salmon, organ
ist; Miss Bertha M. Eaderly. Miss Bankerd,
Mr. H. B. Brockett, Jr., and Mr. John A
Strouss, singers, and Mr. Carl Maeder, vio
linist, will take part.
J. C. Abbott will start the American
Opera Company on the road the first week
In October, with a repertoire of grand
operas. Mr. Abbott writes that, in his opin
ion, the best musical works can be given
profitably at popular prices. He states that
his troupe will number 40 persons. To avoid
confusion with Gustav Hinrichs' hioernat
Ing "New American Opera Company" Mr.
Abbott ought to christen his troupe the
"Xewest American," etc.
Mr. An. M. Foeesteb
has finished the
i
string quartotte (the full four movements)
upon which he has been at work for some
time. This is not, however, Mr. Foerster's
maiden effort in this branch of composition,
as was erroneously stated in an item going
the rounds of the musical press a month or
two ago. .
Masaioiri's great little opera, "CavallerU :
Bnstlcana," scored a decided success on its
first American production by Mr. Gustav
Hlnrlch's troupe In Philadelphia last
Wednesday albeit there wero deficiencies
in the performance. Managers Hammersteln
and Abbey each intend to produce it In
New York this season, and there ban been a
pretty newspaper war over the respective
rights of production.
Miss Elbahor Lesschow, who assumes the
position of soprano In the Church of Ascen
sion, Shadyside, recently made vacant Dy
the resignation of Mrs. Henkler, is the
daughter of Mr. Charles Lenschow, one of
the famous band of German Immigrants of
1848, and who was one of the pioneer
orchestral conductors of America. Miss
Lenschow has spent five vears in vocal
study in Germany, under Mrs. Gorltz, of
Bremen, and others, and seems to be no
mean acquisition to Pittsburg's musical
forces.
The curious tblng about the Intense antl
Teutonlo feeling that still delays the pro
posed performance of "Lohengrin" at the
Paris Grand Opera, is that for some seasons
the important concerts, both of Lamourenx
' (now Conductor of the Grand Opera), and
of Colonne have presented many Wagner
selections and German artists singing them,
with none but the most enthusiastio mani
festations on tbe part of the audience. Per
haps the Chauvinists realize how Wagner Is
handicapped in tbe concert room and are
glad to have him appear undersuch unfavor
able conditions, that they may have some
semoianceoi reason lor sneering at certain
characteristics of his music, which enn only
be properly estimated in the complete dra
matic production.
Tas new Duquesne conservatory of musio,
occupying tbe old "Western University
building, will start out this wees: under aus
pices that guarantee Its high artistic stand
ards. Mr. Charles Davis Carter, the general
director, with special charge of the vocal
and organ Instruction, has long been recog
nized as one of Pittsburg's foremost mus
icians and his reputation away from home
is shown in his election last year as Presi
dent of tho Pennsylvania State Music Teach
ers' Association. The names of Mr. Carl
Better, who will have the piano department
In charge, and of Mr. Ad. M. Forster, whose
prominence as a composer marks him for
the theoretical department, have been still
loneer before the eye of the country as Iden
tified with the best in tbe musical life of this
community. Prtml, Duquesnet
Onsi Musnr, the violinist, will come back
next month for another American tour fol
lowed by a trip to Australia in the spring.
The troupe will include Miss Annie Loaise
Tanner.Mlss Inez Parmater and Mr. Edouard
Scharf, who were with Musin last year, be
sides Mr. Boger Dupuy, the French tenor,
and Mr." Emll Senger, the bass, who were
not. With so good an attraction, modest
Manager Johnston ought to have better
taste than to cast slurs upon a rival, such as
the reference In his circular to "advertising
dodges," "reporting himself drowned to
create sympathy," and other remarks evi
dently meant to apply to Eemenyi. By the
way, what has become of the wondrously
gifted Frenchwoman, composer, conductor,
pianiste, etc., whom Musin was said to have
married this summer and of whose proposed
appearance on this tour the papers were
kept so fully informed? Surely she could
not have been an "advertising dodge," Mr.
Johnston!
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19 egg rolls,
1 Boston pudding;
1 chicken pie, or
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1 spice cake,
1 Batch spplspuadhiff,
1! corn muffins,
6 baked apple
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1 roil jelly cake,
0 Scotch scones,
1 pound cake,
15 waffles,
1 lemon cream cake,
IS crullers.
1 chocolate csks.
20 batter cakes,
1 orange cake,
lice-cream cake,
80 cookies,
1 coffee cake,
1 cocoahnt cake,
1 loaf ginger bread,
1 Minnehaha cake,
1 apple pudding,
8 snowballs,
1 cottage pudding,
12 apple fritters,
6 crumpets.
1 suet pudding,
12 English muffins.
Housekeepers always have "good luck" with
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or psychological observations beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your statements
possess a clarified conciseness, compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency and a
concentrated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune battlement
and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expa
tiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rhodomontade or thrasonical bom
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DON'T BE ALARMED, GENTLE READER,
We use the above tongue-twisting, jaw-breaking words simply as one of our legitimate ways of attracting attention
to our "ad" of to-day, and we promise on our word of honor that we will sin no more. Now for a business talk in
common, plain every-day English, a talk which, while brief, will be exceptionally interesting to every reader.
Customers Won by Merit Are Lasting Friends.
They rapidly become self-constituted advertising agents, and this is why we decline to supply the people who favor
us with their patronage with superficial, disappointing goods, and avoid all catch-penny devices to allure people to
our store.
WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?
To do the right thing by the public the people in need of beautiful, elegant and tasteful homes. To sell our
goods at the lowest possible prices, consistent with a fair living profit, to offer none but reliable goods, to treat
everyone alike, whether they be rjch or poor.
Furniture, Carpets, Curtains, Odd Pretty Pieces,
Of exquisite and novel designs and excellent finish, a vast and complete stock of entirely new goods to choose from.
Every floor in our store filled almost to overflowing with the best goods from the best.markets a wealth of library
and office furniture in almost every kind of wood; a big collection of Bookcases from the cheapest to the most ex
pensive. And such a grand display of Bedroom, Drawing Room, Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture, Tapestries,
Portieres,' Escritoires, Hall Stands and Hat Racks. Beautiful! You can't buy too much to have it sent home.
Wagons always in waiting. Remember, lowest prices in the city guaranteed.
JRememlper, our Grand Prize Competition for School Children closes with
the Exposition, October 17. Write for rules of contest or apply at our stand at
the Exposition. '
HOPPER BROS. &d GO.,
307" Wood St., Pittsburg.
PILLED WITH PALL GOODS.
The old corner is fairly jammed from cellar to stock rooms with a magnificent assortment of new fall merchandise. Never in our
history did we buy so largely; never before did we take such pains in preparing for the good fall business which we are confidently
expecting. The bulk of the stock is in and placed, and if in need of anything in the way of fall wearing apparel for Man or Boy
here's the spot to find the biggest and best assortment of it in the city. . . . . . ........
MEN'S
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FALL SUITS.
You mean to buy a new suit this
.eason, but haven't the least idea as
yet what style you will select
01 &RA1 ASSORTMENT
Will help you settle the question in
very short order.-
We've everything that's new in '
fabric in all the
NEW AND STYLISH
COLORS AND DESIGNS.
Every material is represented, and
the make and trim such as we know
we can sell with confidence. We'll
back
OUR PRICES
.Against any in the country if you
will take quality into account when
making a comparison.
FALL OVERCOATS.
You'll give up all idea of having your Fall' Overcoat
made to order when you come to see the beautiful and stylish
garments we are showing this season. Believe us, no, be
lieve your own eyesight, it's a simple waste of money to pay
merchant tailors' prices.
Every fabric, every style that's new, every new idea in
make and trim finds expression in our magnificent showing.
FALL DERBYS.
Don't pay a high price for
yournewFallDerby. Don't
pay anybody from 50 cents
to a dollar for a maker's
name.
We'll show you all the styles
there are in the market the
Knox, Miller, Youman and Dun
lap; also, many other"blocks from
makers whose names are less
familiar to you, and, quality fcr
quality, we'll guarantee you a
saving of at least 25 per cent in
every instance.
Our $1 98 Derby equals any
$a 50 hat in the market, while at
j?3 24 we sell the best hat made,
no matter what you pay for it.
FALL NECKWEAR.
Just opened, a splendid line
at 49c, in a quality that few
dealers would think of selling
for less than 75 c. These goods,
like hats, we buy direct from
the makers in immense quanti
ties, and are enabled to secure
prices not to be thought of by
those who can use but a limited
quantity.
N BOYS' CLOTHING
We have excelled ourselves a most difficult
feat in the grand assortment of Fall attire for the
little ones.
From the tiny Kilt up to suits with long pants
'large enough to fit many men we have every
thing that you can think of or ask for.
Besides 1 the styles which are put forth from
season to season by the best makers of these
goods in the country, we have numbers of styles
which have been designed and made exclusively
for us, and consequently not to be seen in an y
other store in town.
We'll not quote prices to-day, but we feel sure that the
prices at which we are offering the entire stock, novelties included,
oU h
Cannot But Please You.
E
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MR HE
And everybody wants to get the
best shoe to be had at the least
cost This is the very reason
why everybody should patronize
us for footwear. One of the best
evidences we can submit that the
shoes we sell are all right, and
that the nrirp is lo rifrht is the
very large number of those who, having tried us-for shoes,,
ueturn for more.
We are doing much to educate everybody in the two
cities as to what really constitutes a cheap shoe. Our speci
alty is a
Fine Shoe at a Reasonable Price.
GUSKY'S
ago to m market st.
EXPOSITION :-: VISITORS
You are cordially invited to make use of our store
at any time while in town to see the great show. We
keep open house during the Expositionand will gladly
take charge of your packages, and help you in any
way we can regardless of whether you desire to make
purchases or not
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