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By HENRIETTA M. REES.
DEAR Old Schumann-Heink! Oth
er artists coma and go. but she
runs on forever, all over the
country, selling out the largest audi
toriums and giving a song recital
that many a younger artist might
well envy, she has the art of inter
pretation down to the last degree.
She knows how it ought to be sung,
and Is able to do It Just as she wants
It, and then in her big-hearted gen
erosity. she brightens It all with a
broad visioned sense of humor. She
loves her audiences, and every per
son In them. She* beams upon them
and they all beam back. Then she
pours forth big glorious tones, that in
her earlier days won her the envied
position she long held upon the
operatic stage.
There is much that the musically
Inclined may learn from Schumann
Heink. Once she Is convinced about
an interpretation she goes ahead, and
Is not afraid, hut rather enthusiastic,
to give it vividly to the listeners, that
they too. may enjoy the meaning of
I he music. Her head tones are amaz
ingly clear and bright, and her breath
control which permits her to trill for
a remarkable length of time, and to
hold her long tones at will, might
well be envied by many younger
artists. Madame Schumann-Heink
has gained about a half pound since
her last appearance in Omaha, but she
had a large number of other pounds
at that time. Madame Schumann
Heink is a marvelous example of what
a woman with grit and brains and a
God-given voice can do, and she is
a challenge to other women over 60,
to keep up their cheer and carry on.
Miss Mary Munchhoff was the
recipient of a very pretty and unex
pected tribute from Madame Schu
mann Ileink Wednesday evening. Aft
er the concert,s w hen people were*
crowding the tiny room behind the
scenes to welcome the singer. Miss
Munchhoff was among them, for she
had known Madame Schumann-Heink
long years in Europe, and had at
times sung with her upon concert pro
grams.
"Oh, my dear child.” cried Madame
Schumann-Heink, spying her, and she
embraced her, kissing her upon both
cheeks, and then holding her hand
affectionately. They talked for a few
moments, then Schumann-Heink said:
“And what are you doing now? Have
you forgotten your wonderful career
in Germany?"
“Haven't," said Miss MuncHhoff,
"the world has.''
"But you must not forget it,” cried
Schumann-Heink. "You were the
greatest of the great, known all over,
worth two million Gallie Curcis.1'
As Miss Munchhoff blushed In con
fusion, and bade her farewell. Schu
mann-Heink added, "She's a great
artist."
The Minneapolis Symphony Orches
tra, which w'ill appear in Omaha with
April 25. for an afternoon and eve
ning concert, is closing its 20tli an
nual season. This will go down in
the history of symphonic music in
America a> a record season, according
. to the statement of E. L. Carpenter,
president of the orchestral association.
' During the season a list of guest
conductors were engaged which In
cluded the following leaders in the
field df symphony music: Walter Dam
rosch. director of the New York Sym
phony society; Ossip Gahrllowitsch,
director of the Detroit Symphony
orchestra: Albert Coates, conductor of
the Royal London Symphony orches
tra; Bruno Walter, conductor of the
opera In Vienna and Munich, and
Henri Verbrugghen, director of the
State orchestra of Sydney, Australia.
Henri Verbruggehn, who opened
with a nine-weeks' engagement and
who was later chosen director of the
orchestra, will lead in tha Omaha en
gagement. Verbrugghen will open
the season in the Twin Cities on
October 20 and will remain for a
period of nine weeks. His success as
conductor of the Scottish orchestra of
Glasgow was followed by the striking
achievement of directing the leondon
i Symphony orchestra in two successive
years in Its Kdeh, Beethoven and
Brahms music festival. His selection
as head of the newly established State
Conservatory of Music at Sydney,
Australia. waa immediately follow^
by the organization of a symphony
orchestra, which has achieved distlnc
tlon in the musical world.
The children of the sixth, eeventh
and eighth grades of the Omaha
public schools will rejoice at the
program of the young people's pro
gram Wednesday afternoon April
* 2. which contains many of the num
^ bers featured In the recent music
memory conteet. The program for
ibis concert is as follows:
Overture to ‘'William Tell" .Ttoeslni
'■Traeumerel" .S'hnmann
“Spring Song" ............. . Mendepsohn
“Hopsasa," An Old Flemish Sons DeGreef
Anitra’a Dance, from "Peer Ojrnt"
Suita .. Grieg
"Walala Poi" (Festive Dance-Song
of the Maoris, Natives of New
Zealand) .Alfred Hill
(Orchestrated tty Jlenrl Verbrugghen.)
"The Swan" (For Solo Cello and
Harp) .Saint Baens
Solo Cello; Kngelbert. Roentgen.
Solo lfarp: Henry J. Williams.
Grand March, from “Tannhaeuser"
.Wagner
Won't some organization some time
give a series of concerts with the
altruistic purpose of not making
money, but, when it finds that it
has made some, turn it Into more
concerts for the public, or which will
turn it to some public service, such
»* perhaps buying new scenery for
the Auditorium, or putting part of
a front on it. <)r something. Why
Is It that what is everybody’s busi
ness Is nobody's. And why is it that
concerts are given for charity, for
church funds, public pleasure, for
private enterprise, and for everything
else except for some public service
which tho cltv fathers say they have
no funds to cover.
The which
comes to Omaha May 4 and May K
under the auspices of the Junior Red
'"rose, will not only give a prng.utn
of folk songs and other musical com
positions of their native land, but
will exhibit some of the rare handi
work of their school. They will give
a concert for the school children of
Omaha Saturday morning at the Rial
to, which the management has donat
ed to tha Junior Red Cross for the
•* event, according to Miss Monp Cow
ell, chairman of the publicity com
mittee. Josef Krlcks, a f'sech com
poser of note. Is with the chorus on
|ts present' tour of the United tttatee.
Mr. Krlcks lies set to music the story
of the "Olngerbread Hut,” which Is
the story of the opera “Hansel and
Gretel.’* -This he ha* dedicated to the
Junior Red Cross.
Wrltlngr of the musical prowess of
the Bakule chorus, a young woman
from Czecho-Slovakla who is attend
ing Vassar college says in part:
"We do not call a nation musical
merely because it has some prominent
composers of its own, but because it
has a natural richness of musical
spirit spread all over the nation nnd
handed down ^rom generation to gen
eration, because it has a iren.ve pow
er so spontaneous that the music tn
ters into the life and the life Into the
music. We call It *to have a musical
j soul.* That is what the Czecho-Slo
) vaks have."
The personnel of the Association
Male chorus, which will give Its clos
ing concert of the season at the Bran
deis theater May 16 is as follows:
First tenors: Charles E. Hamilton,
Floyd Hanson, Merle Hendrickson, R.
VI Herman, Herbert C. James. E. R.
Lang, Frank Naylor, P. L. Quigley,
Dwight E. Slater, Dean T. Smith and
E. A. Van Fleet.
Second tenors are: R. H. Ballantlne,
Thurston L. Belknap. P. A. Borcher
ding, Don T. Davis, C. A. Gearlsh, D.
S. Guyer, Robert P. Hume, H. J.
Joseph, D. H. Mallory, Albert E. May
and George M. Tait.
Baritones are: Frank A. Allen, How
ard G. Beard, C. P. Bennett, L. A.
Borcherding, E. G. Cockrell, A. B.
Grunwald, A. A, Gutzmer, A. O. Hags
trom. C. W. Millard and E. \V.
Schultz.
Basses are: Howard S. Anderson,
Eulallo Dagdag. S. O. Danielson,
Fred J. Elliott, James C. Hodge, A.
G. Klttell. Fritz Sandwall, C. J. Shaw,
J. E. Steele. William S. Sturgess and
Harry A. Wagar.
The complete program of the num
bers that the chorus will sing as
well as Miss Nash's piano numbers
i will he definitely planned for in the
| next 10 days by the program commit
j tee'of the chorus made up of Frank
II. Van Gundy. P. A. Borcherding, S.
jO. Danielson and H. G. Beard. With
Soloist With the
Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra This Week
prospective purchasers of tickets al
ready lined up nnd with 600 Bents re
served for the associate members of
the chorus, Miss Nash and the male
chorus will he assured a packed' house
on the night of May 16.
The first of the May Music Festival
concerts sponsored by the Omaha
Woman's club will take place on Wed
nesday. May 2. at 11 o'clock In the
morning at one of the downtown the
aters, the location \o be nnounced
next Sunday.
The soloist will be Mrs. Mabel Allen
Smalls, soprano, who will sing with
orehestra accompaniment, the llandet
Aria, "Leave Me Not to Languish."
from "Rinaldo;” "Maria Cradle Song"
by Roger and "Obeissons. Quand Leur
Volx” from ihe opera of Manon by
Massenet.
The soloist for the other four con*
certs will be Hazel Smith Eldridge,
contralto; Robert Cuscaden, who w’ill
play Wallace Wheeler s new violin
concerto; Beryl Burton, soprano;
Samuel Carmel, violinist, and Harry
Diabrow, baritone.
The. orchestra of 42 men which
made such a successful debut at the
Friends of Music concert will present
the first, third and fifth concerts. The
Omaha Woman's Syrpphony and
Woman’s club chorus will present the
second and fourth concerts.
The tickets for the entire festival
can he had from members of the
Omaha Women’s club or at the down
town music stores.
--
Louise Shadduck Zabriskie, F. A.
G. O., will play the following Wagner
organ program. Sunday afternoon,
April 22, at 4 o’clock, at the First
Presbyterian church. She will be
assisted by Mr. I^aw'rence DodA, ten
or, and Mr. Robert Cuscaden. viollj^at.
A cordial invitation is extended lo the
public. Admission is free. Program:
March to Thr Holy Grail . Parsifal
“Almighty God.” . Rlenzi
Mr. Lawrenc# Dodda.
Lfobeatod .. Tristan and Isolde
Prize Song . Meiateralngers
Mr. Robert Cuscaden
“Forest Murmurs’' .Siegfried
Magic Fire Music . •.The Vslkyra
(a) Hound an Alarm . Handel
(b) Twilight . Glen
Mr. Lawrence Dodda.
Prayer .Dr. Janka
Pilgrim’s Chorus .Tannhauser
“Evening Star”. Tannhauser
March . Tannhauser
Program for "Musical Tea," to be
given by the League of Women Vot
ers on Friday, April 27, at 3 o’clock:
“Yesterday and Today".
.Chari cm Gilbert Sproae
“In the Silence of Night".. Rachmaninoff
“In Italy*’.. .lean Boyd
Mrs. Hazel Smith Sldrldgo
“Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces"
.'.... H. Lane Wilson
"Twilight’ . Glenn
“Song of the Open”.LaForge
Mr. Harry Diabrow
Planologues:
“Apple Blossom* in Spring".
.Wealey Martin
I “The Naughty Clock" ... Smith DeKoven
“It Takes" . .Phyllis Fergus
Miss Amy Woodruff
Mrs Willis Redfleld at the piano
“The Dream" .Grieg
"The Virgin’s Slumber Hong". . Reger
, “Voice of April".Roger*
Mrs. Mabelle Allen Small*
The Nebraska Society for the De
velopment of Musical Talent will pre
| sent Its First concert Tuesday eve
nting at'the Auditorium. The affair
I is for the benefit of Sammy Carmell'*
; educational fund to which the proceeds
! will go. The program:
Pakt I
"Listen to the Umha" . . . . Nathaniel f>itt
Soprano Solo.^. Mis* Dorothy Stelnbaugh
"Rolling Down to BJo".... Edward German
Senior Glee Club of^ Central High School
"There I* *Io Death”. .O'Hara
"Good-bye” ..Toatl
Mr. Gus F. Swanson
| "Legende” . . . Weiniawaki
Samuel Carmell
| "The Day I* Done”.Margaret R. Lang
The Wind a in the South”.
..John Prlndle Scott
Misa Helen Nightingale
PART II.
The Lepreehaun".Ttryceson TrehHrne
Girl* Senior Glee Club
! "Wynken, Blynken and Nod”.Nevln
For Soprano Solo and Male Chorus, with
piano accompaniment (tour hand*).
Mi** Steinbaugh and Roya Glee club
"Rondlno" .Beet Woven - K re Isle r
Hejre Kali." Hungarian Dance. Hubay
Samuel Carmell *
Overture—"Midnight Dream”.
. 8» hlepegrel!
Waltz—"Slumberland” . . . Jamecnik
Idyl—"Fond Memories".Ja meonlk
Patrol—"America” .Mf-arhan
Accomftaniats—Mia* Margarita Llljen
*tolpe. Mrs Dorothy Morton Parks and
Mr. Frlti Carlson.
Musical Notch.
The Northland trio, whose com
ponents are Hose F’earson-Burgeson,
soprano: Mary Peterson, mezzo so
prano, and Slgne Mortenson. con
tralto. will hold their second concert
at the Brandeis theater Tuesday, May
1, at S:15 p. m They will be assisted
by the Norden Singing society of Oma
ha and accompanied by our well
known pianist, Miss M. T-lljenstolpe.
Tickets are now on sale at alt leading
music stores, Jewelry stores and
through th* members of the Norden
Singing society, also at the Brandeis,
starting April'24. Their program Is
very carefully selected from Scan
dinavian folk songs and American
concert numbers, and they are all
possessed of fresh, well cultivated
voices and they use them with taste
and musical style, and especially a
group of solos by Miss Mortenson al
ways scores a decided success.
Fortune Hallo, And the San Carlo
Opera company have recently made a
tour to Cuba, accompanied by the
Pavley Okralnsky ballet.
The public Is cordially Invited to
attend a violin recital by Clara Schnei
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Ooeltsche, Archie Baley, Philip
Krasne and Flarry Ftobinson, artist
pupils of Frank Mach, at the Y W.
|C. A. auditorium. Seventeenth and St.
I Mary’s avenue, on Thursday evening,
; May 10. Alice Wixson, pianist artist
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