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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1913)
13 B Gossip ?of Music and Musicians THE FUTURE OF THE CHILDREN Once-a-week Talks 1TK OMAHA SrNJDAY BEE: AVRUj 27, 1913. n- llUMlll'.TTA M. IlEES. .OMOItROW nlghtl Just one day more nnd the curious stranger who hnppens In the and Howard streets after his evening meal will sea bright light smiling from every window of our lilg Auditorium, answered here a,nd there liy gleaming flashes from the headlights of many taxlcabs and automobiles as they turn tho corner and slow down In front of the door. Even the passing cars will stop to look at the brightness and the crowd of machines and from, their doors will bo seen to emerge many a happy passenger dressed In gala attire and each of whom Invariably turns his footsteps toward the building. And the people! He will see peoplo coming from nil directions nnd swarming up to the entrance, for all the world like a great swarm of bees to a mammoth hive. It Is a hlvo too, only In this case Its con tents are not sweet honey, but sweet music, for It will not take htm long to find out that this Is tho opening night of the series of concerts by the Omaha Mendelssohn choir and the Theodore Thomas' Chicago Symphony orchestra." The reason ho will see such a vast crowd of peoplo Is because everybody that Is nnybody In Omaha will always be found nt these concerts and because many music lovers from nearby cities and sur rounding towns consider this an event of sufficient Importance to be worth taking tho trip to hear. The symphony "Patiiotlque," by Tschat kowskl, played by the orchestra on Mon- J . . . l n.nH r.U(AH In 1 H Wfltt. UK? CVCIIIU61 t. ta n.tl.vi. ... - " " performed for the first time at St Petersburg, October 16, 1893, Just three weeks before the composer's death. Some think "that a presentiment of his approaching death may have Influenced this work, but It Is maintained by close friends that the third movement and the deep sorrow of the finale should be In terpreted In the broader light of a na tional or historical significance. The fact remains In either case that this sym phony Is the most human and most pro foundly stirring of all his works. The same general rules make a symphony for the orchestra, a sonata for the piano or piano and violin, and a con certo for solo Instrument and orchestra, all members of the same musical family. There are four movements In this sym phony, and the last Is considered as espe cially Impressive. Tschalkowskl regarded this symphony as the best of his works i and wrote of It with the ardor of affeo tlon. In a letter to his brother, Anatot . (February 10, 1893), he writes, "Completely absorbed In the new project. This time with a program, but a program of a kind that Is an enigma to all, let them guess It who can. There will be much that Is novel as regards form." His brother sug gested the title. In regard to Macbowell's "Woodland Kulte,1' played Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. MacDbwcll wrote as follows: "The suite was begun In Wiesbaden the year wo re turned ,tp America, though It was hardly more than sketched Edward hod no mbre program trr mind than the words lmplyi but ho was undoubtedly led to ward the subject by the clobe proximity In which ho'l HveS to the big Wiesbaden forest. Wo. had a tiny cottage there, Just on the edge of the woods; and he spent hours wandering in them. HIb Scotch blood had filled his mind with mysticism. Deep In his heart he half believed the old tales of spirits nnd fairies not, of course. In his ordinary moods, but his imagina tion carried him very far, even though he might laugh at himself. He hated cut- ting down a big tree; it seomed possible I that something more than tlw tree suf fered. Strange as all this was In Ger many, it wes much, stranger In America. It was extraordinary tho Joy he took that first summer In Feterboro, N, H., In the woods, In the strenms, in the sky, and the fact that It was all so new gave it a singular charm, which the American more often finds in Europe." In the evening tho 'Waldweben," forest whisperings, or murmuring of the winds In the forest, will give us a chanco to hear the great German composer Interpret something of the same Idea Into muslo. This solo comm In that part of the opera where Siegfried Is seen lying under a 'tree, listening to the murmuring of the breezes and looking up through the branches to tho beautiful sky. Miss Florence lllnkle Is perhaps the most popular soprano upon the oratorio stage of today, and Is without doubt one of the finest woman singers that America has ever produced. Thi3 year she lias engagements with tho New York Sym phony orchestra, the New York Oratorio society, tho Theodoro Thomas orchestra, the Chicago Apollo club, the Handel and Haydn society of Boston, with all of which she has been re-engaged. She was the Boloifc at the Toronto festival last fall, she has engagements for seven ap pearances with the Philadelphia Sym - phony orchestra, is one of the principal lngers at the famous festival of Wor ter, England, and has two engage Us with-the Boston Symphony orches dt,The latter and the Thomas orchestra Ifueo ore considered to be America's Raiding orchestras. v. -rt Murphy lienors Omaha by singing (or us a tolo that costs him 25 francs it French money every time ho sings It. Jn other words, for the privilege . of slngln, tho "Voir Grlseldls," he has to cash in the French society of com posers flj good hard round American dullnib as royalty, but rather than sing something else that mlb'ht do, he is bo enthusiastic about tho beauty of this number thaMt docs It. that others may hear It. (Do.'rt let's tell him that some of our townspeople are so Indifferent to , music that lhy would not pay t3 for the three whole toncerts so that they and many others might have opportunities like this man: nioro times If the Men delsohn choir ;an make a success of this 'ilnd of a festival). Last week );e ClUcago Inter-Ocean had a most entertaining story of the "Old. Guard" o, the Thomas orchestra. There are flvo ibat played with Thomas before the formation of the Chicago orchestra, and nine that have played In the orchestra since Its beginning In tho early '80s. Brum Stelndel Is one of thosa that have been with them since this time. Many Interesting anecdotes are told of Mlelr narlv tr)n n .nk- nn nt whlnh w rill repeat: one of the southern rips they were i Saying In Nashville In a wrt of amphltheiaer with the seats slant ing down to the Jstage. The head usher felt his Impo'tarie magnified by a gold and blue official badge two feet long. During the flrstnumber he tramped np Tho agitation which provails just now in regard to tho fortnno and welfaro of tho homeless girl is of inueli greater import ance to tho average family than perhaps is gonerally roalized. Tho fact is, that no , parental couplo can tako such precautious that their daughters or sons, too, for that matter may not at some futuro timo bo iu the ranks of tho big mass of wago earners struggling with tho most elementary problems of life. There is no dis grace in this, but tho all important question is: are tho young shoots from tho family tree equipped in a manner to bravo tho storms of later life? 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Supelntendent Graff, In conjunction with nsBlstant Superintendent Ryan and Miss McHugh, principle of tho high school, consider the educational value of the visit of the orchestra of such worth that they have made arrangements with the management whereby high school students may gain admittance to the afternoon concert at a special reduced rate, provided that they get their tickets through the high school. John Philip Sousa some time ago, In "Norhward-Ho," wrote an article entitled, "When a Man's Out of Tune." Some of this gives such a clear Idea of the use and peculiarities of orchestral Instru ments that a few clippings from It will not be lnapropos, in view of the ap proaching visit of the Theodore Thomas orchestra: The peculiarities of Instruments are duplicated by the characteristics of hu man kind, the wide range affording In teresting study. The queen of the musical family Is the violin, sensitive under all conditions, capable of the most minute graduations of sound and pitch now sen timental, now brilliant, now coquettish, now breaking notes of passionate love. Look about you and you will find the violin's double among some you know; high Bturng, diffident, capable of all the emotions, beautiful In the crystallzed harmonies of affection and sympathy. Another affinity is the heavy going, stolid, slow thinking, one idea man whose llfo is taken up with punctuating time with breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sleep, ad flnltum He may be likened to the bass drum with Its "thump, thump, thump, and ogaln 'thump, thuhp, thump, thump, thump;" the thump like tho meals and sleep of the man may be great or small, but it la always "thump, thump, thump, thThen again we have the man in life like the instrument In the orchestra, destined never to rise above second position. A third alto horn man may envy a solo alto man. but he remains a third alto man forever. A second trombone may cast Jealous eyes at hlB brother In the first chair, but it availeth him not. Fourth cornets and second fiddles, eighth clar inets and sixth trumpets may deride the captains of industry of the instru mental group, but they ever remain in obscurity. If instruments were born equal all would be sovereigns and If men were born equal all would be soloUts. Disposi tions in instruments and people go hand I .... .1 rri. .. L l 1 ftn onfl nVH- terlcal woman are twins and both can be come nuisances; the golden thread of the obeo's tone and the beautiful voice of shy 10 walk arm In arm. The pomp and cir cumstance of the emperor are exempli fied in the nobleness of the trombone; the languorous lisp of the summer girl Is echoed in the rhythm of Andaluslan guitar. The love proposal Is pictured In tho Impassioned melodv enunciated In the tenor clef of cello, while the flirty gig gling of the shallow coquette finds Its mate in the fickle flights of piccolo. The man who never deviates, a sort of ani mated law of the Medes and Persians, meets his rival In the positive "umph" of bass horn, while the undecided never-can-make-up-hls-mlnd individual Is pic tured by the hesitating "pah" of the second alto. The last tew rehearsals of the Mendels sohn choir took place behind closed doors, even the occasional enthusiastic visitor being shut out. It must have been en couraging to the management and espe cially so to Mr. Kelly, the conductor, that in Bplte of much rain and Inclement weather, out of the 190 voices the ab sentees rould be counted upon the fingers of one hand at these rehearsals, although maiiy members come from South Omaha, Council Bluffs and Florence, This is one Soloists Who Will Be Heard With Mendelssohn Choir in Concert 7? 7 . Cozil-Talt-o reason why our Omaha choir has such a high standing among the choral organiza tions of the country. Another reason is that Mr. Kelly knows several things about the gentle art of singing, and he is not afraid that he will bo giving away some secret of the profession, something that he saves for his pupils only, if he tells the choir how to take certain tones easily, and to get the desired effect. It is per haps the fact that the members feel that they learn something more thun tho mere notes that they sing that keeps them en thusiastic. Thoy have not been rehears ing for Just this season upon the works to be sung, but thoy havo been growing and broadening, and studying out the fine better by knowlllB tneln whether lively points of the music for tho three year j 8nd gR. or 8erlougt tll0 compositions pre past, working one evening every week. scnted ftre ,,onesti Ul0 hamonleB are carefully and faithfully throughout each , Io(lca, aa the wor(ls aro adapted to the season. Sometimes when I listen to some mualc npproprlntely. u la earnestly hoped ospecUIly fine work it remind, me of the thnt w clo glnga at the motto of the United states. "E Plurlbiw ,ast Hacna, ans Sacns, Nurem. Unum. The test of a splendid choir Is w.. nn ,, aa.v. ,hn, ,ua tri. Impression I i ' ' S llSw J's'Jfe Sill filled engagements Iu Illinois, lowa and Nebraska. Tim newspaper critics have been very kciktoiih In their praise of Mrs. Wyllo's work and the fact that she Is already hooked for return engagements In many of tho cities whero she hns ap peared, nnd In many points e!eswh.ero for tlie- season 1H13-1914, is evidence of her rapid progress In the concort field. Miss Nancy Cunningham will give an organ recital on Hundny evening, May 4, at tho First Congregational church. Blio Will eb assisted by Ilr. Frementell, who will sing two groups of songs. Tjio pro gram will lm practically a request 'program. stronger Influence In its way than the poor has, for deep down In almost everyone's innermost recesses of sold there Is always the longing .to do good and to be good, and tho music that can strike this responsive chord makes a much deeper than any other. You who attend tho concerts cannot help but be uplifted by what you will hear, but those that have gained the most from them are those that have lived with these works all these months, and can appreciate their good qualities the not the fineness of some of the voices, but the solo ability of each one singing to be able to so stay with the beat of the conductor's baton, that from the many soloists emerges the one beautiful Instru ment of music played upon by the con ductor the choir. The aame is true of a good orchestra. Each must be an able enough performer to permit the leader to bring out the desired effect. A great American daily the other day published this editorial, "One culture In evitably leads to another, and an im provement In popular musical taste should Influence for the better popular lean ings, longings, and aspirations In gen- berg's Own Hans Sachs!" that the tri umphant burst of melody will be echoed with words of rejoicing in the hearts of everyone present because he has had the good fortune to attend, and because the choir belongs with us, and U composed of our own people. jrJoTeuce TJ330 Jones and Henry Cox are the accompanists. August M. Iiorglum will present Miss Florence Peterson' In u piano recital Thursday evening. May 1, at 26G1 Douglas street. The program will Include the lleethoven C Minor concerto, and se lected numbers by Bchumann. Chopin, Kubenstelri. Ieschptlsky and Satn't-Saens. Musical Notes. The music department of the Woman's club, will, under the leadership of Miss Kuth (Sanson, meet at the club rooms, April 30 at 2:18 p. m. Apnual report will be given and officers for the coming year will be elected. Mrs. A. II. Hunt wilt have charge of the program which will bo from American composers. Mrs. Hunt will read a paper on American eral." We hear constantly of the awful ! L"uJ,lr,and. ,VPW!1,1' ev'"' "". , ,, - , . ' and Sidney Homer will be among- the Influence of poor music, why not get t composers represented. Those taking on the affirmative side of the question ' part will be Miss Carrie Collins, Kssle and argue about the excellent Influence i Aarons, uora Mass. uiga fcitner ana imrrv iviau ni w . .i ibh r.iiiiuiiin i n urr wood, May' Johnson and' Messrs Jean (Principal cities ut Kansas and has also The National Federation of Musical clubs held It eighth regular biennial fes tival In Chicago this week. Louise Jansen Wylle has Just finished her concert work for this season with three engagements In Kansas last week, rloslni! with a sonir recital in Hutchin son, Kan . Thursday During the last I Il I .......... . .,(-.. ftl..l.AlL IIJ.. I .......... l IITull. Unm In all Vl J nf rnorl inll.lt. tr,r mr.A mM.! ha. '"u'v"'; ""1 V1"a'" " f " 71 . " ' '1" . """" V'V " " At the Theaters (Continued from 1'uge Twelve.) "Whose I.lttlo Girl Are You?" whlchwTll begin a week's engagement nt tlie Hip podrome, commencing Sunday matinee, April ill. Mr. AVoolfolk Is a writer of cntchy tongs. His "Eve," "Different Ways of Making Ixivo" and others In "A Winning Miss" were excellent, but this Hhow offers some that aro oven butter. The title song, "Whoso Little Girl Are You?" will bo whistled on the streets, i whllo "Queenle," "The Sewsnee Shore," "Tho End of tho World" and "Tako Me Duck to that Cabaret" aro big hits. There Is u comedian In this show who has Juttly given himself some bright lines unci good Hltuutlons. Ho Is William .Morris, author of the book and manager of tho company. A close tecond to Mr. Morns it Pat liarret, an eccentric com edian. MIhs Ornoe Thurston is a graceful and talented woman, who Is Mr. Morris' principal support. The rest of the cast is excellent, and a challenge beauty chorus udds to the produutlon. To bring to a fitting climax the regular season of cxrnvagunzn and vaudeville ut tho popular Qayety there has been held In roserve an attraction entirely new lo the "wheel" thin season tho "Merry-Oo-llounders." It contains many scenic, me- suo"ces of tho yonr In New York, will b prefented. Tho second part of the enter tainment Is entitled "Daffy Shop, or Fun In n Uunatlo Asylum." Interpolated In the two burlettns are twenty-one musical numbers. Friday night, as usual, will he country storo night. A real musical treat Is promised by the management of tho Empress theater In their offering for next week, beginning Monday. A special hooking has been mnde of Hlguor Hlrlano and his Uanda Itomn. Slgnor Slrlano's present company consists of Blxteen talented Italian musl tluns, who were picked from his largo New York bnnd for a vnudevllle tour of tho west. Hlmior Slrlano was at one tlmo the leader of tho Hoyal Italian band at Homo. 1 lager and Sullivan will offer their bit of variety called "A Whirlwind of Mirth." "A Tempest and Sunshine" net by tho "Nifty Olrls" and a comedy muilcal act by Moneta nnd Wilber, with tho regular offering of photo plays, com plete, tho hill and will constltuto the most sensational program that has been of fered by the Empress ptnee Its opening. NEW MOVING AND STORAGE CONCERN ENTERS FIELD Strongly hocked by local capital tho Fidelity Storugo & Van Co, entered the local storago and moving field a short time ago. They occupy the upper floors of the Union Outfitting company building, cor ner Sixteenth and Jackson streets (the latter concern on account of their rapidly growing businesB having socured an out side warehouse for their surplus stock), and do a general household and piano storage business, also moving, packing and shipping. Tho Fidelity Storage & Van Co. offer many advantages. They aro centrally located, have every facility for carefid storage of furniture, pianos, etc. The chanlcnl and electrical novelties and. building during cold weather Is steam above all, tho lines and fun nro clean nnd wholesome, points on which the Uay, cty management has insisted on all sea son and with a degree of success bo prominent that starting next season the Uuyety will ho tho only theater In Omaha offering entertainment of this particular kind. George P. Murphy Is the principal funmuker. As Pntrlcla O'Urlon would say. ".Murphy Is the whole giggle." Tho music Is beautiful nnd catchy. It In a big com pany of more than fifty. The plere Is not burdc-ied with a plot that is too iloep for the comfort of the average theater goer unless he attempts to discover It. Ah usual, there will be n ladles' lime matinee dally, starting Monday. The summer season will be utilized at tho Oaycty by the presentation of Juet movies every day from noon to U p. m. It Is nnnounced that the programs will be changed dally and of most careflil se lection. Each summer for the last five years the Qayety has offered the most satisfactory moving pictures In Omaha and will have no difficulty In maintain ing Us reputation along that line. Pic tures will start Sunday, May i. Admission will be but 6 cents. "The New Jersey Lilies," chockful, of bright and sparkling music, original and funny librettos, brilliant scenlo and light effects, pretty girls with real voices, and, last but not least, real comedians, Is the next attraction at the Krug the. ater, for the week commencing with the usual Sunday matinee. The bulk of the comedy rests with Clare P. erg, Anna Clark, Tom Crowley, Ed Smalley, Victor Fay, Clara Day and Steve Greene. The first part Is a musical farce, entitled "Dolly's Debut." Following Is the olio, In which "The Strike," a. sensational heated throughout, has sprinkler system which gives the lowest Insurance rates, large, well lighted floors for storage, also separate locked rooms and wide aisles. Only expert furniture men handle goods. They have a large packing room, well lighted and located In the same building, electric passenger elevator and large vans and open wagons to move your goods. Y0JNG WOMEN ENTERTAIN AT FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH The C. Sentnlf society, composed of the young women of the First Christian church, gave an entertainment Friday night at the church before a largo audi ence. All the members of the class took part In the entertainment, which con sisted of a varied selection of musical numbers, monologues and a short comedy sketch. Lawrence Payne and Miss Marie Yard presented the "Lunatic" and Miss Oneld Moran gave a short monologue. Misses Ethel Kllnger, Ida Anderson, Lydta Italmer. Myrtle Walker, Hazel Fowler and Glady's Glenn rendered several mu sical selections, "An American Harem" was presented by Misses Ituth Morris, Florence Ander son, Helen Morris. Marie Yard, Gene Maters, Joseph Burger and Lawrence Payne. To Dissolve the Union of stomach, liver and kidney troubles and cure biliousness and malaria, take Electric Bitters. Guaranteed. Only 60c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Advertisement. Key to the Situation Bee Advertising 1