I MUSI C THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ; DECEMBER 1, 1918. 11 a By HENRIETTA M. REES. THERE have been many expres lions of satisfaction about the opening concert of the Omaha Woman's Club Music department professional series. A fine audience was present at the first one, an audi ence that listened attentively, and seemed to enjoy thoroughly the var ious numbers of the program. It was not an audience which had the attitude that it was doing a duty by beinfc present. There was none of that pious aloofness nor that martyr air easily recognizable under certain circumstances. Nor was there any attitude of indifference or satiety with but a small amount of music. There was more the centainty that each member of the audience had been let in on a good thing, that here was an 4 opportunity to hear some really interesting episodes from the literature of music, and to become familiar with them, There were numbers which many of those present had never heard before, and to hear them had all the charm of reading a new story. A sreat many of the audience had heard the play ers before; they knew how they played and they were sure of them, and they were not only inferested in the personality of the players but in the selections for themselves, and it seemed that the more of them they heard the more they liked. The audi ence which attends this course will have listened not only to the num erous local artists who will make up the personnel of the series, but they will also have taken a course in hear ing many of the works of many of the'greatest composers which they would not otherwise have known. A wide range of selections will be covered, in voice, violin and piano, and at the close an inventory will disclose that there are a great many more interesting songs, violin com positions and piano solos than the average listener ever thought there were and that the selection will not need to duplicate the programs of visiting artists to be so, either. "In his always variegated and il luminative . Evening Post column, Henry T. Finck tells of some mo mentous recent musical occasions connected with happenings during the recent war, and recalls especially the patriotic tonal outbursts in the cathedral of liberated Tournai, at St. Paul's (London) when the Unit ed States entered the conflict, and in Petrograd when the whole nation poured out its gratitude by singing the country's anthem on the eve ning of the first fall of Pr'zemysl. The snow was falling fast, while from all the churches and from the streets resounded the sublime strains of the national hymn sung with un precedented fervor. Mr. Finck proceeds as follows: ! "When music thus becomes vital, an integral part of life itself, it is a very different thing from the arti ficialties of our opera houses and concert halls, where audience's, as a rule, go for mere entertainment, while the artists too often seek to astonish the natives by displays of skill rather than by appeals to the heart. " 'Heart .music is heard altogether too seldom at recitals and concerts The academic, frigid critics frown on it as "DODular" and encourage the musicians in their stupid professional notion that a composition, to be nign class, must be very long and very difficult Thus it happens that son atas and symphonies and show pieces are flung at the public, while the shorter things that speak direct ly to the heart are neglected.' "It is not the idea of Mr. Finck or of the other sponsors of 'heart music,' that it should supplant the art forms and the classical reper toire. A judicious admixture of all the styles isL, the surest way ..for a concert given to interest the largest number of auditors. It never will hurt the classics to program them with lesser music. It is amazing, though, to find how frequently some of the latter holds its own with the classics. . "Lest we forget, Motart, Haydn, Beethoven and Bach were not in spired song writers. Also Schubert Schumann, Brahms, Debussy ana the Russians wrote many a song which is not any better than scores of modern lyrics from the pens ot our younger American composers." From the Musical Courier. yAt the Metropolitan opera the opera, "Samson and Delilah," by Saint Saens, with Caruso ami Ho mer.'was sung the night of Novem ber W, according to James K. Hun neker. Between Acts 1 andtl a pat riotic demonstration was given with many flags of the allies, and the na tional anthem, "The Marseillaise" and anthems of the other allies w ere sung. During the rehearsal in the afternoon before the performance, some technical genius in the stage department dug up the dummy Siegfried formerly used in the Wagner music drama after the vo cal Siegfried had been slain. This was transformed into a mock Kaiser Wilhelm, and with a helmet on its head it was hung on a gibbet, and carried by the supers on a short parade, the figure being stabbed by any stage swords handy. Manager Gatti Casazza caught the symbol ism oft and he, with Mme. Alda, with Monteux conducting the full opera house orchestra (minus the contrabasso) the procession moved up to Forty-second street and back to the opera house, where the ef figy was disposed of permanently. Olga Samaroff, pianist, who will appear m a recital ihunaay eve ning, December 12, under the aus pices of the Tuesday Musical club, made her first professional appear ance in New York city, where she appeared a soloist with the New York Symphony orchestra, Walter Damrosch conducting, on January 18, 1905. This was followed by her London debut the following year. Since then Mme. Samaroff has made extensive tours, giving con certs in London, on the continent, and especially in the United States, where she has appeared with all the leading orchestras as well as jointly with the. most prominent soloists. In 1911, she was married to Leopold Stokowski, now conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra. Mme Sam aroff makes her present home in Philadelphia. Mme. Samaroff played in Omaha about ten years ago and many lovers of piano music still re member the excellence of her play- Mme. Galli-Curci, who will ap pear here at the Auditorium as the first number of the All-Star Concert course Friday evening, January 10, responded to 23 recalls after the mad scene in Lucia," which was sung at the Chicago au ditorium the pastweek. Musical Notes. ' ' Mrs, E. R. Zabriskie will not give her'organ recital announced for this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church as she is ill at Clarkson hos pital with the "flu." Her husband and little daughter are also at the hospital with the same disease. Mrs. Louise Jansen Wylie will give her first musical tea of the season at her residence, 3821 Far nam street, on Sunday afternoon, December 1, at 4 o'clock. The fol lowing pupils will sing: Mrs. Grace Mauer, Miss Grady, Miss Podolak, Miss Adler, Miss Behrens, Miss Krittenbrink, Miss - Parsons, Miss Scheibel, Miss Freemin. Miss Adelyn Wood and Miss Dorothy Morton will give two groups of two piano numbers in Lincoln on Thursday afternoon, December 5, at the governor's man sion, for Tie benefit, of the Overseas War Relief fund. The Tuesday Musical club will present Marie Mikova, pianist, and Warren Proctor, tenor of the Chi cago Opera company, in a joint re cital at the Brandeis theater on the evening of January Id. Pupils of Miss Helen Mackin will present a piano recital Sunday aft ernoon at the . Boys' Industrial home, assisted by Miss Drury, so prano, pupil of Florence Basler Palmer. Cecil Berryman presents Ger trude Anne Miller in a piano recital assisted by Miss Mabel Allen, so prano, pupil of Afrs. Mabelle Craw ford Welpton, Tuesday evening, De cember 3rd, at the First Christian church, Twenty-sixth and Harney streets. Miss Grace Slabaugh will accompany. Miss Mary Chapman, also a pupil o( Mrs. Welpton, was to have assisted but as she is ill with influenza, Miss Allen kindly consented to take her part. An in teresting program has been ar ranged, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Galli-Curci to Sing XH ere in All Star Concert Course 1 Miss Luella Anderson has ar ranged a musical program for the political social science department of the Omaha Woman's club at the Prettiest Mile club on the afternoon of Thursday, December 5. Mis"s Marguerite Sharpless and Miss Flor ence Senior, and Mrs. Fred Hill will furnish the violin, piano and vocal selections, respectively. Miss Marguerite Morehouse and Miss Grace Slabaugh the accompanists. In comemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Immanuel Luth eran church, Nineteenth and Cass streets, the choir, assisted by Prof. Leroy Carlson, Effie Johnson of Luther college and Prof. Adolph Hult of Augustana college will give a Festive Song Service Tuesday evening, December 3. The program will be made up of organ solos, vo cal solos and anthems and Profes sor Hult's address will be upon the subject "Oh Sing Unto the Lord a New Song." THE following which is from the pen of Edward C, Moore, one of Chicago's best known mu sical writers, will give some idea of the enthusiasm which, prevails every time Galli-Curi the gifted coloratura soprano,, who vill be heard here at the Auditorium as the first number of an all-star concert .course Friday evening, January 10, appears in a performance with the Chicago Opera company: ' "Beginning at three minutes past 10 o'clock, and continuing for 16 minutes thereafter these figures are exact there was the most beautiful singing by her that had been heard since last she sang the role, or will be until she appears again in the same part. For its equal the elder contingent of operagoers will have to become reminiscent over a gen eration or so back. "This was the scene wherein Lucy goes mad to the gentle pleadings of the flute. Mme. Galli-Curci's voice not an enormous one. There are at least a dozen members ot the Chicago Opera association who can shout more lustily than she. None of them, or the combined group, could oerfect purity that floats clearly out over a tumult and makes any other voice or any instrument sound coarse by comparison. The only thing that silenced her was the effort of some vociferous cheer leaders in the audience, inducing their fellow lunatics to begin ap plauding before the last note was completed. "It was such singing that will re main in the minds of her audience today. Jhere were other members of the cast, but there is small profit Wedded Yet Happy and Working Together for Many Long Years THE fact the Henry Bergman and Gladys Clark, who are tour ing the Orpheum circuit in their new act, "A Ray of Sunshine," make no attempt to disguise the fact that, they are man and wife, reveals a cu rious condition that exists in the theater of our time. In the old days is was no unusual thing for married folk to be heralded as such. For instance, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil liams, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Flor ence and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chan frau. Nowadays, not only is it that a man and his wife do not appear to gether as stars," but it seems to be the managerial dictum that they shall not be seen in the same com pany. This condition of affairs seems to exist likewise in motion pictures. Several of our more .'a mous "queens of the cinema" have husbands who are also in the pic tures, only the directors manage it somehow that the husband never happens to be the lover-hero in the stories which they enact. It is in vaudeville only that the old matrimonial tradition xists as "in the golden days of the drama." Some of the most popular acts in vaudeville are married couples, known and heralded as such. Some of the bet known of these are Pat Rooney and Marion Bent, Will Cressy and Blanche Dayne, Carter De Haven and Flora Parker, T. Roy Barnes and Bessie Crawford, Paul Morton and Naomi Glass, Cecil Lean and Geo Mayfield and Henry Bergman and Gladys Clark . Of the latter, Henry Bergman and Gladys Clark, have been appearing in vaudeville as man and wife for 10 years. Henry Bergman has been on the stage for 15 years. He began with the "Katzenjammer Kids," play ed anuffles, the messenger boy in "The Telephone Girl," and in that comedy made his first song hit, the same being "My Estelle," He then did a season with Joe Hart and Carrie De Mar in "Foxy Grandpa." Then came three years of doing comedy characters. At this time Gladys Clark was the ingenue of the Boston Music hall, appearing with Blanche Ring and other artists in a burleque of "The Village Postmas ter. Then Henry Bergman mar ried Gladys Clark, and the two have appeared continuously in vaudeville since that time, with the exception of the past two years when they apoeared in musical comedy. ENRICO CAMUS The most commanding figure in the x operatic world today will appear in "MY COUSIN" At the Rialto Theatre This Week ( 7Z . ENRIQO.CAB.Ui5 9 : j J Hear Him on the Victrola See Him at the Rialto Today HIS golden tenor voice brought to ; you in perfect tones by one of our own Vicirolas in a scora. from "Pagliacci" is a feature of the , Rialto offering. THE A. Hospe Co. , invites you to call ' arid hear the Vic trola in his latest ren ditions of worl d fa mous operas. We carry a complete stock of Victrolas and Victor records. 1 If 13-1515 Douglas St. The Christmas Art and Victor Store: . Zionists Celebrate First Anniversary of Free Palestine Nebraska and Iowa Zionists will ceTebrate the first anniversary of the declaration of the Palestine Magna Charter at the Muny auditorium Sunday night. Jews and Gentiles alike are invited to attend the cele bration. A chorus of 200 voices under the leadership of Miss Jessie Kruger will lead the singing. The Som mers orchestra accompanied by Miss Bula Kulakofslcy will render musical selections. The Fort Oma ha band has been engaged for the evening. Dancing will follow the program. Rabbi M. N. Taxon, Rabbi Charles Kavaur of Denver and Rev. Titus Lowe will address the gath ering. Harry Fleharty will give an interpretation of the Magna Chapter and its probable ejects. Governor Keith Neville is expected to be in attendance and deliver an address. The Palestine Magna Charter as outlined by Sir Arthur J. Balfour for the British government has for its object the freeing of Palestine for settlement, by Jews. This move will allow them to escape the op pressive and discriminating meth- -ods of Jhe Servian, Roumanian, Austrian and Turkish governments. It has been recognized by the American government. . i Restriction Removed. Washington, Nov. 30. Removal of harbor restrictions imposed under the espionage act was announced to day by the treasury customs bureau. This permits the carrying of cameras in harbor, the movement of vessels after sdark, the inspection of mani fests and boarding of vessels by news writers and the arrival and departure of coastwise ships without reporting to port aiojjtjes AMELITA GALLI-CURI. in recalling them. They may be, and probably are, very estimable artists and citzens, but they simply did not exist when Mme. Galli-Curi was on the stage." Seat sale for the series opens at the box office of the Auditorium Monday morning at 10 o'clock. DOUG'S WIFE IS GIVEN DIVORCE New Rochelle, N. Y., Nov. 30. Mrs. Beth S. Fairbanks todav won an interlocutory decree 6t divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, moving picture actos, in the s upreme court here. Stye was awarded the custody of their son, Douglas Fairbanks, jr., 8 years old. The record of the tes timony in the case refers to the co respondent as an unknown wo man." The Fairbanks were married in 1907 at Watch Hill, R. I. Released from Jail on Plea of Wife That He is Needed Maurice Olson, sentenced last Sat urday to 30 ays in the county jail for selling liquor to soldiers, was released by Federal Judge Wood rough after serving seven days on the plea of his wife that she needed him at home. Olson was released Saturday morning. Try a Bee Want Ad for a business booster. They are winners and al ways bring results. POPULARMUSIC VIA - r- . Christensen's System , ' Popular Music and Ragtime Piano Playing positively taught In Twenty liessons. . , ' Omaha Studio: 4225 Cuming. Walnut 3379. 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