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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ; DECEMBER 1, 1918.
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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
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The most commanding figure in the
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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.
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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.
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