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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1920)
vr THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; APRIL 25, 1920., - 11 D IMU 5 I C 1 By HENRIETTA M. REES. THE announcement of two audi toriums soon to be built in Omaha by Mrs. Joslyn as a me morial to her husband is one of the most important from a musical standpoint made in several years. For a long time the musical public has felt the need of a suitable audi torium, especially for the smaller nd more intimate musical events, end from the announcement one of the two proposed -auditoriums will be just the sort where this kind of a concert will appear at its best. Many kinds of music lose a great deal by being presented in too large a hall. Certain fine singers pos sess smaller, lighter, voices than those of other operatic stars, but who sometimes possess a far greater art than is given them of greater volume and range. These would be heard to a great disadvantage in the wide spaces, of a large hall, but they would give an ideal recital in a smaller hall. Delightful chamber music can't you just hear it in a small and carefully appointed audi torium? Undoubtedly this smaller auditorium will be carefully ap pointed. And the larger one also. Won't it be heavenly to hear music in suit able surroundings? It seems as if in all my life I have never heard but one concert in Omaha that my eyes were not affronted by some amazing and peculiarly formed in dividual of the scenery, who was part front view and part side view, or whose eyes looked as mine have sometimes felt, or who with rounded elbows, cavorted in perilous posi tions upon a dramatically perpen dicular tiled floor. Or was it a checker hoard? I never quite knew what the artist did intend, but I al ways vainly hoped that sometime the danseuse would lose her pose and slip off. The importance of a suitable vis ual appeal has long been recognized for opera and the spoken drama. It is also important for the concert or recital. All our senses more or less con sciously work together. We go ex pecting 100 per cent enjoyment for the simple reason that we usually pay 100 per cent prices for it. But we cannot get full enjoyment through our sense of hearing, when our other senses are offended at the same time. Physicians tell us that nerves carry messages to our brains. The concert-goer often receives sev eral messages at once. One of them is a beautiful one which comes from the sense of hearing. Another mes sage mav insist that his spine is paralyzed and insist so persistently that he feels a genuine relief at the close of the concert. Another one says, "I am so eternally bored with the setting it morbidly fascinates me, and that woman wagging her head three rows in front of us is out of time with the music." Some times there are other messages, pleasant or unpleasant, but pungent. The educated music lover, being an optimist with strong auditory nerves, concentrates upon the beau tiful sounds, and wilfully ignores the other messages. The less interested listener, whose weaker listening powers and musical understanding can not monopolize the main cur rent, soon finds himself more and more engrossed with the other mes- saees. and then says he has not en joyed the music very much, that next time he will stay at nome. Music is elusive, and when many elements work together for his en joyment, he is more able to catch its meaning. The artist and the music are the main points of interest and the appointments and surround ings are background, but as Thomas J. Kelly once said: "There is a great deal in the setting of a precious stone" & The music department of the Omaha Woman's club will present a concert at the Y. W. C. A. audi torium on Thursday evening, April 29. The following program will be presented: TaltMu! Johnny" Beethoven "All Through the Night" Oh! Welsn "Hedge Roses" hubert "Wbo Is Silvia" Shubert Woman's Club Chorus. Henrv Cox Director and Accompanist "Barcarole" A minor Kuliensteln "impromptu" .Noble Kreldor Noctrurne G major Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 5 .'...Chopin Cecil W. Berryman "The Moths" u Paltrot "How Sweet the Answer Echo Makes" lirewer "Through the House Give Glimmering Light" (tour parts). ..Mrs. II. A. Beach "The Voice of My Beloved" Florence Alward Double Violin Obligate Kvelyn Reese Mrs. Samuel AnsHldo, Sylvip Bronders, p la. Hops. Vision Fugitive (from He'rodlodel Maesanett "Where'r You Walk" Handel T.'Aurore (French Canadian I'atols) , Fred (). Ellis. Miss Ruth Fn at piano. "In May" (four parts) Parker Three Flower Songs (four parts) a. "The Clover b. "The Yellow Daisy" c. "The Bluebell" Mrs. Beach. "The Years at the Spring" (four parts) Woman's Club Chorus. , Signs of spring as sure as the tulips and jonquils are the notices of pupils' recitals which begin to be held about the first of May. The Musical Leader reprints the following Milan dispatch to the London Telegraph: "Lucca was the scene of an extraordinary incident which recalls the classic fable of Or pheus with his lute: The playing of a boy violinist sud denly halted a mob In the streets of Lucca, and the rioters abandoned th-lr violent purpose. The violinist is Vosa Prlkoda, & Bohemlun lad of IS, who wan dered to Venice 14 months ago and was at Luora during the socialist agitation. A great crowd assembled; Knrico Malatesta, an anarchist leader, made a harangue which excited his hearers to fury, and, ready for uny excesses, they stnrted through the main street of the public square. On the balcony of his hotel near the entrance to the square, the Bohemian boy was playing his violin to a few admiring people below. The first of the mob Touched this group, listened to the violinist and re mained, fascinated bv his playing. All tho others slopped to listen, and as the boy continued playing their fury subsided. Instead of smashing heads they applauded him, and an hour later were all walking iletly to their Homes. lust as a matter of curiosity don't you wonder what a good brass band could have done the nigiit ot tne Omaha riot, if there could have been one handy? The above is merely one of many instances of the power of music for emotional morale. Musical Notes. A luncheon will be held on Tues day noon at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce for musicians and music lovers Interested In co-operating in a btg municipal concert to. be held in the Auditorium some time in the near future. Those who would like reservations are asked to notify Mrs. Hester B. Cooper at the Omaha World-Herald on Monday, A recital was given by pupils of Miss Corinne Faulson at her resi dence on Sunday, April 18, at 3 p. m. The following, rpupils were heard: Ruth Kiseman, Edward Rosewater, Vivian Johnson, Elizabeth von Lutt gen, Dorothy Davidson, Harriett Rosewater, Bernice PYrer, Frances Harrison, Elizabeth Morgan, Alice Nixon, Mary Alice Klrtley, Juliet Nesin, Oeneen Noble, Catherine Mor gan, Ellanore ttaxter, Olga Hillqulst. The Tuesday Musical club Is run by wide-awako women who do not allow any grass to grow under their feet. At their closing concert lor tho season tho exeit-ing announce' nient was made that Sergei Ilach nianinov, the great Russian com poser and pianist, now in this coun try, has been engaged for a recital on February S of next year. Every body knows Rachmaninov by his C sharp minor "Prelude" which every body else plays, and the musical colony knows him for a great many other interesting . preludes besides, and for larger musical compositions which are not as widely known. He has been acclaimed wherever he has played as a great artist. It was one of his symphonies which the Min neapolis Symphony orchestra played when they visited us with full mem bership during the winter. Ameri ca is fortunate to have so distin guished a musician in its musical life at present and Omaha will be fortunate to have an opportunity to hear him. Tho Child Saving Institute will net 532. 58. from tho recent produc tion of "The Bohemian Girl" by the Omaha Opera association, given tinder the direction ot J. E. Carnal. Mr. Carnal and Mr. Misenor of the Misenor School of Dramatics co operated in this production, and a large cost of local singers and other musicians took part and the promot ers are congratulating themselves that they are able to turn over so largo a sum to the institute, especial ly when the expenses of over $1,000 were takon Into consideration. Clayton V. Sum my company has recently published "Music Kounda- Casey's Pipe Is Too Much for Poor Fish Atlantic City, N. J., April 24. 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