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I MUSICAL MENTION i
JOBK KAXDOLH J
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On Thursday evening, September 24,
the first orchestral coucert of the season
was given at the Lansing theatre by the
Chicago Festival orchestra, assisted by
A. Sophia Markee, announced as "The
New American singer." This concert,
as I stated last woek, was the first of a
series of popular musical performances
to be given during the winter and of
which due notice will be given in this
paper. The next attraction, by the
way, in this series is the appearance of
Fanny Bloomffeld Zeigler iu a recital or
coBpoaitions for the piano forte.
The coning of this great "pianotst" (as
the program of Thursday put it) is in
deed an event in musical circles. She
is fresh from her recent triumphs at
horns and in Europe, and I, for one, am
anxious to hear her again. But to re
turn to the "Chicago Festival orches
tra.'' This organization is under the
baton of Adolph Rosenbecker, the vio
linist teacher and some of his pupils are
in its ranks.
- The orchestra was heard in the well
known "William Tell" and "Tann
hausor" overtures, in a group of dances
(presumably incidental music to some
Shakespearian revival. as "Henry VIII"
is mentioned upon the program) by E.
Gorman a composer unknown to me
and in a march by Mr. Rosenbecker en
titled "The Burlington Route," besides
playing a group of three short pieces.
The performance of the orchestra was,
to toll the truth, very uneven. The
overture to "William Tell" went well,
the ensemble was goal and the solos
for 'cello and oboe crisply given. Nor
were the dances of E. German badly
played, and at the first hearing I liked
them much. But as the evening wore
on with a dispiritingly small audience
the orchestra played ill, for the "Tann
hauser' overture received an indifferent
reading and among the shorter pieces a
transcription of the Bach Gounod "Ave
Maria," and one or Mendelssohn's
"Spring Song" from the "Lieder Ohno
Woerte," went very badly indeed.
Ernst's "Airs Hongroise for solo violin
with orchestral accompaniment was
played by a young and gorgeous violin
ist billed as Mr. Harry Dimond. The
youth, for he seemed scarcely more, was
seemly .to look upon and his technique
was ample for the brilliant number
chosen.
Madame A. Sophia Markee. "The
New American Singer,"' is certainly a
new singer to me, but she is a very com
petent lyric soprano with an even voice
of good range if not especially beautiful
quality and a magnificent low breath.
In these days when sbouting and wrong
breath control have caused a deterior
ation of vocal art so that a really well
trained voice is a rare thing it is a de
lightful experience to hear so compe
tent and well schooled an artist as this
stager. Personally I do not like to hear
augers bark; I am so constituted that I
would rather for my own pleasure Jjear
them Bg, and this artist certainly has
attained to the M canto so rarely heard
nowadays.
The singer was heard in Fiiina'sair,
the Polonaise "Io Son Ti tibia" from
"MigBOB," and in a portion of the same
masters "Mad Scene' from "Hamlet"
The cosclueion of the mad scene was
f Brushed by the audience which sat
sad patiently waited for a while for
Madame Markee to appear in costume
as Ophelia. It seems that the sieger
was indisposed (O useful word) and
sang merely a portion of this number as
a concert excerpt instead of performing
it with operatic accessories. But on
the-, whole, after seeing Melba go
threagh the "Mad Scene1 from Lucia
di Lammermoor,' in fioatiBg hair and
white robes on an otherwise empty JfJ
stage I am disposed to extend to
Ma'dame Markee the thanks of oue
humble individual who is liable to be
bored by long drawn out mad scenes.
But! hope that this singer will come
again even if she does dote on maniac
music.
In the death of Madame Katharina
Lohse-Kiafsky which unexpected event
occurred in Hamburg a few days ago,
the Wagnerian sisterhood has lost one
of its most brilliant members. The
great days of Materna and Rosa Sucher
are over, Brandt and Mielke and Walten
have gone the way of all cantatrices.
even the mighty tame of Lillie Leh
man, in my opinion the greatest dra
matic singer of this generation, is no
longer one to arouse unqualified praise.
Some of us remember Klafsky as
"Bruonhilde the Vulkyrie last winter;
and we found her then a woman of
powerful physique, unlimited voice and
unstinted temperament, an ideal heroic
soprano. She looked as though she
might live forever. I don't tee how such
a fiery human engine could burn out
How she dominated the finalo of the
second act or "Tannhaeuser!" Over
chorus and orchestra and the ensemble
or soloists her calliope upper notes
rang with really impressive vigor.
But it was as"Brunhilde"("Valkyre")
and Brunhilde ("Siegfried") and as
"Isolda" in "Tristan and Isolde" that
she was most highly esteemed. About
her death we have as yet no particulars.
It must have been very 6udden for
she had recently signed a contract to
sing in this country the coming winter
in Wagnerian roles with the Metropoli
tan Grand Opera Company. To havo
seen her as Isolde" with Jean de Rszko
as "Tristan would havo besn worth a
pilgrimage to New York. I never fully
enjoyed Nordica's pale "Isolde", good
artist though she be Klafskys would
have been a study in scarlet. Well
peace to her ashes. A'ter three hus
bands and the nightly storm and 6tres
of intcrpeting Wagner's passionate hero
ines she should sleep well.
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