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MUSICAL MENTION
Johx Randolph
I am glad to be able to announce that
Madame Camilla Urso, that brilliant
violin virtuosa and genuinely great ar
tist, is to be heard in Lincoln at the
Lansing theatre on March 5th. Madame
Urso and her concert company, consist
ing of Mies Minnie Methot soprano. Mr.
Erwin II. Douglass, tenor, and Mr.
Geo. H. Wesley, pianist, appear as the
third attraction in the course of Artists'
Concerts to be given during the present
winter and spring. The violinist is
heard on tour again for the first time in
somo years. It .8 safe to nay that she is
the greatest violinist woman violinist
in America, and one of the greatest in
the world. "Age cannot wither, nor cus
tom stale her infinite variet" at least
they have cot done so jet.
Madame Urso is not a tricky player;
she belongs to the ilassical school of
violinists, and the artistic repose of her
performance is widely different from the
pyrotechnic style of many violinists of
the French school who have recently
caught the car of the groundlings; but
no better artist, no more competent
musician has ever been heard in Lincoln
than this quiet little lady. There ar
gradations in musicianship, in artistry,
and this player is of the very first rank
as an interpreter of compositions for the
violin. Upon the following reasons I
base my conviction and aseeifon: In
m isical parlance a "virtuoso" is one who
hai mastered the technical difficulties of
t-ie instrument upon which he plays.
Thus Rosenthal is the greatest virtuoso
pianist living, nor is our diminutive
friend, G:dowsky, far behind him in
digital facility. An "artist"' among
musicians means more than the term
"virtuoso" although an artist must ha
a virtuoso, a virtuoso ia not necessarily
an artist for an artist must, besides
virtuosity, possess stjle, taste, charm,
emotion, intellect! All of these Madame
Urso has ii high degree, combined with
monumental reposa and dignity. I hope
every young singer and plajer in this
city will hear and learn from this great
artist the truth that simplicity and free
dom from affectation and mannerisms
do not detract from genuine greatness
of conception and execution, but on the
other hand increases the artistic effect.
1 have not jet received the program of
Madame Urso's concert, but it is safe to
say that it will be both pleasing and
dignified. I know people cannot be
scolded into attending concerts (I do not
receivo a per cent of the gross receipts)
but I shall be sorry if this concert is not
attended by a largo audience. Madame
Urso is assisted by a soprano who is
well spolen of and has recently returned
to the United States after study with
that famous teacher of sopranos, Mad
ame Marchesi. The gent emen of the
company are unknown to me, and make
their first bows befoie a Lincoln audi
eoce.
I wish for Camilh Urso as large an
audience as that which assembled to
hear "The Wizard of the Nile" last
week. The music of this comic opera
is by V.'ctor Herbert, the 'cellist and or
chestral director, and is both tuneful
and ingenious. The serenade at the be
ginning of the second act deserves espe
cial mention.
Moreover I have rarely heard chorus
and principals sing with more exact in
tonation and tuneful effect than in this
production. The whole effect was one
of grace and beauty and melody. I
confess the performance was a surprise
to me, for I had wearily prepared myself
for the usual senseless horse play and
idiotic p!otles3ness coupled with music
of the most puerile description, common
in productions of this nature. But the
opera had a consistent if farcical plot.
There was real humor in places and tnt,
singing and acting were creditable.
Frank Daniels, as the Wizard of the
Nile, displayed a good bass voice and
considerable viscomicu; his 6ong about
the human snake (his first wife) was up
roariously funny, as was his appearance
when despoiled of the king's "second
best coronation robe. ' Altogether 1 was
glad that 1 overcame my fatigue and
chronic disinclination to exertion in the
evening long enough to be beguiled by
this, the best comic opera I have heard
in Lincoln.
Grand opera must be more profitable to
impresario and singers in Chicago than
most of the other American cities. The
Metropolitan Opera company of New
York begins its yearly engagement on
next Monday, February 22nd. at the
Auditorium. Thisjear they are billed
to remain four weeks, Nellie Melba is
no longer with this company, having re
turned to Fans, but whether in a rage
at her recent fi fzo in the part of "Bru
enhilda' in Wagner's "Siesfiisd" or
whether leally suffering from throat
trouble, deponent sateth not. But
Calve is with them, emotioial, electric
Calve, and Eames the statuesque, and
the season opens with "Carmen."
Several years ago when this company
numbered Melba, Calve, Nordica and
Eames as its prime donne. not to men
tien such lesser lights as Sigrid Arnold
son and Z'lie de J-ussan, 1 asked a man
who had heard them all how he Jikjd
the four greater sopranos. He said:
"Well, Eames is like ice water on a hot
day. Nordica is Rhino wine, Melba is
champagne, but begad Calve i'b a whole
drunk!' He had evidently seen tho
great Emma as "Carmen."
The announcjmects for the first week
of opera are as follows: 'Carmen." "The
IIuuonots," -Mirtha." "Tannfnusir;"
"Tristan" and "Is ride." All kinds you
see. You pay your morev and you take
your choice. I suppose Chicago will be
visited as usual at this season by the
elite of Omaha and Lincoln. I am not
of the elite but I hope to go in ami hear
the novelties if any are prentfd, as I
am weary of unlimited '7a jsi" and
"Car nen," even with Jean de Reszko
and Calve.
By te way, this opera troupe had a
singular accident at a recent perform
ance in New York. On FebrmrylOth
the opera of "Martha" was given with
substantially tho same cast to app?ar in
Chicago. The part of "rristauo' was
taken by M. Armand Cas'elmary.a basso
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