MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 9

MUSIC.

(By Treble Clef.)

Happy l New York. ~ Some idea can be gained of the superb manner : in which New York is catered for with grand opera from tho following extract from the New York "Post," of February 14, foreshadowing tlie attractions for the succeeding week: — "With a cast including Destinn, Homer,. Alda, Clement, and Scotti,, another .attempt to-make Verdi's "Falstait' popular .will be ..made by Toscanini at the. Metropolitan next Wednesday. Geraldine-Farfar sings twice, in 'MadamW'Butterfly,"- on Monday with Martin, and Scotti, and', in 'Tosca , - on Saturday afternoon,' with Boiici and Scotti. Caruso makes liis first appearanco.in 'Eigoletto' ou Friday, with Lipkowska and Amato. The complete 'Vienna Waltzes' will be heard-on Tuesday evening,, following .a special- performance of 'Stradella*,' with Slezak, Glnck, Goritz, Reiss, Muhlmann. The Thursday opera is to be 'Lohengrin,' with Gadski, Hoiner, Jadlowker, For"sell, Hinckley, AYitherspoon. "Tristan and Isolde' will ho sung on Saturday evening by Gadskij Homer, ; Eurrian, Amato, Blass, Reiss, Muhlmann. : At the Sunday concert (to-morrow) Mischa Elman will be one of the -soloists. Fremstad, Gluck, Alten, ■• Meitschik,and Martin also will sing. . .'.'. "At. , the New Theatre -the-Metropoli-tan . Opera Company!. will perform 'La "Boheme , .. next Thursday"afternoon (Do Pasquali, Alten,-Martin, Gilly;:Giaholi.Galetti). • and -on. Friday evening -the new. : war opera, 'L'Attaque du ■: Moulin' will be sung by Deka,' Noria, Clement, Gilly.: ■ '.'•.,.

'Oscar Hammerstein will open the fifteenth week of his. season' at the ■Manhattan with Tctrazzini; M'Cormaok, and Sammarco in. 'Traviata.' On Wednesday ' 'Elektra' will have ■ its ■ fourth -hearing,-'■with -Mme: Mazarin in the title role, .which has. doubled her fame here. ' On Friday evening "'Pagiliacci" will, introduce, tho new. tenor, ■Orville-Harrpld. M'Cormack will sing the same evening -in! 'Oavalleria.' ■■. .The. Saturday -operas are to. be.'Lucia' , ih s tho afternoon,, with'-Tetrazzim, MacCormack, and Sammarco, and in tho nvenimt .'Carmen ,, will be sung , by Cavalieri, Trentini. Dalmores, Gilbert. At to-morrow night's concert one of. the features will be tho sinking, WDr , Wulluer of Binding's' 'The Witch's Song,' with orchestral accompaniment. The new tenor, Orville Harrold, will also, sing.": . ,-.- •■

SembrJch on Vocal Sucoess....r. I ~-. Mmei.'Senibrich. discusses --the','reason why so few girls succeed as "singers, in the "Ladies Home Journal." She has found an abundance of beautiful-voices , in America, but as "a rule they are brilliant, and beautiful without'much warmth or expression.- Tor success, much more is needed than a fine voice. 'It must indeed be a very beautiful voice that could unaided carry a singer to. the top of the ladder. I doubt if there ever was such a voice; if so I have never heard of it. In these days some women singers attain the" greatest success with scarcely any voice at all; so one finds a striking illustration ot the .other truth that other qualities than mere tonal beauty are necessary to a career. . . . So. it is not tli" girl with, the beautiful .voice that.is always going to get the prize, in her. profession.- It.is the girl who v masters.her art aiid does' it. patiently, andi thoroughly. Voice is, of course, the greatest gift,, but without others it wilLnot ■ avail. .Voice, combined: with zeal and a musical temperament, directed- by intelligence is the greatest possible asset for a girl. But these combinations are rare. How often we hear the opinion that the voice is beautiful but the intelligence lacking.. That could never be said of the Amorican girls who have come to me. They seem in the highest degree intelligent. Possibly, ' then,, it is the lack of patience to develop their powers to their fullest extent that prevents more of them from attaining eminence on the stage." . .

August Jaeger. London has lost Jaoger, a musical enthusiast who was a.friend.to all rising., talent:. Music to him was, we read in London "Truth; 1 . , '.'something more.than a mode of;entertainment, or even an art. It was a religion, and evoked sentiments to , correspond. Hence lie was never indifferent or lukewarm in regard to the/developments of tho art, which he judged almost, as much in.relation to their-moral as to their purely musicalaspects. Thus in the beginning of things ho was a great admirer of Richard Strauss, and in those days no one.expourded more eloquently the wonders and beauties of that remarkablo master. Later, however, he wavered in his. allegiance, and finally fell away altogether and ended by condemning no loss vehemently the music which he had formerly, praised. He admitted as readily as over its technical wonders, but ho grew to dislike more and more what he called its moral deficiencies. It was music, he contended, without heart or soul —brilliant;, glittering, effective, intoxicating, but monstrous, abnormal,' inhuman, appealing only to the head, and leaving'all the finer feelings untouched and unexpressed." Notes. M. Paderewski, the great pianist, was to have sailed from England for Cape Town on March 19. This will bo his first visit to tho Cape. ' Richard Strauss, having beeii nsked whether women should be encouraged to conduct orchestras, replied: "All good conductors are under the direction of women, so why not the rest of the orchestra? A well-known inhabitant of Munich was once asked if he was musical. His answer was: 'Musical, I ani not; but I can conduct.' That's the I point; it all depends upon what oneJ r imderstandft_ lg .