MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1545, 14 September 1912, Page 9

MUSIC.

fßv Treble .Clef.l Cisneros. ■•■ ■. ■ • ■.■ % The handsome operatic' mezzo-soprano, Eleanora do Cisneros, who made a name for herself iii such rolea as Delil.'i in "Samson and Dclila," and Carmen in the opera of that name, is to commenco a tour of Now Zealand nt Auckland this evening. Tho new singer, who is of Junoesquo type, is an American by birth. Her husband is the Count de Cisneros—of Spanish extraction, it: is said—and always travels with the diva. Cisneros has appeared with success in grand opera in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and London, and hopes to bo the Dclila in the next production of Saint-Saens's great opera at the Paris Opera Rouse. In Sydney last year the Cisneros nights became almost as great a lure to the public as Melba nights. This is a sure enough indication that the singers histrionic tnlent is not the least part of her artistic equipment. A Remarkable Song. During tho Cisneros concert season in Wellington we are to hear Mr. Paul Dufault, the fine American tenor, sing n remarkable new song. This song is composed by Bruno Hohn, a New York organist, written to the following gripful lines of W. E. Henley:-. Out of the night that covers me; Black as tlio pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may. be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud, Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but tho horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years— Finds, and shall find me unatraid. It matters not how strait, the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain af my soul. These verses have been given a flaming musical setting that forms a stirring and impassioned utterance, as of one storming the very gates of heaven. The note of heroic resolution, of defiance of fate, in tho artist's rendering, moved the audience' to the dci'ths.— "Daily Telegraph," Sydney,