MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2001, 7 March 1914, Page 9

MUSIC.

fßr Tussle CiW.l Injudicious Applause. jlv. Cutforth bit upon a curious truth when ho pointed wit, at the annual meeting of tho Wellington Royal Choral. Society, tho habit which the etioriis lt.as got into of leading the applause on almost every twcasiou when _ Soloists .ivp.d tho conductor enter pi? retirij front the platform and after tl» solos, Mr. Cutforth stated, with much laudable cam douf, thai it was tic BOclety that was giving the show, and ttey Were part <<f it, and it Was not their business to lead tho applause after the .solos- _ In this |cspeetiio instanced one occasion in * 'Elijah" v.-lioro A big diojus followed on a solo, yet, before the ejioras Tesuiijed theif seats aftor shiging ? -they coijuWrc«l 'to applaud- tho soloist, which must have seemed to the audience as if thqy wo.ro applauding tlwaiuselvcs. 'i'lterts .is no doubt that tho.satiety iaat fault. JSach member of tho society is an inte'fes'ted party., and. eases s.ro easily reuieinbterabli;) whore very indiffetv crrtly Ring tubs ha'Vci been heartily .ap*. plfiUded by the. chorus, .ivith nothing iJkoj an equal response from tho' audisncO:. ■ 'fhetc can be no reasonable objection to the soloists enjoying a feoepiiioii ,at tho hands of the chorus wlwjt they come on, but ttei'eafte.i'-4t should n.W- 'bo their ftmrtiafi to applaud. It- would be/.almost as ridiriikns' for . .tho :meavhets,. of ,:..a: ehorts iu au ope*a to apphvud thoptifiv eipals .afti* their,, solos, if. the chpriis.■ applauds..'.ilj» sdqrs|SiV#hy: should iiot'tlie Bfiloist.s jesjion'daMd..applaud tto chorus, this hired e'lac<{uef is disappcarittg from tho.PartsJftn theatres. It should not bo allowed to he. said that his role in oratorio <*ahcerts li.ferej was:.being assumed by interested people.

Statistics, of & pianist* • Barold AVJiittfej tiie wclpnown pianist, Who is now teui'Hig wiiJh PaitJ 'Dajjfmtfc, tas a geieniifie turn of lffind, amd has been eiHplo'J'in.a; it reebntly in figuring out the .mn:th»maiic9l side Of his work. ■ >'"''■■.« ."I wonder," says Mr, W»ft,3itf;'., : iv!°s aiiyo.no realises just hpw tmte.lt physjpal; ■exercise is .cnip'loy<?d in tiro art pf aocompanyhig. l ? or instance, there_ 4p>possibly eighteen numbers pu the printed programme lor tlho teJtttelt CoiMpaiiyv These-, with the extra i'hunbefs,;, easily kseoino twenty-eight, Mring iho pe> formaneo of these fcvreni?ycjgbjf niinibeW, oil an average I leave tb.p p'jailo -.sifts} walk to the back of the stage;, ■• say, twenty times during, the evening,' On the* ordinary stage the walk frafiji Jjjid forth to tho hisfrumeut is Usually fthout eleven, yards. Multiply'itee eleven yawls' by twenty and yoB have _ tiyo hundred and twenty yards, o.r an eighth of a, mite, which l have traversed in view of the audience," /" ■

Mr. Whlttk has also been coffipatinjg the ii'.tinber of concerts at which he Ms played during regiilaT eoft'eer't tours. %a first item is a liig one, as. Mr. Whittle ■figures out that,;' prcvipusjy to 1007., his. appearancfis with John IA-inraono, the noted flautist, total 750 concerts. In the year 1907.Mr. Whittle, played at pO; ■ concerts during th<» Sfsllia teu;rj in 1988 the iridcr'atigable .pjiWist .-nppPakHt at 69 concerts with Ada Orossjcy; In 1000, 100 ■'* io ' r< f cpftcdrts during, ftnb'thor Media, tour were added'.; m 191Q, 40 I concerts with Mine Calve 1 ; in IOTI, 35 i with Ben Da vies; m .101:2, With Cfliiutess ] des- Cisnej'o.s., oiiptljet; i'Q 'coii'ceriis veto added, to the schedule, thus ;nj.a : khfg &.' total of oho tliowsaiul and .eighty-four fiftneorts at which Mr. Whittle has pl.ay> ed during the last sis year*. Mr. Whittle has already to his credit in 3,014, 39 concerts iVitl.i'lMu.l BUfault, as that is tho number given by / :th.e tfreisch-Qawadiaii since the- Sew War.

Grand Oparas.iit Picture Fornii It was bound to coine! Tin) AlHprk can concert mininger, M. I}. I'lanKO'ii. and the A»is*'ri.onrt (swnposcri Albert 'Mildoubo.ra, are planufug to jredtwc grand apera in the "movies" along the lines' that it lias jjeeii produced in Lmidrsm siiitl Paris.- There wili ha aft. orc'iiertf;!. aud a. Inrjss pips organ to iittpud to tiw wiwie, while a)i the. actfon pi.) tlio stage wffi be faithfully .reprodu'ertf]. Twenty of the most popular operas hayp been drawn tapnli for repertoire, Mr.'Ki'ide'iisburg hopes that, apfera to'.th'e "movies" will tend to awaken an interest in bpefa fer its own s.akfi as opposed to Ppera Jor the sake of the star singers and tlie peacock narade.

Note. , Mrs. Clara 'AlgaT, ©f Wellington, has Written anfl published ' a funeral dirgo entitled "Corona. Vifab". ("fowvn or Life")', a coraposition for tiio piailoforto of cliatiuct merit*. It is a elnss of ea'i.iipositfoti that -cchiM never appeal Us thepopular teste on aftooiirt ©F k gloomy diiiwco-r, but as it tWrgfr—and tlji c.tfm-pe-iflr 'fraiiMv -published it as ;sue|i"~ithas (fitalitSfis tltjit shoujtl co-njiftciul it in ilic musical pribl-ie. Itjs simply \y.rfttcn slid st'sroi!., and is -a piece that could to played by ;U ..misl(fr.fftcJjv.adVJMWc(l stink-nt, t!iangh;?rtqh in{ghs) liot I>o fllito i« phunii its (jHibiibsiaJ depths. . "Gforonn, Vitae" is Written iin, the toy of G, ivith Invt ore ehau«p (W= : Fl... It lias bco.ii iirtlstii?a% printed'by Q. M, Bank's, I;td-., iiriti -p«pii?fl sr-re dbtfl.iuah!'G at .Roickardt'Sj on LamWiMi Quay^