MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 13

MUSIC.

JTBt Xbekle Ctcf.i A Cheat Concert. r The _IfisH concert tr> bo held in tlie Town Hall on Tuesday evening next promises to bo a- really important musical event. As it happens, the Paul Dufault jjoncort company arrives in Wellington on 'fuesda.y and leaves tfuT liext day for the West Coast, which made it possible- to secwro their services for the evening. This has been done at sisomo expense. This means that flot only -will wo have the opportunity- of hoaritf.g Mr. IMault oiWe mow., but Miss Pauline Bindley (tho gifted Besid'igo ss>x>ra-iio), Mr. Ernest Toy (vio- ; liviist), and M.T. Harold Whittle (ac I companist) will tiguro qn the praf gramme.. Other new voices will he those erf Miss Ida Moinn (of Sydney), who will sing "She is Far I'rom the Land" and "Kathleen JMavmirneen," and Sir. J. M'Grath, af Diukdin, who wilt sing "Tile Weariii , of t.h© fjrecn". and "Ceruntrymea, Awake." Other n-smves ftn tho programme are tfaoEe of Messrs. D, Kenny, L. 0. Hooter, B. O'Brien, Miss AgiiesSegmf, Miss Lily. O'Leary, and the Marist Bros'. School Choir. "I'Amorg del Trs So." Italo Mante-mezzw is the latest Italian, composer who has made his mark as a writer of' grand opera. His opera "lVAmota dei Tfe β-o" ("Tho Love of Three Kings") was 'received at L.i Scala as a vgfk approaching sue-t-ess, but on its production at. tho Metropolitan Opera House in New York oil January 2 it struck home, as one journal said, "liko a bolt from tho blue." "The Theatre" said; "It won greater public approval than any wew work produced at this opera house in a tiuntber of years. And there, is .every indication that further peri'ormaiiees iviil only serve, to deepen and sttesgttwn its hold on intelligent opera toye-rs. What, to a keen observer, is most remarkable atopt the work is that it should havesprung fram Italian soil. It bears nojiia ef the ea-rffiarks—sQ far as music is'con* cernesl—ef any ef the modern... Italian products; it has none <if the. lush melpdy of the earlier Piiocini, noi' afty rf the striving 'for modern brola-life wiiioli liavo marked the later wfitiugs of this famous eemposer, nor lias it any of the baimlit-tes oi Masca|;ni or Looncerallo. Us real is that of a thoroughly sincetp musician,, ivitji ample.icetaitttie aijd with sotaotiiing to say iii >is own niflttner. There is little thai is reftmiiscjsiit in this •music, thfti'e is little seaJeliiflg for effects.. In its direetneSs it fecatls tlio <jjflor Vo*di, ho a? 'Otello,* for this mttsic fitalks straight f<> the goalj free , of epissdes of "paddiisg,' free of Ijaltmgs'or ftouwldriflgs. There- are no distinctly operatie iißWi' b(4fs, lie detaejiei solos or duets. Instead, the liwsie proceeds in almost a siraigltji lifts, tto'v draittatieajly intense, now."lj'rieafty e'H o'i it offtaiive. , It is not a fiifgeulfr seare, either to perform or to appreciate, in hearing. The erehostral Woc-f is nfit overladen with intricate weaving atid counter-* weaving of ifecmes, But it is a ivigWy «iloivred seore, the pse. of iustrtHntists betoken the- hand of- a master of o> chestratiQn, yot not a master who Tins faflofl victim to the, pre-vasl.i!i.g iliaiiia for discord aitd g.raUiig harmwiifl proKressiopss. It is • tlio ■firdiesWft lybiA feeaj-s the- burden of fhis- opera, for its interesting tonal wob is unee.itsinp;. Over this the Voices of the singers .rise in impassioned love ocstftsy of dectoim h> dramatio phra-vs, charged with com* petting aentiinent, , ' • Miisclia.filmafr ■■•■■::..-•'. | • From accoiiMts i'ccDived •regardifig 'tte j .present An>eric , an tour ■of Mkcha El- j nun, tho yof.uig Bussia-ii violraist, both j as soloist* with tho -importaivt synj- '< piwiiy ifcliestr-as and in reeital, his art has grown ii\o*t, snclj t<s his .wpn.dso'us beauty of tone iuid impectabW ■ tedmiq-ut l , h.ive been added that spirit of avitliMity thai o.nly. eames with ago : and o-xperieMo. When Jlisc» Elmaw ■ ftrst' visited America lie was a hi at scvcmWen. His sueedss ttet ftas'woii-' derf-uij and eveji tlio big auditories . in the p.riii«ipaS cities would 'Hot hold ' tlie crowds attfttoted by his »agio Ww. Ho is now making his fowrtti tijur BjE '■ America. The fttnsen.sus of opinion of ■ the America critics seems to lie that '" ljllinan'B flaying stows rortaifeblo ' montal a-ni yet ■ rettfnjs that peculiar charm Which reaches the lic&rts of listeners. There- is said to. bo a nudity aboat tlto EiffiiiW toiie ttat call OnJy'be liSched to tlio Caruso voice, Raoul Pugne, tho ftmc-us French : pianist, died recently in Jlo.se.o\v. Rβ i was one of tho great artists of his clay. 'IHicho travelled extensively of late years ' in Europe and the Uiiited States on ooncftrt tours with Yeaye, both arousing enthusiasm cvew-wkie. Pagiw took a '■ first priiSo at the- 1 -Paris Censemtcnre 1 >vhan ho was only 15 years aid, ana - later became a professor. *si tkat instit-u----tiMij and an offlcer of the , Academie.