MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2193, 4 July 1914, Page 9

MUSIC.

fUv Thsjiie Cur i Professional Orchestra. Jivmorro\ mcniiif; tie Wellington Piofessioiial Oichcstri prcuiu.ps i,iothu intue'ing ronecrt llic pro(,i linnio Hill include tho 'Km Mis owrtur*, Moskovbki'e "In lonian Pirts' suite, a isiitioift on Uoito s Mclistofel ' Car the Ii st t ino in Wc'lin„ton), ILo \orspio! i-om hiug Man fred ' (ileuicike), tad Uo tf li.-aWs bunts ' Nitss. Jim nrojocit 1 lOi'r of Australn end New Zenhnd of Miihmo Mi annLLiiilt, tie Gorman ottiatic coitialto, Ins been ' cilled off Mr Paul Dufaull is lca.ng fo-- Aper 'a iv A t wc n k Leonard Eorwlck Again. Mr Leonard Borwitk, Mir rultund en<l de"Lh |x)clic virtuoso of the pi-no-lortc. who usilod New Zcaluu : wuplo ol <ors jgo, ind vhc eneujii-te-td i blighting liost l'l *lus bi lighted count'-} h-ij accented 1} Londoi last sei on us the foremost a nong Lnglish pmiiits, and i.ic'i.idunlibL 'it m ..\nk with tiio pccilncs 13 ri tbo fejloaril It Has the ru die critic of tno

Drcsuoit Nathrich.cn, ' v-no hailed 80-uik ab, ANe St.ir Among l'nnisis " '11,11 was written wlen th gr«it tnghsli pimrt ga\« h>s first n cii-1 in tho S"wn (itj 'Jhese i r c the v ords from xbo pen nt the Titic *\\ho Knows imt'iiug oi a pnnist rained Lcomrd Berwick' No one hero did it is Ftlo to siy b< .ore sp%en o clotk Hstcrdaj cioning llicre wero lie t to no prclimuu'-) anno i iconKiits a,id

>. cannot eicn now stat" 'ihclhcr ho comco fro- 1 , Loi don or \npnca 1 his (.oiit„rt a sti» o. tie first snii" inti'uc A roet pinuist, to whon 10 listened with "ir amaze ment In iho n itter cf t<-di l que, no ft wins on Mie tve level »i»h D f Allcrt Siuer but hi» own 'rdi\,diialit> huds lun into itrj 'uffcent piths He r •• '■oriantic' —Schunn in and firihrrs aro ins household gods lhe touch is clear and of glorious bciuh m the ciutuena and tustained pas3"gcs ( bill nost roTa-kiblo of alt, peril ids, 13 tho free 'lmuli lg o f tho r'i'thni Mr JlornrK i.fta bee l giuiif. co icons ir and Melboiirro uur ng the last nioi th and will slor'ly \ sit Nei i'eilnnd Stravinsl v's Svmphonio Ballet. Ruling Icou.ij, ci uoscoii (Russia), bugle, kubsoi porfonncd Loi St»-iiin kj's llolj Spiinj, .nusi" ■uiuposcd tor billet p lrposcb, hut et cut', richness ol colcur "aim mw it'.c t , iii=\ tint it o most bUitab'.o tor permrv auco at s\mrj onj couorts flo Hoh bpnng" i.pi-cselits a cloieograpl'i-c-vl music il work, ior which the lainjus dancer Ni'inbh,, rorl ed out tLo tt-p s i cbo.can pi in an J tho painter t'ericn Jul tho bccncij l,;or Stnunskv a .ostlus tea c'it after tho noi, con ro'-cu tl e muaic In tho n i.i i 'en cf ' lhe lich bpruig" .s the n.vstcr> cf tlu cosnncal ceil no tc ers .1 sori)i n Iho tiPine Inrks bi-k to tho pig-in t iiks .if iho fclnoiian tr be-, nfd shows the inMnn o s}nipnthy e ( men with Nat ire Tho music is strong a> a gloorn, but Ui> for trom being monctencus Sweetly Hid rreled ej ai d clnnu ng songs ol spr'iig aro heiru, cl aracto'is'iig wonderfully the mehnclch and Ecnnmon'alit} < c tho Slvt i •d l race

Conducting Por Kinomatognpii. In a ipoca! Uorliii cablegram to ti.s "iU'v \it!s Tiiiies"' tlicie is. an intoruM:«g Jcicnpuon of a new development m 'ho .no\,ii|; iiictuio poss.oil tic;. 'I]| O ttory et.itoc th.it "an crehestu sat in float ot a sheet ot tanvas in a darkened iconi I'ho celebrated di r cctor Felix von Wcingartncr was sitting it tho ii'om; but iiol near the du«Ltor's stand —a.-> a nutter of fact, thero was no <h-ic-elor'a :,tand Au u.unitiatcd peiv-on (iiiiilit i'avo wondered Ifo-v the orchibirj expected to plav wthout a icader. ir-idd-Mil) tho cam as lightened and a Moll Knni.ii direc'or ippoircd on it. li was but a Aim, Uxt .t His hard to realise it The p-etu'-'jd leader rai.-'KI !> s baum and tho orchestia struck dp '.lie 'Ciimpii* overture. Stiaight through till tho ci.d it nwt without ii b;eJi, tho crcl'ortra the leader as i' h<, weie bi-fcro them in tlw ilcsh Dr. flcnigartpor tr.id sftorwaide 'It H!>s amazing aid no doubt 't is possible l-ltli tl.o .'id cf such a f:!.-i, to jxivc a. artistic a performance of orchestra piece) us that rendered by tho baton of a In iDR director' " D'Aibert tho Unsatisfied. Eurcho d'Albori was liftj years old oil April i() in&t. D'Albort's 'Cum to tiio tuncoit ftlatforni l'as been ono of ♦ho i.iemor.ibjo icnturcs of tho Berlin season. His lolloninc there as b pianist is 'immense, u.iiquo. D'Alhcrt's impoitanco as -i m.-Iloso ail! tho place 'io Hill occupj as. such m n'.JbiChl Instor) .s too wn'l knew 11 to l.cwi furtlicr co'iimoiit. With d'Albcrt, tho com|K>s.or, it h ;. d.ifc:c>it n-T.ter. True, In has o:ia gieat European success *o s!iow. "Tioflar.ri," bat of his other scun operas iGvoiai hr.io been fia c ews tnd the othors lia\o achieved a my moderate ileuiec of nuMn and critical approcMtion Aβ .1 composer J'Alo'.Tt r s obscntinlly an eclectic, lie has no', that Jisti ictnp st\li that enables ono toea., on hcariiiß hu Music, "Thai, is J'A'ibett," ns on>. can sa , , "That n Sirai-ss, Mint io Dobusty tLdt .s Prcciiu." of this kck of pro- I nouncct 1 . 'ndr-iriiinl nete, his nuisi; cannot Ino. His srco.id pnno. concerto, his I 'colto cononito, a lee , liede>r and 3maller jjicpos r or binno iiavo -in occasional ie:,rin<; on our conceit programra*-o but tliry liavo not had and never will Imo anv great voruc Cunousb •'nsugli, d , Albert hipirelf things that coni|X)Mtion is hi<! r?al imrsnn. ani tl-pt is tho *rag.c of rt a'l Tho Debursy School. slis3 AlaKgio To.vl<>, tho nvll-known prima dcnni, herself a pupil of Denussy, has civen a critical rstin.ato nf l)?bussy mi "Jluslc.i! America " It is intorostms to have Her aspect cf this .io-,- mMtcr —"As a inuscian, Debu3sy must b< ?al'«d a erhoo! in himself Ho is tho founder tnd head of tho Mi/Je.»i I'Voncl , school, it r tr".e, but in viy opinion th;> rest aro mctdy ivealt imitators and no 0110 has beci , lound as \ct to stand br-sido !nm. Bwi.ise cf hie ipti-ns,-" lndiiicluality he Irs wen commonly imsiiUilnrstood, but r!us is ai- | ■sra.\s tho fato of :i man who introdinvj | a .id- s'jlo or" art Tl,c great diF,-1 i« tii.it iho vork of Dobussy must I be oarofullj Mudifd to l"> apprc"cistcd. I nnd the average lLtonT is f>c bz} io I Hiifjortiho niiii such study. Siich a In- j tomr 11 content wit!> grsspins the! suporficial and t'lo obvious in music, 1 and .\hcn ho is b-ouylit face to fcire ; 'th a problem of real complexity, he' either ignores it altourtlirr or protends 1 .111 iimri'si and a Knowledge not only! fa No. btif oflrn indirroiis 111 ilir r\- j tromo In spit'- of its difTiiulty, lior-| ewir, 11 nothing in Debuw's nmsio th, n ! '".■iiinot bo r.r.'isped iifier fnri'.ful study ami cognation Tver , jipte lies v.liifh m.i c t be understood by tiir i:m>rnr"trr l mid 111 tins marvellous attention to dcla h ( hcliovo f)"biis\\- far surp.-ii'-es aIJ 1 other roni;its(rs either yabt or pro. sent "'