MUSIC

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 11

MUSIC

(By "Treble-Clef.") fttaoDowflii's Dream. Mrs. Edward MacDowell, widuV of the greatest composer that America has yet produced, is (says the San Francisco "Chronicle") soon to visit this city in the interests of the MacDowell Memorial Association. Already appearances.havo been arranged —outsido of this city—wlfji the llqllywood Club,.the Amphion Club of Sail Diego,- and other similar organisations in tho lower part of the State, while her local recitals will bo announced later.

It is doubtful whether any extraneous means aro required to keep alivo the memory of MacDowell, who lives in his masterpieces, the immortality of which would he proof against any cabal raised against the genius that suffered so untimely a death.

But, just now, thero is greater significance than ever to the woik that Mrs. MacDowell is doiiig for the preservation and extension of the activities . of tho MacDowell artistic colony at Peterborough, N. H.—the establishment which is. realising a dream of MacDowell.

Since it was the aim of MacDowoll to see Petersborough established securely as an art colony where creators m any of the manifold forms of art could have the quiet and the environment needful for the work they projected, that desire is now of greater moment than ever, and its, realisation is likely to hasten, more than even MacDowell dreamed, the day when a full-fledged American art will unfold itself in this land of . colossal . fprt'nnes and physical achievements. It is to Peterborough that hundreds of maimed members of the Beaux Arts of France are now looking, . The colony has boon opened to creative artists of Euiope. What this may mean.to us is part of the message Mrs. MacDowoll is carrying to all corners of this broad land. She tells how 75 per cent., of the members of the- Beaux Arts of Paris are now incapacitated for further service at the front—that is 75 per cent., sho says, of this grim, gallant band are either killed or maimed. It is at Petersborough where it is hoped those who livo 'may be given succour and encouragement to continue their creative work and miuglo in the cosmopolitan, stream of American art endeavour tho rich current of-Gallic genius. Opera in America. __ Two American operas 'are (says the New York "Evening Post") in the repertory of Mr. Campanipi when he comes to New York with his Chicago Opera Company on January 22, at the Lexington Theatre. They 'are "Azora," by Henry Hadley, with libretto by David Stevens, and Arthur Kovins's "Daughter of the Forest," the libretto of which was written by Randolph Hartley. Both are to bo sung by allAmerican casts. The other novelties consist of 'Isabeau," by' Maseagni; "Lo Sauteriot," by a young French _ composer of tho modern school, Sylvio Lazzara; "Lb Cbomineau," by another ''French contemporary, • Xavier Leroux; a one-act opera, "Lo Vieil Aigle," by Raoul Gounsbourg; Massenet's "Cleopatre," and "Aphrodite," by tho French composer, Camille Tirlanger. The balance of tho repertoire consists of wellknown operas like "Pelle'as and Melisande," " Sapho," "Griselidis," "Don Quichotte," "Monna Vanna," "Romeo et Juliette," "Falstaff," "Ernani," "Fedora," "Jewels of tho Madonna," | "Secret of Suzanne," "Dinorah," "L'Africaino," and "Grispino o la Comaro." Tho company includes Amclita GalliCurci, of whom New York has heard much verbally, but as yet nothing vocally. Another luminary in the operatic firmament, Rosa Raisa, whom Chicagoans have called "tho second Destinn," is also to make her Now York debut. Mr. Canipanini has .just added to his company Mile. Genevieve Vis, tho "actress-singer" of the Opera Comiquo in Paris. Lucien Muratore, the Fronch tenor, than whom the critics say no greater artist' was over heard in Chicago, is 'also a member of the company, as is Riccardo Strncciari, who attained a triumph at his Chicago dobut in "Rigolctto," Mary Garden, Melba, Journet, Crimi, Dalmoros, Rimini, and Marcoux arc names familiar in New York, Surely, here is richness., i