Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23

Chorus and Orchestra.
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young
Mr. j. Boyd Duff.
Miss Jennie Evans.
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MIR A. H. Brockett. A--@''
The Queen Greeting (rectation and lNcFarren
song with burden). May Day. SN sA-NAA
Mrs. ~ Henkler, Chorus and Orchestra.
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THE FAIRIES REALM.
(ChoraI Ballad.)
BY FIR. NALM.
English Translation by Rev. George Crosswen
Composed for Mixed Chorus With Orchestral or
Pianoforte Accompaniment by
CHARLES DAVIS CARTER,
of Pittsburg, Pa.
The printed programmes would have been in
better taste had the last number been less
theatrically displayed. 1t was, moreover a
great oversight not to provide the usual pro-
grammes with words. In simple songs and
ballads the text has relatively greater import
ance than in some more elaborate compo-
sitions- Distinct enunciation is one of the last
things learned by most singers. And if one
can neither read nor hear the words, there's
precious little left of ballad.
In spite of such drawbacks however, the
evening was one of unfeigned, unstrained
pleasure restful evening, of the milder kind
Of joy for which one does not have to climb the
heights.
The chorus sang what they had to do nartjc
ulaTly well. 1t was mostly simple, straigbtfor-
ward work, comparatively free from technical
difficulty. Some passages of Faning's very
effective "DaybreaK," however were quite
trying. There was great spirit and
precision in the choral work through
out. In the matter of dynamic shading
the club was evidently resolved to atone for
all past deficiencies; effects of this nature
formed the notable points of the choral work
upon the evening in question. Conductor Nc
Collum and all the singers are to be congratu-
lated upon that Transformation. Mr.. Carters
choral ballad proved to be an interesting work,
clearly and carefully written; indeed. it would
have been better if the I square and COMPASS
had not been so carefully applied to it, if il
had been outlined with freer and more fanci-
full strokes.
Among the soloists those of the fair sex are
entitled to precedence both by courtesy and of
right. Miss Jennie Evans accomplished her
first appearance in these concerts with decided
success. As shown in Gounods pretty
song. her veice was rich, sweet and
sympathetic, if not particularly powerful;
she sang with excellent taste, evidently
having her exceptional resources well
under control Mrs. Henkler has rarely been
heard to greater advantage than in the pretty
pastoral measures from Macfarren's MAY
Day." The same NAV well be said of Mrs
Thomas. who nicely modulated her powerful
soprano to suit the softly flowing serenade by
NJ. E. Heatman.
This song by one well remembered
in Pittsburg deserves a paragraph
to itself While the theme is reminiscent of
things heard before. it is very sweet and appro-
pirate. In its working out Mr.. Yeatman be-
trays the hand of the experienced artist who
knows the value of single line. His effects
are delicate and his colOrs pure; both brains
and heart are mixed in, and fancy is not forgot.
The song is scored for strings, flute oboe and
clarinet. 1t is certainly charming bit of
writing.
Mr.. Duff sang his good old ballad with un-
affected simplicity. but with hardly enough
movement and strength. 1t would have been
well to have had more OF these genuine old
ballads upon such programme. Still the
good new tunes were also pleasant to
hear. Wallace's sterling song, with its
cleverly initiative accompaniment was
good selection for Mr.. Brockett
to make, and there were many good points in
chiefly lacks. Mr.. Bullocks sweet-toned barry
tone and Mr.. Amberson's resonant bass were
heard to good effect in their respective Sc
clear enunciation and intensity of
feeling, scored one of the chief
hits of the evening. Creditable work was done
by the piano accompanies, Messrs. John
Prichard, Rinehart Mayer and James H.
Drake, as well as by Mr.. John Gernert and the
other orchestral players
So much for the quiet simplicity of the ballad
concert. Now for the pomp and glories of the
Mozart Clubs concerts with the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in May.
Big advertising. resplendent dressing, famous
but mutilated, operas, interpolated ditties
sensational singing, melodramatic acting-a
great hodge-podge of pretentlous, inartistic
bomhast: this is styled 'Grand English Opera"
in the provincial towns 1t don't dare
intrude into New York. where constant oppor-
tunitY is afforded to hear genuine opera IT
reaps its prohts from the unfortunate circum-,
stance that, through the greater part of this
country, really good grand opera is practically
unknown-at most, heard only once or twice a
season.
RI this community did not own a single oil
painting of any kind, and only knew what an
oil painting looked like from seeing few
seeond-rate copies on exhibition once
perhaps once in three or four years
II would not be strange if an exhItitlon
of loud chromos, well advertised, should draw
a good many visitors, most of whom would
swallow undoubtingly the managers assurance
that these are fine oil paintings.
1t takes such apologetic comparisons as
this to be able at all to compre-
continue SO long to fool goodly number of
very good folk. In comparison to the true
opera-as seen, for instance, at the Metropol-
itan in New York, or as shown by some Of the
old American Opera Company's performances.
or as seen any week in third.rate
German townsville Abbott opera has just
about the relative value of peculiarly brilliant
chrome to an original Murillo
1t is TO be hoped that the small audiences at
some OF last weeks performances betoken the
beginning Of the end of this hurtful element
in the nascent art life OF our country.
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Mr.. Frank NJ. Hunter comes back from his
three years study under Vanucini at Flor
ence,wlth an extra season under Randegger and
Fox at Iondon well prepared to enter the op-
cratic lists and contest for the honor
of his native city. Mr.. Hunters