The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-09
THE REALM OF MUSIC
Mr.. Frederic Dean Lectures
on Mozart at Hasbrouck
Hall.
OUR MUSICIANS OUT OF TOWN
DATES Announced for Next Weeks
Concerts-FortuightIy to
Meet.
OUR MUSICIANS OUT OF TOWN

BEFORE Mr.. Dean came upon the stag
OF HRsbrouck Hall last night to lect urs
on Mozart's music. the souvenir pro-
gramne had placed the audience In O
properly receptive frame OF mind. For
upon the first page was athalf tone print
OF the house in which MOZART was born
extending across TWO inside leaves. a
view of the room where his cradle used
to staud; and upon another q cut Of the
queer old grand piano. from which
the master used to produce the same
notes that now we hear from such an
instrument as Mozart's music anrlci-
patsd.
Besides all this the front page bore,
over against the face of the Young Wolf
gang Amadeus. the announcement that
Miss Myrta French aud Mr.. William F.
Brown would slug. Mile. Bar tina Brousil
play the violin. Mr.. G. L. Becker the
piano aud Mr.. !. G. Withsrs the flute. Mr..
Dressler accompany and Mr.. Bsier play
the organ. All this set the a~udiencaein
the proper mental state.
THE LECTURE.
Mr.. Deans lecture was rather bi-
o~Rraphlcal than critical in character,
since there 10 IN the short career of this
musical genius, 30 much Of living inter-
esr, that 1t will repay thoughtful study.
He spoke or his wonderful precocity
as composer and executaut: his
career as wonder child; his early love
dlsappointed; his SD bseQuent marriage to
the sister Of his first sweetheart; Its un-
happy results; his constantly Increasing
pno,yertyi the production Of "The Magic
Welding him fame bnt little
money; the approach of the end;
the coming of the mysterious
stranger with his commission to write q
mass of requiem; his fsverisn toll Tor its
completion; the arrest OF his psu mtd-
way by the hand Of death. bringing to a
close. just In It's early prime, the career
OF the prince of Mslodists."
There was, however, Que paragraph
with which one could well take issue. 1t
reads as follows
Il have been called a rapid Wagusr-
ite,' and | am ever proud to cast my vote
for him who was the greatest genius of
our age. But they make a huge mistake
who call the Wagner muslc4drama sne
music of the future. Il IL rathe the
music of the present ana OF the past, and
not until q new Mozart shall arise
who shall forge together these two op-
posing elements OF speech and song, aud
cover the muscles of the German Music
Drama. with tue beautiful tinted flesh OF
Italian melody, shall we possess the per-
fected. beautiful creature we call the
opera OF the future. 1t is 9 trr file rasD-
TO any Wagnertte to hear melody APP
propriated exclusively to the italian
school.
THE soLoTsTs.
or the assisting artists, Miss Myrta
French, the Soprano, was easily first. She
has al irraproachable method; as one
might expect from a pupil of SbrigIia,
taught Plancon and the De Reszke
brotners-but it is SO irreproachable that
it is no longer noticeabls-art has be-
a second nature. They used to call her
THE WinconsIn Nightingale" and there
is good reason. There is in her voice a
certain bird-like quality. q liquidity Of
tone, that completely capeivatss che ear,
Besides, she has evident dramatic talent
and infinite esprit. Altogether, | would
not have mis- seu he ring her for q farm
even in Wisconsin.
She sang Zsrluia's dainty aria, "Batti,
BATH. bel Mszstro." aud che aria. "Voi
che sapele," from Figaro, aud with Mr..
Brown, the IDA ci darem la mauo," duo
FROM Don Juaa.
MIR. Brown snng "Quis Degno." from
the Magic Flute" ad .,irAblv adapted to
his voice. Little Miss Floreuce Reid
plAyGu MOLSEIS AEsk CUHuUU@ibtOD, u
miuuet for piano. Mr.. Becker played
the first movement from the G majpr
Sonata. und with Mr.. Bsier, the Lacnrya
mosa from the Requiem arranged for
four hands. I
Mile. Bertha Brousil, the oldest living
woman violinist, plaved the first move
ment of The K minor Violin Sonata. aud
with Mr.. Winners. tue dutisf. aud Mr..
Becker, the Figaro overture; also a lar
ghetto with Mr.. Baier at the organ. Mile,
Brousil's manner is thoroughly charm
ing-she has the Interpretation of q true
and the ease Of experience, the
experience of fifty years. Tue Larghetto
WAS her best number.
NOTES.
AT the next lecture, gu "Oratorios aud
Their Writers" Mrs. r. Ii. Gilmore, Mrs.
Frederick Dean and Mr.. Franklyn Hart
be tbs soloists, with y cnorns of
A~eventy-tive.
Curiously. the Fortnigbtly has Just
Mozart IN IT'S course of study.
His music will be the subject Of next
weeks meeting.
Mr.. Gustav L.. Becker of the H%aabrouch
School of Music will tonight illustrate a
of Mr.. john Towers nf London ct
Cooper Union on this Five Musical
Giants" His roaramms will be:-- Bach:
A Minor Piano Fugue. Handel: Har-
Blacksmith. Haydn. G Minor
Mozart: G Major Sonata. Bee
Sonata Appassionata. NJ, B. i.