The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-25
The WORLD OF MUSIC
Mr.. Deans Third Lecture
On The History of the
Opera" At Hasbrouck
Hall.
SEVERAL REClTALS PROMISED
Mrs. cleaver Makes Her First APP
pearance In America since
Her Return.
SEVERAL REClTALS PROMISED

As the prospectus seemed TO promise,
the third lecture of Frederic Deans must
cal course at Hasbrouck hall last night,
on The History OF the OPERA" was the
most interesting OF the series so far. In
the first place. there was more lecture
and a better one In point Of furnishing
information. and then, from the nature
Of the subject, the illustrations were
more varied in character, aud conse,
quently more Interesting. The audience.
unfortunately, was not so large a. might
ave been wished.
Mr.. Dean began by indicating the
presence of music-drama among the
apcient Greeks. aud. indeed, the musical
accompaniment of dramatic repress TIA
tion from the earliest time. Pure music-
drama fell with the Greek nation, and
through the centuries that interviewed
etWee the decay of the ancient civil iza-
tlon and the era III the Reformation, lay
dormant, its plaza taken by rude miracle
plays. or by still more degrad-
ing mummery In which music
met ignoble ends. Then came
the epoch or rsblrth-its rena g.
sance-whose first definite sign was the
formation OF a club meeting iu the
PalAzzo di Baedi. Florence, whose mems
brrs. true art lovers as we'll as men Of
Influence 10 affairs of state, had for their
purpose the revival OF ne ancient music
dramas, the tragedies of Aeschuylu aud
Euripides. From this the club ventured
TO attempt the combination of music aud
drama In a more closely united form.
Galileo, the father of the astronomer,
was the FIRST to attempt q compositions; a
one act affair for Que vo'ca with the ac-
compartment OF one instrument. 1t was
laughed down by the club, aud Caceini
next tried his hand. Where he led the
nthers followed. until in 1894, the great
est OF them all, JacoDo Peri. produced
what may be called the first opera
lDaphne) although this name was not
given 1T until much later. This produce
lion OF "Orpheus aud Eurvdics." by
Perl 10 Rinunccini's words. in 1000. may
be said TO mark the begiuuiug of
opera.
THE ITALIAN SCHOOL.
IL ssven years it had made great
strides especially in the matter of orche :
ira. From PERKS meagre five instruments,
M0nteverdPs orchestra for "Orfeo" in
1857 numbered 81 pieces.
twenty years later Heinrich Schuetz,
the rather of German ora orin,' intro
ducec az opera, ''Dafne." patterned after
that OF Peri. Ia 6 rmany. Thirty years
later. IN 1877. the first opera house was
oDene! IN Vlenna-the first step toward
opera for the people.
The ILLUSTRATIONS for Italian opera in
clnoed the overture from ''~semiramide."
mat much thrummed p,sno quo, the
recitation and aria from tTraviati, DE
Mel Balienti Soieitl."' by Mr. Heurv Lin
coin Case, and the quartz te from "Rigo-
letto. by MRS. Cleayer, Mrs. Dean, Mr..
Case aud Mrs. Brown. The stars of this
last We're Mrs. Dean and Mr.. Case, who |
gave a decided dramatic flavor to their
OSrGS. 1t WIS To Enanl that fha audianno /
owes an excellent showing of the com
oosite charac ar of this quartette in
which each singer expresses Ii separate
emotion.
Il FRENCH SCHOOL.
f'e1ch opera was intr iduced from
Italy by Cardinal NJ lzzini ia 1916. From
this the lecturer rapidly sketched its
progress to B zet Poor old Lulii caught
it as usual. l wonder il the peposry old
FELLOW could have known how evsYy hi<-
tory and epcyclopB1ia and lecturer would
pitch into him for his cupihity and his
bad temper even unto the present, would
he have reformed aud lived like an artist
ever pftete Raniesn, the successor aud
artistic superior of LulIi. came IN for a |
Pare or attention. Gsuck. whom the
FRENCH claim as theirs. was properly
placed as the real founder of the modern
music drama of Germany.
Alter this part of the lecture Mrs.
OASoNChs WuUul we Know Us MISS ElSdaOr |
beebe. san Mignon's song, mon BOG
nosci II Del suo." Her voice is clear,
very sweet and with a rounded tone. A.
Tar as one could tel from one hearing
1t seems deficient In dramatic power. bur |
that may be 'iue to her idea of the inter-
probation OF the song. Mr.. W. F. Browu's
singing Of the ''Toreador Song" from
Carmen with a cnorus o mems voice:
vas one OF the most effective numbers
Mr.. Bai4r PLAYED a minuet from IL.
Ballet Gomique de la Royae,n the com.
posiii n generally known as "Amaryllis-
air du rOl Lout XIV
II GERMAN CHooL
VI the Gernla School OF Opera COM
poses. Gluck received the most ttention.
Two of his com positions were songs, one
of which, the chorus of priestesses fro n
IDhegeuie. 20 Latona's Fairest
Daughter" was the artistic success of
he evening. Mrs. Dean sang that i'm
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