Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-08


The Omaha Musical society viii give lis
first concert in Creighton theotcr Thursday
evening, November 10, under the direction
of MIR. Homer Moore. The membership con-
sists OF 100 thoroughly competent singers.
among whom are a number Of Omaha's lead
Ing solosts. The society was organized in
September and has since been diligently at
work preparing for this initial performance.
Tho music has been selected with the in
tCntion OF really entertaining the audience
ana the dcpire Is to give concert which,
while only good music Is rendered shall
yet be thoroughly popular. To this end
selection has been made Of two operate
"analeS," which are brilliant and powerful
One is by Verdi and one by Wagner The
solo and ensemble parts have been as
signed to the following members Of the
society:
Mrs. Martin Calm, Mrs. C. NJ. Wilhelm.
/ Miss Myrtle Coon. Mrs. c. w. Morton Mrs.
| J, l.. Kennedy Mrs. Charles Urquhart, Mrs.
I W. w. Turner Miss Pauline Lowe Mrs.
| \. +. Ely and MoSsrs Jules G.. Hubbard,
| Walter b. wilkins Harry V. Burnley, J, H.
| Conrad, X. II. Sunderland, a. Lansing, w.
Il. johnson and H. Hclgren The society
Will have the assistance OF an orchestra
| OF twenty musicians, OF which Mr. Franz
Adelmann will be concert mcister, This
| organization comes before the public solely
on its merits and without guaranty fund
or a subscription list Its permanonce as an
! institution OF this city depends entirely upon
public patronage
Much has been written and said by singers
| and teachers about breathing, and somo
have formulated what they have called a
vocal method upon this one factor in tono
| production. Some are ready to stake their
| eternal musical salvation upon what tho
| irrevcrcnt call 1.-The abomnabc system"
| meaning the abdominal others upon upper
| chest" others upon Inter costal." Jean de
Reszke uses upper chest" Plancon the
abdominal" and Nine. Media, as a general
| thing, "inter-cCstal" These are three OF
the greatest artists in the world As near
as can be determined by observation, Nine
Nordica uses all three, and there is no
| singer anywhere who is more versatile than
| Nine. Nordica. Each one seems to use that
which is best adapted to him or her Any
careful student can master all three
| methods and learn to use each with discre-
tion. 1t is poor policy to hang ones whole
hope of success upon any enc thing unless
! 1t is necessary to do. but a mixture OF
methods in which nothing is mastered is the
worst OF all possible conditions.
Mcssrs. Herman Basse. cornetist. and
Franz Engle, viola player, two OF Omahas
| best instrumentalists. have left this city.
II is said Mr.. Rasse has gone to Pittsburg
to ion Mr. ArCher's orchestra, and that Mr..
Engle is engaged in Kansas City. Both
players came to this country at the time OF
the Worlds fair, and since that time have
|
return and remain.
The musical department OF the Womans
club will give the inaugural program Of
the DerthCk method Wednesday, October
IL, p. m. at the club rooms. Program:
| Address-The Derthck fedcration,.....
Mr. Homer Moore.
| Piano-Beethovens Largo from Sonata
G0 Descriptive Analysis and Illustra-
IONS .,:,.,,'',''''''.' ',''.''''''''''''''''.
Mr. Don Long
AddrcSs-The Beautiful In Music. .......
Mr.. Thomas j. Kelley.
| Piano-Chopn's BCrCcusc (Cradle SOng)
m) Descriptive Analysis with llustra-
n,l 81 i;crc;,
Miss Josephine Bell.
Song and Analysis-The Evening star.
Mir, Homer Moore '"''''''u'''
Piana-Chopin's Funeral March..........
ca Descriptive Analysis with lllustra-
tb, Performance of March .,,,,
Mr.. Don Long.
Miss Zangs-Reader ......................
Miss acknowledgements ........
The following very complimentary article
about Mr.. Leopold Godowsky, the great Rus
sian pianist, who is expected to appear in
this city about November 81 is from the
pen of w. S. II. Matthews, Chicago's leading
music critic, who devoted ten pages to tho
artist in the July edition of his paper:
There is never any pounding in Co
dowskys playing Forte and sforzando there
are In plenty, when needed, but never
pounding In all his playing n marvellous
clearness and limpid righteousness, the like
OF which you rarely hear even under the
fingers of the greatest artists. Partly this
is due to the method of his practice. Adj
mirng his smooth playing of thirds | had
the curiosity to inquire how II had been ac--
quired. | found that to begin with he had
invented a new lingering for chromatic
thirds possessing the advantage of perfect
legato in both the voices IN place of the
two breaks in every octave renecessitated in
all other systems of lingering. | found that
he practiced the upper voice by itself until
II went to suit him; then the lower in like
manner; and at last both together until the
double thirds went with a perfect and me-
lodiors legato, exactly like single runs.
This. which all virtuoso plauists aim at.
GodOwsky attains."
The following letter was received by tho
editor of The Bee from far-Of MassaChu-
sets. 1t refers to the musical column that
appeared in this paper October II, and Ia
very pleasing evidence of the sympathy
and unity of feeling which may and often
does exist between musicians. The writer
feels very grateful to Mr.. Dalton for his
very generous letter and trusts that at
some future time he may have the honor
OF his acquaintance. The letter is as fol-
lows:
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Oct. H.-To
the Editor OF The Omaha Bee-Dear Sir:
Thanks for the excellent article Oh Inter
probation of Music in your issue of last
Sunday, and especially for the silent rem
derng OF Sullivans beautiful Lost Chord
given therein. Many times have | played
and sung that sublime song. full of mean
ing and musical pictures II is, and
thought out just those sentiments which
your article describes ! pity the man who
has not music enough in his soul to be
thrilled by that inspiring union OF poetry
and music Yours sincerely
c. f. DALTON"
Every year several great instrumental art
lists come from Europe to America in search
O: new worlds 10 conquer and new dollars
to spend Last year we had three violinsts,
Marslck, Rivarde and Ondricek This year
wo are 20 have two great Dianists. Rosen-
thai and Sieyeklng. The latter is already
in this country and made his debut In Bos-
ton with the Symphony orchestra. October
"a. and the Post says he was given "a splen-
did ovation" at the close Of the concerto by
Tschaikowsky which he played.
Rosenthal will make his first appearance
I'm Carnegie Music hall, New York next
Tuesday evening with the symphony
chestra and Mr.. Damrosch. There Is no
reason to doubt his success 1t Is likely
that both these great artists will make a
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