The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-14
Realm Of Music.


A musical event of no Indifferent in
terest will be the concert of Nine.
BlauVelt and Anton Hegner to be given
Tuesday evening, Nov. %, in Central
Presbyterian church. Mime. B!auVeits
position in the musical world needs no
new description. The New York Mus
ical Courier speaks of her thus: LII
liam Blauvelt sang del1ctouSly she
has the throat of a lark. Her voice has
grown bigger, but she retains the same
luscious freshness and has the same
spontaneous ring in her utterance
which first made her here marked
soprano She is, indeed, our little con-
cert Patti, and not unlike the Diva in
her pretty piquant personnel. Encores
and again encores and storms of ap-
plause were her portion" For year
the singer gave up concert work, ow-
ing to the determined opposition of
her husband-an opposition which led
madame to her decision that she pre-
ferred divorce from him to a divorce
from her music. Hence she came back
upon the concert and operate stage,
and that her genius is appreciated Is
attested by the long engagements
which she goes from here to fill in
Paris, Berlin, Dresden and st. Peters
burg. 1t is a matter of little doubt
that a large audience will bespeak the
ST. Paul's appreciation Of great
singer.
Of Anton Hegner the violinist who
will appear with Nine. Blauvelt, the
Eastern papers contain notices OF un-
qualified praise. His technique is said
to exhibit a rare combination OF
strength and delicacy, which has made
him deservedly famous Herr Anton
is evidently the lion of New York So
ciety, judging from the way the cltys
four hundred monOpolized his Waldorf
concerts. His presence will add an at
tractive feature to an already attrac-
tive performance.
Melba. once came upon the stage to
sing an Italian composition and found
to her disrnay that she had not the
correct words. For an instant she
thought she would have to retire, but
soon regained her courage by assuring
herself that any Italian words would
do-her audience would never know
the difference. So she sang-g!orious-
". rapturously, and her hearers aP:
plauded wildly and Media retired with
q. merry chuckle in-where her sleeves
ought to be. The next day she opened
the paper to read KrehbiePs critique
of her performance and smiled broadly
as she read his warm commentator
of her superb tones, but the broad
smile suddenly froze on her face When
she read the last sentence which ran:
"If Melba loses her words 1t would be
better TO sing her composition like
scale on 'ah' than to drag in all those
foolish trash-Words" You tell Kreh-
biel he's a fgw was the lacOnic mes
sage which the singer asked 20 be TAX
en- to the critic.
The musical event Of the last week
was the Bispham concert gwen ny the
st. Paul Musical club. 1t was de-
cided success, the audience pelhe so
carried away with the artist that IL
would have been a matter of some diff
fculty for him TO finish his programme
had he not been firm in adhering to
the printed order.
The musical treats for this week Will
he the Pace concert Tuesday evening
and the Schaller concert Friday even
ing in Conover Music hal.
The following Is e. med!tative note
from the editorial bric-a"Drac OIL Tue
November Music:
TN spite of natlonalities, divccgences
of language and race the world OF
music is curiously one. Music Is the
only cosmopolitan speech, ard the or
chestral works of every nation are
current and highly appreciated in
every other country where they nave
orchestras Russia, Germany, France,
italy. even England and America,
have composers who speak TINS large
speech OF the inmost man IN accents
which all the world UNDERSTANDS.
thus the art of making VI pro-
grammes for orchestral concerts be-
comes increasingly difficult. The rev
ever presses upon the o!5; Aho, VIE
II is quite true as Mr.. Thomas often
saws that the public must hear every
thing and Judge for itself what il likes.
the fseyerything" has now become so
vast. and many of the works are so
long that a single hearing is only
he ginning os the process OF Judging,
and the maker of programmes has to
decide for himself which works are on
the whole the most useful and grateful
for hearing, and the most likely to
awaken IN the nearer new and in
spirinc appreciations Of the art"
Here IS something particularly for
the Westerners:
"People living east OF Lake Michi
gan sometimes suppose that those
who are so unfortunate as to reside in
Missouri and other states west. have
no musical privileges whatever. a
musician living at Springfield, Mo,
takes this impression 70 task He
saws: we ara eight hours from st.
I1I1is and we get to hear Paderewsk!,
D'Albert, Sarasate and others. The
Thomas orchestra gave concert here