The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-27
MUSIC AND ITS DEVOTEES
HEITZMAN RECITAL EVENT OF
LAST WEEK
Critics Agree That Frau Amanda
HeftxmaH's Performance Was IL
Mastery InterpretatiOn-Da
Orchestra Concert at the Metro
poIitnn, Minneapolis, This After
nOOn-PrOGramme of Selections,

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The musical event of the last week
was the Wagnerian recital given in
| Mozart hall Monday night by Frau
Amanda Heitzman
The performance was of particular
interest owing to the discussion arous-
| ed over the character Of the work and
| to the ample Illustration afforded of
| the popular tendency TO criticise Wag-
| rer's works and Wagnerian singers
from the standpoint of Italian music
The consensus of opinion among
those conversant with Wagnerian prin-
| ciples is that Frau HeitZman's per-
| formance was a mastery and must
| cianly Interpretation of the nibelung
ring motifs. She is firm adherent Of
| the doctrines of her master, who in
| sisted that music was as broad as hu-
! mainly and as deep as human nature;
| that 1T should express all the emotions
pain and pleasure, joy and grief, love
| and hate, tenderness and terror-and
| that terror, pain, grief and hate can
| not find adequate expression in waltz
measures or lullaby themes.
| Said one critic, who was fairly we'll
| versed in music: eff music does not
| in the end please, it is failure" The
| statement doesn't mean anything I'M
less some light is thrown on the ma
ture OF the pleasure demanded. If the
critic means the pleasure of the intel
lect and senses alike then we all agree,
but, If he limits it to the ''tickling,"
soothing sensation. then we protest
In the great Wagnerian operas, 'Das
Rheingold," Die Walkure," Sigmund"
and the Dusk of the Gods" there are
powerful motifs, and, if one knows the
theme of the operas, only the most
vigorous handling can be pleasing to
him. If he doesn't know the theme he
had better stay away, for he will not
| be pleased any way
When Brunhilde calls her sisters to
the dread struggle, her frenzy does not
find vent in dove cooling. 1t Is
fearful frenzy, and it is a fearful
call-that "Yo-ho -to-ho! But to one
who knows the story pleasure is to be
found only in an adequate expression
| of the emotion. That Frau Heitzman
| proved herself equal to the task in
| dramatic power, vocal range and vol
ume Is frankly admitted by the must
| clans Of the city who attended the re-
cital. AS to criticism of her work
abroad, Julius Hey, royal professor in
! Berlin, with whom Frau Heitzman
| studied for three years, says of her
| that sit Is certain that she will soon
stand in the first rank OF the singers
| Of our age
She leaves the last of April for Cas-
| sci, where she will take the part of
| Brunhilde in the Royal opera house.
The request programme prepared for
| the DanZ concert, which takes place at
| the Metropolitan opera house. Mime
| apoliS today, is one selected by Mr.
| DANES patrons of both ST. Paul and
| Minneapolis.
On the programme Of the last con-
! cert Prof DAM placed list Of some
| forty different selections, and requested
| the audience to select any eight num-
| bers out of the forty for todays con-
! cert and deposit the marked pro-
| gramme with the doorkeeper as they
| left after the concert.
The plan was a novel one, and some
| 47O patrons showed their appreciation
of 1T, as that number of programmes
marked were left with the doorkeeper.
i Instead of eight numbers the audi
4 ence picked out ten, the vote for each
/ being nearly the same, and hence Mr..
| 'Danz has decided to give the follow
Ing programme of ten numbers:
| March-"Stars and Stripes''... . ..Sousa
''Rhapsodie No. o.. :. :. .Liszt
| Rustic Wedding ...... .... Goldmark
| "In the Garden'-Dance.
| Introduction to Third Act-''Lohen-
sgrln TN, ,;.u,,n.,, .'...'......; Wagner
W yhaas mer1 FIawers, r Won Bull Bul,
String Orchestra.
S Sc n. Rusticana" Mascagni
Carmen, Suite No. -. .:;....... Bizet
| bandieres.'D
b. 'Habanera."
c. 'Nocturno."
| d. LA Garde Montante."
| O. Finale-C 'Danse Boheme."O
| Overture" Tannhaeuser" .... :. Wagner
! The Young Peoples society, assisted
| by the Trinity Choral society. will give
a musical entertainment Easter Mon