The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-30
SEMBRICH Is THE STAR
THE BOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
HERE TOMORROW NIGHT.
Somewhat Popular Programme of
Classical Music-Campanari
Also to BE Heard.

The concert TO be given at English's
Opera House tomorrow night will give
Indianapolis people an opportunity 10 hear
the greatest singer of the day in her style
Of vocalization Nine. Marcella Sembrich,
who, with that fine baritone. Signor Giu-
seDpe Campanari, and the Boston Festival
Orchestra will render a programme both
varied and interesting. In the grand opera
season just closed Sembrich was easily
the most popular and most praised of all
the artists, and the list included several
celebrities. In a discussion Of the Work OF
the great singers who have appeared In
New York this season musical paper OF
that city editorially says:
I'm the case of Marcella Sembrich the
usual routine of criticism may as well be
suspended for the time being. as the mar
velous art that she exhibits has been thor
oughly criticised, and all that can be said
in addition thereto would be merely an ex-
tension of the many favorable comments
on her singing What we chiefly wish 10
refer to here is the new impressions created
by her interpretations of what has been
supposed TO be an old art, and that is the
art of bel canto. 1t has become fashionable
to decry the old Italian arias such as the
great arias of Bellini and Verdi and Doni-
zetti and even such songs as the varia-
tions of Proch, which she gave with such
taste and finish Sunday night"
When we hear Sembrich We begin TO APP
preciate these old arias. SO that they appear
as fresh and virile as If they had been COM
posed ten years instead of forty and fifty
and sixty wears ago. And Sembrich, more
over. illustrates the fact that the great
army of singers that has been here for the
last few decades must have been inefficient
in voice and method to have influenced our
taste and feeling for these remarkable vocal
compositions.
mo wonder the old patrons of opera in
the fifties and sixties recall with JUNCTION
and enthusiasm even the days of bel canto,
when such artists Sernbrich were among
the usual artists at the Italian opera. We
can readily understand when we hear this
meant with a quartet or a quintet equally
balanced, consisting of singers of this cali
bre And we must not forget that th csc
composers. just as an inspired musician
could to-day, after hearing Sembrich, write
an imitation Italian aria for her without
difficulty. 1t would be found, if he were an
extremist among modern musicians, that he
could not escape the inspiration when ne
hears Sembrich sing. The bel canto merely
as technical operation. while ii has its
value could not generate such enthusiasm
as Sembrich created in the Metropolitan un-
less the artist had such temperament and
vital genius to depict emotion and feeling
as nature has given TO SeInbrich."
The programme for tomorrow night S
concert will be as follows:
Overture "Tannhauser' Wagner
Boston Festival Orchestra.
Emil Mollenhauer, conductor)
Andante from quartet, in b fat. for
Orchestra.
Vision, Fugitive (Herodiade). =. .Massenet
Sig. Campanari.
"Ronde d'Amour' ............... Westerhout
Orchestra.
Aria, 'Ah fors Lui" CTraviatD. ......V Verdi
Nine. Sembrich.
Symphonic poem, lie Rouet dom
phale' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Saint-Saens
Orchestra.
Orchestra.
Prologue, ''I Pagliaccf' ..Leoncavallo
l. Sig. Campanari.
Introduction third act "Lohengrin" .....
..-'-....'....'.... $1,000. ...-..-. wagner
Orchestral.
Waltz, ''Voce di Primevura" Strauss
Nine. Sembrch
Overture, ''Robespierre'' .............. Atollf
Orchestra,