The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
NTSTC AND MUSICIANS.

Opera In English will be heard at the Metro
polltan tomorrow night for the first time since
the American Opera Company gave IL last per
Torrance there twelve years ago. That am
bilious enterprise was n failure attributed to
the irexperienoe OF some Of lis directors and to
the lack Of god faith on the part Of others.
There was only regret that its purpose was not
accomplished, for its artistic and national aim
found sympathy on every side. Since that
time opera In English has been treat d az an
inferior form of musical entertainment never
intended to stand on the same level with the
p'rformlnces gwen in foreign languages. The
present season at the Metropolitan IS not 80
ambitious In scoI e a that attempted 10y Mrs.
1hurbe- and her s-ociat's fifteen years aGo,
when they founded the American opera Com
pany
As a feature Il the opera season at the Metro
p, Ii an, the English opera must be- looked upon
a, an experiment. If English opera Is TO be
established here on the basis demanded by the
success. Of the scheme IT must not be infer or In
any of its pfeteusions { , the performances given
in foreign / ngUages. f. lglish opera as a Cheat-
pric d adjunct al the other seHon VII. not IAN
Ilsiitutirn TO arouse any feeling OF national
pride. Nor J. u novelty vi wed IN that ,lHht,
There has rarely been a time when .pera
coud not be heard in English al reduced
prices With n CORE ponding variation In its
quality. II the present scheme nr s.ers-and
II begins with all the, ADVANTAGE mat
the good wishes Of the community can
give 1.-THE regui.r $ a-on~ must u tiinniei,
lie gwen IN that Ian uHG' ,ot'erwiS II VII
me no ec Iai mS 90 %, a nI PIIH'tthhi il" a%rirpr'c ' sI' :. must
be the selection of The Encli h Language for MI
Performance; FOREIGN sing rs must earn that
tongue, which viii hereafter dominate. and
opera " 4 be he ird here IN the future rs II Is ia
81 erv other country NJ lucland. W rks VIII
b. suug not in the language thev We're written
but n the language al the y" pie This rIIe
prsVa l. over here In 4 Ou'iNrLtal Europe.
Bur View York has heard Nayurr IN G"runn.
GounOd 10 French and Ros.!nl D. Italian. That
i.,.rt jniy @ I'd, nee Of a hg1 artistic standard.
So % brliaVr thHt p more exalted COu q not
easily be a,tNincd il Is, o. c"nr~" "l,"t 10 The
obi elton hat only hearers ucyua' ntcd wlihior-
rigr IL GuHga can "ppT,C ate tht drama &c sig
niNCanca e ,pcra sung With heir original ten.
New Yo X cuiuvs most The works in which
words and music are most Clo.'lN uniled Inc
greatest pleasure 20 be taken out Of on,ra is
Cnly whom TN" T lat or o one TO ,he other Is
understood Ten ther" il merely TIE sem
suouS pe t-ure to b" had from i-tenIng 10
beautiful sounds. OIer1 in ia" 'lnguag" which
iii. Le,rors n de~,'trd J. the Only form Of
the ART that displays its fullest b auttes. That
is a n.h"~ reason for the pro p"r'iy here New
YORK a. dienc.s have ALWAYS shown much moro
work. and non e IN" fingers a ocated ~
the Metrop0hian's performances IN the ra.t
sing in the English language, Th" texts avail
a H. are usually in OleTa'lv bald and w schol'
arly. Their are Tx Nv 10 be drawbacks in III"
way o success when opera l. sung In the yer;
nncular. b I the! arr ONLY temp rary and
bhiN N,hNN'L
success Of the plan.
1t is practically settled that Nine EameS will
not return 10 tris country next winter. She il
still in rather poor health and :. - feels the need
of a year, rest. But she will return early in
the following autumn to take a preliminar tour
to The Pa ida GA { with the Maurice Grau
Opera Co panv. She NAV sing II Monte Carlo
in March AID later at Covent Garden
There will be- no !acS of singers II the Mozart
r6l g this year at Ia" Metropolitan. Miss SUI
same AGam, IS now in Paris 10 secure costumes
for SuS.nnu in IL Nozz' di Figaro and the
Queen Of the Might in I'll Flauto Magico." Mime.
Melba is announced to sing tie same roles and
20 Is MI .. FIR tzi Schel OF Munich.
III Kaltc1Lorn Orche ira j. 10 make a tour
through tie lead z cities Of the country at the
clo.e o. it, Ne& !, rk season.
Jan Gerardy. whose IA her. formerly a pro-
prietor in the observatory at li"Ce, died the
other day, is to come TO thi- country in Janu-
AIRY. lie may also be heard In Australia.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Young Russian
pianist, will begin his FIRST American tour at
carnegie Hall on November ~, with an orchcs-
ira upd,r Emil Paur's direction His tour will
embrace about sixty concerts, ami will extend
20 ca u, rnla.
concert Of the Philadelphia Orchestra OF that
Citv on Nov. Ia. and at the first New York even
ing concert OF thp hnrlS"l QuaII'lIe III NPlu"l--
sohp Hall, Nov. 10, ana with The same organ
cation in Boston thu following evening, Nov. 20
Orch, stral concerts at which he will be solo 1t
will be in Boston, Hartford, Springfield,
Moro, ster and Portland arly 10 December, and
reciials have been arranged Ia Philadelphia,
Rplt more, Wa hinctOn, Bro Hklyn, Boston anu
New York during December.
Nine Sembrl,h " IL give eight song T"citals
during tho month OF December before the ar
rival OF her opera co upany which is TO give | >
nrst rerforma &c IN January sig Bevtgnaoi,
who il 10 be H. conductor. vii arrive her. late
I'm November to Degiu the rchearsals OF C iorus
and orchestra.
Ernestine Schumann-H ink, LII an Rl1uvelt,
Giusepre tampanari. FrLngepu Dave = and
Richard Burmeistcr are TO be the soioisis at the
Mtioe festival, which begins to-mQrrow ana
continue through the week under W.. II. Chap
mans direction.
LADY Halle j. to retire from public life AZ the
close Of I'M present season. She has been be-
fore the public for nearly half a oentlr,. She
aTpeared first "a a child vloliGlst in London IN
Ista. ut before that lin" had been heard with
her sister Amalie. "A %Uianis,. her brother Frauz.
a 'cellist, and her father. an orRanist, IN various
continental cities. Her first husband wa LuC-
wig Norman, a Swedish musician AMER his
death she became tie wife of Sir Charles Halle.
Her final appearance Will be az one OF tho Halle
concerts which he founded In Manchester
The Philadelphia Orchestra. with FntZ Sch"el
A. conductor, will give six concerts this season
at the Academy Of Music In that city. II Is
hope TO enlarge the guarantee fund
hen Edward Strauss arrives here during the
sound we X Of October. he will be honored by
n serenpde given under the auspices OF Band
master Fdnclulh.
The American symphony Orchestra under
sam FrnnkO's direction will give three AFTER