Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16
THE WoMAN's CLUB.

The Womans Club met on Wednesday,
the 18th inst.
Mrs. Donnely made a report on the
Leonora Jackson entertainment. The
results were in every way satisfactory.
The club unanimous agreed that the
credit belonged to the music department.
Mrs. Russell and Mrs. W. J. Christie. the
presiding geniuses of the screen" did
their loyal duty to the patrons of that,
now historic institution. Every club
woman was enjoined to give the prefer
ennces in all purchases to those who ad-
vertise on the screen.
1t was music department day. Mrs.
Donnelly presiding. The programme be-
gan with a talk about those musicians
who have recently died. List, who has
been so thoroughly discussed on previous
occasions, again received the loving tri-
butes of music lovers. Verdi on tthe
failure of La Traviata, said: Time will
tell whether it is my fault or that of the
musicians. Time has told, indeed, and
La Traviata with its author is crowned
with immortal fame. In connection
with this thought, Mrs. Kelley said: One
should not trust the verdict of others
as TO the divine spark of genius he feels
within himself; when Verdi presented
himself at the Academy of Music in Mi
| Ian, he was told he had no talent what
ever. When Verdi's first opera was pro-
| duced, his beloved young wife lay ON
what proved to be her death bed. Verdi
| ran constantly between the theater and
| his wife's bedside. bearing her the news
! of it's f1uc -uating success and failure. till
| finally. when it was Kissed off the stage.
! the broken hearted author sought his
| sympa th!zing wife: she was dead. This
! incident draped the lie of Verdi with a
sorrow which his sad face carried to his.
grave.
Mrs.. Donnelly set forth that the key to
! al Wagner opera must be found in the
fact that they are founded on Morse my
tho'ogy The Na'kyrie madens (choosers
of the slain) ride through the air. and
touch with spear the warriors who
shall fall. Mrs. Donnelly thinks the or
chestra in Wagner operas chants and
| sinps and means the tragedy as enacted
by these mailed and armed messengers
of fare. Brunhilde was the daughter of
q in, herself a Nalkyr. She pleads with
Odin for the life of one whom she would
save. Mrs. Donne.ly thinks the orches-
ira quivers. vibrates means and shrieks
her prayer to Odin One instrument takes
|
a wild clamor, anon a deeped chord Of
agony is struck. till one seems to hear
the wai,ings Of the lost mingled in this
dread symphony Of prayer. The sing
ers in Wagner opera are always large;
they bear arms wear shields, and in all
things deport themselves as the hand
maidens of Odin himself
Miss Young noticed that the insane are
always fond of Wagner music Mrs Fla
vim occupied her accustomed place in
the club to the very great pleasure Of her
colleagues. Mrs. F,avin had heard Wag-
ner's Tanhauser this winter The orches-
tration was enhancing. Nordica was
g7o1, OF course. but she liked Gadsky
better and Melba sang like an angel
Mrs. Paine thinks Materna was the
Rest OF al singers in Wagner music
Mrs. Paine mentioned feelngly a loss to
the mneical world in the death of Ethel
bert Nevin. He was native of Pitts
burg. to which city he was endeared not
only as a musical genius, but as a man
. . Mrs. Paine read an extract fran a New
, York paper. paying glowing tribute &C
: the deceased composer. If" said tht
extract referred to, ito give pleasure t
, Others is greatness. Ethelbert Nevin wa.
great. He reached the heart; he wa.
| popular with the many; his music pene.
trated the frozen SHOWS of the Klondike
, and to the bungalows of far off India
, Miss Sicily favored the club with 9
, piano selection from Tanhauser by Wag
, ner. In response to an encore. Mis-.
kelly gave "Nocturne," by Schumann
, ''iss Rara Shoemaker presented a paper
. y" Richard Wagner, and Miss Naom
Tr!ton read a short essay on the same
mbject Miss Fulton said: wagner
imposed in his brainn and not as Il
= 'emetimes supposed, on the piano. II
E Haireuth. music paper was to be fount
n every corner CT Wa'mfried. on which
? | lille wandering about the house OF
2 seepless nights. musng and planning. H.
made brief jottings. often mere idea O.
2 Instrumentation Miss Hamann gave
. violin SOLO, Evening Star" by Wagner
s The paper by Mrs. John Mcintyre wa
as follows:
RICHARD WAGNER.
p. Wilhelm Richard Wagner is famou
for revoiutonizing the opera by intro
dGcing dramatic effect. Early in IN
:. sixteenth century cOterle of Italia
musicians had attempted to recast tn