New-York tribune., 1902-11-13
MUSIC-THE DRAMA.
NINE. sEMBRICHs RECITAL.

The hold which Nine sembrich's personality and
art have obtained upon the music lovers Of New
York was again convincngly demonstrated at Car
negie Hall yesterday afternoon. when she gave one
OF the song recitals which the people have come 10
look forward 10 an annual occurrence and ar an
nual treat The audience filled every box and
nearly every chair in the great and
made up OF the me flower OF New-Yorks music
practitioners and patrons. Conductors, tnstru-
mental performers. singers and teachers of sing
ing-au there. all overlooking with cordial
admiration for the singer. who I'm turn was gra-
cioIsly responsive the kindly feeling. Under the
circumstances IT was not strange that lovely
bond OF sympathy speedily knit. and that Tor
an hour and d half the charming artist played upon
the senses and emotions of the assembaEe at her
will
There was nothing conventional IN Mime. Sem
brich's programme and the majority OF the mum
bers were to all intents and purposes As
usual she began with group OF pieces In the eiGh-
teeuth century manner. in which the old art OF
singing was illustrated. our audiences have never
shown the same interest in these old arias that
they have in the more modern songs ~ which
sentiment asserts equal claims with aesthetic
beauty but il was noteworthy Yesterday that the
listeners had begun 10 glow with enthusiasm lonS
before the part was finished. Mime Semhrich's con
victlon on the subject Of programme making had
led her 20 begin with the sevcrest well as the
most beautiful air the group. the noble supplca
ton 10 Diana sung by Iphigenia in the first act of
out proIongeas mes jours.' II "A lofty specimen
of sustained dramatic calling FOR deep feel
Ing and eloquent defamation as well as perfect
musical utterance and II pity that Nine
Semhrch placed II at the beginning OF her list, be
fore she herself was wholly at her ease. before
her voice was warmed. and before the mood
on which such music must live had been created
1t would have been better had the graceful bit of
badnage from La Serva Padrona" which came
later been IN It's place Nine. Sembrich is hrst OF
al a musical comedenne. and II until
she reached the Pergolesi air. had sung the Gluck
music smoothly and religousy and burned the
rockets In HandeTs 20 had Jubals Lyre." that
she found herself wholly In her element. In the
air from La Serva Padrona" she was irresistipy
coquettish, the '"Chanson du Papillon" by Campra
was Of gossamerIiRe dlminess. and the air from
Rach's STREET zwisChen Ph6bus und Pan though
the contra puntaI voices kept sublimely on their
way IN the accompaniment. was allied with such
an infection OF arch humor that for some minutes
- seemed as II We we're 10 have the unusual
rion Of having a Bach piece redemanded- Even
This however, was not so startling as the fact
that Nine semhrich illed Beethoven's 'Neue Liebe
, naues Leben" not a masterpiece of song by any
means with such impetuous excitement as TO SUIT
M a tempest Of enthusiasm with IL
For the remainder Of the afternoon the singer
and her hearers lived heart to heart intimacy
In the second part the songs We're by Schuoer|
Schumanu I.oewe and Brahms Both OF Schu-
mann's songs ''Nussbaun' and "Fruhlngsnacht
had 10 be repeated on the spot, and after the two
songs by Brahms. which ended the group had oeeh
sung another schumann number was added
exquisite "Auftrage." Had the demands or the
/ audience been complied with thereafter every song
would have been repeated. So far the singing
was concerned, the climax IN the third part was
reached in Tschaikowsky's lob heller Tag sung
in the original Russian, and Bizets dainty pastoral
TN jour de printemps" At the end the audience
refused to the hail until Nine. Sembrich had
sung Chopins "Naiden's Wish" to her own brill
liant accompaniment