The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

the performance, but so long as there
is light enough TO allow the eye TO
distract any Of the attention from the
ear. il makes little difference whether
there Is more or less.
Charpentier'a opera Louise" that
seems as If 70 were so locally Partisan
IN its spirit that il could never sue
coed outside Of France, IS having more
and more success in Germany. II has
finally reached the stage Of the Royal
opera Of Berlin, and is scheduled for
production there this week. Mr.. Hertz,
the German conductor Of the Metro
poiltan, brought IL out In Breslau with
remarkable results in the public inter
est it aroused.
Some newly discovered works Of Mo-
cart were performed by the Dresden
Mozart Nerein recently for the first
time In Germany. One was the over
ture unearthed last year IN the library
OF the Paris cOnserVatoire. This work
appears TO be the second Of MOzart's
symphonies known to have been writ
ten Ia Paris. and hitherto supposed 10
be lost. Another practically unknown
composition given at the same time
was a duet in Die Zauberhote," in
which Tamino and Papageno express
their longing for Pamina and Papa
gena. II was discovered in a manu-
script score in the old Theatre an der
Wien in Vienna.
4z4
Therese AIalten. the well-known dra-
matte soprano of the Dresden Royal
opera, chief exponent there of the
Wagner herOines, viii cease 10 be a
regular member Of that opera next
June. She viii thereafter rank as an
honorary member. and win make ten
appearances a year.
$50
There is probably no song in the
repertoire Of the average bassO Of ma
ture years that is more popular than
Shields famous "Friar Of Orders
Gray" It's r0llicking hUmor and splen-
did swing has endeared it to both sing
er and nearer for years past. yet only
within the last month or so has the
hand of protest been held up by "a
thin-skinned man of the cloth who obs
Jected TO 10 as immoral" When
Gruensfelder sang il with the Carlton
Opera company, years ago, this song
was vociferously redemanded. and no
one had a thought that anything sac
religious was meant by the jolly monk
If the following lines. which form the
text Of the song In question, can be
looked upon as other than the out
pouring of a cOntented mOnkish breast
or paunch-heaven help Friar Tuck
and his outlawish blasphemy,-o or the
artists GruetZner and Defregger
whose genre pictures of the rubicund
tipping monks among their wine bar
rels are household treasures:
u am a Friar Of Orders Gray,
And down the valleys ! take my way,
J pun not blackberry, haw, nor hip.
Good store of venisOn does fin my scrip;
NV long bead roll D merrily chant,
Wherever / roam no money i want,
And why I'm so plump, the reason III
tell;
Who leads a good life is sure to live wen.
After supper Of heaven 7 dream,
But that Us fat pullets and clouted cream;
Myself by denial I mortify,
With "a dainty bit OF warden pie,
I'm clothed i'm sackclOth for my sin,
With old sack wine I'm lined within.
A chirping cup is my matin song,
And the Nesper bell in my bowl ding
dong
What Baron. or Squire. or Knight of the
Shire.
Lives half so well as a Holy Friar?'
Molloy's Thursday" and any num-
Der Of English and German songs that
deal with the monk of the cellar who
makes a face at fish on Friday, would
come under the same ban, and were
the restraint effective the world would
lose some Of its dearest lyrics.