The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01

The appearance in the city of Walter
II DamrOSch and David Bispham, and of
n Arthur FarWell will make this coming
week an interesting one unsteady. Two
of these artists, Damrosch and Farwell,
lare not musicians merely. They repre-
ISent in a large measure those forces
ythat are today shaping the musical
fdestiny of a country still very new so
! far as any form of art is concerned.
BThey are helping to blaze a trail for
those who will follow and almost as
i much interest attaches itself to their
personalities as to their music or their
lectures.
I The isolated figure is always an at
I tractiye one to the world. Apropos Of
personalities, it is a fact worthy of
1 comment that in this age of organized
\ effort the personality counts more than
| ever. In the van of every organization
and of every new movement there is
the picturesque figure of the leader.
The organization or the movement is
his. Instead of dwarfing him or con-
cealing him, it furnishes for him q
background that makes him conspicu-
gus, that throws into sharp relief his
individuality. His contemporaries are
always more interested in him than in
mis- organization or the movement he
/ has originated
j Musical interest centers this week on
| the appearance of Walter Damrosch
| and David Bispham Tuesday evening
| at the Peoples church in dramatic
! and eXpository recital of "Parsifal."
I The current number of the Musical
/ Record and Review gives q brief sum-
mary of the theme on which the sacred
music drama is based. We quote part
of it because it is particularly apropos
I in view of the recital Tuesday night.
Tho ho eli Of nn &c, -
legend of the Grail, the sacred chalice
I from which Christ drank at the Last
| supper, and in which were caught the
| last drops of His blood as He hung on
the cross.
According to Wagner" says the ar
ticle, both the Grail and the sacred
spear, with which Longinus pierced the
lFside of Christ were brought down from
heaven by an angel host and given into
the keeping of Titurel, who built for
them temple in the mountains of
| Northern Spain and founded an order
of knighthood to protect the sacred
relics. None but the pure in heart
could find the magic temple; none but
the noblest and bravest could remain
in its service. Titurel. was succeeded
by Amfortas, who fell victim to the
Wiles of the witch woman Kundry, the
female prototype Of the Wandering
Jew, and was wounded in conflict with
her master, the magician Klingsor, who
wrested from Amfortas the sacred
spear with which he administered a
wound that would not heal.
1T was prophesied, however, that one
day there would come to Monsalvat a
youth, Parsifal, pure and unsophisti-
Gated, who would become wise through
compassion and who, after having
himself withstood temptation, should
regain the spear and by It's aid heal
Amfortas' wound. With the coming Of
Parsifal the action begins"
Miss Harriet Hale presented Miss
Signe Dahle, soprano, in recital given
in the Odeon Wednesday evening of
last week. Miss Dahle has a voice of
very fine quality The range is wide and
the scale even and the tones are full
and clear. 1t is the sort of voice that
should go with a dramatic tempera-
ment. The first group of songs that
Miss DAZZLE sang Wednesday night
seemed to indicate that she did not
possess that temperament, for they
were sung in a monotonous fashion.
r-But later on 1t was made very appar-
ent that this lack of spirit was the re-
by GODDARD, the last song in the second
group, was sung with expression and
style. In Rogers "At Parting and
Bischoff's Good Night, Sweet Dreams"
Miss Dahle was able to give more con-
vincing proof that she is gifted tenn
peramentally, for, apparently more sure
IF herself in these songs, she permitted
her voice to interpret their spirit as