The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
IHRONC CREETS
FAMOUS SINGER
Madame SchumanD-Heink Is
Applauded by Thousands
at the Alhambra Theater
VOICE CHARMS AUDIENCE
Noted COntralto VIII Give
Last Concert at TiYoli
Next Sunday Afternoon

There were a thousand people turned
away from the Alhambra Theater yes
terdsy afternoon at the last of the
/ Schumann-Heink recitsls there. The
: thousand, however, need not despair
! The singer, who has made the greatest
furOr in local musical annals since
Nordica, viii be heard once again. on
next Sunday afternoon at the Tiyoli
4 Wagner and Brahms viii be among
1 those represented on the programme.
/ that VIII be entirely new.
/ The first group Of songs will be by
Schubert, and is as follows: (a) THE
Young Num-" CD "Rastlose Liebe." (c)
Death and the Maiden Cd "Sere-
made; by Robert Schumann: (a)
'Waldegesprach," Cb) "FruhIing-
snacht." Cc) 'Ich GroIIe Nicht." &C.,
Die WidmUng." The great
viii be represented by (a) "Liebe
OBJ two songs with viola oblig-
tillte-Sehnsucht," Cd Gels.
Wiegenlied," Cc) ''wie bist du rnal...
Konigen." Cd) Meme Liebe ist Grun. -
This will be followed by the Fifth
Psalm by Rebling and Rafps "Sei
STILL" both with organ accompaniment
played by Arthur Fickensher, and the
final numbers viii be two Of the great
est Wagnerian numbers of the great
artist, The Erda Scene" from the
Rheingold, and "Waltrauten Scene, -
from Gotterdammerung.
In the Schumann song cycle,
'Frauenliebe und Leben." the singer
was heard yesterday at the
Schumann-Heink best. Just what
that best is can be OWNED only
by those that heard her in
this exquisite little story of girl
hood and wOmanhood. The charm of
the poem, the loveliness of the set
ting. were enhanced an hundredfold
by the beauty Of the Interpretation. 1t
went right from the singers to the au-
dience's heart, and gathered much
tribute Of tears and laughter by the
way. One fOrgOt-as one always for
gets with Schumann-Heink, except,
perhaps, in the vocal steeplechasing of
an Ardiu "Bolero' there is such
thing as technique. One gets the
story, told in all it's simple tenderness,
ecstacy, sorrow, with an art so perfect
that it perfectly conceals itself And
one remembers only afterward the su-
preme art that has gone to the tell
ing. As additional grace the singer
gave the Wolf "Heimweh" as encore,
by general request.
Fittingly, this greatest of Wagnerian
contralti ended her programme with
s.E -
/ do not recall another-from the Bay
reuth master, the recitative and aria
from "Rienzi." 1t is heroic, and was
heroically rendered, but is not Wag-
ner at his best. Still, it is herein that
Schumann-H -Heink's noblest measure is
taken, in Wagnerian opera that she is
at her greatest-if not at her most
lovable as in her Schumann and Schu-
bertrand it is herein that she will be
most ardently remembered in history
The new songs of the programme
were the "Befreit'' Of Richard Strauss.
charming in the Schumann way, and
Spengel song, "Augen meine Fenster-
lein," that is Immediately likable
There was also Brahms "Sapphische
Ode" that was repeated in response to
a demand as warm as the days ther-
mometer. a Schubert group, the Schu-
mann "Fruehlingsnacht" and "Wie Elm
Gruessen."
Miss Hartman, whose admirable ac-
complishments as accompanist are
more fully revealed with each concert,
gave also yesterday afternoon a clever
rendering Of the Wagner -Brassin
"Feuerzauber'' and the Caprice Es-
pagnole" of Moskowski.
BLANCHE PARTINGTON.