New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
MUSIC.
Nine. Sembrich,s Song Recital.

NiIne- seTnorich has never celebrated more en-
paSic triumph than that OF yesterday afternoon
AeH see gave her annual solS reefta, in Carnegie
mai 1ha' the dimensions Of such room are not
adapted for the perrect erpositou OF 40 intimate a..
aie ana SO exquisite an interpreter has been said
80 oteen that It need not be dwelt on now. The
euesHon mas It's practical as well as it's artistic
1ioe- ADJUST the room 70 ideal artistic require
0''s una more than twenty-five hundred music
o'e4S "ould yesterday have missed q most exQu-
size pleasure-one not to be approached even when
MITE oenorfch sings surrounded by all the para
pnerhala and porrp OF the opera X is a matter OF
compromise with so large balance the side OF
popular saoness that it may De dismissed with the
expression OF hope that some dav an adjustment
may De brought about which will be mutually adj
vantageouS artist and public
Nine Semhrich's programme was model Not
one 70 DC copied or initiated by any other singer
now before the public, but selected and arranged
SO as 70 give keen delight al manner OF listen
ers and serve the higher purpose Of instruction
as well to the men and women who sing. teach
and study singing in the metropolis. With the de-
cay in the art Of singing there Is growing the need
OF example. and IN the field OF the old bel eanto
and lyric song there is no exemplar before the
public who be compared with Nine. Se-nbrch.
This is high praise. but true. Therefore it was
again q delight to hear the voice and the manner
that Mozart sought when he wrote ''BattI, BATH
bel Masetto." wifi which the recital began: the
suave, sustained style commanded by Giordanrs
Caro- mic ben." which flowed along yesterday Ike
molten gold in its rich refulgence and reposefuI
but eloquent movement; the corUscating melody Of
Handlers "LUsinghe piu care which made express
sive luelodic contours instead of ornamental -four
ishes out Of the fo-Id measures and the fne eGua-
bic. Hitting and ingratiating old English song.
different from all the rest and yet graceful and
beautiful, Where the bee sucks''-o hint Of the
time when English music took IT'S place In most
respects with that Of the Continental nations. In
each OF these numbers there proclamation
OF beauty. 4 proclamation needed and appreciated
AS for the matter Of apprecta ton. it was notable
that Nine Senbrich yesterday compelled It for the
later songs most OF which were strange 70 her
listeners (fOr Hugo VOLTS Der kna be Und das
Imnllen.' for Max Rogers "Beirn Schneewetter,'
for Grleg's Elm TraUm' and for three songs
by French composers which can by no stretch OF
the fancy be brought into fellowship with the Ger
man songs which made Up the second part OF the
programme They were Reynaldo Hahn's ''Tous-
deuI, DebUssy's Lame evapores et souf-
frantic and Vidars ''PrinteInps u0uveau'0 as en-
Enthusiastically as for the songs which were familiar.
Higher pleasure given By the SONGS OF the Sec
Ond part, for the simple reason that they were
more perfect specimens OF the form. Here, had she
been so inclined. she might have repeated every
one and done more than crafty the wishes of
her listeners As 1t was, she did repeat Brahms
'Wis melodien zieht es.' Schumann's "Auftrdgs"
and added the composers ''5tdRdchen" after a
group OF Richard Strauss songs. At the end OF
the programme she threw IN Schumann's ''Nuss-
baum for good measure. while scores OF her listen
eTs crowded forward 10 get a closer look at her.
Mr. Isfdore Luckstone played Nine. Sembrichs &C
COMPARTMENTS il he were enjoying the same
pleasure that fell to the lot OF the listeners