Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-31

keeping it spotless, and also a few prelimi-
nary smirches were probably attached to
its purity along about II or l OF the 31st
or LIST. Seeing the old year out and the
new year in is a strenuous proposition that
demands vitality. The man who intends to
begin 1905 in a pious spirit had better go
home early and get to bed (Dolorous ad-
vice 1 wouldn't even take 1t myself.)
have visions of New Years eve dinner
last year at Faust's in st. Louis. / can
see the room lined with Christmas trees,
the red shaded lights, the hanging holly
and mistletoe, each table with a great
vase of fresh hot horse flowers in the
center; the whole plac~ ablaze with Christ
mas cheer. Large parties, small parties.
pretty women in pretty clothes, good
looking men in expansive shirt bosoms,
walters flying around with steaming dishes,
and bottles, mostly reposing in silver
buckets; then 1 guess / forgot little;
anyway, this is a far ramble from the sub
ject of music It's time to get back. Be-
fore doing so, however. here's wishing you
a Happy New Year, filled to the brim with
happiness and prosperity.
.
Madame Schumann Heink-Rapp has
bought an estate in New Jersey, beautiful
will seek relief from her artistic tempera-
ment in butter making" Now. ys jewellers
on the heights. come off your rarined
perches, and get that into your craniums
Behold Ortrud, with her sable mantle, stalk
into the milk cellar, and bid the dasher be
put into her fateful hand. Whewl what
butter
There's to be little Rapp! 1t makes
nine.
To those musicians who have been fol-
lowing the excitement in the east over
D'Indy and the ultra modern French
school of composers, and who doubtless
play much OF their music, the following
criticisms will be OF vast interest. They
give in an interesting way the charao-
teristics of these Gallo extremists and en-
body the opinion OF the best critics in the
country. II remains for time to show
whether Cesar Franck and his followers
have really founded a school which will
survive. They have departed absolutely
from the old lines, have out-Wagnered
Wagner. and put to shame even the pecu-
liarities of Richard Strauss The question
is aren't they neurotio freaks, who are
tOrturing the chromatic scale to death?
But then. think what crazy stun the world
thought Wagner's music at first II Of
Tended the ear, and seemed entirely i'm
possible IN its construction. To go back
still further, what an uproar the dominant
seventh created when it first came into
use. Mems ears have become educated
When will they cease 10 respond TO tonal
combinations? The music of these young
Frenchmen has left people rather dazed
From the New York Tribune.
Why have these young men no melodies
plastic enough to be developed interest
ingly and logically? What Is the matter
with the good old scale? Are there new
thoughts and feelings In the world now
TO which the diatonic series cannot give
expression? or is IT imagined that a
new essence OF beauty lies hidden IN
whole tone pTogressions? Can cerebral
ism, OF which we hear much in connec-
ton with This latter day music, find ut
terance only in the unlovely, the unwonted
the unexpected? Must natural sequence be
forever after tabooed?
From the New York Evening Post.
After hearing these two French concerts
the thought uppermost In ones mind is
why did not these young Frenchmen fol-
low Saint-Saens as a model instead OF the
absurdly ovsrrated Cesar Franck? Saint