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

Saens, though Influenced by Bach and Wag-
ner, is much more French in his thought
school. He has, above all things, that
which they all seem to lack-the divine gift
Of melody. His is the music of the future
From the New York Sun.
Phrasemaking, stagecraft and the calcium
light pose are the three mighty factors in
whole hovers the huge shadow of Wagner.
Your French Wagnerte is the maddest of
clasts-Bruneau, Charpentier, Chausson,
Debussy-Dukas and Dlndy in their search
after a method have fallen neck and heels
into the meshes of Wagner,s mighty drag
net. Their idiom is the idiom of Wagner
From the old-time sugary sweetness of
French melody they have swung the pendu-
lum of their fancy TO the far extreme of
hot vinegar. They hate the tonic triad
would rather write in two keys at once or
in no key at all then in plain major mode.
From the New york stats Zeitung;
While II would occur to no one to deny
to D'Indy seriousness. dignity and artistic
view, and musical equipment In all techni-
cal matters. it would be, difficult or rather
impossible for impartial music lovers to
give his efforts their blessing. 1t is az
great and fine thing that the French com
posers are trying to get free from their
fnsipid salon sentimentalty. But it seems
as II they unavoidably give up the spon,,
taneity of their expression when they rid
themselves of their inherited evil
From the New York Herald.
Judged by these compositions. the modern
French school would seem TO have for
saken all beaten paths and to be bent on ma
unknown. One mere man In the audience
put the case in a pithy phrase when he re-
could hang your hat on" There wasn't.
From the Boston Herald.
Unfagging gaiety in allegros, smooth aud
obvious sentiment in andantes, no longer
appeal to them except as a short and oc-
casional contrast. Unappeased yearning,
vain inquiry, somber meditation, passion
that is largely neurotic-these must be ex-
pressed in the most modern or even pro-
phetic fashion If the attention of the hearer
is to be fixed and held. Enjoyment OF such
music be at once understood II is as
though grief and despair and sullen
resignation were expressed in a language
foreign to the one that hears, and he is
conscious that he should sympathize but
fears lest through ignorance his sympathy
might not fit the exact need at the desired
modern Frenchmen is sad and often the
sadness seems hopeless.
From the Boston Transcript
The music resulting is as much the dis
embodied sublimated human spirit as that
spirit will ever be disembodied and sub
would be Burne-Jones il it were not
Browning. II is disembodied thought that
runs along supremacy without reference
which supports that thought. The pre-
Raphaelites always paint as If their five
senses hdd LETT myers, eyes, ears behind
and were making an excursion through
the very petals of flowers and through
mems eyes TO their very last depths
D1ndy thinks as they, but he is more in
tense. Like them he makes use OF phys
tcal symbols TO express what he has "a
say-he has to, TO make US understand
Like the pre-Ra phaelites he will paint the
nude, and paint it as beautiful-and as
bloOdless-as they But he is more like
Browning, in the intensity that tInGlcs
his order of thought as Brownings was
disarrayed They used TO complain of the
austerity, the cOlorlessness, the chill Sc
verify of Brahms, man who dwelt apart
on unreachable heights. But Brahms. is
as simple and winning as a child besid,
the DIndy of this quartet
.
Nine. Calve is still recuperating at Hot
Springs. She is billed to appear I'm Chi
cago January !. The Boyd management
Will not answer for her appearance here
for month
Mr.. Cuscaden has changed the date OF
the first appearance OF the Philharmonic
orchestra. There Will be no concert on
January 16. as at first planned.
The next meeting Of the Tuesday Morn
ing Musical club will be on January 9, al
the residence OF Mrs. Crofoot.
MARY LEARNED.