Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-13
GRAND OPERA RAR[SI
TREAT CITY EYER HAD
Henry w. savage's English Com
pany in "Lohengrin' Il Most
Superb Operate Event
BIG ATTENDANCE FROM ABROAD
Two Hundred Seats Already Spoken
For by Visiting Theater PARTIES
Will Be Dress Affair>-Bricf Recital
of the Romance and Poetry of "Lo-
hensrin'-Tho Cast.

OF the Romance ana Foctfy OF TO
hengrin'--Tho Cast.
In the production in this city week
from tonight, Tuesday, March 90 when
Henry w. Savage VIII present his Eng
lish Grand opera Company IN "Lohen-
grin" Marshalltown will have the rar-
est musical treat IN her history. Lob.
engrin" as presented by Mr.. Savage
company, will be a superb operate
event in every sense of the word, and
will be given by company numbering
kind is an unusual one IN u town of
this size, and Manager Busby is truly
to be congratulated on attempting such
a gigantic enterprise, which cannot
possibly result in any financial profit
to him.
The entire organization will arrive
in Mlrshalltown ON its own chartered
train of twelve cars. with the full
| "Parsifal' orchestra and complete
equipment, and the music lovers of the
city may rest assured that they will
be accorded the same elaborate presen-
tntlon of the opera as given In st.
Louis. Chicago. or any other large
city. A little history Of the tour for
the present season will show where
this company has been. Opening Octo-
Der last with a weeks engagement at
/ Brooklyn, N. Y, this company played
i the large eastern cities in New Jersey,
Connecticut Massachusetts, Rhode Is
| land, New York and Pennsylvania,
Washington, d. c.. worked south thru
| Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama, to New orleans. touched at
the principal cities in Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Texas, then went
west to Denver playing also in Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo, thence to
Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle
and into British Columbia Now the
company is on It's way east again, and
opened the present month In Helena,
i Mont Its engagements this month
have been at Fargo N. D.. Winnipeg.
Grand Forks, N. D.. Duluth. and now
Is in Minneapolis for a four nights
| engagement. st. Paul will be played
on the 18th, 18th and 18th, and Sioux
City on the 10th. The company comes
here from Sioux City and touches but
| three cities in this state. From here
the company goes to Des Moines,
| thence to Lincoln, Neb Omaha for
| two nights, Kansas City and st. Louis
for week each.
Most Popular Opera in the World.
"Lohengrin' has been declared by
musical critics to be the most popular
opera in the world, and Is proba-
bly, the easiest to comprehend of any
| Of Wagner's compositions. When it is
| selected, one may be reasonably as
sured Of performance that will gener-
| ally please all classes.
The romance and poe of "Lohen-
grim" dealing with the beautiful story
of the swan, the white knight, the
Princess Elsa and the pure white dove,
are told in Wagner's richest melodies.
| "Lohengrin," composed in. 1S45, was
not produced till 1850 when, under
the direction of Liszt, 1T was presented
at Weimar Wagner was 30 when he
wrote "Lohengrin,' the story being
drawn from German legend, where it
is the subject of various poems dating
| DoSh w lIlG lliIllGSuIlIl century. LINZ
most of the German legends the story
is picturesque and lends itself easily
to dramatic treatment 1t has a double
motive--the triumph of the innocent
and the test of true love, which the
legend affirns can only exist side by
side with perfect trust. The failure
of the heroine to respond to the su-
preme test, gives the tragic note that
Wagner is ever keen to express
"Lohengrin'' lis a. tone poem where
the composers aim is to suggest, to
typify and symbolic the theme and
the character Of the story With it
is interviewer a continuous stream of
illustrative melody, running thru the
whole ganut of musical expression.
There is no formal sequence of recita-
tive, duet, quartet, and chorus, and
there are no lyrics dn the ordinary ac-
ceptation of the term. The orchestra
ton is constantly changing with the
poem itself and is a. running comment,
responding to every variation of feel
ing and emotion.
The hero, Lohengrin, was the myth
ical knight of the Swan, the son of
Parsifal, famous in the Arthurian cir
Gle, and knight of the Holy Grail.
He is carried in "a boat drawn by a
swan to Antwerp, where he vindicates
the innocence of Elsa, princess of
Brabant, who has been falsely accused
of numbering her brother. Lohengrin
becomes her husband on condition
that she shall never ask his name.
Disturbed by doubts, suggested by Or
trud, wife of Telramund her false ac-
cuser, she cannot refrain from asking
Lohengrin to disclose his name and
lineage. BY doing this she loses him.
The swan comes with the boat to take
him back to his duty at the shrine of
the Holy Grail. But before The de-
pants he restores to Elsa her lost
brother, who had been turned into
swan by Ortruds sorcery. At that
moment white dove descends from
the skies and takes the place of the
swan, bearing him away.
A fine note is struck Immediately
upon the rising of the curtain. In
meadow on the banks of the Scheldt,
near Antwerp, are assembled the no.
bles of Brabant, under the presidency
of Henry l.. king of Germany. Fred
erick Telramund. a Brabant noble.
brings his charge of murder against
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