New-York tribune., 1906-11-21
MUSIC.
NINE. SEMBRICH's RECITAL.

The first supreme hghwster OF musical enjoy
hent is reached here early every season when
Nine Sen1brich gives her song recital II is good
ullnS that 1t comes early. before the music lovers
are 1aded, while their capacity for enjoyment is
sun Keen when they still appreciate worthily
the refinement and genteness of the Offering After
the season is in full swing and the popular mind.
heart and have become habituated things hot
upon the sensibilities her would fall of its hest
appeal, especially under the circumstances which
seem necessary for its manifestation. The one re-
cital a year in Carnegie Hall is benson for the
lovers Of beautiful songs and beautiful singing II
Is benson that. things musical must be
enjoyed then or never. But perhaps the admirers
OF the singers wonderful voice and skill never
wished SO ardently they did yesterday that the
one recital in CarnegeMfiau, with its mammoth
environment might be split into dozen recitais
IN which that delightful intimacy might be had
which is essential to perfect enjoyment OF all the
beauties which programme and singer hold out
Nine. Sembrich made essay yesterday which
was startling in it's bodness. She sang five of
Dvorak's Gypsy Songs, One of them, AIS die
Alte Mutter,' is an old favorite in our concert
rooms, but few singers nave dared to attempt its
companions. They full of the stirring clang
Of the dulcimer and the twang of the gypsy fddles
they seem 70 call for flying garments and the noise
Of Gathering hobnals They mems songs,
even the tender one mentioned. which has 10 sub
NIT TO an unhappy change Of its text in order TO
fit IT to woman's utterance, Yet Nine. Sembrich
them with 50 much of their native spirit that not
only the pathetic Ais die Alte Mutter.' but also
its wildly free and abandoned "Reingestinmt die
Saiten" had 10 be sung twice satisfy the joyous
camor of the audience That audience was trib-
ute a wonderful tribute, TO the artist and to the
citys appreciation OF the high. the truly aristo-
cratic. things in art. Numerically Il all that
the vast could contain or the sale of tickets
had 10 be suspended half hour before the recital
beean), but what would have been the effect Of the
songs under proper conditions, with OF their
passionate potency disspated in cavernous space
and wasted on erTatic acoustical conditions? We
only guess.
The othe@ new features Of her programme were
all in Nine Sembrich's genre, but none the less
interesting for all that In the first part she
presented herself again in her most notable and
valuable capacity exemplar OF the old art Of
beautiful singing She introduced artetta from
Gretrys IL Ami lie Ia Maison." and gave refresh
ment TO lists known only connoisseurz with
Scarlatus DUAL farfaletta amante." Bachs "Bist
Du bel mir" "a study much needed in sustained
singing and noble sty1e). in a German religious
song Of the seventeenth century by a composer
who has dropped out OF the books-David Corners
Elm neues andach-iges Kindelwiegen''-and two
bewitching English songs, DR.. Arne's Plague Of
Love- and Henry Carsy's Pastoral" as they have
been adjusted modern use BY h Lane Wilson
Later there echo Of the old English style
In song with a sixteenth or seventeenth century
text by a New York musician. Mr.. Carl HaUser
(''There Is Lady Sweet and Kind'). and it was
pleasure 10 note Ilat tnOuSN many SdInulS VI
style and feeling had been passed through IN the
interim, when Mr.. HauseT's song was reached II
aroused again the feeling Of pleasure that had been
stirred up by his predecessors Of a century and a
half ago. His song would have had to have
repetitons had there not been already such an ad-
dtion TO the list as made 1t seem inadvisabe. To
enumerete Carey's Pastoral the end Of the first
part was followed by the old air, "FfngO per mio
diletto" which Nine Senlbrich woke out Of It's
slurabers last year; Schumanns Meme Rosa
stranger to local Ists-and the old favorite "Auf-
trage" by the same composer. as also the two
Dvorak songs had been repeated, and there had
be.n a recall and imperative demand for more
after the second part Of the programme which
ended with Brahus's songs, "Feldeinsaulkeit" and
'"Vorschneller Sch wur." To that demand Nine
senbrich with infaIlihle taste, responded with
schunann's "R3selein R5seein,' OF all songs
seemingly the only one which could have con-
tinued the exalted poetical mood into which the
singer had lifted her listeners by the songs Of
Schubert ('Fruhlingstraum" and Der Musen-
sohn0 Schurann and Brahms, the three composers
az whose shrine she seems worship with complete
and loving devotion. She also widened local lists
with a little song piquant and arch, by GernsheiIn
entitled 'IIebe verrath Licht," and gave exu-
berant voice at the close Of her published list with
Mrs H Il. A Beach's setting OF The Years at
the Spring" from Brownings "Pippa Passes"
That was not the end of the entertainment, Of
course after IT came more songs on conlpulsion-
Strauss's "StAndchen' and Chopn's 'Maiden's
Wish TO the singers own accompaniment IN alI
the other songs she had the infa!bly tasteful and
effective help OF Mr.. Luckstone. H. E X
OBITUARY.