The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-19
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aeltpnl, ~ tha slsfefa cofalna, auhta and
parents N he pupll4 In tho foyer asaemhlei,
wa had hotrd to conolthe this evening
any announcement wlthpn,. HIT ! regret
N aay that one n oif most Important
pnplls has l~en detained ~ hons ny q
serious death In ihN family IN her place
we will now hear q new piano player Iuat
from London u machine piano player,
ladies and grntIeiuen. thai, plays auto.
matically the tes, I evef h~arh.'
A highhrowed young gentleman, q freah-
man In tho Rrand otnra college, tiptoed up
and -t her IN, and tho p~iano-playcr. with.
ont the slightest embarrassment, rendered
several s~yncopatcd selections ~ grand
opera. II WIS followed by nineteen ~ the
pnpils of Mr.. Conried.
The foyer VIZ crowded. TO suffocation by
the friends Of he performers. mainly women
end prevailinely German There was a
fintter In one corner 81 the room and hsavy
applause from that direction. and q young
woman In n pink dreeA strobe to the centre
Of the stage with q 6eoutante bow. THE
SUH'sm elodra matte reporter. who attended.
IL not able TO tell what she sang about.
because II was in swedish. She must have
been a freshman. for she hadn't le1rned TO
make a single gesture. She didn't put her
hand on her heart and give three heives Of
her body and stand still and roll her eyes
while the orchestra playel -tum-tum-tid-
dle-tiddle-tum-tum" and burst out, when
no one was expecting her TO talk at ell, with
"a-a-a-a-ah-ah!" She just sang right along
like Edna May only you can always under
stand what Edna is singing about, while
this was in Swedish. Anyway, she did the
best she could without the gestures, and the
people in the corner applaude1 wildly and
said: Isn't she looking well'" when she
got through.
There was a f1uttering silence and an
other girl came along in a gray graduating
gown effect. This time, the hea " applause
started from the middle Of the room, and
there women began to stand up and sit
down to Ina We a good look at her. A matronly
woman moved her mouthallth waythrough
in unison with the singers. This was In
Dutch. 1t il a rule Of the Conried School
to permit no straight English until the
pupils get their accents formed. Although
Aha was splendidly formed to pack a spear
and wear q helmet in Wa gnertan opera
and make bluffs at Strengthening a gente-
man in a bea rskin and d the while
she warbled "Du bist-- she, too, just
folded her hands before her n sang
right along.
When she had gone away and the
matronly old woman had got her ups qu,et
and her features composed a young GENTLE
man in plain evening dress took the stand,
threw out his chest and poured out q note
which started from his solar plexus and
worked its way gradually into his Rsopha-
- Ia ... ,.Nathla IN foil in whaf
language he was expressing himself, be-
cause the title Of the selection was o
lie Diable," which u is French, while the name
OF the composer was Meyerbeer, which is
Dutch, and his own name was Motley,
which is English. He, too, was not trusted
to make any gestures.
There followed another selection by the
patent steam piano, which had taken the
| place of the young lady b had been de-
tanned by the serious death In the family.
No one but the electric RAM huttered TOT
the steam piano. g.,
Next was a trio, and here the opera school
achieved it's final triumph in scrambled
languages. This go was between two
! young gentlemen and one young woman
II was a friendly encounter, all gestures
! barred. They Just stood beside each other
and held little rolls Of music and sang.
The name Of the soprano was American,
Of the tenor Italian, and of the basso Scan
dinavian,. while the title OF the selection,
LAS NhCutlhkti III Oihoa II
| German and Spanish, as any one may see.
Kreutzer was the name of the composer,
which is Yiddish, and the language in which
thew sang seemed to be Esperanto.
They did real we'll; It lacked r hSwsy ,h.
| eraduate opera singers who AVE had all
he courses in gesture and Delsarte put into
their best work, The basso when he
struck his very bottom note did not clutch
his p~ectoral muscles with both hands
and hurl himself, with it's dying fall, chest
first at the soprano. Neither did the go
prano clasp her right on the nape Of her
neck, like a man who is trying to make
self backward with the verve and action
Of a baby who has 2 pain, emit her B fiat
.~A-o-o-oo-ahl' Neither did the tenor
singing,
his nineteen pupils after q while, and every
knot in the audience. had it's separate nut-
ter. When the pupils got through they
had used up every modern language except
Arabic, Japanese and English. The pro-;
ceeds 60 to the suffering students Of grand