Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

uOAooOALl anu oCuuInduu. MUSIC lovers
should not allow these evenings to get by
them. Such programs are rarely given.
They are a liberal education, not to men
ton the pleasure which accrues from them.
Miss Bella Robinson is giving a series of
recital talks at her studio Saturday after
Moons as benefit and incentive to her pu-
pills.
On April 2 at the Lyric, Mr.. Cheney will
sing Liza Lehmann's song cycle, I'm
Memoriam," with Mr.. Landow at the
piano.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly will give their annual
song recital at the Saint Mary's Avenue
Congregational church on the evening of
April 10. This is a musical event always
looked forward to with eager interest
This years program promises to be fully
up to the mark in beauty and originality.
.
The musical department Of the Woman's
club will hold it's regular meeting on
Thursday afternoon at 2:9O o'clock at the
First Congregational church. Those who
will take part are Miss Miller, Miss Meek
and Miss Sadilek, pianists. The latter will
play a Beethoven concerto, the orchestral
part to be played on a second piano by Mr..
SSAANe- III" NSAlLoA - BENNETT Will give
two organ solos, Violin trio, MadEe and
Eloise West and Louis Schnauber; Miss
Covalt soprano solo; Mrs. Slabaugh and
Miss Covalt, duet; Miss Damn, soprano
solo, "Dich Treure Halle"
The Musical Art society will not have a
rehearsal on Monday night, March 25 but
Will meet again on Monday, April l. They
are planning to give a concert in South
Omaha the latter part of April and will
present THE Crusaders in Omaha early
in May; place and date not yet decided.
The Robert Cuscaden school will give its
next public recital on next Thursday
March Is. The school orchestra and soloist
will be assisted by Mr. Cecil Bergman,
pianist pupil of Mr.. Borglum, who will
play the Mendelssohn G minor concert
with orchestra accompaniment. The So
loists from the school will be Edward I'm
deland, Mildred Butler and Clarence Pat
ten. The program will include the prelude
to Lohengrin- Wagner, Wiener Blut,"
waltz Of Strauss, etc, besides the solos,
Admission to this concert is free
.
A very interesting postal comes from
Mr.. Keefer, who is studying with Xavier
Scharwenha in Berlin.
Maurice Grau, the famous impresario, Is
dead. He held the reins of the Metropoli-
tan Opera house in New York before Con-
RED His health at last broke under the
strain. OF late years he has been living
abroad very quietly. Grau started many
famous singers on their path 70 fortune.
notably the De Reszkes. Calve, Eames and
Schumann Heink.
Humperdinck's fairy opera "Faensen and
Gretel," is a most delightful piece OF writ
ing. The opera has become immenseIv
popular The text is really the story OF
The Babes in the Woods" Both grown
up and children go crazy over II. II is
full as charming as Peter Pan" When
the opera is produced here hundreds OF
children should go. In the first act
Haensel and Gretel are left by their
mother TO put the house in order and work
hard OF course they play instead. Their
mother comes upon them dancing. Sine
scolds them roundly and sends them into
the enchanted wood TO pick strawberries.
The children take their punishment lightly,
wander about under the trees until they
reach the usenstein Ga spot which figures
as the haunt OF witches In Goethe's
''Faust'D. There night overtakes them.
and they are put 70 sleep by the Sandman
(the sleep fairy who puts sand into the
eyes OF German children, and makes their
eyelids heavy) But before they go TO
sleep they say their evening prayer, which
tells how fourteen guardian angels are sent
to watch over good children during their
sleep. The angels come as described
though Of course Il Is all dream, and In
the morning the children are awakened
by the Dewman Cthe dawn fairy who
shakes dew into the eyes OF the sleeping
children out OF a bell flower when II is
time for them to wake up). Now they
happen upon the hut OF the Crust Witch,
whose gingerbread house is surrounded
by fence Of gingerbread children. II is
the practice OF this witch 70 bake her
victims In gingerbread dough and eat
them In this form. She meets the fate Of
the witch in the original story. and is
herself transformed into a monstrous
gingerbread. While she Is baking there
Is an explosion In the magic oven which
falls 20 pieces; also the gingerbread COW
ering falls on the figures which form the
fence around the witch's house, and, the
spell being removed from them, the chill
dren all return TO life, and the opera ends
with their chorus OF thanksgiving. and
the rejoicingB OF the broommaker met
woodcutter) and his wife al the recovery
OF their children.
MARY LEARNED.