Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-08
Music

Program:
Variations, F minor. ....."... Joseph Haydn
Menuetto, A major ....".::W A. Mozart
Nocturne. A major CPoco Adagiol .."
Polonaise. B major, op 81. /. PsderewsEi
Gavotte, A major ..............C w. Gluck
capE gcean Z major LOT riano .% NJ oTSn Paganini
TRANSCRIBED for Piano by Schumann)
Traumerei tRevery) op. g. No. 4;":
hlcnaru otrdusS
Tempo di Minuetto. Canzonetta. 49,.
Maids at the Spring Etude from on
Maznrka. B minor, op So, Etude, op Is,
No. {. Valse, op 70, No. l....,.,...Chopln
Cantique d'Almour ,......"..",......- LisHt
Carnival Scenes, op 49,. .Constantin corpus
Entrance. charmeur, melromene ana
ITALIA, fortuna, procession of young artists,
harlequin and ~culombine, butterfly, death
dance, roller skaters, Moorish dance
comedians, finale Tarch.
When the Teachers Annuity and Aid
association start out to do anything they
usually accomplish they intended
b accomplish, and the results are never
in doubt from a financial standpoint. And
their last effort was in no way an eX-
ception, for when they decided that Mr..
Joseph Calm should give a recital of
pianoforte music under their auspices. 1t
meant that his popularity as well as theirs
would secure a large and intelligent
audience.
And so, the First Congregations church
had one of the largest audiences of the
season to welcome back once more to the
gates OF Omaha. Mr.. Joseph Calm, who
fr many years labored here as pianist,
teacher and composer, known and esteemed
by a large circle Of music-loving friends
and admirers. This was Mr.. Gahm's first
a. "a. - &c - mara ainnn
his return from Germany where he has
been studylns and listening TO the great
things in the realm OF music for the past
few years. The applause which greeted
the various numbers on the program, and
which was, given with lavish hands at the
very end OF the last number. bore eloquent
testimony to the fact that absence had
not made hearts grow less fond, and that
Mr.. Calm has still a warm place I'm the
minds of his Omaha friends.
Mr.. Joseph Calm is a player whom one
might best describe as magnetic and
romantic. His playing of the Gluck-
/ Brahms Gavotte of the Richard Strauss
"~Trauenerei' and of the Chopin Mazurka
was worthy OF special distinction. The
entire program was of unusual interest In
its content, because of the collection of
a number OF beautiful compositions many
of which were unfamiliar to the local
audiences. Conspicuous among these was
the last number Carnival Scenes" by
Constantln Corpus, one of the moderns and
the splendid picture painted in tone by
Paul Juon, one OF the most successful COM
posers Of the modern Russian school.
Mr.. Calm contributed two most attrac-
tive numbers Of his own composition and
they showed much maturity by their in
teresting contraputal weaving and inter
weaving. There was not a dry measure
In either and they were not only musioally,
but thoroughly musical In spirit and in
life. They were written by one who
evidently knows how. and one who feels
and has something to express.
Mr.. Calm was greatly pleased at the
warmth OF his reception and he confessed
to a nervousness quite unusual with him,
on account OF appearing before an exact
ing audience which would naturally expect
much. HI will shortly play a program OF
, his own conn ~ositions and II will be looked
forward TO with eagerness. x.