Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-11
Music Notes
By Florence Bosard Lawrence

II MOTIONALISM, finely sensitized,
r. is the vital quality of DR.. Ludwig
- Wullners singing. His dramatic
and vocal art has been widely praised,
and justly so. Not less, but rather
more, praise should be given for that
wonderful mentality which so wisely
selects the songs which have thought
to express.
Not only do the words and music
convey feeling and spirit, but the at
mosphere of the songs shows a deeper
grasp on life and keener insight into its
mysteries than those of the usual con-
cert or recital program.
The interpretations which DR.. Wull-
ner offers in these songs are so mighty
that although he sang his program last
night al Blanchard hall entirely in Ger
man scarcely a line but was intelligible
to every hearer, and his enunciation is
SO clean, his phrasing so Ineligible
that the translations printed beside the
German words of the songs might al
most have been omitted.
To listen TO Wullner is to have every
emotion highly magnified. If the song
is one of gladness, as the 'Pierette," by
Kurt SCHNEIDER, an exhilerating happl-
ness takes entire possession OF the lis
tener, and in the songs of remuneration,
of which perhaps the most powerful
last night was the Schumann len
Grolle Nicht,' one experiences almost
a fanatical joy in the very pain of such
determination.
DR.. Wullners artistry does not lie en-
tirely in his hiStrionic power, but in his
voice as well, which is melodlous and
beautifully smooth. The program was
splendidIy varied, and especial interest
attached to the widely heralded rendi-
ton of "Das exenlied, poem by
Ernst Won Wlldens Druch, to which Max
Schillings has set incidental music.
This music, which is occasionally
strongly reminiscent Of Strauss, is still
individual and generally brings out
with great power and tragic, remorseful
ana passionate qualities of the poem
1t is impossible to write with restraint
of Wulner's presentation of this work.
Through his magnetic mentality one
endured again with the agonized
priest, dying, his regret for that lost
beautiful maiden, doomed to be burned
as witch, and whom he might have
saved.
The haunting notes of the maidens S
song, which followed Medardus through
fifty years of his life, possessed each
listener as we'll, and no stronger SER
mon in charity could be preached than
that final line of the poem spoken by
the prior, "'Tis He hath SAID 'Judg-
ment is mine. 1uen JuuSe not DfOIu-
ers, go pray at his shrine
Conrad V. Bos at the piano was
constantly subservient in his accom-
paniments. He offered d changing
background always adequate and al
ways with just the proper shadings to
throw into highest relief the work of
the singer. The tremendous technical
difficulties of many of the accompant-
ments and particularly of the HeXen-
lied became as nothing under the mas
terly grasp of Mr.. Bos, and he puts
thought, inspiration and color into his
playing. The harmony of the two ar
lists is supreme and one cannot i'm
agine Wullner dssociated from the
comprehending accompaniments which
Bos affords him.
The final appearance of these artists
is announced for Saturday afternoon at
Blanchard hall, and Los Angeles should
not neglect to pay homage to such su-
preme talent and such genius OF inter-
prefers and composers alike, as that
which the matinee program will offer.