Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-08
Attractions In Omaha.
Miss Ananais az the Brandeis
"1ue rquaw Man at the Boyd.
1.-THE Lost Trail az the krug
Vaudeville at the Drpheum.
Burlesque at the Gayety.
roncsrt NJ The RrnndeI..

PROGRAM.
Part I--song Cycle-In Persian Garden.
Part sougs-rwo Seal Songs urom
Rudyard kipings Jungle BooO. Miss Pal
- songsECaj There's a Bird beneath Your
Window. Cb) III I Were a Bird 1 Would
Sing all Day Mr. Hubert Eisdel
song-Incident Of the French Camp. Mr..
songs-taj Pearl and Song ,O Every
body's Secret, Miss Blanche Tomln.
Songs from Alice IN Wonderland). quartet.
Mime. Liza Lehman In a recital Of her
own compositions. assisted by her quartet
Of singers, was the attraction at the Bran
deis theater Yesterday afternoon. the occa-
sion being the second regular concern Of
the B-H-W- series, the Burgess Hopper
woodward combination. which s furnishing
Omaha with an unusually strong list Of
attractions. to which, by the way has been
added concert by the Cincinnati sym
phony orchestra, IN January.
Nine. Lehmanns music has been known
TO musical people hereabouts for many
years and she was greeted cordially yes
terday. Her quartet was received with
much enthusiasm and they did some really
Y excellent ensemble work From the wis
dom OF the Persian, Omar Rhayyam who
died some eight hundred years ago. 10 the
nonsense rhymes Of yesterday. was a long
call and the former began the program,
while the latter closed H. I'm a Persian
Garden one OF the best Of song-cycIes.
has been heard here before on several &C.
casions when Nine. Lehman would have
had no cause 20 find fault. but II was es-
pecialy interesting yesterday to have the
composer at the pianoforte and 10 get the
Interpretation direct from her Miss
Blanche Tomlin, soprano; Miss PalErave-
Turner contralto: Mr.. Hubert Eisdell.
jenor. and Mr.. Julien Henry, baritone.
$Nvere the people who showed an example
Of ensemble work which quartet choirs
might find advantageous to initiate Four
attractive young English people. unspoiled
and unaffected sincere I'm their work,
thoroughly rehearsed and trained TO the
incest degree, came to the Omaha musical
people unknown and strictly on their mer-
its. and they sang their way into the
hearts OF the audience from the very start
Intelligence and good taste were the char
acteristics OF the afternoons Offering and
II was a restful and thoroughly entertain
ing program. trs
The nonsense sonsss's were highly anus
ing and were done with the utmost clever
ness. 1t would not hurt the program at all
TO have the coup" song omitted; It lacks
both stock and seasoning. II is not real
nonsense verse" This Is no reflection on
the singing Of II; Mr. Eisdell did the thing
well: indeed too well. The imitation OF
ths 'recitative seoco'' style, or dry reel
tative," in the Trial Scene" was clever
idsa Of the composer, and was well car
Ned out.
Miss Tonlin gave the well known
Cuckoo" song with the most naive and
delightful manner and had the audience IN
love with her by her simple naturalness
throughout ali OF her work Mr. Henry re-
vealed a dramatic talent as we'll as q
beautiful voice in his Incident Of the
French Camp" Qtobert Browning). Miss
Palgrave-Turuer won hearty applause fol
her treatment OF the Seal Songs" (Sip-
ling) and her various solos IN the first
song cycle. Mr. EisdeH pleased the audi.
enoe very much with his light English
tenor voice and his safe and sure soft high
tones
Nine Liza Lehman played all OF tn,
accomplishments with artistic discrimina.
ton. X.