The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-09

J IreWeek mas played the clarinet WIN
several local orchestras, and in an east
eTn band.
! themselves, was purchased by the Brit
ish museum Her maternal GRANDPA
Their was Robert Chambers of Edin-
and founder, with his brother, or
! Chambers Journal the big publish
| ing house of Chambers.
1t was the mothers ambition 10
have her daughter become a profess
siOnal singer. The child early showed
her musical tendencies composing lit
! tie things and singing them 10 the
cocks and hens in the back yard, when,
/ as she tells MS in her own charming
language. she could not stifle the
music and felt the need of vent.
Jenny Lind heard her sing one day
at about this period and said:
If God gives me the strength, some
day I should like TO teach that child
When she reached the age OF STUDY
however, her mothers health became
so delicate that Nine. Lehman accom-
panied her to the south of France.
Here her first serious vocal work com
meuced under the mothers instruction,
task for which she was emlnently
fitted, as she had studied under the
best teachers of the day. The elder
Nine Lehman never appeared in pun
lie. but Il number of songs published
over the initials "A. l. are her con-
tributiOn TO music.
Several years were passed in this
manner, the winters IN France study
ing with her mother, and the sum-
mers in England, where Jenny Lind
helped her with advice and permitted
her 10 be present when she gave ner
vocal lessons. Later on her work was
continued under SignOr Alberto Ran
degger, and her debut as a soprano
was made with great success in Lon
don at a Monday popular concert.
Composition was studied under Kann-
kilde of Rome. Freudenberg of Wies-
lrr TTgfFr0 falr ~ lf
don.
Mime. Lehmaun's public work as
singer covered q period of nine years.
During this time she was in great de-
mand all over England. and Joachim
engaged her for his Philharmonic con
certs in Berlin. At this period she
made the acquaintance of Mime. Schu-
mann. who heard her sing in London
and invited her to. FranfOrt for three
weeks. that she might instruct her in
the traditions of her husbands songs.
But she tells US that in spite of her
friends and her success, she was not
| happy in this life that she suffered
from nervousness when singing in pub
lie and IOnged TO devote herself to
composing. for which she could not
find time in her busy singers life.
In 1894 she married Herbert Bed
ford, an English artist also an ac-
complished musician. After this she
gladly gave up her, public work, and
has since devoted herself exclusively
to composition.
Her music touches ali chords. from
grave TO gay In the cycle of Non
sense Songs" from Alice in Wonder
land, Nine. Lehman has provided
I treat as rare as il is delightful. and
SO aptly has she caught the spirit or
Lewis CAROLS immortal work, that
music and book might almost have
been written by the same person.
But it is by her wonderful setting
Tor the selections from the Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam, called In Per
Esra F-.Nau~ s.
best known. This was also her first
work of any length and on il she
lavished all the wealth of her rich
Imagination and rare artistry. Many
l lengthy and critical analyses have been
written of this composition, which
must be considered as musical classic
of supreme Importance, IN every way
worthy Of the celebrated poem that
inspired it.
1t is interesting to note, in her own
modest biography of her public life,
that she speaks warmly OF its recep-
ton in America,
1T was the American public" she
| says, that took II up so warmly. and
now that il has gone around the world,
still regard America as the Persian
Gardens" fairy gOdmOther. to the kind
ness Of whose reception l owe every
thing.
From this beginning Nine. Lehman
has gone on till today her songs are
the most popular of all the modern
composers. her thorough and practical
knowledge of vocal resources and eff
fects giving her work exceptional fin
ish and symmetry As writer of
classically beautiful and perfect mu-
sic she must take high rank. while
the wealth and poetry of her imag-
inatiOn place her among the worlds
great musicians.
Professor Dickinson of Philadelphia
SAYS of her Persian Garden;" Liza
Lehman has produced a work which,
as a contribution TO the ever-rIsing
fame Of Omar Khayyam, must be Civ
en- place beside the vivid illustra-
lions of Elihu Vedder."
x !.
Madame Esperanto Garrigue. with