Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22


thin-s, If fifty cannot be obtained, then
prob4ply twenty-five can, and even that
number can make good music There Is
q plenty OF part songs quite within the
range OF its powers. The entire literature
of the a capelsa music of the fourteenth,
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is open
English gees and roui.ds Is waiting for
It. The French and Italian madrigal the
Italian frottola and the German tafelmusik
are ready for II.
1t is not imperative that a chorus shall
give The Messiah" or Bach's st. Matthew
Passion OF Mendelssonn's "GIJah." Iue
puoiishers OF choral music can furnish
CaldiOsLes OF hundreds OF good WORKS
written with the small choir IN view. Many
OF these compositions contain solos, but
these 40 not have 10 be sung by Nine.
and tenor Will do. The point is to excite
the interest of the town not in the singers
OF the solos but in the choir and in the
be developed by the simple expedient OF
getting up contest among the choruses
OF half dozen towns within easy reach
OF each other, Those who have heard
such contest among the choruses round
about Scranton and Wilkes Barre know
what can be done. There are cnoruses In
that nelghborhood which need not hesitate
to sing before any audience in these United
States.
Here one final depression must be made
POISON of opera has entered the choral
vein. No music festival now seems to be
complete without a concert presentation
OF an opera. Even "Cavallerla Rustcana"
Is thus Incorporated in a festival scheme
There is no artistic reason why the
Iannhauser' overture should be played
on piano. Equally is there no artistic
reason why an opera should be sung in
concert form. If we must have opera let
US have 1t correctly performed not ROBBED
of some of its most potent elements OF
expression. There is plenty of choral music
and much of it is far better than the bulk
of operate music.
The pupils recital season is now in full
bloom. THOMAS j. KELLY
Musical Notes.
An orchestra and pupils recital under
the direction of Miss Emily Cleve will be
given on Tuesday evening May a. in the
auditorium of the Schneider & Mueller
building.
Mr. Cecil Bergman announces a recital
TO be given by his pupils, assisted by Mr..
Jack Alvord, baritone at the Hanscom
Park Methodist church, Monday, May g.
at S:lb p. IN. The public is cordially in
vited.
Mr. Jean P. Duffield will present Miss
Catharine Cajari, Miss Margaret Roebling
and Mr.. Henry Lott Jr., In a recital of
piano-forte music in the assembly hall Of
evening, May "A. Miss Cajori will play
Gayotte from Suite Op, / by D'Albert
witches, Dance by Mcdowell. Finale from
Antiemn by Chaminade. Miss Roebling
will play Schubert's Scherzo in b flat and
Schumann's Slumber Song. Mr., Lotz' num-
bers on the program will be Nacntueck by
Schumann, kammenoi Ostroe, Op. 10, No.
% by Rubenstein, and Impromptu in e
flat, by Schubert. Miss Mary McShane,
mezzo-soprano, pupil of Mr.. Thomas j.
Kelly, will sing "Dost Thou Know that
Sweet Land" from the opera "Mignon"
by A; Goring; Thomas, The Little sand
man." by Brahms Marie" by Franz;
Thy Songs" by D'Hardelot
The annual recital of Mr.. Sigmund
Landsberg's advanced plano pupils will be
given Friday evening, May q, at the Lyric
theater, when the following numbers are
pianos, Joachim Raft, Miss Kritenbrink
and Mr.. Landsberg; "Polonaise," Op. TO-,
No. l, and "Valse," G minor, Chopin, Miss
Blanche Cohn, "Concertstueck in F OPP.
"Cappriccio Brilliante," Op. %, F. Men
delssohn Miss Elizabeth Borghoff; AL
legro Movement" from the concerto IN -
Ida and Essie Brodky. Concerto in c. OPP.
49, Ludwig Won Beethoven, Miss Grace Sla-
baugh. The last four numbers Will be &C.
companied by orchestra
On Monday evening, May %, Mr.. Max
Landow will present Mrs: l.. f. Crofoot'
Mrs e. L. McShane, Miss Frances y.
Nash, Miss Eloise Wood and Mr.. Martin
W. Bush in recital at the Lyric theater.
The following numbers are on the pro
gram: Concerto, G minor first movement,
Saint Saens, Miss Frances Nash; prelude
at Fugue op g. Giavano ,,a SgaROaRR ub dno
stein, Mr.. Bush; Cortege, Deoussey ana
Two Etudes, Chopin, Mrs Crofooti Hoch-
zeitsmarsch und Elfenreigen: Mendelssohn-
Liszt, Miss Wood; Laendler for two pianos
Hoilaener, Miss Wood and Mr.. Bush
Caprice Melancolique, for two pianos.
Hahn, Mrs. Crofoot and Mr. LanooW'
Oh. As, Schumann, Mrs. McShane and Mr.
LandoW.