New-York tribune., 1910-02-19
MUSIC
Notes on Yesterdays Concerts
and ODerds.

Notes only. time does not allow for more,
nor do the occasions interesting as they
NAV have seemed TO some. demand more
with the Philharmonic series of concerts
.nnroachinR its end it was interesting To
observe a purpose on the part OF MT
MAILER to extend his list of works He
ertended II so radically, indeed. as TO IN
cIude the three nocturnes by Deoussy, To
popularize which several efforts nave Oeen
made of recent years Mr. Manners at
TEMPT was lust about futile as those OF
Mr.. Damrosch and NJ. d'Indy- Ihere -
no denying the subtle charm which this
music has fort is very unpleasant 10 use
the term but 1t seems necessary IN TINS
case-rnusicaI gourmets, but neither Is IT
worth while, or honorable 10 oely lha' II
there is a Superior merit in TINS music u
Is still "caviare to the general 1he'e
was dead silence after the hrst NUMBER
Clouds" yesterday. Perhaps TINS ough'
to be interpreted sign OF eA
quisite sensibility, but, the pIaih
wayfaring recorder Of musical occurrences
might also have been justified in his fancy
that when idealized Japanese music meets
such favor as 1t does in Madama Butter
fly at the Opera House, musical trans
Iation of clouds into Japanese would be en-
titled to at least a nlodicum Of trlouts-
But It failed to receive it The last of the
three pieces. called Sirens, received
demonstration of approval. In 1t the Mac
DowelI chorus, choir Of women, took part
The singers sang "Ah.' with many shades
Of expression and through many changes
of harmony. No doubt some hard headed
prosaically minded listeners thought, as the
old Scotch lady thought when she read the
dictionary, that the stories, though inter
estine were "unco short but there was
at least a more or less definite musical
idea to wonder at, and it was applauoeo-
Eut TO some listeners the novelty OF tne
idea of employing voices as musical III
struments pure and simple was not neces-
sariIy impressive Unhappily the opera
nroSrapnnes do not mention the fact, or the
public would long ago have known that
Verdi makes a striking effect by intro
ducing humrning voices to help along MS
delineation of a storm in Rigoletto.
They do not sing ''Ah: but IN, Win
closed lips. In a far more exciting episode
in his ''Trojans in Carthage ge'-Berlioz makes
dryads and sylvans sing "O-a-o-a-o-a
while brandishing burning branches ana
rushing through a forest torn ty Storm
but this is musical atmosphere" OF d1t-
ferent kind than Debussy was after. Per
T
more capable of articulate language than
French sirens, but the ocean nymphs
which came to condole with Pronetheus in
FschyIus's ira gedy sang beautiful things IN
Greek, and we wish that NJ Debussy had
pern1itted his sirens to sing beautlful
things in French "Aht" is not particularly
edifvfng even when turned into his fasci-
mating idiom-
There was musical sanity and strength In
the rest of Mr. Mahler's programme, for II
consisted Of Tschaikowsky's Romeo ana
Juliet" Wagner's Zine Faust Overture
and .Siegfried'' Idyl and Berliozs over
ture ..Carnaval Roman music OF klnd
that Mr.. Mahler interprets most moV1ngly-
At the Manhattan Opera House last
night Mime. Mazarin again disclosed tnat
she is a lyric tragedienne Of splendid range
and force by singing and acting Santuzza
in "C,avaIleria Rusticana" in a way that
kept interest almost breathiess- Also, after
this sensation was over. Mr. OrVllle Har-
rold. g. novice, tried his prentice hand IN
'ePagliacci," and won critical as well as
ropular approval-not always the same
thing, as everybody knows, supposedly tn
the humiliation OF the critics The young
man was conventional as could be. but he
sang with a beautiful voice-as Mr.. Nc
Cormack had done before him; with a
much more beautiful voice from purely
lyric point Of view-and disclosed unques-
toned talents and instincts for the pro-
fession into which Mr.. Hamnnerstein has
-1sberad him II. Z. h.