The evening world., 1911-04-10
CGdski Sings
Farewell for
Pension Fund
BY SYLVESTER RI WILING.

YOliANNA GND$NI. at the Sew
Tnestsc, yesterday afternoon. maze
her farewell appearance Tor the
season by singing at he Orchestra PEN
sion Fund concert Of the symphony
society. II was an object lesson to
anybody who tu'nSs successful singers
nave no gratitude, for. II Nine. Gadski
nad not disobeye1 the orders OF her
physician she should have been at home
IN bed Instead Of vol nteoring her voice
ana her art for ;H.s purpose. 4 dozan
years ago. or more. Walter Damrosch.
when he had his own opera company.
introduced tho .oGug German pr.mu
donna TO US. licr success WAS in
stantaneous and from that time untii
the present she has not failed 20 grow
In artistic stature. Nothing Ia more
gratifying 10 tho writer than that. from
the beginning. he anticipated and pro-
claimed the great career she was to
achieve. Her memory Is a gracious one.
ana so. for Mr.. Damrosch and his men,
she sang yesterday when her Doctor
had forbidden her.
Nine. Gadski's first number was the
grsat aria from Der F%reischuetx" with
Wv a. tuls d~lltTNdluss a kIOup
OF songs which included %Schubert's
Who Is sylvia" and compositions by
schumann and Franz, to which Mr..
Damrosch played the plano accompan.-
mtnts. Sne was in fine voice and the
great audience applauded her v~oci'er-
ously.
The orchestral programme consisted.
as Mr.. Damrosch had fe%licitously de-
scribed Il. o. cheerful music by the
great composers-thc overture to
Thomas 'Misnon.' a serenade by
Haydn. the Eavot'e In y by Bach,
Tschaikowsky's Mozartiana" suite,
e~aint-Saens's symphonic poem, The
Wheel o. omphalc:' Strauss Voices
Of Spring" waltz and Ochs's humorous
varis tions on a German foiksong in the
manner OF Bach Haydn, Mozart. Verdi.
0ounod and Wagner. over tho latter
the staid audience OF music lovers
laughed as 10 at a musical comedy or
Q vaudeville show.
II was the last concert Of the sea
son by any OF the big orchestras. Mr.,
Damrosch and his men started imme-
diAtely on their annual Spring tour.
"~Tannhauser" got a hne performance
- the Metropolitan Opera House on
Saturday night before a crowded house,
Johanna Gadski made her farewell for
h season as Elisabeth in . lovely i'm
ps~rsonation. Not for q long time has
Ne prayer been sung 90 beautifully.
ed II was a pleasure to note that the
euts In II had been restored. Olive
1rsmstsd's Venus was good 70 both
> n ear a. It always Is. and Slezak
~ Tannhauser and 0orits as Wolfram
were most satisfying. Rita Fornia was
the Shepherd. lnsa Oerner. Anna Case,
LIMA Smelling and Henrietta Wake.
4eld were the pages. Hinckley was the
lAndSrave. and Glenn Hall. William
8eoshaw. Julius Baysr and Basil
Suysdael were the other Minstrel
Knights. Alfred Hertz conducted WITT,
n more tina his ordinary zeal.
SAf1Ans ct Bar6e-Blsue' was pre-.
esntsd for the third time at the sstur
day matinee at the Metropolitan Opera
Houss bsfore . vast audience hat helt
many children. Nothing new may b'
said at his time OF Geraldine Farrar'
Arsane. Florence wickham. Jeanne
Maubourg, Lenora Sparkes and Leor
Roehter Allied their respective parts Al
admirably as ever. and Toscanini mad,
the beauties OF the orchestral score
appeal potently.
Josef Hoffman, was heard by . grea'
audience az Carnegie Hall on Saturday
afternoon when he gave his farewe.
piano recital for the season. HI
musician ship and his art were nevel
moro admirably displayed. His pro
gramme began with the Bach-Lisz
''Chromat,scho Fantasia and ended
With q group OF Chopin's compositions
Between these ne played works b.
Beethoven. Grieg and schumann.
LAST SUNDAY CONCERT
At THE METROPOLITAN