New-York tribune., 1911-11-17
MUSIC
Some Notes on Concerts and
ReCitaIS.

Miss Maggie Teyte, who used to be Miss
Maggie Tate when she was a student of
singing in London (and obviously good
one), end who became Miss Teyte to please
the stubborn disposition of the French to
pronounce names according to their peculiar
notions, but who is domestically Nine.
Plumont, and who is now a member OF Mr..
Dippels Chicago Philadelphia or Philadel-
phia- Chicago Opera Company, according TO
circumstances gave a song recital in Car
negie Hall yesterday afternoon. What she
shall be called doesn't signify just now. 1t
was a pleasant surprise TO meet publicly an
opera singer who has so serious a view
of music as to desire to sing for the first
time in New York in a recital of songs
and IL was also a pleasure on the part of
song lovers to discover that she was justi
fed in her ambition. Under the circum-
stances there could not have been large
expectations. and If there had been they
would not have been fully realized; but
they were sufficiently so for public gratu
lation. Miss Teyte has a voice of which no
one Is likely ever to speak effusively so far
as its volume is concerned but il is not
volume alone that is necessary TO make a
voice effective, even in such room as Car
negie Hall-it is quality. And it was most
gratifying 10 hear n small voice, unsatis-
factory in quality only in the lower register,
at all times fill the large spaces because
of its purity and the admirable art with
which 1t was put forth. This does not
make up the sum and substance Of song
singing, Of course, hut add TO it honest
nd there not
main much with which a song lover can
take issue. Miss Teyte might have been
more distinct in her enuncation OF German
and English strangely enough), but her
French songs were most admirable. and
II some phrases in Strauss "Heimliche
Aufforderung" were not understood by the
audience it was perhaps for the general
moral welfare Young women should not
extend such invitations in pubic-the poet
did not intend that they should. But on
the whole. Miss Teyte must be welcomed
as a singer of such genuine artistic qualities
that 1t is a matter Of regret that she was
not made'a member Of the local opera COM
panv., Perhaps she does not TT into the
Italia%regime.
,E,,o ..seppnd evening subscription of the
PElbsa6sc Society for this season took
Sfs.. Wtssrrssie Hall last night Half
of. the, prot4SStss ,Ras. Of the kind that
kfgS&ys cauSss s. derment at the artistic
Gfftuds.s! 8its sffVgivers in a metropolis
Why should a fragment
OF 'Trh+-nfiund Isolde" be performed on
the bare platform OF a concert room, when
the drama itself is to be represented in it's
entirety at one Of the finest operate es-
adjustments in the world twenty-four
hours later? y question Of musical Rs-
thetics (and morals) which is vain, II
course. for the precedents OF a score OF
years have proved It's folly. But this can
be said: The orchestra under Mr. Strans<y
played the Cesar Franck symphony with
splendor yet continently. and Nine. Gadslly
after the labors of rehearsal, sang with
an opulence OF voice that was thrilling not
only in the music which was impertiuent
but also in the aria from "Oberon."
II. H. X