New-York tribune., 1911-10-15

isos Long before the catalogue OF winter
fashions iu the lyric drama Is issued IN lue
fan tho subscribers who have endured nave
,,-.-o-nntad their seats and the few VINO
tsve died have been replaced by those VINO
te,a oaec~Iv waited for their operate
shoes So that tho reading OF the prospec-
ems ts an amusing rather than a serious
oc~uDaron. Mondays subscribers are mocn
moro concerned about the number OF tunes
that Caruso or Farrar viii sing than what
operss they will be heard and seen IN. 30
little heed need be paid 20 providing novel
-ios FOR them. though Miss Farrar al least.
has shown a reasonable willingness 20 add
to -re current list Birth. training, taste
md ambition have all Co-Operated iu her
cese 10 make her the idol of all classes in
e+aad of a single contingent OF the Metro
,o1itar clientele. FOR she can and does
sirr German. French and Italian as oc-
cas4or requires. and some day viii no doubt
i.+ No- admirers hear how the English
language win sound coming from her
rh-oat. sieuor Caruso belongs 20 the class
Of singers whose personal popularity more
frequently stands iu the way Of the en-
-ichrnert of the rerertory than otherwise.
aud whom DO does add 90 70 there IS some
times more reason 20 congratulate the COM
rrser and publisher than the pubuc-as wit
ness 'Germaiia ana I'd - -
West THIS year l-ele -s -."e
~ ms divergence --''- ---- -'.
DOUBT SURROUNDS s'-i0 ,,',,'.1--
"Hl'' nave '" ..-- -.
because 'l .-' ''''-', ',''7
opera -..eA mere 'l'' many
oDccs. the UnW.l-n-le-a '- e'-'i-'''. 9lil7
% learn new parts. the Indifference or the
public % new Work7. growing "uI OF ''''
excessive ionlness faf l.e s'HEe' '"''ls-
t1an thf song inc "e-'.-"- W '"
e-s Ior -ie'i@i hl---l7' ..'A. -..
treated 'iHe. ana ot-r' -". -.'7 .- ,,'.
lem which are more FeA"l'o'9 q. .'-
gccrial mind ihan Us Hen5-l'. ''-o"N N'
Scn0r Gatt-l asazza mas aIea11 ,o"
fassc7 that tho American n'Feitl. lus
Mona" of Professor Parker aao MT.
Hooker. which was promised carly IN lHe
season. win he .afe 1roanction iAs'4aU'
and has taken Dr.-i'-''o .'-'--'-. o~-
of the certain list ana placed -- a---o"- -'-7
n-oha6.Iltcs oi, rather. Ho-sill--Ies. mus
far ths emphatic assurances nave -'Ie
.urr To- one opera .u the German ana one
.r tho italian Ust-to Thu'Ic's 'Lobetanz
and vo1r-Fer-aris 'D0nre curiosc' The
choice OF the former was no doubt due 20
the same spirit that save the Metropolitan
such works as "Fdnse. -nd FreieL
.'E0uiEskindor" and -D-e Ncrkaufte Hralt
works which have the quality or per-
raranar THE lovers on German opera are
more ready 90 accept me-" WORKS thal '"e
lovers of 0a~1-so $50 0f the German nov
elites with which experiments have been
made duriu- the last half dozen years
moro have been successful than have ialIeo'
which cannot boo SAID ui the Italian mover
-f.s Tho .Cr-uar contingent ir the com
many r,e.~- also more willing 90 study new
works. 81 was only .u the proper order OF
tr.n-s thar Si-uo- Gatl should have cast
around last summer for some -hinS attrac-
tive t1 offer to the German eonunEant ID
tine Metropolitan audiences. ae seems 20
have been l4d 20 choose "Lofetanz 'y
admiration for ts merits. which are proved
hv the fact thar the opera has endured ni-
teen years on the German stage 10y the
Circumstance also that lts romantic char-
acter promised % make it acceptable 20
the taste encouraged 10y the two Humper-
dinck operas which have become estao-
Iishcd in the repertory and the aoiAirallon
of the public and also possibly tnaI hNe
"Hdnsel Und Gretel' ana 'Nonl7ShlHoeI'
it belongs % the genre for which apprecl-
alton has been created by q long training
"a, Varnariau principles and methods for
.r .ohetarz.' is one of the few successful
nro6uctioDs on Waenerian lines with which
Tho orora+fc stage has been enriched since
% ,va--oor died.
Tndy,fg Thurle's music is unknown 20
American audiences. We can recall only
single one OF his larger compositions as
having bcen heard in an American con-
cert ,oorl. In October 1900, Theodore
Thomas performed his Romantic over
ture" AT @ concert in Chicago. Boston and
New York lists know him not. nor, so far
as we can rocollect. do those OF Philadel-
pbia and Pittsburgh The overture which
Mr. Thomas brought out was originally
written FOR the composers first opera.
.-rbeuerdank" and is the only portion OF
tho score Of that opera which found it's
vav into print ThuiTe had filled a con-
siderable place in German music when he
died. still A Young man. comparatively in
1897 he was a Tyrolcan Cborn in Bozen on
November 80. 1861 and educated muscally
as well as elementally IN the country OF
his birth. AZ home by his father an en-
,brsias,ic musical amateur. al the Bene-
6ictine monastery Of Kremsmunster. in
Inner Austria. and at Innsbruck. He had
already grounded himself pretty thor
oughly in the art when he went TO Munich,
attended the High School OF Music there,
studying Dianoforte with Carl Baermann
and composition with Rheinoerger' fnish-
ing his studies there in the year that
HUratio Parker. whose name Is now so IL