The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
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refuses 90 be sure that they have not
made mistake, undor which ciroum.
stances they are silly, and the other Is
oansing over an artist or artistic worthy
Of effusion, which soemn ally.
II anyone said Calves voice put The
instruments that accompanied her to
shame, IL would seem standard esfu.
sion. But il would be truth, and II
would not be any discredit on the &C.
eompanists.
Voices are like grammar. They can't
be bad. Calve has simply tho blessing
of the human voice in its perfection,
and from that angle OF criticism Il Is
no better than IL should be. The human
voice has long been adjudged by the
standards set by the musical instru-
ments created by human ingenuity, all
of which are merely set to the grada-
tions of the human instrument without
its proper purity.
Calve rendered her portion OF the
program at the operahouse last night
consistently and uniformly, with the
true artist appreciation OF the absurdlsy
of attempting to portray in tho music
the rendition of che different senti.
ments or passions which the arrange
ments of the music may be intended to
represent.
| She sang the solo arrangement Of
ofenbach's intermezzo exactly the
same as she sang Carmen's Habanera,
bnt there she trusted TO the music Of
the Offenbach air to portray the Vene
tan moonlight in the same manner as
she trusted to Bizet's music to set be-
fore the audience the Sevillian mood,
and she did not spoil the composers
inspiration by presuming to aid its in
depreciation with physical explana
tions.
Adolphe David's ole Mysoli" was
her first offering last evening, but
, found only in that and the succeeding
selection opportunity to impress the
wonderful huency and perfection of
her voice and only limiting at its latent
brilliance. Belle Unit GLAMOUR"
the introduction to the second act Of
offenbach's Glove Tales of Hofr
Manu. his masterpiece, was encored
and in response she rendered 'Su
vance River
Tht scene from the second act Of
" Carmen" which was chosen by
Madame Calve and Signor Gasparri to
close their final program in Honolulu,
was selected by all the famous Car
mems as portraying the real Carmen,
confident that at the close the audience
knew the Sevillisn even IL they had
| Al.
The first act of HCarmeno is chiefly
pageantry and the third act histrionic,
but the second act is Carmen. What
music Bizet placed in the scores of his
first and third act is contained in the
brilliance of the ''Carmenn overture
and may find an abe interpreter in a
good orchestra, but it needs voice
| like that of Calve to interpret the
Z" Carmen" music of the second act,
with all its instructive sympathy and
broadness of nature.
Criticism of Calve Is particular rem.
dition of it would be absurd.
Signor Gasparri s voice is an able,
consummately trained one. He has 81
personal appreciation of his musical
themes which fortunately robs his inter.
probation of them of the ruinOus effects
Others delight in interpolating.
Pagliacei, while by no means diff.
ficult histrionie part, loses nothing in
his rendition of it. His buff0on is
graeed with all the stern sorrow of
tragedy in motley and his musical inter
probation of the LeoncaVRllo score Is
almost perfect.
| Mrs. Tenney Peck 3 playing deserves
all the praise that her own community
can bestow on her, in unfolding or
rather helping to create its reputation
as music loving and unsteady capa-
| BILE one. Madame Calve herself has
praised her playing in the highest
terms, which is the more complimentary
as it was but the result of few hours
of rehearsal. The perfection and ae-
curacy with which she accompanied
Carmen" and fDon JOSEF through
the reeitative mazes Of almost an entire
act of difficult opera was splendid.
The only hitch in the entire program
last night was several breaks in the
accompaniment of the selection from
Faust, Marguerite" hating in her
singing to set the piano right. The
nervous strain upon the player, conse-
quent from three trying concerts with
little time for rehearsals, proved too
much, but this detracts not at all from
the credit Mrs Tennoy Peck deserves
for her share in this concluded musical
treat.
Mrs ingalls, was at her best at
! previous concert at the operahouse,
probably by reason of selections more
suited TO bring out the best points of
her playing. Her extremely pure tones
last night were somewhat maFred by
a negative rendition, especially in her
first selection, the adagio from Beetho-
ven s sonata "Pathetique."
Miss Clarke, accompanying Mrs. In
gals, proved herself as always reliable,
true and unsteady accurate in her work
at the piano.
The Royal Hawaiian Band will play,
if possible, at the departure of the