Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

busy in Gluck's time as they were later
when Wagner began his greater works.
Imagine Gluck having been accused OF
making his singers shrek, lie who wrote
such tender beautiful music. Of one Of his
arias the noted French Critic Ahbc Ar
maud his friend and supporter exclaimed:
with that air one might found a religion.
Gluck's contemporaries threw TO him the
usual beautiful compliments such as these:
Little melody, little nature, little elegance,
little refinement"
Gluck was the first to introduce cymbals
and the large drum into the orchestra
which called forth this; "The noise of his
orchestra was necessary TO drown his
clumsy modulations. And his duets were
not only borrowed but badly borrowed from
Italy" In fact his detractors denied him
every thing The storm center of the OPP
position was the Italian Piccini and the
Gluck-P iccini controversy is familiar to all
readers OF musical history.
This season Gluck has been one Of the
favorite composers. and his works some
of the most admired, in our metropolitan
opera season Of New York, in this year of
our Lord 1911, and where oh where is
Piccni? Could it be that Piccin is re-
incarnation with his crassly material and
brutally physical "Gir OF the Gold-crazed
West" But perish the thought!
However the comments on Gluck and his
work were not all adverse. Speaking Of
his Iphigenia in Tauris, the work which
silenced the Piccinists, the aforementioned
Able Arnaud remarked most happily that
/ There was but one beautiful part, and
/ that was the whole Of it," And &c is re-
corded that after the production Of Alceste,
| Gluck one day met the famous Rousseau
and said "Alceste has fallen; whereupon
/ the eloquent and romantic Rousseau re-
sponded: 'Yes, fallen from Heaven" But
we must pass on, and as we leave this
lovely knight Cfor he was a sir knight we
are reminded of the words under his por-
trait in the Paris opera house, the words
Of Pythagoras, which surely apply to
Gluck: "He preferred the MUSES. to the
! Sirens THOMAS j. KELLY
/ Ferruccio Busoni the eminent Italian
| will play the following program on Tues
day evening March T. at the First Metho-
dist church, Twentieth and Davenport
| streets. Music lovers will be gratlfied tC
/ know they are given exactly the same
program as that used by Busoni at his
| recent recital in Washington. -. c stu.
dent parties will come from the university
schools at Lincoln, Neb, Holdrege, Neb.
| Denison, Ia; Sioux City la, and Lyons
Neb. The program:
1.
| Beethoven-Sonata. Opus 53...... waldsteir
l. Allegro con brio.......................
g lntroduziOne- Adagio Molto.............
g. Rondo-Allegro Moderate Presto.
u.
Brahms (variation) ................. Paginin
Nocturne minor Opus As. No. 1. Chopin
Polonaise' flat, opus 53.............C Chopin
La Campanella............ Paginini- Lisz
Der Erlkoenlg .................sSc hubert-l4lsz
RlBoletto OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Verdi Lisz
The Omaha symphony study orchestra
Henry Cox, director. win give the follow
ing program at the First Congregations
church at S:l5 D. m. Thursday March 10
symphony In d major, Op. 49, No. L..
.''.'......''. ........''...'..''.'-' Hayui
ca Adagio-Allegro ......................
ND) Ahudnle ...'''''s.''.s''''''' ''s'''s's'
. tc) MenuettO ...............,...........
I'D Allegro Spiritoso, .....,..............
l Violin Solo-Aose's Death from Peer
9ynt Suite). ........:., .....,......... .Grle
Miss Grace Mcbride.
Andante Cantabile, Op. .Tschaikowsk
String Orchestra.
Spanish Dance i'm D-Belero. Moskowsk
, Hungarian Dance I'm @ minor. .... Brahm
Hungarian Dance in d MAJOR. Brahm
, At the Edward Mac lecture t
be given Wednesday morning at 1880 a
the Young Women's Christian assoclatio
, auditorium by Mr.. Thomas j. Kelly tn
lecturer will be assisted by Mr.. Max Lar
piano pieces. Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly will sin
groups of MacDOMell songs.