The evening world., 1912-02-15
by SYLVESTER WIN

@ARNEGIE HALL last night was the
scens-to music iovers. at least-of
an unprecedented demonstration
when sirota. tho muoh-heralded tenor
cantor OF Warsaw made his American
debut In concert. Tho house was sold
out days ago. but early In the evening
wopld-be purchasers OF tickets began TO
assemble until. when M front doors
we're opened at 100 o'clock. they had
reached the Dimensions OF a crowd. and
n crowd that was constantly growing.
No sooner were the doors opened than
the lobby WA flooded with ciamor srs for
| tickets that were not to bs had. In
vain the facts w1e shouted TO them
from the box once. Nobody would
bulge.
Persons who arrived early. their tiok-
cts IN hand. found It impossible to enter
and soon the doors were closed In their
faces. The two ar three policemen pres
ent were powcricss. Apparently no ef-
fort was made to augment their force.
Some of US orderly and considerable per-
sons with memories could only sigh for
the days Of Inspector Williams and his
"huskics." II would have taken them
only n few n to restore order and
deccncy. Never VA . small squad Of
"~sTong-arm' men moro urgently need
ed. Tor the MI of the subway On the
rush hours were completely outdons.
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN DE.
TERMiNED TO be FIRST IN.
Every man and. for that matter,
every woman ss@msd animated by only
n purpose-thS prevention Of anybody
getting In ahead of him or her. When
the officials Of The house. not moving
what siss to DO. opened the mlAdls
doors again, thas Was Nueh spUoouonn
and pushing ~ rarely ere seen. ~ tha
suoosssfui pushsss and sQvssssss GOT
through the satss they were flushed and
d~iahsvsslsd. and sums Of them. Il u
sid. WIRE minus thar p~ochstbVoks end
vAiuAbiss. ~ tAe cantor y 70 AopAas
again on eundAy Afternoon ~ ths Hio-
podroms. would Il not b w,ss for the
police 70 tAks oosrAsassoe Of the eaol
and take stsps . prevent . rscusrsnos
Of The disgracsfW 0csnssf
plaoe may b given 70 those who wSrs
not there b. stating the tact that a.
ttsoueh the doors were h0t thrown
open q 10 O'Clock. WIN . MOO rsady
= burst In. the houss was not hal,
hfisd aA s.So. whom the writer manage
to reA6h his placs. II was 80 bsc0gS
ths concert wa bsgin. and not ~ thsa
wa the whole house SEATED.
THE CANTOR JUeriNGo HI
HGRALOiNo.
II may b said At once that Aroti
JUSTIFIED his much hsraldsd reputation
No other voice that the writer he.
heard % nearly ~approaohss Caruso's II
|, quality and power. II would seem tia
the Hebrew church has Sbsorbed
singer who might have found world
wide fame and amassed q fortune upoi
tho stage. Long continued chanting q
the Hebrew liturgy. with is Or'enta
, waiiings that to Western care hav
touches IN them SuGEestivs Of the Iris
! banshee. with It's broken phrases an
ancient forms. may have robbed him Q
/. the possibnity-which. Il 10 sad. no ha
= no idea Of attemptinx-of winning tn
. highest secular laurels " an operau
singer. Something OF this was Disclose
I IN the way he treated Celeste Aida:
but tho fact remains that his ole
l beautiful ana appealing and powerful
]. Is we'll worth hearing.
: Slrota was assisted by ~ admirabl
/, hoy choir of fffty from the synasosu
Ohab Zedek In West One Hundred an
sixteenth street. and by Clarence Ed
NJ tho orran. The director-A most ca
pablc onc-was /. Loew. whom the oar
tor brought with him from Russia. Bot
/ he and Sirota. In evening clothes. ca
III ricd their hats when they came upo
the stage and wore them when IN
cantor was singing liturKical hymn
The choir wore BLACK gowns and hal
something after the pattern OF h RI
man Catholic baretta. 40 10 the custol
with orthodox Jews. sirota was hear
frs, with the choir In Tow EHodos"
tho n~inety-second Psaam-to . settr
by Lewandowsk Then ne sang alov
"Raohmono Done Later. with u
> chorus, he mng Loew's "Kduschah'
alone, his own Improvisation "weschon
ru," and with the chorus Schlossberg
"Rrgc" Finally, he was heard with II
chorus IN Suffers "Berosch Haschonoi
Creation" At the end Of the hrst pa
he q the Celeste Aida" to whi'
reference has already been made.
-, LlvTLEsT CHOIR BOY SHARE
~ HoNoRs WITH CANTOR.
y" III while crossing tho Atlantic. sune
Ing from n cold ever since he land
20 that at momentary intervals "a
night he was forced 10 take pellets Z
tho re.lcf OF his throat; nervous. As ns
urally he would be At his hrst appeI
ance In the New World. Sirots wns
ways delightful to hear lie was heal
,ly ~applauded when he appeared "
recalled after every number and "
made 20 suffer q riot Of importantly
a repetition after his singing OF "Rexl