New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
MUSIC FOR THOUSANDS
English. Irish and Welsh Singers
Prove Great Attractions.

! ABOUT TWO thousand persons ne2rt
. Clara Butt at the HippodromA last eight;
more people than ought 10 have been per-
b mitted 10 enter Carnegie Hall (say three
! thousand listened to John Mccormack
. there IN the afternoon. at the same time
/ That fifteen hundred persons or more We're
+ enjoying song recital ~ Evan Williams
/ in teolian Hall There were twenty-tv.
hundred persons IN the Metropolitan
! Oiera lious. i'm the evening. but that
affair did not have the special and pecul-
lar interest enjoyed by the other three
meetings for they told story OF popu-
Z lar sentiment. havinS been called to-
g.iher by an English. an Irish and
. Welsh singer respectively. Mr.. Williams
alone made no attempt 10 exploit the
music OF his country. but gave an artis-
tic song recital. In which the Welsh ele-
ment was summed up in the personality
OF the singer and that Of one OF the com
! uosers. Prothcioe. who. however. was
heard in settings OF three lyrics by
: Browning. As for the rest. though Their"
we're also songs by German and Ameri
: can composers in his list. the centre OF
gravity from an artistic point Of view
lay In the three airs by Handel with
/ which Mr.. Williams began his concert.
They were "Whereer You Walk" Total
! Eclipse and Why Does the God OF
/ Israel Sleep" and i'm them the singer
gave convincing evidence that some OF
! the best traditions of English oratorio
/ singing are living In him. All Of the
4 songs. the very good and the very feeble
: land there wcr. Representatives OF each
! class. were sung with a sincerity of feel
> Ing and an eloduence OF defamation
/ which carried them home TO the hearers
( even when. in the use OF the ha(-Noice.
! Mr.. Wiliamss tones sounded yelled and
! husky. The ringing power Of his upper
1 tones was electrfying, however. when
! he poured them out IN their full volume.
| The afternoon audience in Carnegie Hall
! not only filled the seats. but also q DIVIDED
I the SPACE back Of the chairs till the doors
/ bulced outward. and then OVERLOOKED on
/ tho stage Till there vas room left on il
! only for tho singers Miss Alice Nielsen
/ Eelpcd Mr.. Mccormack. the p.anoforte
and tho accompanist. There was large
artistic element In IN" programme. 10
, which both singers. but chiefly Mr.. Nc
| Cormack. did Justice. yet IT was plain
that tho hearts or the multitude were IN
/ the teuor's Irish songs and in the SONGS
which Miss Nielsen sang after her set
! eroups-"The Last Rose Of summer,
! Comm Thro' the Rye" Kathleen Ma
! yournoen" and The Old Folks 81 Home.
! An Unexpectedly delightful fcatur" or
! the popular concert IN tho Metropolitan
! Orera House vas the PLAYING OF IN"
Gri.g riauofortc concerto by NoHthiUl
artist who. though scarcely in hrr teens.
disclosed technical command OF the IN
| strumeu' and a musical sense winch VIII
| make the duty Of her growth int" pan
! list Of high rank a pleasure. Tie payer
was Miss Aline Won Baerentzen, IN Ameil-
can girl OF whom IL is said that she car
| RED or a tlrst prize at the Paris con-
! ssrya'oire some three or four wears ago
| She is an unaffected child in appearance
and bearing. and seemed utterly uncor-
| scious OF tho feat which she vas &c
ccmplishing Fl playing the concerto with
out an appreciable slip Of memory and
with 2 crisp, rhythmical incisiveness That
many a seasoned virtuoso might envy
( her The other artists who TOOK part III
! tho concert. besides the opera house OF
chcsra. were Mm". Dcstinn and MI.
! Martin.
The B.lasco Theatre. in the evening.
nas tho scene Of the second recital 81
,onatas for pianoforte ard violin by MI
and Mrs David Names. the programme
being composed Of three works Of THIS
/ character bv Beethoyen-C minor, Op 3d.
| No. .. \ major. Op l.. No.s2 ana "
major. Op 81. An appreciative audience
| Of about three hundred persons listened
,o this refined entertainment Let the
/ record be made. in conclusion. that I'VE
sunday concerts were listened 10 b. about
uirc thousand ;hree hundred persons
st. L.. N