Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-24
Two PERFORM NNCIS BY Illlt
MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA.
Great treat FOR PEOPLE
Tho Elite of Tulsa Was Present aud
Herr Obcrhoncr Scored Dis
tinci, Emphatic Triumph,
tBy A. r. ROBERTS oNJ

Herr Emil Oberhoner and his Mime
apolis symphony orchestra conquered
Tulsa yesterday afternoon and even
ing. OF course the credit for the
hours OF enjoyment, hours Of golden
memory ond of precious import which
were the portion " those attending
the performances belongs primarily to
the Hyechka club. an organization
which has done more, I'm the seven
years OF it's existence 10 educate the
people OF Tulsa to a proper apprecia-
tion of things musical or rather to
arouse and vitalize the dormant love
Of music which is In all Of us. But
we all know the HyeChka club and we
all know that when these women start
anything they finish It or the men see
their nnislr.a And You can write about
the Hyechls club every day, but you
can only write about Herr Oherhoffer
once.
In a maze of excellence 1t would be
manifestly presumpt.Ne to attempt to
indlvidualize. Especially IN this true
when you consider that orchestral et-
fects, the ensemble. Is not Individual
istio at all, but II matter OF collective
or rather sympathetc and organized
effort SO the performance Of last
night We speak only Of those things
heard, lts,was triumph of organ
ization, of the blending Of the har-
monies of nature, OF the interprcla-
ton of things felt but nucXprcssed
which defy an expression because YOU
can no more express the effect of ton
al perfection chan You can paint the
lily or gild refined gold
Music expresses or suggests subtly
but effectively all the emotions of the
human heart 1t shouts with trl-
umph as in Brunhilde or 1t sorrows
and sorrows deeply over unhappy
Marguerite. Music sounds all the
depths and shoals of human expert
ence, voices all the tones which are
uttered or felt. touches all the angles
of life. It goes down in the depths
with you, 1t rises on the wings of the
morning 1t grieves when you are sad
and it blares the trnmpets when YOU
are glad. But this is depression.
The performance of last evening was
by all the rules Of histrionism or OF
melodious rendition an event in the
history of the one organization which
has done so much for the elevation of
the tastes OF this town. 1t was so
! evenly balanced, so sympathetic in all
Of its entities, so devoid of those
things which while you praise the star
| you think that the understudy should
| ,,a, hand GnmphnW or other
YOU were glad that YOU were permit
ted to go to the Grand Opera house
last night and listen TO Herr Emil
Oberhoffer's musicians.
The teest of all music is its appeal
to sympathy We have all seen sun
shine on cannon and while the ar
! tistic effect was realistic and fine ye'
we have been more impressed with
| the spectacle of the boy who is crying
because h. has stubbed his toe With
out sympathetic appeal without a
message to the things which lay close
TO tho heart, all attempts at orches-
tral music must necessarily fail And
II must be conceded, by an amateur
Of course, that last evening the Min
neapolis symphony orchestra scaled
all the heights OF indifference. tray
ersed all the wastes Of musical agnos-
ticism and scored emphatically.
Some folks have never entertained
very high opinion of the discrimina-
tive nature OF the Tulsa audience, es-
pecially when musical affairs We're the
topic. But II is pleasure to say that
after the evening performance, Herr
Emil OberhofIer himself said that this
community had at two performances
Of his wonderful orchestra displayed
the most critical taste, displayed the
most critical attention applauding
always in the right place, and this is
not due to accidcnt-of any city
wherein he mad the pleasure of APP
pearing And he did not except his
beloved home of Minneapolis. That Is
something to keep on your score card.
one OF the events of the evening
was the presentation by the women
of the Hyechka club, and that means
the women Of Tulsa who do things,
OF A beautiful wreath to- Herr Ober-
hotter with this inscription. "To Mr..
Oberhofer. from the llyechha club