The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-04
lgar Choir Wins
Big Triumph Here

trOit has gOd joke on the
~ choir, OF Hamilton, Ont. After
IT'D sung In the armory, Monday
III the choir he'd banquet n
'fte. Claire hotel at which many
Dcets were thrown at Detroit for
itdf4rimination in music"-be-
ca forsooth, the choir had been
roy applauded fer everything 1t
diBless your hearts, people of
haon, that doesn't prove discrim-
ina Detroit audiences have ap-
pla' to the echo many worse
'cho'han yours; the only reason
the he not cheered better ones is
thaeL never heard better.
W. the Elgar choir's first in
vaph America. Though the or
saZa'hhAs been in existence sew
en- earAntil Monday night, il had
htrr cred the border. One hun
arr aauenty men and women OF
hmi'''h on the armory platform
an Wstct IN various stages OF
nfvouuie, the assembling OF the
fN urad' bait longed-for American
adiene. hat II they should fail?
WILL nm Schumann-Heink was
wth 'nn help carry the program.
ferhapsat NLdn't DO SO bad.
But icy int fail; they had no
GRANGE lure. After singing
verse CT Star Spangled Ban
mr.: web fought people out of
their ses rec0ntly, and all OF 20
Canada' durs which We discour-
teously I. living a few Winaour
people o the feet in honorable
isolationhe cir forgot its nervous
ness, rosto Il test. and under the
splendid ldersp OF Bruce A. Carey,
put II T" The baseball season
Will sooTe he'll
They = El,r's Weary Wind OF
the We beautifully; sang 1t
"wined ,ausein 1900 some poet
made II me Wh behind" being
too lazy seek sbetter consonancy,
and alsoecause il gives a more
open soudn shining; but the short
vowel Is tier. ten in music, be-
cause 1t phasSs the III" sound,
and sugge the beeZe Well, never
mind; noy wais TO violate pre-
cedent! ay san Tschaikowsky'
Light Caial." a eight-part song.
The won sang NnIli's Praise to
The Virginary." I Italian. Then
came the max oithe program
six-part mt. Gouods Here by
Babylon's I'VE" he captive Jews
would haMobbed he hanging gar
lens Ii & could nave heard the
Elgar cho crescedo to the ire
mendous burst: Let our hands
remembert their pwG, Jerusalem,
If we forghe.."
Continui the mae chorus sang
Horatio Per's "ANke. My Lady
Sweetlips; the full choir gave
Bridges n Turpin, song which
most peopthink funny, but which,
TO anyone tn an orhasy sense OF
humor, Is more outrageous than
ing Sure eggs is ,ggs, sure as
eggs is eg' with the same solemn
ity that drs keep singing "Boni,
boni, bonioni voluntais.- They
sang Bank's eight-pat song ON
Himalay," Brahms ,ix-part song
"Vineta." hen they lad finished,
the Shefiiechoir was brgosten; the
Mormon CIR had been wiped out,
and as thdendelssohn ,hoie is TAX
ing a vacan this year he audience
was Wilt TO concede the title
best" to Elgar. OF H,miuon.
Because Nine. Schumlnn.Heink,
with the gerosity which is expected
Of her at is Of no other great
singer, yied first place to he choir
IN the hers of the evening, she
yields II q i'm this review. In the
hearts OF troiters, she is first, pre-
cminently st: and her prinacy will
endure asng as we who know her
shall, render. No singer has done
for Detro what she has cone; ii
would be o much to expect OF an
other.
she sal three arias from SAINT
Sanes' rmson and Delilah'-
Spring az" "Oh Love. Gf Thy
Might" army Heart at Thy Sweet
Voice." wellknown 'kennst pu
das Land from Ambrose Thomas
"Mignon: he prison song from Mey-
'rbeer's i-e Prophet" Ronalf's
Down inie Forest" Carrie Jacobs
bonds y Lullaby" and Bizet's
'Agnus Do the latter with cello ac-
sompanimt by Edythe Reilly, piano
~ Mrs. Itharine Hofmann and or
IAN by NJ Collins. Though she is
lred, as particularly arduous sea-
'on nearsts close. she has all her
'ower anbeauty Of tone. and depth
u expreson. Mrs. Hofmann plays
Ter accopaniments as no one else
ould. Nj Rely. everyone says,
VII be. rsked with the best cellists