The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-03-06
Matzenauer I'LL,
Metzger SOLOist
At Philharmonic
By Svlpe sfey Raulips.
TITLE METZGER, contraito
OF the Hamburg Opera. took

tHS trutuUuTR opcTd, tOON
a. the place Of Marguerite Mat
seAauer. contralto Of the Metropolitan
Opoea Company. who 10 III. as soloist
at, The concert OF the Philharmonic
society in Carnegie Hail last night.
Mme. Metsger was not In good voice.
and she made the mistake Of forcing
II IN the arias from wagner's "Rienzi"
and Saint 6aens's "Hamson ct Dalils. !"
which she sang. Fortunately she has
been heard here recently when
neither her remarkable voice nor her
art needed apology.
Nj. Stransky's orchestral numbers
ineluded Heinrich Gottlieb Noren's
kaleidoscope" which consists Of an
original theme and nine variations.
played here once by the Boston SYM
pl6uy Orchestra under Mr.. Fielder.
buf not familiar. The melody 10
Eenlous. and MIR. Stransky and his
m00' did justice to the composition.
Far more to the pleasure Of the audi
once, however. was the beautiful pre-
Jude to Wagncr's "Parsifal," with
which the concert was begun. and
Beethoven's Impressive nth SYM
phony. with. which 1t was ended.
florenCio constantine, tenor OF the
Boston opera Company, ano Bernhard
Steinberg. baritone, were the soloists
Mt the third concert OF the Carnival
OF Music at the Madison Square Gar
den last night Both won favor with
the audience. which again fell short
Of expectation US to size. Mr.. Con-
stantino sang arias from Verdi's Rig
0letto." Boito's "Mefistofele" and
Ponchielli's 'Gioconda." MIR. Stein
berg offered a group OF Russian songs
by Lichin. Tschaikowsky and Musorg-
sky. Modest Altschuler and the Rus
Sian Symphony Orchestra played
Ripsky korsakow's spanish Ca
leaux. "rhe Three Palms." 0iaxu-
now's song OF the Volga boatmen,
Tschsikowsl<y's 'Marche Miniature g
lv4now's Armenian Rhapsodie" and
Tschaikowsky's noisy but effective
"1ol3' overture. Incidentally. MAXI
milan Pilxer. the concert master, q
sterling young New York violinist,
had . chance to show his individual
sktl. The programme only narrowly
escaped being all-Russian.
4 bargain counter special matinee
at the Metropolitan Opera House yes
terday for the benefit Of the institu-
tion's Emergency Fund attracted q
large audience eager to applaud at
the slightest provocati0n. The pro-
grAmme included the Kermesse scene
from Faust" with Karl Jorn, Roth
Ter. Dinh Gilly. Begue. Lenora sparkes
ana Jeanne Maubourg: the second act
Of "Haensel und Gretel." with Rosina
Van Dyck instead Of Bella Alien az
Grotel. Marie hatfield as usual being
Haensel and sophie BresIau the sand :
man. Richard Hageman conducting
both operas: the second act OF Aida"
with Emmy Dest;nn. Margarete Ober,
Ricsardo Martin. Dinh Gilly. Didur
AnAT Rossi. Mr.. Polacco conducting,
ana the first act OF "Pagliacci." with
Cafuso. Amato. Lucre1ia BorL Bada
ana Reechiglian, also under the direc-
tion OF Mr.. Polacco. Amato's fine de-
livery OF the prologue and Caruso's
singing OF the "Ridi Pagliacco." al
though the famous tenor was not in
good voice. stirred the house nightly.
Die Walkuere" got q fine presenta-
tion at the Metropolitan Opera House
last night. thanks principally to
Johanna Gadski. as Brunnhilde, and
Olive Fremstad. as Sieglinde. both in
excellent voice and rich In interpre-
tive skill. Louise Homer, for the
hrse time this season, was Fricka,
giving an impressive representation.
Rudolf Berger. Basil Ruysdael. Her
mann Well and the Valkyr choir
were az satisfying as they were IA
miliar. Mr.. Hertz conducted with
hts usual enthusiasm.
Emilia Cont gave a song recital
1t the Little Theatre yesterday after
noon. accompanied by Kurt SCHNEIDER
Al the plano. She had a formidable
lirt OF patronesse5 for sponsors. Miss
Cootfs talents would seem to place
her with the salon singers.
Mercedes Padrosa gave a piano re.
cital at Aeolian Hall last night. Her
programme included compositions by
Schmann, Brahms, Chopin, Mem
delssohn and Lisxt.