The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-02

DAIGX EMPIRE MaGN ESDA
 
 Muslc AND DANCING
 Victor Herbert @hilo conducting hi8 delightful oBefolla fhe Only Giri.p in New York recently, rebulI. ! ed 9 gay barty 10 one of tho boxes l He appod three times tor silence and then said to che noisy box p7rly. 'I have plenty of timel The lnter- ! rnDuon was promptly ended The mu. I slc of eThe Only eirlP hoe an irre- sisdble swing that has made it i'm. mensely popular with lovers Of good music
 t A trio in D minor by lhe English composer, Athur Hinton not heard { Ia ihia country before Wlln the eH- coption or in Brooklyn some yoars ago. i was given by tho Margulles Trio in New York thia week
 eCarman0 was the fIrs, opera pre- sented at the Metropolitan Opera House. 1t had not been suns there ] for years, but the supurb cast gave Bizot's entbralllng music with all tho ! lDrllsiancy that kept it iavorite with the audiences of that famous New York home Of music duriug g number of years Geraldine Barrar sung the of years. Geraldine Barrar sang the gypsie cigarette.maker for the first time and other roles were suns by ! Caruso and Amato.
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 An American lyric tenor Paul Dra, per sang in a concort for the first time in his own country after giving many concerts abroad in New York this week -Four songs given for the first time in this country by larol Szymnn- oweki: aAn Kleine Madchen, ,' Chris Rendleinds WeigenNed," "Bealimmung' and Einsidel. blending Of tho mod ern French and German schools aro said to have been among the most interesting numbers.
 
 Florence Macbeth is singing the leading role Luciap in Donizettis lamous old opera in this last week of Century opera in New York MT Or vile Harold as Edgar Rayenswood, is also giving great pleasure to his audiences. Appreciation of Florence Macbeth begun on her first appear ance In New York as tho Doll" in Tales of Hoffman" Her coloratura soprano voice is well suited to tho music of Lucia
 'I.a Toscae win open the season of opera November 24 in Philadelphia with Geraldine Farrar as "La Tosca' Antonia Scott as "scarpin' and the tenor role sung by Martinell.
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 Enthusiastic praise of the greatest living tenor singer by the New York Evening Post adds: "and he never shlrks; Caruso gives his best.
 The following taken from the New York World will prove Interesting to- many. Strangely enough no corps of tango experts was present. at the pier yesterday afternoon to greet tho famous Nine Pnuietie Duval when that lady arrived in Now York on 9 French liner for Nine paulette is Of the tango the discoyerer, Of that 80 graceful dance the lntroducer in Ferris Figure to yourself that eight years ago la belle Paulette who although no pouiette herself is yet of a grace fulness most distinguished and Of a beauty most inescapable, made jour neyings lo the dear Argentina, And Che people there were dancing, ah, such Q dancel Of beauty most devil ish (yes, she said t. but it doesn't sound so bad in French that Nine. Paulette could not resist herself one night until she had that dance SO charmIngly learned.
 And when she danced it the first time in Paris, what furore inexpresai bly, What that anyone should pos sesB the audceity to claim precedence over la belle paulettel For was it not she herself who first showed Par, lsians that tango so delectable? But yes. And is she not hero in New York herself to show Americans how it should be danced? Yes, yes again.
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