The evening world., 1914-03-16

Puooihis "Tospa," Handol'o wait
Her Angola" Q Eahumann intsrmosso
and Bit Of French By Hue: but
wise man that he u, he made most
Of his o6erines Irish folk-songs, In
the delivery Of which he y inim.
table; and % he appealed directly
to the heart There were tears for
u hear you calling me" and for
roars OF laughter for MOLLY Bran
nigan" and for THE Next Market
Day" and there waS . strange and
rather hard to define but not to APP
preciate mixture Of citation and racial
aspiration and spiritual uplifting for
The Minstrel Boy" and Kathleen
Mavourneen." And what more shall
be said save that, II operagoers are
missing an artist. the plain people
are having their hearts stirred by
one no less worthy Of honor than an
ancient bard. or q prophet.
No disrespect II intended by scant
mention Of Donald McBeath. violin
LIST, and Vincent O'Brien. who was
accompanist at the piano for Mr..
McBeath and Mr.. Mccormack. both
able and accomplished players: but
the nl6ht was essentially emotional.
and the cause Of il was John Nc
Cormack, without much thought for
his assistants.
Mime. Teresa Carreno was the spe-
cial soloist at the Metropolitan's Sun
day night concert, delighting . very
large audience. She gave MacDoWelrs
concerto In D minor. Schubert's I'm
promptu," opus 90, No. ., and the
Schubert Tausis March Militaire."
all drawing great applause and being
followed BY encorss. Nine. Homer
sang an aria from "orfso" and the
Page ari from THE Huguenots;"
song from "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
and Carl Schlegel tho aria IAN Jenem
Tag" from Marschner's "Hans
Heiling." The orchestra, under MIR.
Hageman's direction. 30 pleased with
Chabrier's Rhapsody Espana" that
the leader almost broke the rule of
no encores.
A Century Opera House barometer
would show wide diversity Of read
ings. There was large audience at
last nights popular concert and there
was much enthusiasm for those who
took part in It. Other concerts, Of
higher artistic worth. have attracted
far less people and won less ap-
proval. The principal number was
the FIRST scene Of "Cavalleria," sung
by Bertha Shalek, Florence Coughlan,
Cordelia Latham. Albert Parr and
Louis D'Angelo and the chorus. Be-
sides. Marguerite Sullivan, who made
her debut on Saturday afternoon as
Amneris in Aida" sang an aria from
Meyerbeer's THE Prophet" Miss
Sullivan ID remarkable in that she Is
more than six feet tall and COR
respondingly broad. She Is also
young and her voice is fresh, and
the future Is full of promise. Lena
Mason and Louis Kreidler also sang.
| Tschaikowsky, Offenbach, Mendels-
sohn and Auber were exploited by
the orchestra. under Mr.. Pasternack
and Mr.. Nicosia.
Mischa Elman. the brilliant young
violinist. gave his last recital OF the
| season at Carnegie Hall yesterday af-
ternoon. In one of the boxes was
John Mccormack, the Irish tenor, jus,
| back from triumphant tour of Aus
tralia, toward which Mr.. Elman now
is turning his face. Mr.. Elman's pro.
gramme included Beethoven's sonata
in + major and Bruch's concerto in L
minor. numbers too serious said one
of his women admirers: I'VE want &c
| pyTOctCIulCS. fNTODdDIy Tue
audience agreed with her. for mop.
perfume applause showed that It was
not essentially musical. Nevertheless
Mr.. Elman's selections and the man.
ner in which he played them will
stand to his credit while he Is fan
away. Wieniawsky's Faust fantasia.
and compositions by Tschaikowsky
Brahms, Joachim, Couperin- kreislei
and Paganini-Auer completed the
programme. Percy Kahn was Mr.. FL
mans accompanist at the piano.
David Sapirstein brought his series
OF piano recitals at the Princess The
atre to close yesterday afternoon
with an illuminative and virile expo.
sition OF Liszt's "Reminiscences dc
Don Juan" The audience stayed fol
some time to applaud him. The Other
compositions that he played were
Schumann's "Carnavar' and a grouI
of dozen numbers by Chopin. This