The evening world., 1915-02-27
Aida, KreisLer
And MartineLLi
At the BiLtnaOre
BV Sylvester RalplinH.
THE Friday morning musicale at

the blLrnOre ycSteru1y, WIN
Frances Aida and Giovanni
Martinelli Of the Metropolitan Opera
Company singing and Fritz Kreisler.
the prince Of violinists, playing. was
the most successful Of the series.
There was a crush to hear them. Nine.
Aida, In excellent voice. had for her
accompanist Frank La Forge. She
sang two Of his songs, Il Came With
q Song" and In Pride Of May" She
also sang Munro's MY Lovely Cslia,"
DR.. Arne's "The LASS With the Deli
cate Air" aud Woodman's An Open
Secret" Thanks. Nine. Aida, for
recognizing such beautiful songs In
the vernacular. Besides Nine. Alda's
contributions included French
group by Hue and Massenet, and
songs by Paradies, Philidor and Puc-
cini. Mr.. Msrtinelli. also In good
voice, made an excellent impression.
Among his arias were the 'Cielo
mar" from la Gioconda." the
Donna non vidi mai'' from "Manon
Lescaut," and songs by Pergoiesi'
Tosti and Gastaldon. HIS accomoan-
let was Richard Hageman. the capable
young conductor from the Metropoh-
tan Opera House.
Mr.. Kreisler, accompanied by Cari
I.amson, showed exquisite taste IN his
selections for the occasion. he played
the Friedman Bach Grave" his own
"Caprice Viennois." his own arrange.
ment Of Dvorak's Indian Lament"
and "Slavonic Dance" and compost
tions by Couperin, Tartini and Hubay.
Tho added numbers demanded OF each
artist nade the programme too long
THAT was the only fault OF the concert.
F,srruocio Busoni. the Italian plan
| lst, was soloist at the symphony
Socisty's concert in Aeolian Hall
yestcrday afternoon. He was heard
In Beethoven's great Emperor" con-
certo, In which, although. no took
liberties with the time that more
than once put him at variance with
Mr. Damrosch and his players. he
maintained his distinguished reputa-
tion. He was enthusiastically ap-
plaudod by a crowded house. Mr'
bamrosch wisely kept the pro.
numbsrs for the orchestra, the
Tschaikowsky suite. No. .. and
Richard Strauss's absorbing sym
phonio poem, Death and Trans
6Turation." There was plenty OF
enthusiasm over the first. and aston
ishingly little over the last. The
work usually makes q profound I'm
precision upon every kind OF music
lover.
"Euryanths" at the Metropolitan
looera HOUSE last night drew little
more than the strength OF the sub
scrtption. The performance, under
Mr.. Toscanini's direction. was an ex-
celleut ono, Frieda Hempel again dis.
tinslishing herself In the title part
Besides, the admirable cast held
MarGarete Ober, Mabel Garrison
Johannes Sembach. Hermann Well
Arthur Middleton and Max Bloch.
Augusta Schacht. oontralto. q Ger
man iiedsr singer. entered the New
York recital field at Aeolian Hall las
night. A friendly audience applaud
ed her In q programme that 0om
prised songs by Schubert. Brahms
Marx and Hugo Wolf. She may b.
lcongra tuiated upon beginning prompt
ly and wasting no time In intermis
! sions, contrary 10 a bad local custom
: Mr.. Bos was her accompanist NJ tn
0 piano.
The statement In this column tha
: Ernest Hutcheson, the pianist. VIII
y gave concert on Wednesday at Aeo
c ilan H:i, In connected with the Pes
Q body Institute at Baltimore was a
;, error. He left Baltimore several year
7. ago because his position there inter
!. fered with his concert work.
j. The musical contest OF the gle
j. clubs OF Columbia. Dartmouth. Hal
% ward and Pennsylvania will be hel
II this evening 10 Carnegie Hail for
y silver trophy presented by the I'm
y vsrsity Glee Club Of New York.
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