El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-03
Symphonies Of Color Played
by Musician on a Screen
Is the Latest.
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Jew YORK, April 5--Csn there be
music Of colors as well as music
L Of sound? Should there be
hymns and melodies and symphonies Of
the eye as well as Of the ear?
a most interesting experiment along
this line has Just been conducted at
Carnegie hall. where an audience saw
a performance the like Of which was
never given before in the history Of the
Il was the debut Of the "Clavier
Tumiere," q new electrically controlled
.sruusicaT1 instrument. which employs
colored lights instead Of strings and
Bv pressing various keys Jacob
A1rschuler Of the Russian symphony
orchestra, threw upon a white screen
a series Of colOrs designed 70 appear
10 the visual emotions OF the listeners
so as to reinforce those caused by the
instruments Of the regular orchestra
The piece selected for the occasion
was SCriabine's symphonic poem OF
fire "Prometheus." Scria bine is the in
venror Of the 'Clavier Lumiere- While
there was a great difference Of opinion
in the criticisms. the interest OF the
audience" was so great that the eye
and-ear poem was repeated directly
after the end Of the first performance
Scriabine contends that between color
and sound there is subtle relation
He believes certain COlors shown slngly
and in harmonious contrast viii pro
duce an effect upon the emotions SINH
lar 70 those suggested by the sounding
Of musical notes slngly or IN compina-
IN writing for the "Clavier Lumiere"
Scriabine assigned to the IS distinct
notes OF the instrument eight different
coIors. with two others that are mOdi-
fications Of two other primary cOlOrs.
The notes and the colors they show
on being pressed are as follows
c natural OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -oeep Ieu
q EnaTn 10 - o. o % s - % % 10 AlAeA
ID natural -.....---. - - eILo|
y nat .--.--..---.. % Z I'M u 49, 3I
T natural OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pearly Dlue
= natural -.--.-4--.------- &c ual X Ieu
r sharp ---.--------- Dlue
G natural OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES orange
e sharp -..-.-.-.-------- purple
A natural -.-...--.--a------. green
r flat OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CLINT Of steel
Same as E flat but slightly dimmer)
B natural pearly blue
(Same as octave lower but dimmer)
o sharp O. FlOleI
Same as octave lower but DINNER
= fs 5es1II- az octave below but dimmer)
Granville Barker presenting for the
first time in New York George Bernard
at Wallack's theater. 1t was the latest
in the series which the English producer
Is bringing out
The Doctors Dilemma" is one Of the
Originally produced in London by Mr..
Barker, IL was revived subsequently
by him as recently as December 1913,
in the course Of his repertory season
Liilah Mccarthy. Mr. Barker's wife.
appeared in the role Of Mrs. Dubedat,
wife of the young artist-genius, con-
corning whose physical and moral
status the doctors Of the play hold as
many opinions as there are doctors II
was Miss McCarthy's first appearance
in q modern role.
Isadora Duncan opened her season at
the Century opera house with a Schu-
bert-Brahme Beethoven program The
next evening she presented program
OF scenes and dances from 'Iph1genla
in Aulis' and IphiEenia IN Tours with
GIuck's music. An interesting feature
was the chOruses part Of which were
sung by large trained cnorus ana
part spoken by six young actresses who
have been trained by Miss Duncan es-
pecially for this work
Sign here, please
Tt was william EllicOtt speaking TO
Eleanor Christie in the leading wOm-
ans dressing room Of the Casino thea
ter. Miss Christie, absolutely unknown
to Broadway. had just assumed the
leading WOman's role in Experience"
after two days rehearsal and had
scored such a success in the dual roles
OF IntOXicatiOn and Frailty that Elliott
and his associates decided they had
better get a contract with the new
leading woman before some other man
ager had a chance TO sign her up
And so the contract was made out,
calling for an incrVlse in salary each
year, and covering the next three sea
sons When the contract was handed
10 Miss Christie for the second time
in the same day she tainted
For Miss Christie is only is years old
and can scarcely realize vet that she is
not still in school in Newark. n J. She
had only played i'm two shows before
entering the Experience" company.
Both Of these were musical comedies,
The Gay White Way and the -Zieg-
field Follies"
Clifton Crawford. now playing IN
THE Peasant Girl is the son Of Edin-