Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-23
ARTIST MATINEE
OF SAENCERFEST
MOST PLEASING
Enthusiastic Music Lovers Thunder
Applause as World-Famed
Soloists Render Pro-
gram.
ALMOST DOUBLE BILL SUNG
Gala Artists, Forced to Respond to
Numerous Encores, Render Great
Composers Masterpieces.
OMAHA GIRL MAKES A HIT


A splendidly filled house greeted
the gala artists matinee of the
saengerfest at the Auditorium
yesterday afternoon. 1t was an
audience Of enthusiastic music
lovers who thundered their applause
as one after another Of the world
famed artists rendered the master
pieces of the great composers with
splendid effect to the accompaniment
of the magnificent orchestra under
direction of Theodor Rudolph Reese.
None of the artists was allowed to go
without giving at least one encore num-
ber. Nor was II the first time that the
splendid acoustic qualities OF the audi
torium for solo work demonstrated, a
pleasing fact which several OF the soloists
have commented upon.
THE Huguenots'' was splendidly rem
,iered by the orchestra as an overture
and then Miss Christine Miller. greatest
American concert contralto, sang Tschai-
kowsky's Farewell Forest" with great
charm and effect.
AIthouse Makes Debut.
Paul Aulthouse, the heroic tenor OF
the Metropolitan opera company, MADE
his saengerfest debut with an aria from
Nozart's The Magic Flute" and his
clear tenor of great range was mag
nificently effective, being even more so
in his encore number with piano accom-
paniment.
Mime. Marie Rappold-Berger, dramatic
sonrano OF the Metropolitan Grand Opera
company, sang an aria from Tame
houser" with that grace which marks
the consummate and finished artist
NI,s. corinne Paulson, who has only
recently completed her education In
Europe and made her debut here win
the New York Symphony orchestra
played the piano solos, 'NSt. Franciscus
Walking on the Waves ana March
Rackozcy" from the fifteenth huh
gaYian raphsodie and was greeted WIN
applause that fairly shook the ouiloins'
The fine tone of the Haddorft piano
added much to this artistes splenoio
execution.
Henri Scott, Metropolitan Opera COM
many bass, sang an aria from the opera
"Euryanthe" and scored as great
success as he has on his two previous
sppearances before Omaha audiences
votc. Of Tremendous Volume.
Miss Julia Clausson, the contralto OF
the PhiIadelphia-Chicago Grand opera
company. charmed the audience WITH
three selections from Wagner DEL
EnRei'' ''Traume'' and "Schmerzen
and even these were not enough to SATISFY
her delighted hearers. and she rendered
an encore. The grace Of her presence
"a the ease with which she sings
tbou9b her voice Is of tremendous vol
ume and clear as bell. were the secrets
of her charm.
other orchestra numbers on the pro
gram were Brahms Hungarian Dance
No g. and the prelude from Loheh
grin The final number, which had II
n an element of musical humor'
II was a fantasy. a humorous attemp
a. dsuonstrate how various great mas
-. you'd have treated in their char
ao,.r,st,o manners the wel-known Ger
- foIk song. Comes a Bird ally
,ng" the air being a theme. IL wa
then played in the styles pecuiiAi
Bach, Mozart, CHOPIN, Deet,oro
strauss. Verdi Gavotte, WEBER "ashe
and In the military march style anu ="
funereal style of Mendelssohn'
Never before probably have 30 man man
world-famous artists sung in one pro
gram I'm Omaha and the people y
Omaha and the visiting guests at 'n
saengerfest testified their approVal
no uncertain style.
Last Concerts Today
This IA the last day of the musioe
portion of the twenty-sixth hauoho
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