Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-08-25
Nine. Maiz enauer Appears with
the Orchestra

the Orchestra
To extol he beauty of Nine. Mat
zenauer's voice, her method and breadth
of her sin. ing is but to regild a gorge
Gus tiger lily. Nine. Mstzenauer
came, sang and conquered by the sheer
beauty of her exquisite renditions Of
her allotted bulnbers and her generosity
in the matter of ncores
Sunday evening will be a night long
to be remembered in musical circles in
Wildwood. Here was the ranking
contralto OF the musical world singing
two of the greatest arias ever composed
and with that the rendition (by re-
qne4t) of Schubert's unfinished SYM
phony. altogether a feast that left little
to be desired
The great A ia from Aida, | have
never h ard better given. The voice OF
Nine. Matz ,nauer in its quietest
moments 5 ~ondrously beautiful
and as the Interpretation of the music
took p ,tsession, her voice rose 10 I'M
dulation after undulation, until the
climax WIS re ,ched 10 majestic
burst of passi N, a quick staccato note
and we wondered that human voice
could express itself in such fashion.
MY heart at thy sweet voice." from
Samson and D lilah, by st. Saens was
a. great a contrast in singing as n
could wish. Here was the voice of the
siren, singing sweet tones into the ears
of the unwilling Samson, until the
spell was woven and he surrendered
the secret of his great strength. Such
a voice could we'll enchant.
Nine MatzerauAr was compelled to
respond to two encores after each ap-
pearance. Two songs in English as an
encore 10 her first number were de-
lieiously given. AS encores for her
second number she gave the Liebesfeier
of Wengartner and Song to Spring by
Hugo Woif.
Nov a word regarding an extremely
gracious at of one of our Wildwood
hostesses. During her visit here Nine
Matzenauer was entertained by Mrs.
Thomas Martindale, greatly adding to
the favorable impressions Nine. Mat
zenauer had of her first appearance in
Wildwood. She was delighted and
hopes to come again and we shall be
glad to have her with us on other occa-
sions.
The balance of The Sunday evenings
concert possessed gr- at interest in the
rendition of the unfioished symphony
of Schubert and the List Rhapsody,
No. IA, of the piano compositions ar
ranged for orchestra by Hans VonBeu-
low. Mr.. Pf,iffer has welded together
an orchestra that gives the greatest
pleasure on such occasions as these.
The writer WAS deli h ed. After many
yesrs ex Experience in the field of music,
he fi,ds the orchestra concerts possess
a peculiar attraction for him.
And now a void in closing of praise
70f the symort@e ic accomplishments
of Miss Lillian A. Meyer, who is render
ing the greatest kind of help in this
lire for the betterme t of musical CON-
ditions in Wildwood. The art of
accompanying stands almost by itself.
1t me q subofdinationof ones selfin
tie moments of singing and yet the
touch of an arti-t must be there. A
song Gu he spoiled by oo great a pre-
dominance of the pia o. Miss Meyer
always SEEMS to hsve tae right touch
at the right time and l am glad to ex-
pres my appreciation of her help to
the orchestra, the singers andfurtherto
the choral society in their rehearsals for
the concert hat is to be given on the
second of September.
Truly Wild " ood this summe is
being pat on the mps'cal map and an
other year should see US a musical
centre, thanks to the coordination of
effort this year.
CHARLES w. Bosch.
Philadelphia, August 22d, 1916.
900
Henle's Hotel, Stephen Henle, pro-