Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-21
!lI(kSWNLS
FRED CROSS FUND
enor Gives Benefit Con-
{ for Southern Penn
sylvania Chapter


oCormack crowded the Metropoli-
1tA House with Philadelphia ad-
Last nights concert was the
N = series Of countrywide scope,
~ OF tho leading cities of tho
States being with the intention
lng 100000 to the funds of tho
Ctoss. The newly acquired Ameri-
11tleenship OF tho celebrated Irish
h ardent with patriotism. which
demonstrating by giving gener-
u his. art and his popularity with
Ublic. The entire proceeds ofNthc
oL Red Cross benefit program are
turned over TO the Southern Penn
MIA Chapter OF the Red Cross, the
~ paying all his own expenses.
~ program was entirely different
That OF several days ago, except
eome of tho encore numbers. with
The singing of which mono of his
I1once will part with Mr.. Mccormack.
Was as follows:
Champs Patcrnals. from JOSEPH,
| Mr.. Mccormack
esndium ana Nhlesroii '''''''' 'fusnsni
X&Vum .......,....s., Iauro
- NIGHTS Descend. ..ii,achmaniEeir ii1eT
<' MIR. Mccormacls '''' '''''
= " ctuso. ..s's'.s ..'.. SaInt shcnH
81.
Ir1sh folk songs; S. wan
n Xasan Love. Song. Arranged by. lIarty
Xt ef tho Moon. .Arranged by Hughes
1l<xk Market Day Arranged by I;ughtJ
- Mr.. McCormack
,7.h sn,S ',h,,, aJ,wln p,Ih,i9 iIssfi9
IL, Noon Of MY DeIisPti STi h9lan Liza lehman
xqar Eyes. ......... Edwin schneider
~ Mr. Mr.. Mccormac,; 'N'''' SUI
& Mr.. McCormack's place is very def
njee on tho concert stage. Any singer
who can voice the florid measures of tho
older masters with such flexibility and
iD01ieh as he brings to Mozart and
{nendel, who can make Irish ballads
snack Of tho old sod, and who can sum-
NON tho rapidly alternating smile and
>oor of an April day IN ireland, through
= varied musical art, is AN artist Of
4iDtfnctivo worth. All these things he
does accomplish and they condono some
: of tho treacly seutimentalizings with
which at times he makes the judicious
QHfeiye
1fe opened his program with stirring
x1ndition of the star Spangled Ban
y1er," and keep tho Homo Fires Burn
ing" served as the formal conclusion.
= Among tho encores, with which ho was
@NFAclously liberal. were such old ia
S$orites as the wistful Little Grey Home
~ the West" the tender "Macushla,
s ana the dramatic Mother of Mine"
n The old-fashioned aria from Mchurs
& {oseph' was given with exquisite col
/. orations, and tho two liachmaninoff
9ongs as sung admirably portrayed the
Slavic pensiveness, akin to the Celtic
melancholy. OF the Irish folk songs
which. Mr.. Mccormack does as TO the
hrr I oh af ha Mo,p'
o&ood out even from the excellence of
It's companion. Moon of My Delight,
Liza Lehmanns setting of one of Eitz-
terald's Englished renderings from the
3tubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was the
\ honey of love poetry itself Your Eyes,
0no OF tho best songs composed BY MIR.
McCormacks highly artistic accompan-
~, Edwin Schneider. received a deserved
walton. for it possesses lyric nuency
Z and appropriate musical expression OF
(. - mood of the text
a. Andre Polah, the young Belgian vio-
n1ots who is the tcnors assisting so.
& ~ this season, confiWned the good
3 l|DDfession he made at his debut here q
<tfnight ago. His technical powers arc
&ou developed and he plays with feel.
H<Q1 and finish. His Interpretation OF
IS waves at Play" by Edwin Grasse, tho
3nd viollnst-composer. had all the grace
fox tho rolling sea and tho brilliant
epArkie Of the spindrft in tho sun.
's The committee in charge of the con
4 @ort Included Mrs. George II. Lorimer
1AAirman; Mrs. l.. 4. Stotesbury, Mrs
& ~. Willis Martin. Mrs. Arthur II. Lea
Nm Arthur Il. Newbold. Mrs. Horatic
q Lloyd. Mrs. John Barnes Townsend
III. Harold Il. Yarnall. Mrs. Chagle.
fQ Harrison, Mrs. John w. Geary. Mrs
@ohn kearsiey Mitchell, Sd. w. X. NJ.