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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Music to Come

Beginning tomorrow evening. the
Royal Grand Opera Company will give
a short season at the Peoples Theatre,
201 Bowery, under the management OF
Anthony Ferrara. The company, which
has just concluded a tour in Central
America, includes among its members
Regina Vicarino. Bertha Freeman and
NM. Sinagra, Opera, Samiloff, Antola
and De Biasse. The chorus and orches-
ira will be under the leadership of Gio-
vanni Lott. For the first week the
repcrtory is as follows: Monday,
aida; Tuesday. "Rigoletto"; Wednes-
day, Carmen; Thursday, "Cavalleria
Rusticana" and "Pagliacci"; Friday,
Aida; Saturday afternoon, "Ballo in
Maschera"; Saturday evening, "Gio-
conda"; Sunday afternoon, Lucia;
Sunday evening, al Trovatore."
Tschsikowsky's colorful "Cspriccio
Italien," will be played as the overture
by the Rialto Orchestra during the
week of May 20, with Hugo Riesenfeld
conducting, as usual. The orchestra
will also play selections from "The
Chocolate Soldier" by Straus. the
eleventh light opera revival in the
series the Rialto has been offering for
some months past. The principal vocal
number on the programme will be the
"Miserere." from al Trovatore," sung
by Mile. Madeleine d'Espinoy, Of the
Opera Comique, Paris, and Signor
Marion Rodolfo, of the San Francisco
Opera Company, assisted by the Rialto
chorus. Mr.. Rothapfel's incidental
music will accompany all pictorial feat
ures, and DR.. A. G. Robyn will play a
colo on the organ.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch. conducting an
orchestra of eighty pieces. will give
a concert in Aeolisn Hall on Tuesday
for the benefit Of the Russian politi-
cal exiles returning from captivity in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

But a truce to these wanderings Of
a long memory, which can have little
purpose here further than to emphasize
the fact, which needs no emphasis, that
what was novel in the Lyceum Theatre
experiment lay in the unselfsh collab-
Grafton of the singers and the charac-
ter of the repertory. Something might
be said, however (in fact, deserves to
be said, about the manner in which
the English language was used by the
singers. Here, indeed, was refuta-
ton Of much that has been said and
written about the unsuitability Of the
English language for song. With
scarcely an exception Mr.. Reiss's sing
ers made every word Ineligible that
the music permitted to be Ineligible.
Words were lost in some, not all. OF
the concerted pieces, and such excel
lent artists as Miss Garrison and Miss
Gates failed to utter all the words in
the old-fashioned arias of "The I'M
presario" so that they could be under
stood. But that was not their fault,
nor even the fault OF the maker OF
the opera book, but the fault of the
style which Mozart adopted for the
two display pieces. They would have
been just as uninteligible had they
been sung in German by mistress of
vocalization and German diction. That
it was not possible to understand all
the words in the ensemble numbers
is not TO be wondered at. A dozen
Dcmostheneses could not make them
selves Ineligible if they were all to
speak at once and say different things.
It ic true that the style of most of the
music, the purely lyrical, helped to
make clearness of diction possible; but
this does not detract from what was
one Of the chief merits of the repre-
sensations. 1t ought to be remembered,
however, when there is another ebull-
ton of the talk about substituting
English for III . original tongues in the
operas which because of their style
are as unfit for performance at a small
theatre as "Serva Padrona" or "Bas-
ten and Bastlenne' would be at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Metropolitan Opera House. Except IN
the case of comic operas the lesson
of the past has been that only old
fashioned English operas-the ballad
operas of a century ago and the works
of Balfe, Wallace and their confreres-
have been Ineligible in the ordinary
TYNE of performance. One reason for
this is that the music of these
operas was written for English words
and with regard for the genius OF
the language. Another, that the
compositions Of the period gave pre-
dominance to the words and the melo-
dies with which they were consorted,
instead of placing the centre of gray
ity in the instrumental and harmonic
integuments which. nowadays, are re-
lied upon largely to supply dramatic
expression. The taste of the COM
posers and the public Of to-day has
been formed by Wagner and Puccini.
The operas which meet that taste are
the works of foreign composers. Some
of them submit to translation with
nodicum of loss in musical effective
ness and truthfulness Of dramatic ex-
pression the majority do not. OF
the older operas, say those of Rossini,
Bellini and Donizetti, which are
tolerated only when they are beauti-
fully sung, there are many when
would be intolerable il turned into
English. The enthusiastic advocates
Of vernacular opera who are continu-
ally holding up the example of Ger
many and France do not seem TO
know that there is in those countries
constant protest against the trans
lations used from persons of refined
taste who believe that operas should
be lyric dramas-that is, that their
texts should appeal to the intelli-
gence as their music does TO the ear.
Commonplace accept a poetic dress
in Italian, and also measurably in
French, which makes them negligible,
if not tolerable. Against many of
them the Anglo-Saxon mind cannot
but rebel. II translations of all kinds
of operas are endured in foreign
countries it is only because as a rule
the masses do not care whit about
the words which a singer utters. With
them it is, first, the singer, then the
tune, and only after that the text
which appeals to the crowd. But the
American singers have done a good
service in showing us what kind of
operas can be made edifyng as well
as entertaining in English.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

a Nati0nai conference Oh Soiihiu
nifty Music will be held at the Hotel
Aston on May 81 and June /. The Off
cial circular gives this announcement
of the plans for the conference;
Thursday, May 81
The conference will open on Thursday
morning promptly at 10 80 o'clock.
Addresses
The Meaning of the Community Music
Movement Arthur Farwell
The Present Condition of Music in the
United States. John c. Freund
Relation of Schools and Colleges to Com
munity Music. ................. ......
Peter w. Dykema. University of Wisconsin
At o'clock there will be a luncheon for
members of the conference and guests of
honor. and speeches and singing.
From until o'clock there will be open
house at various settlements and social CEN
tres.
forum of the Washington Irving High
School. Irving Place and Seventeenth Street,
there will be the following programme:
Part
A Symposium on Municipal Music
The speakers on this important subject will
represent different sections OF the country
and the point of view OF city officials, musi-
clans and public. Open discussion.
Part II
Community Singing
This will be demonstration with the as
sembly present OF the principles OF COM
munity singing conducted by Harry Barn.
hart
Friday, June
The morning session will begin promptly
st 10 o'clock.
Song and Light. Claude Bragdon, Rochester
What Music Can do for Rural Communities
Mrs. Edward Mcdowell. Peterboro. N. H..
and Arthur Nevin. University Of Kansas
The Forest Festival midsummer High
Jinks) of the Bohemian Club of San
Francisco. William j. Mccoy
Music in It's Relation TO Americanization.
John Collier
The afternoon session will begin promptly
at . 80 o'clock.
This session will be for members only.
Round Tables
The Community Chorus and Right Leader
ship.
Music and Community Christmas Trees.
Music Schools for Communities.
Can We Develop Civic Orchestrasy
The Community Music Movement and the
Professional Musician.
Other round tables by request.
A business meeting will be held at 80
o'clock
Friday Evening at $3.50 O'clock
At Madison Square Garden. Madison Avenue
and Twenty fifth Street
Song Festival
Part The New York Community Chorus
and the Community Chorus Of the Oranges,
New Jersey. will sing The Creation" by
Haydn. with soloists and an orchestra Of
ninety.
Part Il-Special numbers by ehoruses and
orchestra and a Community Sing BY the
entire audience. Harry Bsrnhsrt. con-
ductor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Siberia. The proceeds of the concert,
which has long list Of patronesses
of social and musical prominence, will
be sent TO the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs at Petrograd. The
programme will be devoted entirely TO
Russian music, the soloists being
VASTLY Besekirsky, the Russian vio-
linist, and George Harris, jr., tenor.
The Gllnka Overture, which met with
such favor at Mr. Gabrlowitsch's last
orchestral concert, will be repeated by
request, and a special feature will be
the first performance in America of
the Hymn of Free Russia" which
was written in March by Gretchani-
rof, and is now played in all the ma
tionsl theatres in Russia. 1t will be
sung by Mr.. Harris, with orchestral
accompaniment. The programme fol-
lows:
ov-r'ure 'Rnslsn and Ludnilia". .......... Gllnka
''''h 'oneHo ''tt,;..,;.,.... rsehAiSo'sAy
Ini.rmzzo No A.: Theme ana y.r,ti,o,
ll-ni o.i,e ~" ...+sf.. 80. IschalkoNsky
Ieil>sy's Ara from "E'iscn Onesfn". .Tsh4ikowsky
Tho Hymn q Free Russia March. leli1....
GTetahaninor
Mr Harris
Caprice E,pagnol ..-...-........ Rimsky- Kogsako6
Following is the programme which
Frederic Hoffman, barytone, assisted
by Harold Osborne Smith at the piano,
and Enrico Leide, 'cellist, will give at
the Waldorf-Astoria tomorrow even
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

will number AIS, from the various so.
cieties composing the union. At the
first concert new symphony by John
A. Carpenter, under the direction of
Frederic A. Stock, conductor of the
Chicago Orchestra, and the canta Ia
King Olaf" by Elgar, will be per-
formed by the chorus, orchestra, Mrs.
Florence Hinkle Witherspoon, Theo-
dore Karle and Herbert Witherspoon.
The choral numbers at the second con-
cert will be Handel's BLESSED Are They
That Consider the Poor" and Bach's
eantsts Gods Time Is the Best" with
the solo parts in the hands OF Miss
Emma Roberts, Lambert Murphy and
Reinald Werrenrath. A choir Of forty
boys will take part in the latter work.
The instrumental features will be
Bach's concerto for two violins and
Mozart's Symphony Concertante for
violin and viola, played by Fritz Kreis-
Ter and Efrcm Zimbalist.
Alma Gluck and Mabel Garrison will
be the solo singers at the last concert,
which will bring forward three new
works for orchestra--sn Irish rhapsody
(his FIFTH by Sir Charles Villiers
Stanford, a suite, "The Warriors" by
Percy Granger and "whitehouse,"
symphonic impressions by Nicols Lau-
celia. some of whose compositions have
been heard at concerts Of the Philhar-
monte Society in this city. Mr.. Lau-
celia is one OF the hautists Of the or
ganization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
The Norfolk Festival

This years festival of the Litchfield
County Choral Union will be held at
Norfolk, Conn, on the 9Th, 9Th and 7th
of June. The concerts. three in num-
Der, will be conducted by Arthur Mees,
the orchestra will consist Of seventy
FIVE musicians from New York, select.
ed by Henry p. Schmitt, and the chorus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Photo @ Uishkir.

those days who were born to the Eng
lish manner and would, were they alive
ana what they were then, serve as ex-
cellent models to the present American
nization-Kichings Parepa, Rose
Eersee, Mrs. Seguin, Kellogg, Brignoli,
Mas, Castle, Campbell, Henri Dray-
ton; a pity that even their names are
falling into oblivion!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

the City College this week, the last Of
the present season:
o.,.to. N.,, n A o'ftoCk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Community Music

A National Conference on Commu-
nifty Music will be held at the Hotel
Aston on May 81 and June !. The Off
cial circular gives this announcement
of the plans for the conference:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Considerable surprise was created
among the operate eognoseenti by the
statement which found its way into the
reviews Of the first performance Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

This afternoon at the Brooklyn Acad-
envy of Music there will be concert
by Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Eddy Brown
and the Russian Balalaika Orchestra,
with Alexander Kirilloff as conductor.
This is the last appearance of Messrs.
Brown and Gabrilowitsch this season.
--.--.. IN h. foilnu,c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

These are the programmes for Sam
uel A. Baldwins free organ recitals at
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
ADMIRAL DEWEY'S HOUSE.

One of the most curious incidents
of Admiral Dewey's career related to
the gift of the house made to him by
the American people. When the pres
ent was made, no one for years had
been such popular idol. In a mo-
ment he lost his popularity, simply
by giving the dwelling to his wife.
No doubt his act showed q certain
defect in taste. But even at it's
worst it was but a trif1e in COMPARE
son with the matchless service rem
dered by the man who broke the
Spanish power Yet for a mere in
cident like this, our people rose in
their wrath and were ready for the
time being to cut him off our list of
heroes.
1t goes to show what a transient
possession popularity is. A man may
render the most inestimable service.
Yet if in a thoughtless moment he
somehow fails to conform to the popu-
lar code Of manners, off with his
head. The American democracy
takes itself very seriously, and it de-
mands due Difference even from its
heroes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
MTTJS SUPPORTED FOR
REELECTION AS HEAD
OF PARK CITY CLUB

A movement is on foot to return
Fran Mills as commodore of the Park
City Yacht club: Under his govern
ment of club affairs nearly SO mem
bers have been admitted and the club
has fourished. With plans for
summer clubhouse on the Long Island
shore front, and many improvements
in the growth of the organization
members are almost unanimous IN de-
manding that Mr.. Mills again guide
the destinies.
Frank Mills is an enthusiastic
yachtsman, owner of the Hattie,
which he has entered in the Bishop
CUP races on several occasions, and
as he makes his summer residence at
the club his close personal touch with
affairs places him in front rank for
the honor to be bestowed at the
forthcoming election.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
Bridgeporter Gets a
Jail Sentence At
Hartford for Theft

Two charges were pressed against
Wallace E. Knapp, of State street, this
city, in Hartford yesterday. One was
assault and battery upon William Len
nox the night of August Is and the
other was the theft Of an automobile.
With a man named Frank Woods
on the night of the assault he was
joined by two girls at City Hall
square, Hartford, according to the evil
dence. On Capitol avenue one Of the
girls screamed and left che car, cry
ing out that she had been badly treat
ed. After some persuasion she was in
duced to enter the car again Will
liam Lennox watched the proceeding
from the sidewalk and, Woods saw
him. Getting out of the car and
walking over, he demanded to know
What are YOU looking at?" at the
same time striking Lennox a heavy
blow Then the car was driven away
but not before LennoX and a compan-
ion had secured the number. Knapp
had taken no direct part in the as
sault.
The theft charge was due to the
fact that Knapp had purchased a car
for 1915 from Russell Taber,, paying
5000 down and giving a chattel mort
gage on the car for $175. Later he
traded the car without men,:oning the
mortgage Knapp admitted he had
traded or sold four stolen cars, but
declared he did not know they were
stolen and thought he saw a chance
to, make money legitimately. He said
he also went under the name of Ernest
w. Knapp and that Ernest was his
middle name.
Judge Dickinson suspended i1dg-
ment on the assault case and sentenc-
ed Knapp to a fine of $50 and costs
and thirty days in Jail.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
American Ambulance
Driver Inspired With
Admiration for France

In a letter to his mother, one of
the Americans serving in an am
bulance section under the Red Cross
in France, says:
Not far from Verdun,
December %, 1916.
Dear Mama Maybe you think that
my head has been turned by the glory
and glamor of this war etc. Let me
tell you that although there is a lot
of that rot in the newspapers, there
is none in France. 1 have heard two
bugles since I have been here and
both those were warnings to the peo-
pie that bomb dropping aeroplane
was overhead. There are no pretty
drills and no dress other than service
uniforms. Everyone's single thought
is to do his duty for France from the
smallest kids to the oldest here.
Here is an example. I am living
temporarily in a house where I sleep
in a bed-wonder of wonders. We
are zen Irepos," literally Sin repose."
Everybody expects that the Army Di-
vision to which we are attached will
soon be sent into the hardest kind Of
fighting and we are getting into the
best condition possible for it. So we
are quiet now although still within
hearing of the big guns.
The owner of this house ,is7 little
stopped old French lady, rs years old.
She has four sons now fighting and
one dead. She also has five, grand
children fighting. She has sent her
three granddaughter away SO as to
give the soldiers the comfort of the
house. She not only gives her house
but does everything to make us COM
Portable. making beds, drying shoes
etc, doing laundry and building fires
believe that all she gets to eat is
what. is given her. And when you
ask her why all this-'C'est pour la
patrie'' CIT is for the native land")
and dismisses it with gesture.
And that is typical and not at all
unusual 1--WE must put Germany
down where she will never again be
menace That is not a bombastic
slogan to hide selfish policy. 1t is
in the heart and soul of the French
people. There is no hatred Of the
Germans as in England. Thep ris-
oners here are treated exactly as the
French Poilu. They have the same
food and do the same work. Lots Of
them are mending roads around here
and are very happy If there are
more here there would be less French
soldiers working on the roads too, but
as it is there are as many French SOL
diers as Germans working on the
roads and all working together and in
perfect harmony. There is no hate
here, but just the attitude that it ISIS
necessary to win the war for the
good Of France and the world. 1t is
always land the world
Il have found that I love France. 1t
is wonderful. There are real sacri-
ai:es here and real patriotism. The
r'rencnman loves fi- country first, is
proud of her next and will do anything
without thought of the cost for her.
And the French women, too. Per-
haps they have given more. Anyway
they do not get the excitement. They
are wonderful.
After I am through here will be
q better man for seeing the French.
] will work harder than I ever did. I
feel like new man already and 7
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
BRIDGEPORT TO
AID EPISCOPAL
RECT0RS' FUND
More Than $25, 900 Already
Subscribed by Residents
of This City.

EpiscoraIians in Bridgeport and
to the call of Bishop Lawrence, OF
Boston, to raise a 100000 fund for
the benefit of Episcopal clergy. !
Charles G. Sanford active head of
the committee, appointed by Bishop
Lawrence in this county, stated today
that in less than one month and
with two more months in which ac-
tice subscription work may be done,
Bridgeport has responded with more
than $4,000 and that Stamford,
Greenwich, Danbury, Norwalk and
other towns throughout the county
had shown, proportionate interest
'Thtre is no doubt that Fairfield
county will subscribe the 100000
which has been requested as it's
share of the general fund "a large
part of which has already been pledg-
ed in the short time work has been
under way"
The committee in this county in
cludes' Mr.. Sanford Waldo G. Bryant.
of Bridgeport, and Schuyler Merritt OF
Stamford. The solicitation of sub
scriptions in Bridgeport have met
Will pIeuScS ISd1ly ali VI WHICH are
more than $1,000.
It is expected that the bulk of the
100000 allotment will be raised in
Bridgeport and Stamford where the
personal solicitation of committee
members has been most active Veal
thy residents Of all the smaller towns
have been notified of the call and are
returning subscriptions far beyond the
initial ovnocfafi0nc
The fund will be used for the pur-
pose of pensioning Episcopal clergy
men in their retirement from the min
istry. Nearly every other denonfina-
ton has had funds from which such
pensions might be applied. 1t has
long been felt in Episcopal diocesess
that it was unfair to ask clergymen
to devote their lives to the calling at
small remuneration, especially, in the
rural parishes with the prospect Of
poverty in the old age of the minis
tiers.
After many years discussion Bishop
Lawrence recently sounded the call
for $5,O00,000 fund, which is ra-
pidly being amassed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-20
Police Overpower
keystone Bandits
For Cycle Theft

Wearing the sombrero hats of cow
boys and carrying loaded .3s calibre
guns, which they had stuck in belts
fastened about them waists, Bert
Manchester and Ernest Hallock, Of
1O2 Organ street, were arrested
Thursday night, in a dark alleyway,
lby Detectives Tom Malone, Kane and
Curray, charged with the theft Of a
motorcycle.
Both nfcn are alleged by the police
to be keystone bandits" From their
appearance and equipment, however.
for the detectives if they had not been
caught unawareS and their arms
pinned.
According to the police Manchester,
who is a westerner, and Halloek, went
to a barn in the rear of .thefhome of
Harry Corner, 1881 Fairfield avenue,
last night, the family being in Ber-
muda, and ripped a Nstaple off the
door. taking a motorcycle which lay
within the BARN
They then brought the machine to
a vacant yard in Bostwick avenue,
hid it from view and left the scene
Late last night they returned to take
it away and sell it. The detectives
who had been trailing the men lay in
wait for them in the yard.
Near midnight they returned and
Malone bounced on Manchester. Kane
and Curry grabbed Hallock, who, the
police say, managed to drop his gun
before he was overpowered. 1t was
picked up at his feet. Manchester
was found to have a long barre1ed re-
volver.'
When questioned by Captain E..
=. Cronan both admitted the motor
cycle had been stolen but each tried
to place the blame on the other.
Judge Frederic Bartlett held them in
bonds of $1,000 each for a hearing
Jan 2T