El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-02-01
BRILLIANT CLOSE
BY ORCHESTRA
Successful Season of Great
Music Brings Pleasure to
Large Audiences.

Opening with the Leonore No. 3 over
tUre Of Beethoven. beautifully played
with fine shading, and closing with
Wagner's great 'AIeistersinger' prelude
and the star Spangled Banner, the Min
I.eapOlis symphony orchestra wednes-
day night brought to thrilling close its
first FL Paso season Of three concerts.
The season was a financial and artistic
success. and 250O people shared in the
enjoyment. many OF them attending
twice or thrice.
Miss Marguerite Buckler was warmly
applauded, especially for her work in
the King Of Thule and Jewel Song"
from Faust She was forced to re-
Spond TO a double encore. and never
before appeared TO greater advantage
III this city or gave more pleasure IMAM
she did Wednesday night In the Faust
music especially her Interpretation was
dramatic and melodious. and confident
She viii sing next season with the
Chicago Grand Opera company; opera
is her chosen field
Wagnerian Numbers.
The Ride of the Nalkyries" was
played with fine verve and much power
When il seemed as If the maximum
volume had been produced out Of the
orchestra the conductor evoked still
more He got all he could out of the
brass he had with him, and the finish
was stirring.
In the .'AIeistersinger" prelude the
wOodwind section received its first
chance TO show what il could do and
f. made a fine effect The prelude
was played with warm spirit and sus-
tanned power.
The "Lohengrin- prelude was played
with exquisite temperament and in its
freedom and delicacy OF Interpretation
IT offered a marked contrast TO the
playing of the New World symphony.
which was the only disappointment OF
The whole series OF concerts
The New WOrId' Symphony.
The second movement OF the SYM
phony with its muted strings and finely
sustained legato melodies was beautl-
fully played. and at the end the orches-
ira was sOftened down 10 a mere cob
web Of sound. The third movement
was played with spirit and delicacy
But the whole symphony, at any rate
with the exception Of the second move
Tneut. was played very much faster
than it is usually interpreted II was
rushed through TO such a degree that y
lost much Of the beauty and charm o.
the richly varied thematic. material Ins
little plaintive and sentimental COM
mentaries and reveries OF the music
were sacrificed. the many colorful
themes and motives were slighted. ana
the fine points Of the imaginative story
Dvorak tried to tell were lost In his
unusual Interpretation, SO wasteful OF
GOOD material, Mr. ObernoIIer FlOlateu
his own oft EXPRESSED canOns Of con-
Quoting by declining to search for. dis
close. and cherish the significant
phrases and insisting on a rather me-
chauical metTonOmic Interpretation
Almost all Of his work is characterized
hy- Z quality that may be described as
loving sympathy with the purpose OF
he composer. and the neglect OF the
New World material. the apparent
lack Of sympathy. was all the more no
ticeable on that account
Enjoyable Matinee
The matinee program delighted a
1ar-e audience a few members OF
which seemed determined to choose
passages to start infectious
distur Dances OF coughing and hawking
which the orchestra and its conductor
l.oLly ignored as best they could. me
lagato effect. even in very rapid ,
movements. Of the violiEs in the Schu-
bert symphony, was beautiful ana
while the orchestra was kept subdued /
IL was ready when needed as If an cleo
4-ic shark animated each unit stimuli {
taneousIy with all the others at the
graceful Vet commanding gestures OF
The director The contrasts and color
revealed were notable.
The List number was the best OF
The afternoon. II showed the most
shirt and feeling and the storm OF I
life in the manner Of which List was
q master was given with fine surge
The orchestra got its stride here, ana
the finale Of Les PreludeS with Its
dominant majesty was as
convincing as anything the orchestra
did
In the Tschaikowsky number in the
lovely hymn-like movement with muted