Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-03
BAN IN NEW YORK
ON GERMAN OPERA
Metropolitan Announces There
Will Be No Performances in
That Language This Year.
HITS NUMBER OF ARTISTS
Ober, Sembach and Braun
Among Singers Eliminated
From Programs.

NEW YORK, November a.-The hoard
of directors of the MetropoIi,on c,nor,
Company announced tonight that no
performances Of opera In the German
language will be given during the
present season. This means that a
number Of German singers will be elm
mated from the role OF artists.
Among the prominent German singers
who. 1t is understood. will M, ,n,
thiS season are Madame Ober. Madame
selma hurt' Johannes Sernbach and
tari hFaun. Mesdames Hempcl and
Matzenauer, who. although their names
are German. are said TO be thorourhlv
loyal In their Americanism. will, il was
SAID. appear in French and English
opera.
The action taken by the board was
announced as responsive to a growing
sentiment against the use of the Ger
man language. 1t means that Wagner
and beethoven will be eliminated from
the repertoire. There was no inten-
ton at any time. 1t was said, to nut
on operas this year by Richard Strauss.
a living German composer
There has been much conjecture re-
EardinS Madame Frcmstadt, who. after
two years absence. has rejoined the
Metropolitan. 1t has been hinted that
an English version OF Tristan" may be
used in order to allow her to be heard
in her great role of Isolde.
MANAGEMENT Is TRYING
TO ENGAGE HOMER
1t is reported the management has
made an endeavor to engage Madame
Homer whose contract with the Metro
politan expired last year. The Amer
lean contralto. 1t is said, has booked
almost the entire season on the con-
cert platform, but may make two or
three appearances with the Gatti
Singers.
Liszts Saint Elizabeth" was an
nounced among the novelties to be re-
produced this season. 1t is understood
rehearsals will continue and an Eng
lish text will be prepared.
The repertoire of. the Metropolitan
contains about thirty works by Ital-
Ian. French and American composers.
The seasons new operas and revivals
include ten more. This makes forty.
Colonel Roosevelt. In the course of
an address al Public School 15. in the
Bronx, declared to-day that DR.. Muck's
Boston Symphony Orchestra should be
required to play the "Star-Spangled
Banner" or 'be made to shut up" The
former President did not know at the
time that DR.. Muck had conducted the
rendering of the national anthem in
Boston and then resigned.
SHOULD NOT DE PERMITTED
TO HAVE LIBERTY HERE
Several children Of the school played
America" on plano and violns. Some
one suggested to Colonel Roosevelt that
the children might teach DR.. Muck to
play the Star -Spangied Banner" Col
onel Roosevelt replied:
mo Prussian who declines to play
the -SpanEled Banner at this
time. with the nations in life and
a death grip. Should be permitted to
have liberty in America.
Muck ought not to be allowed at
large in this country. 1 am shocked
simply shocked that any one can
II Is not an artistic. but a patriotic
work. AT this time no man ha: any
business TO be engaged in any bus
mess that is no: subordinate to pa
triotism. If the Boston Symphony
Orchestra won't play the 'Star-Span-
g!cd Banner il ought TO be made to
shut up