Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-30
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BY HENRIETTA REES.

rere, the wonderful flutist, who
- recently appeared in Omaha
with the Trio de Lutece under the
auspices of the Tuesday Music
club, is coming again. George
\ Barrere is the conductor and
founder OF the Little Symphony
which will appear here at the Bran
deis theater on Thursday afternoon,
April 3, in conjunction with the
Pavley-O ukrainsky Ballet.
"The Little Symphony" consists
of II solo artists, under the leader
ship of George Barrere, and is an
orchestra in miniature. Its members
were banded together for the pur-
pose OF playing the compositions Of
the old masters written for just such
small orchestras, but which, in
modern times, we're performed,
previous to the organization of
The Little Symphony" only by the
great orchestras-who, because of
the great volume of sound and rich
tonal complexities inevitably assoc
lated with their performances, were
quite incapable Of doing justice to
the delicate grace, the finest nuances,
the generally poetic atmosphere
which are inherent in such old
masterpieces. In having founded
such an organization, Mr.. Barrere
has accomplished work of
much educational value, by making
known many beautiful compositions
which otherwise would doubtless
have remained quite neglected
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The San Carlo Grand Opera COM
pany has closed it's Omaha engage
ment, with artistic results over and
above any which it has achieved in
this city in the past. The San Carlo
company offered to Omaha the only
season of grand opera we have had,
and it was Z source of surprise to
many that more OF our citizens did
not avail themselves of this golden
opportunity. The individual voices
OF the company are excellent, with
the best singers of former years still
in the cast, and new singers added to
IL who are a distinct acquisition.
There is no dragging in the pro-
ductions of the San Carlo company;
the action moves along with the
swiftncss and ease of much less
complicated performance, and the
ensemble and we'll built cliinaxes
are prominent factors in the success
Of the various operas. The change
from the Auditorium to the Boyd
tteater added much to the enjoy
irent, as one could sit in a COM
Portable seat, and be. in the very
midst of things, without straining
either the eyes nor ears in the pro-
cess.
1t is hard to understand why every
performance did not draw a packed
house, for the operas themselves are
masterpieces, to be found in the
repertoire of all of the greatest opera
companies, the San Carlo company
"a we'll known for splendid results
at regular theater prices, and Omaha
is supposed to be an opera-loving
town.
Grand operas we'll presented are
not like the ordinary musical COM
cdies which people often attend
and quite correctly never want
to see again. Grand operas i'm
prove with familiarity, and it is
more or less of reflection upon the
seriousness of Omaha musical peo-
pie when al city of over 100000 popu-
lation shows lack of interest in the
only grand opera season presented.
We do not hear so much opera that
we have any opportunity to become
surfeited with it, and the tuneful
Verdi operas and Carmen" among
others, and-even though they have
been played here before, have not
been played often enough for us to
know all Of the many beauties in
them,
The third annual convention of
the Nebraska State Music Teachers
association will open its sessions at
Lincoln, Neb., Monday morning,
March 81, at 9 o'clock, with regis
tration of members at the Lincoln
hotel. A reception of members will
take place at II o'clock. At ESQ
o'clock Charles E. Watt, editor of
Music News, Chicago. will give an
address on the National Outlook
in Music" This will be followed by
the opening musical program in
which most of the Omaha musicians
who are to appear before the con-
vention have been grouped. On
Monday evening piano recital by
Josef Hoffman, will be given in
the Lincoln City Auditorium, for
which special rates have been made
to members of the association. !
Appointments of committees will
take place Tuesday morning at the
Lincoln hotel, and paper on 1.-THE
Objectives of Music Teaching" will
be read by Mrs. Olive. Strong of
Kearney. Sectional und-table dis
cussions will follow in piano, voice
and violin department of teaching,
with Sidney Silber. Howard Kirk
patrick and Carl Frederic Steckel-
berg, all of Lincoln, presiding, re-
spectively. A Demonstration of
Public School Piano Beginners
\ Class" under direction of Hazel
Gertrude Kinscella of Lincoln, will
also take place, which will be held
at the Bancroft school, Fourteenth
and u streets. A luncheon will be
rendered the members at the Lin
coin Commercial club at | o'clock
Tuesday. The afternoon session
will be taken up with a paper by
Mrs. Cell White McMoinies of On
aha on the Ethics of Music Teach
ing" round table reports and a gen.
eral round table conference, under
the leadership of Miss Lucy M.
Haywood of the Lincoln high
school, and Prof. Paul H. Graham,
dean of the School of Fine Arts OF
the state university, upon the vital