Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-03-21
SALEM GETS UNUSUAL
TREAT IN SYNPH PHONY
ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, Solo
ist Had Many Encores From
Fascinated Audience.

To many listener the Symphony or
ehestra concert last night was ven
ture into terra ineognito-a realm of
fantasie and of dreams, where, under
the magic of the director 5 baton there
were unlocked mysteries of spiritual
and dramatic necromancy such as are
never revealed in the ordinary music
al performance. 1t is a simple thing
apparently-to wave a baton over a
group of thirty musicians; 1t is far
different thing to gather up and focus
upon one brief evening the musical
lore of such instructors as Anton Ru-
bernstein and Clada Sehumann, assoeia-
tion with Hoffman, Schuman Heinke
and Powell, and the inspiration of a
life intimacy with the worlds great
est composers. The audience did not
realize it, but that was why the
fine frenzy" of Suppe and Mascakni
and Verdi and Hadyn came up from
the dead decades and throbbed and
burned again in the performance of a
group of mere fiddlers and horn blow
ers.
! To say that the program of last
night was faultlessly rendered would
be burt half statement; it was thru
| it's faultlessness that Director Sites
found it possible to express what the
! great composers tried to impress upon
the world-the divine element ia mar
mony.
Program Well Selected
As before stated, the program rem
dered at the Grand opera house last
night was selected with view to CIV
! ing full scope to the orchestration as
well as to satisfy and delight all class
es of musical tastes. Everyone was
bound to he delighted with the SPLEEN
did Interpretation of the immortal
81 Poet and Peasant, the bewitching
melodious subtleties Of CavH.sv.,da
Rusticana' and "Rigoletto. There
was glitter Of barbaric color and mill
tary splendor in Halvorsen "Boja-
rem" and verdi's march from "Aida" /"
productions that never fail to thrill
the soul and quicken the pulse. To
those who still held to their nature
the element of romance, there was the
most alluring charm in Berger's con
cert waltz" Amoureuse ''-one of the
finest types of this class of compost
tion ever written.
Whether or not it was fully appre-
ciated, the Military Symphony Of
Haydn was the great number on the
program-the most intricate and elab-
crate pattern weaving of themes and
movements, worked out with infinite
ingenuity and rendered by the orches-
ira in grand style.
Soloist Added Much to Concert
1t was very apbropriate that TIP
vocal soloist-Mrs. Jane Burns Albert
should have been gowned in rose
tinted satin and should carry a cluster
of roses, for her voice expresses itself
in roses-white, blush pink and pas
sionate crimson. To most winsome
stage presence and voice of flute
purity and flexibility, she adds the
subtle quality of soulfulness that
makes her renditions go home to her
. listeners. She expressed herself most
jexquisitely perhaps in the little aria
''The Starr by Rogers, and most be-
witchingly in Butterflies by Lei
i Uer. one was cdHeu W tHe StdS0 again
and again by insistent encores.
The average listener might not re-
alize the fact, but large part of the
charm of the evenings performance
was due to the faultless work of Mrs.
A. A. Schramm who presided at the pi-
ano, both for the solos and the en-
semble.
1t would be almost trite to remark
that the greatest commendation is due
to Prof. Sites and the orchestra in
view of this performance, which rep
resents' not only hard work bet musical
genius. The only regret is that the op-
era house could not have been packed
to capacity, as it doubtless would
have been had it not been for num-
Der of great attractions just preceding
it, and another occurring at the same
hour. Certain it is that Prof Sites can
take to himself the satisfaction Of hav-
| ing firmly established a musical or
/, ganization that will be credit to- the
.