New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
M usic Notes

Before sailing for Europe the Very
Rev. Dom A. Gatard, o. S. B., Prior Of
Marlborough Abbey, will give course
IN Gregorian chant at the College of
the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville. from
July IL to July 16, inclusive.
James Slevin, who was responsible
for the American visit last year of the
choirs from the Vatican and the Roman
baslllca, has gone to Rome to bring
back the distinguished singing organ
made by him with the Brunswick
Bake Collender Company. The latter
wall undertake to perpetuate the ritual
istic singing of the Papal organ
lzation on the phonograph. The Vatican
soloists and choirs will tour America
next season and will visit cities in
which scheduled concerts were cancelled
last year through the recall of the
chairs to participate in holiday rituals.
After his recent appearance at
Queens Hail., London, 1.-THE London
renrath as "the best singer if Of those
who this season have come from across
the water" "He is very inc artist"
continued this paper. "He is able to
convey that fact more impressively
tEan is general, for the reason that
ms means are of the best order. He
has acquired the fundamental princi-
pie, usually neglected or ignored, of a
proper method of tone emission. His
system of using his voice is wellnigh
exemplary. 1t is nothing extraordi
nary; it is simply the right method
whose exponents can be counted on the
fingers of one hand. From this basis
ne gives expression to Interpretation
OF song that never fail to convince. In
a bach aria, as in examples of old
1ealian pali song by Giordano, Legrenzi,
rerl and Falconieri, as in modern
French song by MN. Poldowski, Du-
pare, Ravel and Fourdrain, with third
phase in the shape of Mr.. Frederick
keels setting Of Mr.. John Masefield's
Salt Water Ballads and fourth, CON
slstlng of American song, he always
represented the mood perfectly. Mr..
Werrenrath's mezzo voce singing is a
delight, and in his sotto voce he
achleves the rare feat of preserving the
same quality of tone as in the full
vo'ce' His audience was small, but 1t
very soon became as demonstrative as
a large one, for it could not fail to
realize. that it was in the presence of
en- artist whose fellows are few. Mr..
Percy Kahn accompanied"
>, The critic of 1.-THE London Daily
Telegraph" regretted that a good third
of the concert given recently at Wig
more Hall, by the Flonzaley Quartet.
should have been devoted to a compost
ton by Charles Martin Loeffler, written
in memory of the first American
aviator killed in France:
The coming generations will have
poor opinion of our artistic genius if
the tremendous war effort is not better
commemorated in verse, in statuary.
and in music than it has been up to the
present. Indeed, this latest tribute to
war hero seems more than ever re-
mote from that lofty spirit of sacrifice
which inspired the humblest of our
hghters. The concluding harmonies,
rather reminiscent Of the last bars of
the overture to 'Cavalleria Rusticana,,
take US far from the heavy atmosphere
that pervades the rest Of the work
but the relief comes too late to produce
an effect Of quiet after the laborious
search for novelty that stamps almost
the whole of tho quartet. To convince
the listener 1t is not sufficient to direct
the players to play on the bridge or to
lower the 9 string Of tho cello. Such
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