The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-23
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

tulsa will have the opportunity OF
hearing the Ralph dunbar opera
company this coming week in roper
,oire. with company Of fifty
voices this English speaking must
cal organization will appear In Con-
ycntlnn hail on Thursday night.
october q, In Carmen" Friday
aser1oon matinee, robin Hood,
aud on Friday night, Bohemian
gIrl" These old favorites will be
r.ra.yed with acclaim by lovers OF
music and especially will they prove
gg.Ghtful. sung, as they will be, In
English. SO a real festival Of music
vflt be enjoyed. Miss Lorna Doone
jackson, who sings the leading role
IN Carmen, also in Robin Hood, is
spntcn OF by one OF the Chicago
critics In a very flattering manner
a. follows. referring to the first
named opera:
no performance OF this pleasant
TIE Kovon score has ever been moro
cbarmIng." writes Miss Leslie.
"HoV lovely his music Is, compared
10 the rubbish we crave now; crib
br8 from everywhere, rushed into
pubhcity. jerKy thin, jazzed, rag
yed and jingled and smothercd In
artificc.
Robin Hood as delivered by
the dunbar company at the Illinois
theater "a a perfect delight. II did
not seem possible 20 me that /
could listen TO Robin Hood with
out Jessie bartlett Davis. But
,hore lis a bewitching substitute for
d. Jessie. A young and vivacious
RcrealIre named Lorna Doone jack
son. beauty who has Jessie Bart
let's figure, except her height, has
Jesslo's dimples and voice most
beautiful TO hear In the songs Mrs,
Davis made famous.
"'Oh Promise Me- never sounded
more dcicately sympathetic and
captivating than when Miss Jackson
sang lt oxquisitely and modcstly, as
H. perhaps. she, too, thought "
Jessie here, wNere she lived and
where she lies sleeping with stone
above her, on which IS graven the
last verse Of 'Oh Promise Me-
which she never sang Miss Jack
son recites most beautifully the
little. neglected verse while the or
rhestra plays the melody Of the
song
"Traviata." with cast headed by
Amelita Gall-Curci, Bcniamino
GiEl and Giuseppe dc Luca, and
with new settings by Joseph Ur-
ban, will open the new season at
the Metropolitan opera House. the
evening ot Monday, November ~
Feodor Chaliapine. the celebrated
Russian bass. will probably have
guest appearances at the Metro
polltan In Boris Goudounoff."
"Mcfistofcle," "Don Carlos and
possibly "The Barber OF Seville"
Korngold's Dead City" Massenots
"La Navarraise' and Verdis "Er-
nani' will be the first three now
elites Of the season, all within the
month These were salient points
brought out at the conference which
Giulio Gatti- -Casazza, general man
ager Of the Metropolitan. had with
newspapermen on Thursday after
noon. the day after his arrival from
Europe on the Presidente Wilson.
The names of the late Enrico Ca
russo and Josef Mann were stricken
fro. the list. IL was stated that
roles intended for Mann. who died
Aida" in Berlin. sembaeh. who
was IN most of last season, was
said to he In good voice, and his
engagement, which was to have
been for only the latter part Of the
new season. was altered so as 10
bring him back to the opera house
at the start.
Through the veil Of obscurity
which has shrouded the future di-
rectorship of the Chicago opera as
ISOLATION since the return OF Mrs.
Harold T.. Mccormick, after an alb
sence Of eight years there comes
suggestion that Mary Garden will no
longer be at the helm Of the Chi
cago opera after the conclusion OF
the present season. and the change
may come even sooner. II current
rumors are well-founded, SO states
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