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'DADEREwsKI on a new record,

DADEREWSKI on new record,
II particularly a number of his own
composing, is truly an event.
Among the new September Victor
Record releases is the first record this
great pianist has made in long time.
Happily, too, it is composition of his
own, interpreted under conditions as
nearly ideal as possible, through appa-
ratus far more delicate than he knew
in his earlier years. 1t is a soft, not
snowy, record, very melodious, and
welcome utterance from the great
master.
September is particularly appro
pirate month for Schumann-H eink to
make a record of John Henry New
mans LEAD Kindly Light" 1t was
in September, 1901, that Mckinley was
assassinated, and it was on his death
bed that his love for this great hymn
came into memory. Schumann-Heink
sings it, as might be expected, in a
natural and heart felt style.
Nine. Ernestine Schumann-
Heink is now DIR. Schumann
Heink. On her sixty-hrst
birthday recently she received
the degree of Doctor of Music
from l0S Univ SISlly OL oOuLu-
EN- California.
By no means are all the great oper-
attic scenes in the works of old masters.
Giacomo Puccini still lives and still
composes, and for lyric inspiration his
betrothal scene from his "Madame
Butterfly" is as great, perhaps, as
anything in Italian music. Frances
Aida and Giovanni Martinelli sing this
enchanting duet 20 qnanti occhi fsi"
Ooh Kindly Heavens) on new Victor
Record for September-that scene
where Lieutenant Pinkerton and Go
Cio-San sing their love on the little
porch of their house at Nagaski. As
a scene and as a record, it is beyond
description.
American music has developed its
own idiomss and my Mother" which
Orville Harold sings on new Septem-
Der record, is distinctly American. 1t is
simple in style and homely in senti-
ment, full of mother-love and tender
Renaissance in words and melody.
Because Jascha Heifetz is master
of the violin does not mean that he
utilities his mastery purely for dis
play. The Concerto in 4 Minor
Andante" which he plays in September
Is classic example of his use of an as
founding technique for the production
of a pure, clear, penetrant, singing
tone, without mechanical or trick eff
fects. The number is serenely beau-
tiful, slow, unobtrusive melody. 10
play it as Heifetz interprets it is given
to few--to these not always.
In characteristic vein for Nine.
Homer is my din Comrt,Te," dis
tinctly a woman's song for women, a
quaint melody of almost heartbreaking
pathos, sung throughout with that SIM
plicity which dehes the common ex-
pedients of art. 1t is Scotch in
style - slow, measured, powerfully
rhythmic, with characteristic minor
strain throughout,
A pioneer in opera, Weber's i'm
agination and daring influenced even
Richard Wagner The brilliant overture
which he wrote in his later years for
his fantastic elin opera "Oberon" has
been a prolific source of ideas for
generations of less gifted composers.
During September it is presented in
two parts with all its original form and
color by the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, lead by the famous Dutch
conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Herein
are heard the call of Oberon's horn,
the stir of woodland leaves, the trip
ping Of light-footed fairy dancers, and
among similar fantasies, the Justly
famous Ocean, Thou Mighty Mon
ster"
It must be relief to John Nc
Cormack, so often called upon to exert
the full power of his voice, to sing a
melody as smoothly flowing and easy
of delivery as "WonderfM World Of
Romance" which he sings on a new
September Victor Record A me-
Iodious violin obbligato attends him
throughout, with here a harp tone,
there The grouped spangles of silver
bells.