New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
II In the Realms Of Music and Art II

season. For this tour he already has
bookings which fill twenty weeksso
keen, it seems, Is the desire to hear
Mozart's music combined with drama in
the vernacular. His singers are Hazel
Huntington, Percy Hemus, Thomas Nc
Granahan and Francis Tyler, who were
in last seasons company, and Lattice
Howell. The Accomplishments are
played on the pianoforte by Gladys
Craven. The work will be produced
for number Of colleges in the East,
including Monnt Holyoke, Smith, We'll
lesley, Williams, Rutgers and the Uni
versity of Maine. Performances will
be given under the auspices of Mrs.
John F. Lyons, president of the Ma
tional Federation of Music Clubs, and
Elizabeth Quincy, manager of the ST.
Louis course. A projected tour to the
Pacif. Coast had to be abandoned for
lack of time.
Extensive Mozartian
Propaganda
| But this is only part Of the fruit
borne by the enterprise Of Mr. Albert
Reiss, who conceived the notion of an
English "Impresario" and carried it
out in New York few years ago. Last
years success sowed the seed for
more ambitious plan which will be set
on foot this year. Mr., Hinshaw is be-
come convinced that he is a Mozart
missionary. He has had "Cosi fan
lutte" turned into an opera of the old
English type, and it, too, will be given
for twenty weeks. the bookings already
made extending to the Pacific Coast.
The singers will be Irene Williams
Kathleen Hart Bibb, Lillian Palmer,
Judson House, Leo de Hierapolis and
Pierre Remington, witk Stuart Ross as
pianist and musical director. In some
of the larger cities he will employ or
chestras. Paul Eisler, assistant con-
ductor of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, will drill the company in the
music, and Samuel Newman, stage
manager of the Metropolitan produc-
tlon, will prepare the n,ise-en-scene.
This company begins the tour on Oc-
tober 81, and during the fall weeks it
will tour the Middle States, going as
TAR West as Topeka, Kan. 1t will sing
in Kansas City, st. Joseph, Chicago.
Springfield, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Erie,
bloomington, Bowling Green, KY;
Memphis, Boston and number of
other places in the same territory dur
ing the seven weeks following October
81. The first date of the opening of
this company will be at Orange, N. J.
After that they return to New York
City for three or four weeks They
will start again on January s, going
south through Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Texas
and Oklahoma and thence west through
Arizona and to Los Angeles and San
francisco. From there they go north
to Portland and other cities between
there and Canada and thew make tour
OF two weeks through western Canada,
returning toward the east through Wv
omlng, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and finally roine
to Toronto and Montreal before they
arrive in New York about May /.
This looks like a large enterprise.
but it does not hetray the full extent
OF Mr.. Hinshaw's ambition as Mo-
zart propagandist. AS "The Impre-
sario" paved the way for "Cosi fan
Tutte," so the latter opera is expected to
do pioneer work for others in the Mozart
list, and possibly for a Mozart festival
in New York.
The New Text of
"Cosi fan Tutte"
The rights of the word are to he
respected in the version of "Cosi fan
Tutte" which has been made for these
performances. Instead of the secco
rec'tativo of the Italian score (the
singing OF which, by the way, is almost
lost art) the dialogue will be spoken.
Not only that, but it will be original
preserving the Italian poets plot. but
seeking vivacity and more marked
Characterization by cutting loose from,
his words. How this has been done
can be shown by quotation from the
opening scene of the opera, which fol-
lows first in the translation mado NV
the Rev. Marmaduke E. Browne for
novelties "Octavo Edition of Operas -
and then in the new version. The
American author, it may be added ha g
tried to keep as far away from Err-
ilsh opera "librettese" as possible ord
to keep an eye on musical as weu as
grammatical values.
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