The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-02
His Own Composing

dred Stone of New York was re-
Gently announced, he won't find
time to wed until June next.
This is his managers dictum.
If John Mccormack sang every song
that his admirers would like to hear
him sing, he'd never get any sleep. His
latest record on the January Victor
list will please his entire following
song in lyric metre familiar to all
lovers of Irish poesy. Mother in
Ireland" is obviously a song of the
homesick, composed in waltz time,
with melody which the tenor sings
lightly and easily, dwelling here and
there with true lyric FIRE and passion
on some high note.
BY many cherished as the noblest of
LISTS orchestral works, "Les Pre-
jndes" was inspired by the historic
phrase of Lamartine. what is our life
but succession of preludes to that un-
known song whose first note is sounded
by Death ?" As a musical intimation
of immortality, there are few orchestral
works of the mid Nineteenth Century
equal to it in beauty of sentiment, or
in grandeur and variety of expression.
1t includes number of musical themes,
all based on two simple ones, which
undergo extraordinary and ingenious
transformations. The records this
month include parts ! and 2. by
Willem Mengelberg and Philharmonic
Orchestra on two new Victor Records
for January.
1t is a matter for debate whether the
music student or the layman who loves
music without technical knowledge of
its structure gets the greatest delight
from a great musical masterpiece in
terpreted by great artist. Suffice it
to say that both will enjoy in their own
degree Lists Hungarian Rhapsody"
on a new record by Paderewski. This
record belongs to the great display
pieces of piano music. LISTS intricate
and delicate finger machinery is in it
the multiple trills. overland chord
passages that crash like thunder. crys
talline glissades and moments like
warbling brook.water.
Among his mementoes Padere-
wski treasures piano pedal, plated
in gold and inscribed with the
names Of the captain and officers
the cruiser on which the great
pianist-statesman travelled from
England to Danzig in December,
1918, on his way to Warsaw. In
the cramped ward-room was
small, upright piano on which Pad
crewski played for the crew at .
their request. So ramshackle was
the instrument that the sustain
ing pedal broke under the artists
foot, and this is the pedal which
was subsequently plated and pre-
sented to him.
A "dark and bloody ground" Is the
Caucasus, since Alexander the Great a
stage of ceaseless racial and religious
warfare. The "M0rch of the Caucasian
Chief" which the Philadelphia Orches-
ira plays on a new January record is
vivid tone picture of an Asiatic-moun-
tain chief en- n,arche with his soldiers
and retinue drawing nearer and nearer.
1t is by Ippolitow-Iwanow; who until
1914 lived in Tiais, but who since has
Almost like first exercised for little
fingers are two quaint little piano pieces
by Grieg which Rachmaninoff plays on
one of the new records. Two little
gems, Waits and Elm Danee present
in miniature the original Characters
tics of Grieg's music. For the sake of
contrast. apparently, though the pieces
call for light handling, Rachmaninoff
occasionally releases the full ison power
of his fingers.