The Omaha morning bee., 1924-02-10
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BY ELEANOR HINMAN.


Music and the dance are twin SIS
ters, born side by side of a sunny
morning back in the childhood of the
wexld. Fate has used the one sister
more nobly than the other. yet it is
from her less reputable sister. psy-
draws much Of her.charm.
"A great deal of the emotional effect
which music has upon the sensitive
nature is physical. and comes from
tire. slight. involuntary response OF
blood and nerve and muscles, the
rhythms of the song. Children in
stinctively dance when they hear mu-
sic. and many of us owe our delight
in It to the fact that it sets our hearts
a-dancing.
For this reason musical folk must
be glad to see the two sisters reunited
in setting so gorgeous to the eye
as that presented by the Denishawn
dancers who appear here February 10
and 20. One can scarcely come away
from Denishawn program without
feeling a new realization Of the spirit
of song. The 'natural-born" musician
gains enlightenment as to why music
makes him feel the way it does make
him feel. while the person whose
imagination is chiefly visual gets an
ink1ing of the raptures his companion
receives from an orgy of sweet sound.
The symphony being the highest
form Of music, Ruth st. Denis re-
Gently turned her attention to its
more adequate translation into Wis.
ible dance form. 1t seemed obvious at
the start that one, dancer could no
more dance a symphony than one vio-
lin could play it. So she created her
''Synchoric orchestra" of dancers. one
for each instrument in the symphony
orchestra, who perform the miracle
of making music visible to the naked
eye.
A fourth of the program Wednes-
day night will be given over to these
visualizations of music. The first
movement Of the Sonata Pathetique.
Beethoven; the Revolutionary Etude.
by Chopin; yalse Caprice, by Chamin-
ade; Waltz, opus 80, No. Is, by
Brahms; Liebestraum, by Liszt; Soar
ing. by Schumann. and the Valse
Brillante. by Mana yucca, will be the
principal visualizations. The music
will be played by an instrumental
quartet as the dance is being given.
Thurlow Lieurance, composer, pian-
ist, and authority on Indian music.
who comes to the Brandeis theater on
the evening of February IS, is one of
several interpreters Of Indian life who
have at various times made headquar-
ters in Nebraska. The story of Cad
mans residence in Nebraska is IA
miliar. Lieurance, whose name is
possibly second only to his in the
field of Indian music, resides at Lin
colin, where he is connected with the
University School of Music.
Like many celebrities, however, he
is perhaps more honored outside the
borders of the state of his adoption.
The San Antonio Express likens his
concert there to "a drink of cool
spring water to the weary traveller
along the seasons musical way"
The Etude, a monthly journal de-
voted to music, has this to say Of his
work: "Thurlow Lieurance has col
lected Indian themes direct from the
wfgwams and tepees of tribes In all
parts Of the country. and has given
them a musical setting which pre-
serves the atmosphere in manner
that amounts to genius
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An interesting feature of the Lieu
rance program will be the native flute
played By George B. Tack. No In
,ii4n program is complete without
tic primitive flute, which was the
oniy instrument known 10 the In
dams. These flutes arc quite differ
>nt from the modern concert instru-
ment OF the same name. although
they are upon the same principle.
They arc made Of wood, sometimes
handed with red flint or porphyry,
and are quite large. Often they are
deliberately carved and stained or or
namented with feathers. They have
wistful, reedy tone more like that
of oboe or clarinet than the conven.
tional flute. Mr.. Lieurance has a col
ection of these instruments. demon.