MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 9

MUSIC.

■ : — <■-— „. i TBt Tskbls Ctxr.l ' Music inventors. _' Two of tie most original ifiuslclans in tlie world to-day, viz.) Schbnberg; and Scriabine, are the close personal friends of Harold Bauer, the renowned pianist, who has just concluded a successful,sear Son in.Sydney.- Bauer' , speaks: very -admiringly of. these two composers, though h*. admits that he doesn't understand the music'of Schonberg, who ■is one of the pioneers of the Futurist mpvpment, and has written some extraordinary, unusual music. Scriabine has the distinction of being different to Sqhonberg, .though he , is equally surprising and unorthodox. In his way he rather recalls d.rthur; Rimbaud, 'the French poet who invented colours for the , vowels; '_ He believes in the association of music with light, colour, perfumes, and bo 'on, and endeavours to express the occult. The few people familiar with his music know that ho has written much_ for the left hand only. l This is by the fact that he soverely injured his right, hand, when a young man,... ; '•

Native Opera. ■ The Australian Opera League's initial venture on Monday evening next, at tho Repertory Theatre, Sydney, will launch two well-contrasted works. Mr. Alfred Kill's "Giovanni" has been already referred to, and "something mri.y, now, be said of Mr. rFritz Hart's "Pierrette." The composer admits a slight indebted-ness-to "Prunella," the fantasy .by, Lawrence Housman' and Granyille Barker staged here some time back. In any case, Pierrot is a long existing figure of the "French stage. In ; Mr. Hart's- poem,. Pierrot and Pierrette," their' brief day 'of-, love, terminated in friendly fashion, resume an every-day existence in tho return of the girl.to tho conventional home of her uncle ■ and aunt, from which she had fled. Pierrot, the irresponsible fellow, departs with a jaunty air, and a long orchestral nocturne divides tho action, which is continued by the approach of Pierrot once more in order to serenade the- unhappy prisoner of convention. They discuss in the modern manner the'possibility of living together again, and ' on the verge of a bitter difference are suddenly.reunited on a wave of sentiment, and wander forth into the world that lies beyond her garden's wall. Light-hearted music accompanies the lovers, and- fades away into tho distance, as the uncle and aunt' stand on the doorway of their house peering after the vanished pair. The music of "Pierrette" will bo continuous, as musicdrama should be. The cast will consist entirely of. Melbourne . artists, "Giovanni" being reserved for siiigers nioro or less identified with -.