MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2764, 6 May 1916, Page 11

MUSIC.

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Paul Oufault's Songs. At his opening concert in Dunedin Mr.. Paul Dufault was accorded an ovation, and earned it subsequently by singing with <111 artistry - and power that carried liis audience awav. Among tile new songs . ho. introduced were 'iHosanna" : (G-ranfer), "Sometime in Summer" (Bennett), "Lorraine" (Sari--derson), "The, Little Road Homo" (Brewer), "Caddie" (St. Clair); and "I Love, and the World is- Mine" (Spross). Other songs sung wero "The Marseillaise" (of course), "In, rictus," "Little Boat," "In a : Garden," "La Viviandiere," "Mother 0' Mine," "Dis Oui Mignou," and' "Thy Beaming Eyes."

ft Norwegian Soprano. The restricted list of concert artists risiting Australia t'lis year has (says the "Sydney 'Morning Herald") been jnriched by the unexpected arrival of iliss Inga Orner by tho Niagara. This iistinguished . Norwegian soprano has iust spent live months in Honolulu, and lias given recitals there, and also in four of the-larger Hawaiian islands. Sho sang in private „at .. Washington Place to Queeji Lileuokulani, who composes dainty music in the native style, with a light and rhythmical grace that wins in the ballroom. Miss Ornor's visit to Honolulu was chiefly of a holiday nature, and it enabled her to recuperate after an arduous songlrecital Lour, which started in New York. Her itinerary, took her to Washington, Pittsburg, and other great cities,' en route to San Francisco. Whilst at tli© Exposition and other places the operatic soprano assisted at such patriotic recitals as the British-American War Relief Fund,' the' French Soldiers' Fund (Auditorium, July ,14), at .Seattlo for the Prince or Wuies's Fund,' at various smaller cities, .and at Los An-, geles for the Western Australian Boys'. Band then 011 tour. This young singer- has had a particularly interesting career. As a child sho studied at Cliristiania uiider Edward Grieg. Her parents took her to' New York early in her teens, .and! there she won 'a vocal 'scholarship at the school founded, by Mr. Conreid in connection with the Metropolitan Opera House. Jean do Rcsko wrote to Mr. Conreid from Paris, offering a' year's free tuition to tho. two best students, and in this way the young lyric soprano studied with the great tenor in Paris before completing her repertoire under Cesare Rossi'-at Milan. Her start was so successful that she sang Gilda twenty-eight times tit Pietrasanta (Tuscany), ' Violetta eighteen- times' at Yiareggio, Lucia several times at Civedale,v and/Marguerite, Micaela, -and the • heroine of "Andrea Olienier" at.Venice., Engaged at once' for tho Metropolitan ■ Opera, House, she there supported Geraldine Fa-rras, facing whoin she appeared as Siebel, . Stefano ("Romeo ■, and Juliette"), and as the page in "Un Ballo." Coronation season found her' at .Covcnt Garden, .'where Melba was reigning in tho. star .rolesjand the young artist was in several casts with that great Besides visiting Cuba, and touring the United States in her own song-recitals, Miss Omer re-' visited Norway, in. 1914 as the only lady soloist with a male voice choir of Nor-wegian-Americans. The newcomer is now endeavouring to arrange with the leading musical' societies here, by whom slie should be gladly welcomed before touring.

A New Violinist. : " Mas S'elinsky, a . Russiaii.violinist who has played a arrived in Sydney by the' Niagara a few clays ago. Hp belongs to tlie town of Poltava,, a/iid is the son of Mr. Peter Kolinsky, a Russian Symphony Orehes-' tra conductor of note.. He'accordingly received the best possible 'instruction from childhood, and then studied, for .three years, at tlie;.Petrog'rad Couserva-.-fcorium . under Professor Auer, ..teacher of Elman, Katherine Power, Lymbalist, Cherniavsky, and other artists. _ For two.years Mr..Solinsky .played in tho Petrograd' Imperial Opera House Orchestra, he ' also conducted: . his father's orchestra in-.many cities, and then ho settled in America.. : Last .year ho j»avo.Tcoitals throughout. Canada, and at t-ho Massey Hall, Toronto, lie .joined Jail Hambourg in.t-ho Bach Concerto for two violins. .He brings, with him press-cuttings, dealing with vari ; ous Red Cross concerts. at which • he. figured; namely,, last . Nbvemher. at Ottawa, before tne Duke and Duchess of Coonaught aiid tho Princess Patricia, and on February 14 of this.year at Montreal- with. Lieut. Edmund Burke, the operatic basso, and Mile. La Palme, French soprano.

The Musicians' Mecca'.'. | A writer'in the New York "Sunday American"'of March 12. gives statistics for tho New York concert season up to the present time. According to him there have already been over four hundred concerts. The individual concert, givers have included forty-two pianists, twenty-six 'cellists and violinists;' aud forty-six -singers. - The Ragtime craie. Addressing the London, branch' of the Teachers' Guild on February 19 .on the subject of "Music in the,' School," Dr AYalford Davies snid the four departments they must keep in their minds if f.'lioy were to make a successful choice of their songs for children, and if tlioy were to unuderstand the child's powei to grasp those-songs,-were: rhythmic) melodic, light and shade, and the wonderful department of harmony. Harmony was the part they wanted to give to children last, and it must he given sparingly, because they did not undoiv stand it. We were only on the threshed of vast stores- of harmonic melodies.Ragtime waß . looked down upon by many peopio, but it was really only an activo human, mind playing round, an obvious tuno and making, it a little less obvious. He did not much doubt that "Keep the Homo Fires Burning"' would soon be syncopated or "ragged." Somo soldiers' • syncopations were beyond ' his comprehension and eluded him, but the soldiers understood them all right. The part they liked was the rhythmic syncopation, and the children would bo ready to understand any rhythm- they gave them.

Notes. • ' Tlio Wellington Amateur Operatic Society will begin rehearsing "San Toy 1 ' next week. The society now has its own rehearsal room and piano in. the Exchange Building's (in front of IThe Dominion office), .ivliero all business con* corning the society will be conducted for the future. The performance of "San Toy" will be for a patriotic purpose. ' i learn that' the local Choral Union's .rehearsals of ".Faust" are progressing very satisfactorily; The union has been looking for male recruit? just as eagerly as the Defence Department, and have been succcssful in. securing quite a. number. During the present month the committee will consider the cast. At the latest advices Miss Mario I-IdII, the noted'violinist, was playing in vaudeville at the London Collisciini'. .. Elgar'.s "Drown of Gerbntius" ;was sung in London by the llo.val Choral Society on March' 4, under tho direction of Sir Frederick 13ridge. The soloists wero Miss Muriel Foster, 1 Mr, Gervase ■ISlives, anad nir. Frank itanalow.-

A one act war play, entitled "The Iron Hand," by 51 r. Hall Gaiue, has been produced at tho Colliseum, London. Mr. Dion Boucicault was tho producer.