MUSICIANS AND COMPOSES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 81

MUSICIANS AND COMPOSES.

— I remsmbar how d^i^tl^l^jfi^jji^ feel when I was ,oi|^Jt&"-^sTajiif s TO* / $Ke >/>).&/ days, singing hr ibe-->^^^^ofui'{i&;J^s^e/' Bohemian Girl.'-' Aixifffls?' #i«A«<bmWi£oW ful thrilling 4Wa^h|^»g| felt all tiie joy -of ilwfeT^^efeKS 3 ?!^®^^^! musician, B^&fe^ had -catrgJitf^tl^e^^^^^^rf-f'S the magic an9"f:l>&auiv of "the^ipsy^llj^ j in his wonderful c^^Sßffi^J^in^ a oreat j artist must_-,i^y«^n43hinr^fe^^MS»Bi^ ! ; instinct.-^gSErfTßlennedy. I j —Wagner was hopelessly romantic. He ' was , an apostle of that >..axfc. ..which separates j itself frcfcn life. If ycAi loot back'.oirlifrerci- ; tur©: and. art in the most casual way these.; | -expiVKSigns -of the human spirit divide '-\ i" tibemseJTjßs naturally into two classes— the I Th^ £?!?$ inatos ! kias deaj| with life as if^art were the : .master fSktead of bhe servant andarxnterr&i preter. £?.'The leaction from undrrat&d romanticism produces a Bernard Shaw;; He I wishes to draw life as it is, but hit^vision ! is limited by his .temperament. — E. A- j -iaughari. *-... ,- ; 3 : — Pianists may come:'"*' and - go, 1 "' buV] Paderewski, who has been pleyiog- "in fLsfrj J don, rejnains (says the Evening New!)^4 unique Sjgpre among them all. The secret . of his siigcess is largek<?ja pefc9oSu4, '<mA f »If you can Ifcerauade hin? & tlffi^r KiPirfc ? his fbii© fa&e (crowned with the locks that earned him the name of the "chrysanthe.-] <m fl m " Pianist) lights up;' you find- him a. ,rairely poetic musician.^ ._, The glow" of hie , temperament comes tlt^wgh-^hm playing, i and the sheer poet<ry of rt'Txra&es-it irresistible. " That, indeed, is tyetfg&ixsb o/Juafi success ; he throws a „ gtana<^|pbXit*£r eY^SSelj tihng he int«rpi«fs^ideali^*g||i£ • 'asf««l have always the sensation, fo^^ii^«| ; p!aying of absolute sincejit^psSS't >Is£*~ib \ feeling every bax of the mwfflWiiMfidsiw no pianist ea*3^^^b- : hifil^^fc^S^^Pi of beautiful tone^mriei»^p|&lt<>»<3KSj^^j command of rhytffin. !^%?M -*£*h ' — One of th« aisst , iniefesfcing^" ifebute imade on the coJMSjt'pJaMorta^this wear -was* 5 that of Miss C^;gß&ras&£9feo!§£ jfctalli recently. Mia3 Clia&eaam'te^ttgSbt&^ of, Mark Twain, and the rousing •eception she J got. feom th-^J^pe m at^^ice,.on < her appearance otT^SPSS^e-WS^t tEat her father's name had secured her a hearty lowed each of lfer 'Bong^maSe^ ff- ■ef^lm that she was able to ckiiin.iappreci«tion3foE her pwi^sake « «iezio-s£|>rano voice of a sympathetio~tone •and. rich quality whioh>'prbmieesvwell' fbr hpr !su<seess in the-pTofession she has so »BlU<;ikly^oho3en, j and 5 which al'her friends hope will be' successful and bright. "PEGGY MACHEEE" IN AMERICA. When .death mtereeh%»*dfe:^^t«!^.y^3| c IS three vr^^im^&oes.x^gm^se.^msssst'tm^ Irish play has had in America, since, -foe Sxet days of "Arrah-na-Pogue" and 1 the " ShaughraTm," it seemed - impossible to continue with 'Teggy Machine" ; but the very magnitude of Denis O'Sullivan's accomplishment in. presenting to the proud and sensitive Irish population of the United States an Irishman in whom they, could feel themselves honoured in ■veyery^" 'sense has made it imperative to con.tiniue> Messys-jßwjoks and Dingwall, two 'of the 1 moS#ia^sifht«.d^ managers ?n New YorfiT hare not only arranged with Mr Joseph o'Ma.ra to star in "Peggy Machree" for next season, but are planning to produce a succession of , Irish plays as a natural sequence to ? 'Peggy," so that the thousands of IrishAmerieani theatre-goexa may see themselves represented 1 , after years of misrepresenta- j tion, in a manner to satisfy their pride. It is particularly fitting tha* the famous tenor should be the one ch<*en taSsßeceed his friend. When Denie O^Sullimn '^nade his first success' as Shamus in Stanford's spera of • 'Shamus O'Brien," it was O'Mara irho played Mike Murphy. They were also associated in the original production of "The Post Bag" — soon J:o be done again it the Court Theatre — aiid in ihe first-par-'ormanco of Madame Liza LehmaiMPs diarming "Daisy Chain" O'Mara i 3 well cnown in America, where he Biased ktf 'Shamus," in. "The Highwayn^g"- ai«#| )thor pieces; and he carries to his now task ! i superb art both as actor and singer, an mmistalcable Irish. voiosuan<d jiature," which s-ill endear him^o^ift-^^oi^i^i^t's on'fh^ iiher side. The choice of an understudy for O'Mara's )art of Barry Trevor in "Peggy" al«> liiiges in a curious way on "Sha-mus." iVhon the Royal College of gave-tho per a two- years aga,sSie critics ,irext mornng reported- tba* fch«y-'"rubbed 'their "eyes" rhen ybung^^rthui^WyTHi/ "-as- •'die -Iri«h lero, appeared on the stage, so astonishogly in looks, figure, and gesticulation did p resembfc Denis o'iSnllivan, the first fliamue r— And iti&'-~xhis strf>B&£; resembla^Kiei oupled wibh vojc^Vaf^ alente which has-been the reasorf-'of hij ontraot with the American managej^^ —1866-1908: A Reverie.— What was the secret of it all— of the oner that Offenbach and the High'riestess Schma^rL'jb&d over. _.s■&«';, rwittiest eople in Europe"? For 'they had the power. Iffenbach, with his impossible gods and oddesses, which, would have made an-_o3<ii (reek squirm and the : author of "Phedxe" a-ge'in sonorous lines, wi'fih his 3trange ukes, ducheasee, and princes from some ir-off German dream-court in the clouds, ith his songs that danced, and his dances fiat sang, as men said of him in those ays. And Schneider, who in her day was every■ing, whose dresses, carriages, shoes, and ricks of tongue ,all Paris copied,' and tughed joyously the while. She led, 'ranee followed. Why, did not even Fadame.des Troia Etoiles- discover,, -by, the kcreet agency of a pious maid, that chneider had found her way one Sunday lorning- to the 12 o'clock Mass at St. och-e, and did nob "le Tout Paris gui prie ; 6'amuse" rush the next Sunday; to the ime grey old church, eager for Iheaveai if icy could only get there by clinging' to le skirts of the Grande Duchesse? Well, hat was there in it? scraps of me;ory, from -the litter o'ftK^se faavoff-Mays,.-lay lielp. " ' f '-. It w-as at Etretat— in the sixties— little nown then to the English tourist, but inch loved by the brain-world of Paris, he guns of Sadowa had not yet put half lenua into mourning; and that other great

cloud 1 , the Debacle, was still months and months ahead, and the author of "Monk JSsf^J^KS??; - s - rili alive, gobbling, talking, ff^W^^^^^^ppre and great play of knife . and .fork.' TSsre hOjS&fc-^-a- privileged En?,M S $ y^uaiigsj>er:-s.tw-"Kfm— in the curtained "restaurant of the Casino at • i!it&csat. With, him many, men o£ fin© perft^^ Wy Jc-lm of the jaae^sfe^s^^ieat a pressman in his way fe«ir^f^^ Pre^-ost-Pajradol, whossfine '^SS«SH?&--xaipire turned, and, , turaine, ruined. * S=^lSTS!SS3ife©smas ®t D-inner. — , % • These wae tihere, and many others. But' what the English boy noticed were tha " great thick Kps of Alexandra Dumas, the --way h& bought with and- worried his food— • hc-w he etoked himself md -shovelled, -sKoveHed. .Plate followed plate, and 6till he talked and gobbled. Then, in the disJnmsic. "La Belle Helene," blare of it cam^->neaVe3S Then tfif fciiih came .out. Sehijeider-^tne one,. Stnoomparable' only, and divine' -Schneider _v|fe coming- -teethe- Villar.^es Larmes^afr" 'tihat aiight, and ":a bana'- was "<reheaareing^ musical honours for this queen. j x So the last thing the young Englishman heard and saw of; the great Alexandra : Ihimas JFas. the huge form spread out ; bu a sfSut*- "dhaiss - longue," while from thei ' thick Jips — so thick, and yet so eloquent — ,-caJße, ■it jinust be ownedi -in no faultless feme or-• tune, the strains )f "Le Bello' ?JSelen^.'' ..^tr iK mis fof^-tltke old yarns! Yet another must be told. finger-post yam. It was \ m^^Peßb|K3h's own plav-hou&e ihat the same,";' "•EngnaEM ydifn^ter, very" proud; very shy, '"- sat- between those two ligbte of Frencih:- - journalism, Brevost-P&radol and John Le- ' moinne, listening to the upside-down world-, of GrerolsfeinT As the curtain fell, and - they rose to go, Prevost-Paiadol, jhrugging , his shouldera, turfied smilingly to Lemoinne "—"John," he sai4, "you thinker,, pf,, great >|t^^te^why ai-e you here?" " ' * - v , !" answered -the -leadervf^p^!3lMl>ebaita,^"w}iy am I-here? I'll/, thought for two houre.'s J^ r IPhe Cure ' for Care.— about, it.,v In tSis neurotic, r bcom»^^^ro, and antipyrin-fed 1 sleepless »g||j¥psrC>ver-fua6y mesa and women, what hiwcSll^^^^i^preat doctors not give for such, [fejiu^ras-ttiia! Men who ai>e worried about fitfteix bodies and souls, their wives, their tailors' bills, the bad drinks at their club, and the bad cooking at home; about poliitics, :educatk>n bills, licensing, bills, pld-ago.. pensions, and the follies' of political youth— ' men suffering from, fixed ideas and' ideag KSfi^E&pa&Sfen-" to^ beepm© dangerously- .unfixed. —in. fine, all men in peidLfrom the sea of iake the gMat French jour- . "•na : nst ? &-^preloription — a- dose of Offenbacih -aijdj^top^thinking" for two hours. The doctor* is dead, and Nurse -Schneider is no more, but "La Grande -Duchesse" lives to ' charm and to cure.— JPall Mall ,