MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 1 August 1912, Page 18

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

By last week’s English mail I received from Messrs Enoch and Sons, the well-known music publishers, of 14 and 14a Great Marlborough-street,.

.London, W., and also of Paris, New York, and Toronto, a number of theii’ latest publications. “You, Just You,” by Jack Thompson, is a dainty love song with a suave waltz refrain that .ought to catch on with miscellaneous audiences. ‘ The Sunshine in Your Eyes” is also from the pen of this ..clever composer. “When Like a Rose,” by Percy Elliott, with violin ..or ’cello Obligato, is a fine song with impressive chords to support the voice, and may be strongly recommenced to singers capable of breadth of tone. Other songs that I can safely recommend are “ Little Fleur-de-Lys,’ words by D. Eardley Wilmot, music by Easthope Martin; “Lady April,” by Clifton Bingham, music by Brenda Gayne; “For the Years to Come,” by Edward Teschemacher; “Butterflies,” by Bela Laszky; and “Because you are My World,” by Herbert Banning. “Four Famous Lyrics,” by Shelly and Herrick, music by Landon Ronald, are published under • one cover. The best of the four is undoubtedly “ To Electra.” The sprightly arpeggi introducing and partly supporting, the theme possess a peculiar form which gives character and charm to the song. “To Daffodils” represents the modern song ,of sentiment, with sadly beautiful harmonies. “Good Night” is set to ?music which lacks the warmth and tenderness of the verse. The fourth of the series is “Love’s Philosophy,” a pretty little song. “To Electra,” “ Love’s Philosophy,” and “Good Night” are published separately. Unffier the title of “Album Leaves,” are published “At Sunrise” and “None Will Know,” the music of both being by Landon Ronald. “The Crown of •India March,” arranged for piano by Hugh Blair from Edward Elgar’s, Imperial Masque, “The Crown of India,” is a martial processional piece. The splendour of its triumphant chords partly conjures up the pompous scene .even on the piano, and would do so fully were it heard in its original orchestral form. R. H. Bellair’s “Barcarolle,” for the piano has a rhythm in the accompaniment so marked that it would form a good practice study. The piece, as a whole, is pleasing. “The Parade of the Tin Soldiers,” by Leon Jessel, is a characteristic piece, which could be easily transcribed for mandolin. Henri Godard’s "Mysterieuse Valse” is a very animated and rhythmical valse, with what the man in the street recognises as “rattling tunes,” and should become deservedly popular in the ballroom. Easthope Martin’s “Pirouette” is an “air de ballet pour piano,” which is whimsical, and forms an effective little piano piece. “Canzonetta, for the piano, is by the same author. “Pierrot” is a pretty little “scene de ballet’ for the piano from the pen of Bela Laszky. Two pieces by Mme. C. Chaminade, are entitled “Cortege” and ‘‘iSuedoise/’ and are not difficult to play. Mr James Leibling, the artistic ’cellist, who will support Madame de Cisneros in her coming tour of New Zealand, is a barrister by profession, as well as a musician. His real profession has always been music, but he entered the University of New York and for four years devoted himself to legal studies. He obtained his M.A. and LL.B, degrees, and was admitted to practice at the bar of New York State, and acted as prosecuting attorney in one case, and then laid aside his wig and gown forever and returned to his beloved ’cello. The second annual convention of the American Guild of Violinists was held in Chicago on June 14th and 15th. A display of instruments, music, and accessories for the violin was ■shown at the Hotel Sherman, and two concerts were given in the large banquet room. Several well known American composers were represented in the programmes in compositions for stringed instruments. Mr Paul Dufault, the tenor of the Cisneros Concert Party, has a voice • of great power, and he can be better described as a robust tenor than a lyric singer. He is the idol of his countrymen in the French provinces of Canada, and his last tour of the Dominion, after a prolonged absence in the United States, was a march -of enthusiasm from city to city. Madame de Cisneros says of him: “He is pre-eminently a concert singer and I am delighted to have secured 'him. He has an exquisite voice and is also a man of delightful personality -and a great social favourite.” A Florentine girl, Giulia Lorenza, •said to be a grand-niece of Madame

Lorenza, who was one of the most brilliant prima donnas of eighteen or twenty years ago, has astounded the music masters of Rome by a compass of notes which exceeds by almost an octave that of any singer recorded in the annals of music. The girl is little more than sixteen, but it is said she has been under good teachers for some time. While her lower register is rich and mellow, especially for a young singer, she has the treble of a human canary, sweet and bell-like as it is away above the range of any voice ever heard in Rome. The inimitable and irrepressible Oscar Kammerstein is said to be already in touch with the girl’s guardians and it is possible that she may help to win him the success which appears to have so far eluded his efforts to make opera on a really grand scale pay in London. Mr. Maughan Barnett gave another excellent organ recital in the Town Hall on Saturday evening last. The vocalist of the evening was Miss Lilian Edmonds.