MORATTI Playlet, for He Alone Is Immortal

July 25, 1914 MUSICAL A M ER I C A 11 :perform the fu~ctions of Loge's servantl ~n the fire musIc. This takes place duro mg the last week, when there will b. per!orrp.ances every day to celebrate th( laymg of the foundation stone of tht. ECHOES OF MUSIC AlBROAD Playhouse. The. chief events will take place in the hIstorIC grounds, where stand the ruins Munich Names a Street it) Honor of Richard Strauss-First Details of Wagner Royalties Yet Made of the Abbot's Kitchen, or, in the event Public Show That Bayreuth Heirs Received $1,500,000 During First Thirty Years-More German of bad weather, in the Crispin Hall. The productions will generally be in the Hospitality for English Militant Suffragette Composer's Operas-Italian Composers Officially ~and~ of Margaret Morris, who is known m thIS country, and Mr. Boughton but Recognize Possibilities of Cinematograph as New Field for Them-English Critic DIscusses a p'agean~ play dealing with the l~gend of St. BrIde will be produced by Alice Modem Composers in Light of" Supreme Greatness" Test-Vienna Plans Another Week of Music Buckton, the author of "Eager Heart." * * * HAT is "supreme greatness"? asks ONORS continue to be heaped upon Signor Sonzogno, according to a Lon others, mere ordinary people, talk some W Gerald Cumberland, the English critic, who thereupon proceeds to ex H Richard Strauss. The most recent don authority, is of the opinion that times in verse and sometimes in prose." good music properly adapted for the plain in Musical Opinion, that, as it ap since the placing of a tablet on his na tal cinematograph can be the means of edu * * * pears to him, it is the power to create house in Munich and the founding of a cating people up to the level of classic OVEMBER 1 is the date set for the eI?otional thought that has not only a Richard Strauss Museum in Frankfort opera. He also thinks that there is a N first performance anywhere of ~Irect relatio!lship to ordinary, external hfe, but WhICh reveals or partly dis on-Main and-the conferring upon him of bright future for composers who can "Mona Lisa," the new opera recently write operettas that will lend themselves completed by Max Schillings, who has closes some of the fundamental truths the honorary degree of doctor of music to film production. two produced operas to his credit thus of our spiritual existence. by the University of Oxford, is one of Already Isidore de Lara, the composer far-"Der Pfeiffertag" and "Moloch." "A composer like Chopin, for example the courtesies rarely extended to the liv of "Messaline," has made use of the cine Mona Lisa will make her debut as a never div~s very deeply into our souls: He can stIr us emotionally, he can arouse ing. The municipality of Munich has de matograph in a "poetic and musical fan heroine of the lyric stage at the Stutt tasy," a work "after a new manner," that gart Court Opera, of which the com our sense of wonder, he can charm and cided that it should have a street named beguile us and make life seem more en in honor of its most illustrious musical has been brought out in Paris. A cor poser is musical director. The principal respondent of the London Daily Tele- male role will be created by John For- chanting than ever it was before' but son, and in consequence one of the prin he can never make us catch a s~dden cipal thoroughfares of the Bavarian cap sel~-revealing glimpse of our own souls. ital is shortly to be re-named the Richard It IS the power to do this, I claim that Strauss Strasse. constitutes artistic greatness. The dlever * * * perceptive man with a big and compre~ HE first details yet made public re hensive brain can paint the external T garding the royalties received by world; but it is only the man with a the heirs of Richard Wagner are to be great soul who can indicate the inner found in a recent issue of the Tagliche workings of a man's spiritual nature, Rundschau. A Munich writer named :vho . can grasp at, and almost embody, Jurinek divides the time from 1883 to .Infimty, and who can think and feel pro 1914 into twelve parts according to foundly about human destiny. the succession new high-water marks It seems to Mr. Cumberland that the reached. greatest creators in art have always been Such new records were registered by imPE!rsonal in ~heir wor!>:. ~hakespeare, the year 1886, when the royalties paid in for I~stanc~, dId not prImarIly put him amounted to $22,654; the year 1887, with self Into hIS plays: he embodied in his a total .of $23,734; the year 1890, with writings the multitudinous soul of $29,276; the year 1892, with $35,312; the humanity. The instinct that drove him year 1895, with $39,409; the year 1896 to write was not the instinct of self with $43,657; the year 1901, with $54,- expression, for "that is the object of the 792; the year 1904, with $65,645; the ~ess~r type of genius, "but, rather, the year 1905, with $75,395; the year 1906, InstInct to _express the whole range of with $80,883; the year 1912, with $84,- human feelmg and endeavor, and it is 000, and the year 1913, with $93,986. In breadth of sympathy and depth of under other words, by the end of thirty years standing that distinguish the great man the sum representing the first high and make him different from the smaller water mark has quadrupled itself, and genius. it is easy to reckon that the total amount "This breadth of sympathy and depth of royalties the Bayreuth house of Wag of understanding are the supreme quali ner received in the thirty years reached ,ties of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Wagner, a round $1,500,000 at least. Brahms and Mozart; but I doubt if they will be found in any other composer * * * though I am tempted to include the nam~ ERMANY has been practically the of Schu~ann. They certainly will not G only land of opportunity that Ethel b~ . found m the work of any living musi Smyth has found for her operas as yet, cIan. though it is true that her first work, "Let us examine the productions of a "Der Wald," was given a hearing at the Manager Camp anini, with the Latest Prima Donna to Join the Chicago-Philadelphia few of the most distinguished of modern Metropolitan during the Conried regime. Opera Company composers-Strauss, Reger, Debussy, The Berlin Royal Opera was the first in Bantock, Holbrooke, Elgar, Sibelius, Cleofonte Ca ~panini ha~ j ust made a nota bl.e a dditi0 r> to the Chicago-Phila delphia Opem Ravel, Stravinsky and the rest. In most stitution to produce "Der Wald" and the Coml?a ny,. a ccordmg to a dvlces fr om L ondon, m enga gmg a beautiful a nd talented young Leipsic Municipal Theater was the scene Spams h smger, SupervIa Conc hi ta, a m ezzo soprano, w h om Mr. Campa nini decla r es to b e a of these men we see nothing but a single of the premiere of the English woman real successor to Ca lve in tha t sh e w ill be a ble t o g ive a n ideal impersona tion of Carmen personality. Ravel is simply himself, he composer's second opera, "Strandrecho," ~e~~n~ ~ w singer is only ninet een y ea rs of age a nd is the daughter of a toreador from Ba r~ does not understand anyone else: he is or, as it is called in Eflglish, "The merely an exquisitely refined tempera Wreckers," which had aroused Arthur ment wholly engaged in self-expression. Nikisch's interest when the conductor graph thus describes Mr. de Lara's latest sell, the Swedish baritone, who now has Stravinsky and Sibelius are of the same saw the manuscript. work: a large following in Germany. type. The imagination of the former is Now Munich is going to give "The "He tells the story of Don Juan in A few days after the Stuttgart pre outre, extravagant and fantastic; that Wreckers" a trial, Baron Franckenstein, poetry, prose and music with the help of miere Director Hans Gregor will extend of the latter is romantic and picturesque, the Intendant-General, having accepted the cinematograph. On a terrace m a the hospitality of the Vienna Court but obsessed by visions of white lakes it, and there it will be heard at the Court park three ladies have dressed up in Opera to "Mona Lisa," and there Frau and dark pine forests. The one expresses Theater in February. Louis XV gowns. Their husbands and Jeritza will impersonate the lady with his own agile brain, the other expresses But Dr. Smyth has not permitted the a butterfly bachelor hover round them. the cryptic smile. The Hamburg Munici the Maeterlinckian romanticism of his ardors of the militant suffrage campaigns The husbands go off hunting, the bache pal Opera likewise has accepted the own country's scenery. Both are in with which she has been identified during lor goes off to catch butterflies and the novelty. dividual and curious and highly interest the past two or three years to hamper three ladies tell each other ghost stories. * * * ing, but neither is great. her creative activity., in proof of which Each met the evening before, in the IXTEEN performances of "music, "Elgar's genius is held in check by a a new work, this time an opera comique, park, a stranger who spoke such wonder S dance and mystic drama" are to be disagreeable refinement that is almost is announced from her pen.

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