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to get abroad that he intended making a Play Beethoven Triple Concerto big tour. On Sunday Busoni played at The Chaigneau Trio distinguished it "BRA VOS" FOR BUSONI IN PARIS the Conservatoire concert one of the self at the first of its most important se lesser known Saint-Saens concertos. ries of concerts at the Salle des Agricul Favorite Pianist Astonishes Recital Hearers with Rhythmic Eccen For the first time in his career Claude teurs, when the work of greatest interest Debussy will appear at a concert as an proyed to be the Beethoven Triple Con tricities, but Has Average of Nine RecallS-Per Group-Violinist accompanist next month on February 5, certo, which is rarely heard in France, when the privileged soloist will be Ar although it enjoys popularity in Ger Hartmann Lures Hermit Debussy from Seclusion to Act as His thur Hartmann, the well-known violinist. many. The nicety of phrasing and It is no longer any secret that the cele beauty of rhythm with which it was Accompanist-Composer Modest as to His Ability as Pianist brated composer's admiration for the treated by the Chaigneaus made a pro Hungarian~American virtuoso is in found impression, and the trio was ad tensely enthusiastic. But Parisians will mirably supported by the orchestra, con Bureau of Musical America, Busoni is giving three recitals in Paris almost now be inclined to look upon Ar ducted by Camille Chevillard, who also 17 Avenue Nlel, ParJs, and it is remarkable that the works of thur Hartmann as something more than gave a capital reading of the Mozart A .January 23, 1914. Liszt figure prominently upon each of his human. Debussy's reputation as one of Major Symphony. Mme. Auguez de programs. . On Friday Busoni played the most modest and shy of men, who HE event of the week has been the Montalent sang with great purity of tone and diction "AdelaIde" and some Gluck T recital given by Ferruccio Busoni arias. A concerto for strings by Dall at the Salle Erard, which attracted a Abaco was accorded its first hearing. large and unusually musicianly audience. George E. Shea has been conducting Busoni is probably the favorite pianist rehearsals of a vocal quartet for the Cinephone Company, which have per of Parisians. The enthusiasm for him fected a new method of synchronizing the on Friday evening might be described as cinematograph with the gramophone. one continuous roar of applause, for The singers, Kathleen Vierke, soprano; there was no opportunity for spasmodic Mme. Breckel, contralto; Mr. Protheroe, tenor, and Richard Bunn, bass, are at outbursts. The intervals between the present working on "The Mikado" and pieces forming the groups on the veteran "The Gondoliers" and the ordeal of mak pianist's program were entirely filled by ing the records for the former was suc handclapping and cheering on the part cessfully surmounted on Wednesday. of those present, and even when away Therese Stengel, a gifted mezzo-so prano pupil of Charles W. Clark, was from the piano M. Busoni was never al the singer at the twelfth concert given lowed a moment's rest, being recalled on by the Double Quintette de Paris at the an average eight or nine times on every Salle Gaveau. She was heard in liede1' occasion that he quitted the instrument. by Brahms, Rameau, Faure and Richard Strauss, her voice telling effectively in When he had a_cknowledged the bravos each song. Mlle. Ida Stengel accom of the audience for the ninth time it was panied her sister. Theodore Dubois's time for him to begin his next group. quintet for piano, violin, haubois, viola It was interesting to note the large and 'cello, and the Schumann string number of prominent pianists of many quartet were given by the organizers of nationalities, including numerous Amer this series of concerts. icans, who attended the recital. There are glowing reports of the pro Several people were compelled to leave duction of "Parsifal" at the Municipal the concert hall on account of the dis Opera House of Marseilles, and it is said graceful atmosphere (meteorologically) that despite the obvious limitations of a prevailing. The late Mme. Erard had a provincial stage the "opera a la mode" clause in her will which permits pianists has been mounted there with taste and to give concerts in the Salle of that name judgment second to none. M. Altchevsky without any charge. This is what the was "the pure and simple one," and pho French admirably style a "beau geste." tographs of him in the first scene show It is a pity that the surviving kith and him attired in the conventional bearskin kin of Mme. Erard do not take a little and his nether limbs encased in what ap more interest in this splendid legacy to pear to be perilously like football stock pianists and provide proper ventilation ings and boots (the climate is evidently in the hall, in which the pianists' ad not so mild as usual this year in .the mirers are compelled to endure partial South). Mlle. Beral sang Kundry, M. asphyxiation whenever it is comfortably Vallier was the Gurnemanz, M. Selliel' filled. impersonated Am/orDas and M. Imbert Klingsor. M. Rey conducted. EOOUARO Defe"red M10nte Carlo "Parsifal" After having his last year's '~Parsifal" production stopped by law, prompted by Cosima Wagner, Raoul Gunsbourg, the Monte Carlo Opera director, nothing DERESZKE 1914 daunted, has just opened his season 9 rue du Oene~al Appert, PARIS with the work. The cast is a remarkable one, including the names of many who were to have taken part in M.· Astruc's version. . M. Rousseliere, as Parsifa.l; Mme. Felia Litvinne, as Kundry; M. SHEA Journet, as Gurnemanz; M. Maguenat, Voice, Perfect French and Style Domestic Glimpse of Arthur Hartmann, the Violinist, and Gregory -Hartmann, as Am/ortas, M. Bourbon, as Kling The first American man to His Son sor, and M. Leon Jehin in the conductor's SIDg In opera In France chair all helped to make the Monte Carlo Write for Treatise "pure fool" story successful. The man with superb majesty the only sonata that abhors any semblance to footlight fame, ner in which the members of the com IS RUE GOUNOD • • PARIS Liszt wrote for the piano. He rose to is such household knowledge that the pany worked together, no one seeking to even greater heights of interpretative men in the street will certainly flock to shine to the detriment of another is said skill in Beethoven's "Six Bagatelles," but this Hartmann concert to catch a glimpse to have been a notable feature of the pro DESIDER JOSEF what acute mental vibrations he aroused of the genius who has drawn the hermit duction. by the playing of his own setting of four from his seclusion. M. J ournet, the Gurnemanz, has been Bach preludes to choral motifs! Finally On the program will figure three tran singing Klingsor in the Paris "Parsifal," VECSEI Busoni gave the twelve Chopin studies, scriptions for violin by Hartmann of in which his performance rises above the HUNGARIAN PIANIST playing them in strict defiance of all Debussy, "II pleure dans mon cCEur," other members of the cast with the ex % uM1l.icaJ Americ." French tradition. His rhythmical eccen "Minstrels" and "La fille aux cheveux ception of M. Delmas, and it is gratify 17 Avenue Niel, PARIS tricities caused many to gasp, but the de lin," the first named being an adapta ing to note that he was accorded a more most astonished of the listeners forgave tion from a song, and the two latter from important role at Monte Carlo. No less Busoni all because, whatever prejudices pianoforte pieces. When Debussy heard than six new operas are to be given in might be urged against certain of his these transcriptions for the first time he that principality during the season: Mas ideas, they had never heard a more bril declared: "They are better like that than senet's last work, "Cleopatra"; Bem liant interpretation of this difficult group. as I wrote them." It was also the com berg's "Lelia," "The Legend of Death," Regina De Sales Busoni was actually nervous in many of poser's desire to play a sonata with by the young Russian composer, Mousi the studies, repeatedly striking wrong Hartmann, but, supremely modest as to kant; "I Mori di Valencia," by Ponchi TEACHER OF SINCINC notes. His tempo in the well-known ar his own ability as a pianist, he doubted elli; De Buffin's "Kaatje," and Mes In Paris All Summer peggio etude practically converted the whether it would be possible to find any- sager's "Beatrice." Pupils prepared for . Opera, Oratorio, ConeeU work into a mazurka. thing easy enough. . 40 Rue de Villejust (Ave. du Bois de Bologne), Paris "Do you know the 'Undine' Sonata by Mignon Nevada in England Busonl in Our Chief Cities Rheinacher?" he at length queried of the Mignon Nevada has left Paris for I had a few words with Busoni after violinist. "Go and buy a copy of it. It's England, where she will make a concert ward, but at the mention of the word in a beauty; I haven't heard it for thirty tour, visiting in turn Hull, Middles-' terview he beat a hasty retreat. He years, but I think it would do." When borough,. Huddersfield and Manchester. DELMA-HEIDE looked very fatigued, but before leaving the copy had been duly purchased, how Mrs. C. W. Best, of Best's Artist Course, 30, Rue Marbeuf (Cbamps-Elysees), Paris for his . well-earned repose declared that ever, the composer cast it aside with a Chicago, is in Paris for the purpose of dl Bel he had practically concluded arrange sigh as "too difficult," although Hart engaging artists for the company's next Maestro Canto Italiano ments for playing in New York, Boston mann gives assurance that Debussy is a tour in Illinois, beginning September Prepares Singers for Opera and Concert in and Chicago next year. He added, how master pianist. Finally the Grieg So next, when a specialty will be made of Italian, French, German and English ever, that he did not wish the impression nata in: G minor was decided upon. Russian music. C. PHILLIPS VIERKE,
ALYS LORRAINE:. American Prima Donna Soprano PARIS GRAND OPERA Repertoire In French, German and Italian ARTHUR ALEXANDER Available February, 1914 14, 31 BOUI.EVARD HAUSSMANN, PARIS RUE RAYNOUARD, PARIS •