May 22, 1915 MUSICAL AMERICA 11 soons, four horns, two trumpets; three baritones, full percussion, one harp and · usual strings. Quite a modest orchestra for Mr. Holbrooke! But it must be re­ membered that the whole production ECHOES OF MUSHC ABROAD will, no doubt, go on a big. tour, and a huge orchestra is out of the question, and besides, Mr. Holbrooke only uses a Mary Garden Announces That She Will Make Propaganda for Delius in This Country Next Season large orchestra, when it is absolutely - Joseph Holbrooke Breaks Away from the Gloom of His Music Dramas in Opera Ballet necessary to fill in with his own ideas. In this case the 'book' does not call for He Has Composed for Pavlowa-Prominent English Critic Hopes to See "A New Sense of treatment on a vast scale, and so only a modest band is used. the Emotional Solidarity of Mankind" in Music After the War-Ysaye Plays at a London "Mr. Holbrooke's operas have never had a chance in this country. In America Concert-German Language Heard at Budapest Opera Again After Many Years- "Parsifal" neither expense nor pains will be spared Sung in Danish in Copenhagen for First Time- Armand Crabbe Now in Florence in the mounting of his work, and it will be entirely his own fault if it does not attract. It may be recollected that Elgar came to us via Dusseldorf; will EXT season Frederick Deli us, the is a success it will be taken on an ex­ view, to be quite above the usual kind Holbrooke come to us via New York?" N much-discussed British composer, tended tour of the country. of libretto upon which composers have is going to have a self-constituted pro­ As for the plot of the "opera ballet," to base operas. HE Irish composer,* * •Herbert· Hughes, pagandist in this country, and it is none it deals with a struggle for mastery be­ "Mr. Holbrooke's music is most in­ T who is known especially for his other than Mary Garden that is going tween the Powers of Darkness and the teresting and reveals his infatuation effective arrangements of Irish folk­ to see to it that he is brought to the songs, has "joined the colors." F or sev­ attention of the American public as he eral weeks now he has been in Dublin has never been heretofore. in the khaki of the Artists' Rifles. "Delius is a revelation to me," said "There used· to be great music on Sun­ the Scottish-American singing actress to day evenings in Herbert Hughes's a London interviewer the other day. Chelsea studio," observes the London "His works bear the stamp of genius. Daily Sketch, "but the gatherings grew I am booked up for · twenty important 'khakier and khakier,' as a woman mem­ concerts in America, and I shall see that ber of the· circle put it, and now they the compositions of Delius have a promi­ have come to an end.'' nent place on my programs. If the British public and those whose business * * * it is to attend to matters musical have RENCH music is still suffering in not brought Delius into prominence then F all sorts of ways from 1870, says someone is to blame." the English critic, Ernest Newman. "It Miss Garden's London agents have is so small because it is so bent on being announced that all her available dates exclusively French. By its refusal to are booked until April, 1916, after fertilize itself with the Great German which time she may again visit England. tradition it qeliberately cuts itself off from permanent spiritual elements in * * * that tradition which would give a wider ORSAKING the gloom of "The Chil- range and a deeper tradition. The Ger­ F dren of Don" and "Dylan," Joseph man tradition in its turr. would be all Holbrooke appears to have been led into the better for ·some cross-fertilization new channels by the subject of the from modern France. * * * We can opera ballet" he was commissioned a only hope that tpe result of the war will few months ago to wi·ite for Anna Pav­ not be a perpetuation of old racial lowa and has now completed. The hatreds and distrusts, but a new sense of libretto of "The Enchanted Garden," as the emotional solidarity of mankind.'' the novelty is to be called, is the work of Douglas Malloch, described as "a WO Easter performances* * * of "Par- lumberman, as well as a poet of re­ T . sifal" at the Vienna Court Opera nown in America." gave Frieda Langendorff, who is well The characters of "The Enchanted known here, further opportunities to Garden," the scene of which is laid in make a success as Kund1-y, a · role in "a mediaeval kingdom of Central which she has distinguished herself in Europe," are: Blackheart, the Wizard­ several German cities. baritone; Princess Patricia, made mute Armand Crabbe, the Belgian baritone, and imprisoned by enchantment­ of the Manhattan and Chicago com­ dancer; P1·incess Mm-ia, Patricia's elder panies, is now singing at the Politeama sister, imprisoned by enchantment but in Florence. There as Mefistofele in not mute-soprano; P1·ince A1·thur, an Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust" he has adventurous Prince, who loves Ma?-iar-­ repeated the successes he had wo!l earlier tenor, of course; Oswald, Prince Arthur's in the season at La Scala in Milan. companion, who loves Patn:cia--dancer; Carmen Melis has been appearing in King Johann, father of A1·thu1·-bass; " The Girl of the Golden West" in Cag­ the King's Jeste1·, the King's Ministe1·, liari, and Tina di Angelo in Wolf-Fer­ and Kasper, the Magician. rari's "Donne Curiose" and as Laura in It was after the production of his "La Gioconda" at the San Carlo in "Dylan" at Drury Lane last Summer Naples. that Mr. Holbrooke was commissioned to Umberto Macnez, the tenor, of a re­ provide the music. At the end of August cent season at the Metropolitan, sang he set to work on it at his bungalow near in a recent performance of Rossini's Tanygrisian in the Welsh Mountains. "Stabat Mater" conducted by Mancinelli ·The sketches for the first two acts were in Rome. finished by September 25, and those for the last act, by October 1. The vocal E PRESENTING* * *Belgi um Eugene score was completed just before Christ­ R Ysaye, who has been living quietly mas. The orchestra score, it seems, is Joseph Holbrooke not far from London since his escape now almost ready, but it cannot be en­ Joseph Holbrooke is known as one of the most pronouncedly individua l of England's tirely finished until the composer has creative musicians. His "Children of Don" w a s ,produced by Osca r H a mmerstein at the [ Continu ed on nex t page] London Opera House, and his "Dyla n," the s econd work of the trilogy, a t Drury Lane, by consulted with the producers. For this Sir Joseph Beecha m, la st Summer, but neither work m a de a n immedia te a ppeal to the purpose he is to reach New York this public. Mr. Holbrooke ha s now completed an opera ba1let, "The Encha nted Ga rden," for month and go to San Francisco, there to Mme. Pavlowa, and will arrive here this' mon th to conduct rehear sals with the Russian da ncer's compa ny during the Summer in prepara tion for the ,p r e mi~r e of the work at the MARGARET meet Mme. Pavlowa. Rehearsals are to Century Opet· a House next October . begin at once under his direction and to be continued during the Russian dancer's Powers of Light. It has its comic as with the libretto," says a writer in the tour of California. well as its tragic moments and may be Musical Standard. "It breaks new H Then early in October "The Enchanted regarded as a rather heavy type of ground, so far as the composer of 'The Garden" · is to have its world premiere opem bouffe. The poem is said to be Children of Don' and 'Dylan' is con­ in New York at the Century Opera highly suitable for a musical setting, cerned, but bears some comparison to E: House, the composer conducting. If it and, judged from a dramatic point of 'Pieri:ot and Pierrette.' The dance music (notably the 'Dance of Passion' for Pat1-icia in the last act) is wonderful. L Owing to Mme. Pavlowa's dislike for the modem Russian ballet (that is, the ro­ ZOELLNER-- mantic school of dance, and her pat­ L ronage of the classic ballet, Mr. Hol­ _brooke has had rather a limited scope for QUA R T ·E·T dance music, but he has, nevertheless, A managed to give this portion of the work OVER 100 CONCERTS TOUR 1915-16 a touch of striking originality. The choral writing is also remarkable, and R THE PAST SEASON NOW BOOKING the final chorus worked up to a mighty HARRY CULBERTSON, Fine Arts Building, CHICACO climax. 'Joy! Joy! Joy! The dark en­ SOPRANO " " chantment vanishes!' is a thing of sheer beauty. It should here be stated that COSTUME in the opera ballet the ballet is just as important as the opera and vice versa, RECITALS ELIZABETH and that this is the first work of its kind SEASON from the pen of a British musician. The 1915-1916 long prelude is another important fea­ ture of a work that is a triumph for one NOW BOOKING of the foremost of living British com­ SPENCER ADDRESS posers.