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Detroit Grand Opera Association
Present.
The United States Opera Company
Andreas Dippel, General Director.
ORCHESTRA HALL
December Otis—Wagner'.
January 6th—W
Walkure" (I. German).
"Tristan and Isolde" (in German).
ORCHESTRA OF 65
Ernest Knoch. Conductor
Entire new production with unequalled modern stage lighting and scenic
effects.
January 30th—"Lis Noss. DI Figaro" In Italian.
February 17th—Smetana's "Prod... Nevasta" (The Bartered Bride) in Crech;
In the original Czech language.
March 27th—"Les Huguenots" in French.
April 14th—"Carmen" In French.
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Sunday Popular Concert.
Particularly rich in solos is the
program which Mr. Kolar has ar-
ranged for the popular concert which
will be given in Orchestra Hall at
3:30 this Sunday afternoon. There
will be two soloists—Madame Helen
Scholder-Perutz of Detroit, a most
admirable violoncellist, will be one
of them and the other will be Olive
Nevin, the very distinguished lyric so-
prano, both of whom are appearing
with the orchestra for the first time.
Madame Scholder-Perutz has had a
most distinguished career and the
fact that she has elected to make
Detroit her home adds greatly to the
musical wealth of this city, because
there are few 'cellists now before the
public that are her equal. Miss Olive
Nevin is a niece of Ethelbert Nevin,
who was one of the most individual
and most gifted of American com-
posers, and Miss Nevin has as a part
of her heritage the fine musical in-
stinct that characterized her uncle.
per cent discount on season tickets, 10 per cent discount on tickets for single
opera. Ito the value of ten times the membership).
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FOURTH PAIR SYMPHONY
CONCERTS NOV. 30, DEC. 1
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day evening and next Friday evening,
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, at 8:30 o'clock
because the soloist will be that su-
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The Rev. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough,
known as one of the ablest thinkers
and masterful orators in the city, will
address Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0.
B. B., at the meeting to be held this
Monday evening at the B'nai B'rith
clubrooms.
Dr. Hough was formerly president
of Northwestern University. Ile has
recenity returned from a tour of Eu-
rope and his message to Pisgah Lodge
is expected to be of the utmost im-
portance.
Program.
An audience of smaller size than
any other attending a "pop" concert
so far this season heard Victor Kolar
give a program on Sunday afternoon
of decided interest. For Raoul Vi-
but, it being the first time we have
das, voilin soloist, it was a local de-
been privileged to hear this artist per-
form. Mr. Vidas elected to play the
Saint-Saens "Concert Piece for Vio-
lin with Orchestra," and he gave it a
splendid performance. lie made his
violin speak with assurance, playing
always with full knowledge and taste,
his instrument giving unalloyed pleas-
ure to the audience. His auditors
were most demonstrative in their
signs of approval and Mr. Vidas was
brought back several times.
Mr. Kolar opened his program with
the overture to "Le Roi d' Ys," by
Lalo. The other numbers included
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from
"Dusk of the Gods," the allegretto
from Mahler's Second Sympony,
"Dance of the Nymphs and Satyre"
by George Schumann, and Siegfried
Och's "Humorous Variations on a
German Folk Song." The last with
its genuiqe humor made a hit and
the applatme following it indicated
the audience's real enjoyment of the
clever composition. Kolar's reading
of the Mahler number revealed new
beauties and was so superbly given
that after three recalls he summoned
to stand to share with him the insis-
tent applause.
BUY
FURS
Mrs. Julia Friedman, widow of the
late Louis DI. Friedman, died on Fri-
day, Nov. 19, at her home, 426 East
Hancock avenue, after a lingering
illness. Mrs. Friedman was the
daughter of the late Nathaniel Bur-
ton, pioneer resident, and lived in
Detroit all her life. She is survived
by one 8011, George Friedman, and
her sisters, Mrs. A. E. Rosengarten,
Mrs. A. Schlessinger, Mrs. Louis
Sneider, Mrs. Louis A. Goldberg and
Miss Rae Burton, and three grand-
children, Frederick, Burton and Louis
Morton Friedman. Burial took place
on Monday afternoon from the Ham-
ilton undertaking parlors, Rabbi A.
M. Ilershman officiating.
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For the third pair of subscription concerts given on Thursday and Fri-
day nights, Mr. Gabrilowitsch selected as the symphony Bethoven's superb
"Fifth." The assisting artist was Mme. Cahier, mezzo-soprano, who sang
two arias, Lia's aria from "I.' Enfant Prodigue" and the ever-popular "My
Ileart at Thy Sweet Voice," from "Samson and Delilah." She also con-
tributed a group of songs. The performance of the Beethoven Symphony
was not a particularly inspiring one and the spirit of Beethoven was not
there. It seemed as though Mr. Gabrilowitach was working under a physical
strain of some kind, and tempi throughout the entire symphony lagged.
His conducting of the Andante Movement, one of the greatest masterpieces
in all musical literature, was marked by a keen sense of poetic feeling and
refinement, but the orchestra was not at its best, and on several occasions
played quite noticeably out of tune. This was particularly true with the
flute section.
Wetzler's Overture to Shakespeare's "As You Like It," performed for
the first time in Detroit, was received with only cordial favor. It is a com-
position of no great significance. Victor Kolar stepped to the platform
to close the program with his own
composition, "Slavokian Rhapsody," MISS FRIEDA KLINK
which he conducted, and the audi-
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ence was not slow to show its wel-
come to the assistant conductor of
U. S. OPERA COMPANY
our orchestra. Mr. Kolar's reading
of his composition was superbly au-
thoritative and his mastery of the
Miss Frieda Klink, of New York,
extraordinary rythms a delight to the
who is to appear her with the United
ears, but as to the composition itself,
while it contained some interesting States Opera Company, was not al-
melodies and lots of orchestral color, ways a singer, although she always
it is not one of Mr. Kolar's best ef- hod the splendid contralto voice which
forts. The audience applauded vig- won her such great and emphatic suc-
orously to the conclusion of this new
addition to the repertory of the De- cess before she was twenty-five years
troit orchestra and Mr. Kolar was re- old.
called to the stage several times.
January, 1921, found her giving her
Mme. Cahier's singing was excellent first New York recital. It took place
and her singing of "My Heart at Thy
at
Aeolian Hall, and brought her a
Sweet Voice" was a signal for a
long list of complimentary criticisms,
burst of spontaneous applause.
couched not in the usual vague terms
with which a debutante is greeted, but
Raoul Vidas Presented at Third serious, earnest and highly favored
discussions of her art. The impres-
Sunday Afternoon Concert.
sion she made brought results at once.
The well known managerial firm of
Kolar Gives Interesting
OBITUARY
MRS. JULIA FRIEDMAN
The I.oyalty Winter Circua will ap-
pear in Detroit for a full week, at the
Armory, from Dec. 4 to 9. The 18 big
new acts will feature 60 circus stars.
- Every effort is being put forth and
no expense is saved to make this one
of the best shows ever staged at the
Armory. There will be two perform.
ances daily, afternoons at 2 p. m. and
evenings at 8 p. m. Tickets are now
on sale.
Nick Altrock, John Robinson's mili-
tary elephants and trained animals
will feature the acts. There will be
acrobatic comedies. Dogs, ponies and
monkies will appear in best acts of
their kind in this country. Miss Daisy
LeVan will appear in a .wining ladder
act, a thrilling performance. Circus
clowns, the best woman bare-back
rider and others, including entertain-
ing music, will be on the proram.
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MISS F.FIEDA KLINK
Haensel & Jon is sent for her and ar-
ranged to take are of her affairs. Her
most prominent engagement in New
York last spring was her appearance
as a soloist in Elgar's "Dream of Ger-
ontius," at the great spring festival
of the New York Oratorio Society
with Walter Damrosch conducting,
when she confirmed the fine impres-
sion made at her recital. There were
numerous other engagements, includ-
ing a recital in Indianapolis on May
20 which resulted in an immediate re-
engagement at that city, where she is
to open the annual course of the Mat-
inee Music Club on Nov. 9, this year.
She was also engaged as the contral-
to of the Collegiate Church of St.
Nicholas on Fifth avenue, one of the
best appointments in the metropolis.
Summer Sundays last July and Au-
gust did not find her idle either, for
she sang regularly at the Elberon
Memorial Church in Deal, an dwas al-
so engaged for one of the weekly con-
certs at Ocean Grove.
Strauss' "A Hero's Life."
Detroit is to have its first hearings
of Richard Strauss' tone-poem, "A
Ilero's Life," at the pair of symphony
concerts, Dec. 14 and 16. One of
the very few masterpieces of the last
half-century, epic in conception,
monumental in form, it, more than
any other works of Strauss, has stood
the test of time. •
For over 20 years mighty was the
battle which raged about Strauss and
his music. In violence, virulence and
vindictiveness it even surpassed the
warfare waged for and against the
music-dramas of Richard Wagner and
the victory for the younger man has
been hardly less notable than that
won by the elder. His earlier works,
"Don Juan," "Death and Transfigura-
tion" and "Till Eulenspiegel," had
gained comparatively quick favor
when he staggered conservatism by
undertaking in his "Thus Spake Za-
rathustra" to put into tone the phi.
losophy of Friederich Nieteche. Next
he laid irreverent hands on the an-
cient and holy form of the classicist,
"Theme and Variations," in order to
set forth in music the life and ad-
ventures of Don Quixote.
The roar of battle rose to a greater
fortissimo than even he ever secured
from his orchestra, yet he was not
satisfied. On March 3, 1899, in
Frankfort-on-Main, he conducted the
first performance of "A Hero's Life."
The war was renewed with unbeliev-
able fury. Oceans of ink were poured
from points of pens. First Germany,
then Austria, France, England and
America were swept by a barrage of
pamphlets, magazine and newspaper
articles until it seemed as if Strauss,
should he escape his enemies, must
surely be smothered by his friends.
That was less than 24 years ago
and although that battle was waged
vigorously for a few years after "A
Ilero's Life," today hardly the faint-
est rumble of it is heard. Strauss is
accepted as the predominant figure
in contemporary music and "A Hero's
Life" is in the repertory of all the
great orchestras of the world. Two
years ago it was played in New York
six times by the National Symphony
Orchestra, twice under the direction
of Artur Bodansky and four times
under Willem Mengelberg, to whom
Strauss dedicated the work. Last
year Mengelberg gave it four per-
formances with the Philharmonic Or-
chestra. So far as New York is con-
cerned, "A Hero's Life" is as popuar
as ■ "box office attraction" with the
public as Eschaikovsky's "Pathe-
tique." What better illustration of
how In music that which today is most
difficult to understand tomorrow will
be simplicity Itself. W. E. W.
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