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By HERMAN 110EXTER
London have at least a certain now, since she assumed her jet-black
vitality. ; the children dance to the shaytel. But even her brows are
barrel-organs not as if they were 'clack; as if her tameless will had de-
Richard Strauss' great tone-poem,
withered leaves jingling impotently on termined at least here to retain hold
the wind. The eastern suburbs, ,, f the body which had slipped so "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," had its
largely
from
its
control.
If
you
look-
first
performance in this city last
though they crowd and simmer like
insects under a log, are freshened by tal casually upon Nochum's fare and night under the anxious direction of
the continual passage of the Thames, his crushed body, you would say—an Ossip Gabrilowitsch, and, judging
and even their most intimate th6 ,1:1- insurance collector; perhaps a bank from the applause which greetedthe
ti6n is touched by a remote promise of clerk, the secretary of a Burial So- conductor and his men of the Detroit
the grimeless and tumbling sea. It is slaty. Because he never moved front Symphony Orchestra, made a favor-
on the northwest side that you will his mother's side, you would add— able but not profound itnpression
traverse long colonnades of aspidistras pensioned after humble and faithful upon the audience. Technically, this
to world's-end, it seems; here there service. But if you crosscut over to composition does not present any
is no river to tinge the air with the heaped book-shelves facing the greater difficulties to the musicians
scud; there is no such intolerable op- blank wall of paint, you would say— than those of his other tone-poems
pression here as declares—"I shall a scholar, this man, and of much previously heard at these concerts.
obvious writer,
shake myself, I shall burst my bonds. quaint wisdom. Here were stained Strauss is never the
indulge in abnormal
In I shall be free!" There is only folios of Kaballa and treatises on nor yet does he
magic
in
the
most
crabbed
of
Latin.
demands
of
range
and
pitch except
a forlorn complacency; the butcher's
specific purposes; and these
stock submit meekly to the inquisition Here was the grand array of Hebrew for very
plentifully
in
the
score. In at-
an
exist
of flies; the street lamps are content scholarship, commentaries f ro
to gutter and choke; even the skies Arabia and Spain and Venice. You tempting to put into tone his own
would
find
the
writings
of
the
philosophical
convictions,
this corn-
of April are timerous and subsided.
Geonim from Punibeditha and aura in poser was bound to meet with count-
Here live Mrs. Feingold and her Babylonia or Maimonides' commentary less classical barriers, and these he
son, Nochutn Feingold, at No. 47 on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. here did not hesitate to leap with a free-
Thatcher street, as it were upon a also were rare books in the early dam that is scornful of fetters as it
tiny Judaic island encompassed by mediaeval tongues, and all the panoply is defying of tradition. The greatest
the Gentile seas. All day and all of Provence here displayed. There instrumentalist of modern Germany,
year she sits upright on her high were hooks of herbs and sorceries he gave his imagination free reign in
chair, her feet never moving from and leisurely tortures and instruc. this masterpiece, which must needs
the padded stool—never moving be- lions for the battering down of tre- be heard repeatedly in order to com-
cause they cannot move. Neither do mendous cities. You would find the pletely understand the author's aims
her thin hands have traffic with
lives and loves of flowers, tales of and observe his remarkable manner
needles and wools, for these too were continents
older than Atlantis, of pre- I of attaining them. His scoring for
frozen many years ago into living Adamic people, of anthropophagi and , the woodwinds and brass seems al-
death. Her chair is placed at a cor- peoples and of anthropophagi and of most merciless and it demands great-
ner of the room so as to look to-
one-eyed, two-headed men. But fold. , rst virtuosity not to make the tones
wards a blank wall. Nochum had ing all these mysteries was the per- called for seem ridiculous. The per-
hung
three
or
four
pictures
on
once
petual benediction of poetry, the art., formance last night was not wholly
the space one morning before he had ful and artless Minnesinger, the Ito- flawless in this respect and it was
lifted her from her bed in the ad- man de la Rose, the troubadours of evident that the musicians themselves
joining room, carried her along the northern Italy, the grand Hebrew were a bit nervous. But in listening
lobby, and placed her in the chair. poetry of Jehudah Ile-Levi of Toledo to a composition of such huge dimen-
"Nochumel!" she had said, "these
sions as this Strauss' "Zarathustra,"
and Ibn Gabirol of Malaga, or, how the first idea of the auditor is con-
Boyish baby-things! It likes me not,
many cer tures before these, the cerned with so-called general mpress
i
pictures. What the above one said,
Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh.
thou host forgotten, yea? 'Thou
It was only then that you looked lions, which in this instance left much
shalt not worship graven images!" closet into the eyes of Nochum Fein- to be desired. The performance last
Iler lips closed and her eyes resumed. gold, and seeing the strange wild night was musical, but it lacked clar-
their wonted emptiness. For that things lurking there, you know him a ity, cohesion, and that insight which
dreamiest) vigil had been distracted, poet, though set at the heart of this all these polyphonic essays of Strauss
that uneventful vigil towards a sun- l'hilistian wilderness, and though not , call for in the conductor. There was
set only more barren than her noon . streams, not lyric leaves, not windy no deft weaving of themes, the vari-
Nochum had moved to the wall and clovers made music for him, but only our tempos lacked variety and the
taken meekly down the lady flutter- the gas-stove and the rag-man at the I climaxes were not built up or de-
veloped but fell quite naturally into
ing her kerchief from a tower of
grooves without undue effort or elas-
bronze, and the stream dappled by backyard door.. . •
ticity. This is not a composition that
willows and dawn, and that rose-lit
It is now evening, and he is at the "plays itself," but calls for the most
evening road curving through the
table before a litter of hooks and
hushed Hesperides. The pictures, scrawled papers. In the corner Mrs. I convincing authority on the part of ,
the leader. Perhaps
whose frames are warped and peeling, Feingold sits unmoving,
only at pre. Mr. I
and the glass cracked, now lie under else intervals declaring "Nochumel, witsch does not agree with all of the!
the packing boxes which collect in my evening milk!" and "Boiled fish Straussian convictions; at least that
the cavity below the first-floor stairs. for supper today, Nochumel! Boiled was the impression he left with me.
She rarely speaks. The thing most with onions and butter!" , Yet it was a treat to hear this meg-
"Yes, mother!" he replies, dis- nificent piece of music whose uplift-
vocal in that room is the gas-stove,
whose garrulity in winter is for missing from his obedient mind the m
, g power transcends that of many
Nochum the quality nearest to human love-torn gallant and the grove of , another pretentious composition of
companionship he has known for a cypresses or perhaps the pillar of I the kind we have heard here this win-
space of years. Summer, which else- fire uprearing before discouraged I ter. "Zarathustra" is surely whole-
where brings the persistence of sweet hosts. Reinmar von llsgenau, calm i some music, a powerful factor that
lards, brings silence only to Nochum, in his moth-eaten covers, or it may i argues well for longevity. Compared
for the gas-stove is quiet and the as- he the Diwan of Moses ben Ezra , with some of the Italian and English
bestos caverns are no more haunted calm in their moth-eaten covers, wait I compositions recently heard at Or-
with scarlet caps and the little peo- patiently till the fish is boiled, till 1 chestra Hall, the music of Strauss
ple. At last ,comes night, and the son has laid the last morsel in rests superior in substance and treat-
"Nochumel, it is my time for bed!" she his mother's mouth and wiped her , merit, and will doubtless arouse and
says; and he takes her once more to lips. Ile sits down once more to his I impress when the other scores have
that bed where she lies so still that woven magics. Some hours pass.. ceased to be heard.
the counterpane is hardly creased and Then suddenly, like a dry clock , • The concert began with an ingra-
the pillow is dinted in one place only. speaking, she exclaims, "Nochumel,, bating reading of Vivaldi's lovely
I Concerto in A minor for string or-
Nochuni is Nochumel to Mrs. Fein-
what art thou reading?"
gold, and has been Nochumel for over
"I'm just practicing the sedrah for chestra, arranged by the masterhand
fifty years. Ile too is small and thin, the week," he avows, his eyes blink- I of Sam Franko, who used to play
these interesting echoes of a lost mu-
and his hair is far more grey than ing uphappily at the lie.
Italy at his delightful concerts
"I am glad, Nochumel! Thou art , steal
in New York. The concert closed
a law(' boy '•"
with
an inconsequential trifle by
Or NochumFeingold may be em-
barked upon perilous seas, upon boats', Volkmar Andreae, a Swiss composer)
whose sails are wrought by lily petals and conductor. The Little Suite
and their masts of lily stems. See, shows no great originality but a deal
of clever knowledge of instrumenta-
we approach anchorage, and there the
i s tion, which exhausts itself in a search 1
thwart]
flute-song creeping
storm-beaten ears of sailors. What for novel effects.
The soloist was Madame Clara
queen
stands there
calling?
"Nochumel!
Read
then to me Clemens, wife of the distinguished 1
conductor of the orchestra. She es-I
from the sedrah!"
, rayed to sing the big mezzo-soprano 1
"At
"At once,
once, mutter?"
Nochumel! Dust thou' aria "Gerechter Gott" from Wagner's
forget what Rob Zcharyah used to "Rienzi," and later added a group
ube r t's "All- NB
say? 'at once, or the end of gollus of three song's,"Wi
A well chosen collection of
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mocha" Brahm's
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Come
then!"
But he not only reads poetry. Ile I Konigin" and Tschaikofsky's "In the
Midst of the Dance," piano songs m il
wrapped in appropriate colored
the last of the troubadours, this
is
little, ost man. He is a maker of : with special orchestral aceompani- ON
tissues and ribbons ready for
so
presentation.
t he sap ling- merits, which in this instance helped
poetry. of
l Often
curve
the moon he sings to tat- neither the songs nor the singer.
Clemens
is
a
sincere
artist
and
me.
whose lights band
W illdOWS
O l d ught
him over far hills and ambitious, but ambition should be
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f angry enemies made of sterner stuff than that which
ragas n
through
the
Tallies
to the high walls of his lady's garden Mme. Clemens possesses vocally.Nut
and the very foot of her t oxen The having it, there is no need to criticize
strings of his guitar twang among her well-intentioned performances.
Favors
the petals of the opened June. Is
New Pianist at the Capitol.
Table Decorations
there a little hand at the latch of the
window! Is there a hely head bends
Close to 4,000 people attended
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forward, listening?
I w i sh t hou each of the last two Sunday noon con-
ochumel
carts at the Capitol Theater to hear
"Really , N
wouldst not scratch , so hard with Eduard Werner and his orchestra of =
the pen. Not another new nil, thou 70 picked men in selections that have =
won the greatest popularity for these
host?"
Nervously
m then
he I delightful and instructive recitals, Ba,
" Y es,
his nib. "I must finish this' now in their third season. To be "—
changes,
BOOK SHOP
I sure, there was the added attraction
letter to the paperhangers!"
Yes, it is she! What new'' of Sascha Jacobsen at the former E.s.
37 Grand River East
and lovely things Khali he said about concert, and Chief Caupolican at the =
Main 3117
i her teeth? Has Solomon, 0 that last. Jacobsen is an admirable artist, =
prince of lovers, said them all? And a sound musician who wins and holds =
her cool arms? These antique forms his public without the aid of any fid-
of poetry . . . Thye are difficult . . . , dlesticks, while the Chieftain is with-
but ah, not for a poet! The more out any doubt
one of the finest bar!-
'
complicated my verse the more firm- tones off the operatic stage.
ly are her beauties netted in a golden
For next Sunday , April 6, Mr. Fa
net. Is the head withdrawing now ' Werner has again devised an excel-
Every Jewish House-
Is the lattice closing! I most sing lent program, minus the usual novelty
wife Should Use
louder, sweeter, to bring her once fox-trot. Mr. Werner has found that =
his public cares but little for the
more. Listen . . .!
"I have fear thou bast not told "Schlager," these jazz concoctions,
ss
me the truth, Nochumel! Thou court that lack originality as well as stem. a =_
Kosher
not have been writing to the paper- ins, and that fall hopelessly by the =
hangers all the time!" wayside when brought in after a lilt-
(Was there a man who betrayed I ing tune by Percy Grainger or an ef-
this woman once, and he loved pie- fective arrangement of a real folk
lures and poetry, loved them better _ong. Like the proverbial poor, jazz
s always with us, and it is a relief
perhaps than her? Who knows?)
Cleans and makes aluminum
"Oh, En, doing the weekly expenses to finish the concert without their
utensils like new.
now,
mother,
and
I'm
sure
they're
impoverished
and useless assistance. as,1
rolls
Each box contains Mx
more than they should be It must More strength to conductor and his —
of steel wool and ■ cake of
Ginsberg
the
butcher.
We
wont
discriminating
audiences.
,i'
be
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Sunday's program, which begins --.
have two chickns? It can't be!
Let me see or myself, Nochu- promptly at 12:30 noon, opens with
"Let
Other Rokeoch Household
the Triumphal March from "Aida,"
Products
met!"
not unprepared for
this and proceeds through the following =
Roliesch Kosher SsourIns
quietly
Ile is
Powder
shuffles,
emergency. He
i s "Evolution Ilandel's "Largo," Lake's
Roliesch Kosher Snap
among his paper s. He lifts one and "Evolution of Dixie," first introduced
walks with triumph towards I told'
the to the town by Mr. Werner at these
At all ',nary and hardware stow
gaunt woman. "See, mother,
, concerts; a symphonic setting of ,=
Dvorak's I..=
bends towards her and
I. ROKEACH & SONS, lac.
you!" lie
places his lips reassuringly on hers. I first
, Yradier's
"La
Paloma;"
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Slavonic
Dance,
and the overture I -=
(—=
to Thomas' "Mignon."
"I told you!"
And now once more for the moony
And, true to his promise to give as =
garden and the high tower. . • .
I many artists from the local ranks .,,,,
who are qualified to anpear with an —
orchestra an opportunity, Mr. Wer-
MO NTROSE STFtASBURGER ner introduces another Detroit pianist
DELEGATE
to the public next Sunday. He is -
APPOINTED
Henry A. I.ichtwardt, a graduate of 1.II
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Montrose Strashurger, formerly of the Conservatory of Music, where
Detroit, now assistant corporation Miss Elizabeth Johnson first de- El
counsel of the city of New York, was veloped his unusual talents. For the
appointed by President Benjamin last two years he has been studying
Althe
in Temple
several
European
cities, his artists
imer of
Beth El
as a
delegate to represent that congrega- , mentors including the veteran Sauer
Lion at the conference arranged byl and Gottfried Galston. Licht-
the Union of American Hebrew Con- , wardt will play the first movement
nations at Chicago. Mr. Strasburger I of Tschaikowsky's concerto in B
6 t. last fur the
is a brother of Mrs. Clarence n. Lng
(matured artist.
gess of Detroit.

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