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strange prophets of religious free-1 of the Jew. He says that the only
dom in their day and burned them people who possess a natural love
to the stake. The American busi- of music are Jews and gypsies.
ness man doesn't care to be both- Though this may be sweeping, when
ered by the vagaries and whims one remembers the negro and all
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
Being a Survey of the Jew In Music.
of genius. It is the Jew there- primitive peoples, one is aware of
fore who becomes the great im- the justice of the remark. Rach-
That the Coming Year Will Be One of
By PROFESSOR M. H. HEDGES
presario and exploits the musical maninoff speaks of the dirty-faced
genius. Recall Oscar Hammer- boys on Russian streets, who
Joy and Contentment is the Wish of
(Editor's Note:—Mr. Hedges, the author of "Iron City," is
stein. It is no accident that the showed remarkable talent. Always
a former professor of literature at Beloit College and a fre-
great impresarios are Jews, just the Jewish lads excelled, he said.
In the field of song, Rosa Raise,
quent contributor to the Nation and other national publica-
as the great producers, and the
tions. He has attained a wide reputation as a dramatic and
great publishers are Jews. The with her flawless technique and
soaring
majestic tones has been ac-
art critic. Ile is a non-Jew.)
Jewish business man likes to bet
on genius. Granted that he may claimed one of the greatest dra-
matic
sopranos
of the world. Sophie
Al Jolson was at the Metropoli- "sung in common by a multitude only have a commercial motive, Breslau is forging into recognition
tan. The Amateur Musical Critic tormented by destiny has as much still it would be a relief to see a as one of the leading singers of her
had been dragged thither by a value as a philosophy. It is not Rockefeller or a Gary turn to the time. Alma Gluck occupies a cer-
friend of his of the Jewish race. enough to cure the plague, we exploitation of genius.
place not only the artistic pen-
learn
to weep
for Perhaps
it. Yes, in This accounts for another link • !Cain
The Critic did not care to go. Ile must
we must
learn
to weep.
—
but in the hearts of the
was bored, he said, by black-faced
d
Co
mus - American people.
h, must
Production
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racial
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men and by jazz music. Then he that is the supreme wisdom. . lack
t
I dons — the teacher. T
Of the orchestra leaders Dam-
I There is something which for
ang- roach and Walter have perhaps the
heard Jolson sing "Mammy."
. i 1srael . Z most-
of a better name we will call the commanding
figure in
" The Melting
wit's melodrama
to enduring fa izi k e, . (r
"It's not what Joison sings, you 1
fe, which carries
of life Pot" is not the violinist, but the surest j claims
know," the Amateur Critic now 1 tragic sense of li
Jewish to composers,
concepti on given his be
it a whole
explains; with
ho
has
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has had
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he sings. It is the color, tone, itself and of the universe, a whole life to his pupils. I have heard He was the inspiration of Flotow,
philosophy more or less formu- that back in Russia there is living Rubinstein, Gounod, Halevy and
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plangency, passion, yes, mystery
of his voice that makes the quasi- lated, more or less conscious. And just such an old master who has Bizet, men far different from him
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this sense may be possessed, and is
his a credit
upbringing
of in manner and method. For nearly
negro music so appealing. And possessed, not only by individual to
many
great the
virtuoso.
The old
a century Jakob Liebman Beer
when I say color, tone, plangency,
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am not men but by whole peoples."
music masters stand by ready to dominated European musical life.
passion, mystery, I know I
This racial sense of tragedy is detect and then to develop the em- As composer of "Les Huguenots,"
saying what I mean. There are
indescribable properties in music what steals along the magic bows bryonic strains of genius in the "Robert le Diable," his fame is en-
boys of the neighborhood. during. Rubinstein, composer of the
as there are in sunset, and when of Zimbalist and Elman.
How full the Old Testament Is
So it comes about that the Jew- now famous The Massabeuns,"
Jolson sings Americanized jazz
you do not really hear the senti- with the misereres sung in com- ish people seem to have more than with its Jewish overtones, and
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their
share of musicians. It would Mendelssohn, with his deep end
mon
by
a
multitude.
I
have
an
ac-
mental words and the rhythm so
much as you hear the chant of quaintance who is a violinist in the be interesting if we could sweep passionate oratories, "Paulus" and
through
history and the present "Elias" were two converted Jews.
worshippers in the Temple of Le- Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He
banon. Jolson is eminently Jew- takes this view of Mischa Elman. and assemble this array of Jewish Offenbach and Halevy hold an
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"Ach," he exclaims, "Elman de- musicians in one great hall. Let's honorable place in French opera
ish when he sings. His voice is
rich in racial tones and over- serves no credit for his wonderful perform the mechanical feat of annals. Halevy'a "Manon Lescaut"
of Detroit.
performances. Ile is a genius. He listing the most prominent. and "La Juive,' with their charm-
tones."
Violin Virtuosi—Elman, Ho. ing music, and authentic sentiment,
Whether we accept this analysis never has to work. Ile makes the
of Jolson's appeal—and it may be fiddle laugh and cry at will. Take fetz, Zimbalist, Leopold Auer, Max and Offenbach's delicate and in-
one-sided—or not, we can readily Kubelik, he must slave, he must Rosen, Toscha Seidel, Mitnitzky, gratiating light operas are well
accept the statement that music is suffer, he must work in cold rooms Max Bendix, Sascha Jacobson, Pil- known by music lovers. Offenbach's
racial. Music rests more upon the 20 hours today to master his won- zer, Samuel Gardner, Erika Mo- "Orphee aux Enters" ran for three
consecutive nights, on its
unconscious than other fine arts, derful technique. But Elman, he rini, Alice Liebermann, Erna Ru- hundred
appearance and his "La Grand
and we know that races of little na- just Plays."
benstein and Kreisler.
Duchesses" is accorded a secure
Just
plays.
The
racial
soul
tional experience, say the Amefi-
Great Pianists—Leopold Godow- place
, ace among works of its type.
can race, if there be such a thing, speaks and sings through the sky, Mischa Levitsky, Leo Orn-
In this bare catalogue of the
does not excel in music. If Amer- strings. But first it must be re- stein, Moritz Rosenthal, Fanny achievements of the Jew in a field
ica has a characteristic music, it leased by the wizard fingers of the Zeisler, Mark Hambourg, Emil where his native talents find na-
is borrowed from the Indian as of master.
There is another reason why it Sauer, Arthur Rubinstein, Beryl tural scope, little has been said of
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Rubinstein, Harold Bauer, Ignatz cantors and their art. The writer
Foster, or from the Argentinians always seemed to me that the Jew Friedman and others. confesses little familiarity with this
as of Irving Berlin. The ancient excels in music. It is his accept-
Singing Artists—Alma Gluck, branch of the art. He is certain,
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negro race complains of oppres- ance as natural of the demoniac Sophie Breslau, Frieda Hempel, however, that it is the most charac-
sion and thwarted aspirations in nature of genius. From New Rosa Raise and Matzenauer among teristic of this versatile race. The
all the songs it utters. And Jew- York's East Side and from Sixth
i ish music is rich in prophecy, dig- avenue north in Minneapolis a the women, and Baklahoff, Jadlow- majestic, full-toned, elevated music
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ker, Rosenblatt and Rimini among of the syynagogue overflows into
nity, religiousity, and tragic with first-rate musical genius may come
other forms. It suggests the psalms
the men.
the note of frustrated spirituality. any day from the humblest ous-
Orchestral Masters--Damrosch, of David with their great flights of
t have recently been reading soundings. The Jews somehow ex- Bodansky, Stransky, Gabrilowitsch are deep, passionate religious—the
"The Tragic Sense of Life," by pert it. They are not surprised and Bruno Walter. eloquence and noble cadences. The
Unamuno, a Basque. Ile asserts when the boy who sold them meat
Composers—Anaton Rubenstein, contribution of a contemplative peo-
that certain peoples utter the over the counter, or handed them Felix Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Of- pie to the world's wealth of feeling.
trgic
in
life
and
he
defines
tragic
the
evening
paper
turns
out
to
be
fenbach, Rubin Goldmark, Jacques In a survey of this kind, I find
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as the eternal inner strife between touched with the fire that Promo- Halvey, Edward Solomon and Max myself face to face with a never-
faith and doubt, between eager theus stole from heaven, and Brach. ending mystery—the mystery of
confidence in immortal life and knows how to 'burn up" the
What golden hours we could racial genius. I have conned it over
despair of man's mortality. It is strings. The Jews are used to spend listening to the compositions and over, and have often discussed
significant that it was the Jew who genius. Americans, for instance, of these masters rendered by these it with my friend. Whence conies
gave us the religion of the im- are not. The American business virtuosi. Take Gluck and her hus - this strange combination of artistic
mortal life. man, to go a step farther, seems to band, Zimbalist alone. Let them genius and practical power which
"The chief test of the sanctity fear genius. He doesn't back it. render a romantic death song like the Jew manifests? Some say, per-
of a temple is that it is a place to He stands in awe of it; or he be- Massenet's Elegie and it would secution. I prefer to think of it as
which men go to weep in common little it; or he exiles it, jst as his seem that the very pinnacle of a gift of right living. The genius
A miserere," reiterates Unamuno, Puritan forefathers attacked the poetic pain had been reached. of the Jew on its elevated side is
Warmth, magnificent cadence, ethical and religious. Art and re-
poignant coloring—these mark the ligion spring from the same uncon-
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Of the violinists I suppose El-
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man is the most spontaneous and
the most popular. We have al
Consolation is one of the things
ready commented upon his eccen•
tric genius; it is as startling as a which bring happiness to man. (At-.
rainbow. I heard Kreisler several R. N. Ed. Sch. 89.)
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is the very picture of the great 3 Why great—is not all mourn-
artist, commanding, detached, with ing mourning?
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an awful power of concentration But it means that every mourn-
on drawing tones from cat-gut and ing is lessened by some consolation,
rosewood. To many, he is count- e. g., one who loses a son may be
ed as superior to Ehnen and im• consoled with the thought that he
balist because of his detachment. has other children; one who has not
But for the rendition of romantic other children may be consoled with
the thought of his own longevity;
music, give me Ehnen.
We all know with what amaze- but in this case, where all the Jews
ment Erika Morini was received in faced destruction, it was called a
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Minneapolis last winter. This child great mourning. (Est. B v.)
New Year.
of the elves astonished seasoned
If you have nothing to give to the
concert goers by her brilliant dis-
poor, comfort them with words.
play of virtuosity.
(I.ev.
R. xxxiv 15.)
Leopold Auer was not only a mas-
ter in his own right, of the very
Pharaoh
will never be comforted
first water, he W11 s also a maker of
great violinists. Ile is the aesthetic until he sees God and his host de-
stroyed,
as
it says: "These shall
god-father of /tenets, Elman, Zim-
and shall be com-
balist, Rosen and Seidel. Auer was Pharaoh see
forted,"
etc.
(Eck. xxxii 31; Ex. R.
born in Hungary in 1845, and was
educated at the conservatory of xxx 13.)
Vienna and Budapest. He was musi-
Rabid Hanan said "Wine was
WillaVIAW4NWIMOkliNNIMIi.%• • ■ ••%Vio ■ cal conductor at Duesseldorf, and
created only for the purpose of con-
A•1111=1151111211PRIMIN RIONIMPOININOMMIIIMININUNIM 7, professor at Petrograd Conserva- soling mourners, and to reward the
tory.
He
composed
"Tarantelle
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When Elman was four years old, said : 'Gi ve strong drink unto him
Auer discovered him and won per- that is ready to perish (i. e., the
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mission front the czar to tiring the wicked), and wine unto the bitter
child to Petrograd. Ile made his of soul (i. e., the mourner): "
from
debut here in 1904, and since that (Sank. 70a).
memorable hour has electrified au-
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diences in every capital of the
and Prosperous New Year.
western world. Elman is now 31
A wide defect of our civilization
years old.
Ileifetz, his junior by eight is its emphasis of material magni-
years, also showed remarkable tal- tude above moral proportions. We
ent at a tender age. He gave re- point to our speed in transportation
citals before he was five, made his and communication, and to the di-
debut at six, graduated from the mension of our sky-scraping struc-
Imperial Music School at seven and tures as symbols of our greatness.
attained national fame in Russia In truth these betray our littleness
because they are not paralleled
at ten.
The case of Ileifetz as the case with proportional moral realization
of the child-wonder, Erna Rubin- and spiritual growth.—The Sup-
stein, are but illustrations of our plement.
thesis that the Jew is the salient
example of the expression of the
unconscious. These children dis-
play the uncanny technique of mas-
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Born in Russia in 1889, Zimbal-
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