PIEVenton;jovisn[llt0241Cill PAGE T'WE'LVE 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 h uc 1 n of t e racial ' l pro I h . . 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 Pi Q ii' e esrts ' influence. - lw t has had ° t 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 QUALITY WORK 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 Phones, Cadillac 5169-5170 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, 567 Beacon Street 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 Is?c') C7 S7 S7 575757525 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 A Happy New Year to the Jewish Community "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 2035 , 36 DIME BANK BUILDING Cadman, or from the negro as of 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, Cadillac 2148. 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 C-] CZ Ca LI C-] 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 New Year's Greetings. 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- ICIVICISISWils1sWA W CIalSWSWIMAWCIala%WaSet lMWSIMICISS work of these artists. scions impulses. Of the violinists I suppose El- CONSOLATION 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.) Complete Financing Service. t i f itee n h ept ha t id. e in d S att. i t , ..ou tiiis svii niter ecaerns barred "There was great mourning lion of the American Legion. Ile among the Jews," etc. (Esther iv ■ 9144 LINWOOD AVENUE , ) is the very picture of the great 3 Why great—is not all mourn- artist, commanding, detached, with ing mourning? Euclid 2653 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 Wishing All My Jewish Friends a Very Happy 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 de CADILLAC 4147 2137 RIVARD ST. Concert" and "Rhapsodic Hon- wicked in this world for whatever good they may have done, as it is groise." 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 GREETINGS 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- A DEFECT 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- Season's Greetings. ters. Whence came their genius! Born in Russia in 1889, Zimbal- 824 BOOK BUILDING ist was also a pupil of Auer's at Petrograd. Besides rare attain- Cadillac 9280 ment as a virtuoso, he is a scholar of eminence, the author of a book i. on the theory of violin art. 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