Show REGINALD DE KOVENS BEST Red Feather Is a Masterpiece of Kelody The verdict of the audience which was decidedly a 1 musical one was that Red Feather Is Dc Kovcns masterpiece master-piece the hest thing he has accomplished accom-plished It is full of melody from beginning be-ginning to end at least half a cloz nor n-or the song being highly morltorloui Some of the ensemble numbers too are excellent while the choruses marches etc an full of spirit anti melody There Is nothing commonplace or dull about Red Feather which however Is wholly devoid of coavse ncrs It cannot be classed as comic opera It Is something higher < than that It possesscH all the csscntlaly l of a 10 mantlc opera and Is wanting In all the objectionable features which mar FO many of the light operas M I r de hover has proved himself a master craftsman full of resources and originality lie has handled lilt mutcrlalx most skil fully In a tow words spoken from the stage the composer declared that the libretto furnished by Mr Klein was stronger than any upon which he had ever constructed an opera A word should be said Just here about the brll liant setting the luxurious furnishings and the magnificent costumes Rarely l has1 any opera produced here exceeded Red Feather In the brilliancy and completeness of Its piesentation Courier Cou-rier The finishing of the triple monument of Haydn Mozart and Beethoven In the Thlergarten Berlin has been retarded re-tarded greatly because of a strike Therefore the exact date of the < completing com-pleting of the work cannot yet be fixed and there can be no question of the unveiling of the monument by the end of the present month as had oiiglnally been Intended At present the monument monu-ment committee which numbers among Its constituents men like Joachim and Genec are deliberating whether It Is not bottom to postpone the dedication until Iay and then hold In connection therewith a yprlng I > music festival a > > 0 Clarence Eddy the great American organist > from Chicago has Just come from Warsaw where the first Philharmonic m Philhar-monic concert in tin Polish capital lift performed the Enrico Bossl organ concerto con-certo with orchestra and met with considerable success as the translated criticism he showed testified Mr Eddy after visiting some of his old friends In Berlin among them Prof I Loeschhoin and Lep Godosky will go to Paris and thence proceed to Eng I land In order to 1111 a number of engagements en-gagements hooked for him by the Vert 1 I agency Afterward Mr Eddy Intends to return to Gods and hlo own native I country |