Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-08 | Page 12 | Music Notes

V r MUSIC I NOTES c r By B Stella P Paul ul Bradford with the Cooperation of Community Service erv- erv ice Icel Operatic ir reverberations re filled Nevark's New v forks arks ark's musical circles amid the run 1 r the Germany GErman company compan for tor during dur dur- ing ug that perIod the Metropolitan put Is II most up to date foot loot forward nth Ith the introduction of two novel novel- las Jes Franco Ill I'll Anima Allegra Allegro by and Mona Lisa b by Max Maxon Pon on Schillings While the Sn n had chosen hosEn these works as evi- evi tho th best of the new products In n and Germany respectively and nd ad had produced them with skill the rl rosult that while Amer Amer- lean cnn rs today are n not t cl creat- creat nit Ott operas oper of lasting worth neither Ith rare exceptions are th their lr European Eu Eu- The Italian work truck struck tr l the critics ns as being excellent opera and Gilbert W. W Gabriel of t the Sun remarked that it ought to have been titled sub-titled Donna 1 The high spot of at the theO Operas O ras charm was the delicate per per- of Lucretia Borl ion in the he Sending pad role The librettist of ot Mona rona Ua thau has endeavored endeavor d to to explain he baffling smile Amne of or the U lady In Inthe In Ine the le e Leonardo da Vinci portrait Barara Barara Barara Bar- Bar ara Kemp the German soprano vhO ihO made her American debut in inthe the he opera looked remarkably like the he famous painting Her acting In general pleased the critics more bail tI her hel singing An unequivocal hit lit was wu made by the other deBut deBut- lint nt lit Michael Bohnen the German j baritone who san sang nobly the role rolef tf t f Lisas Lisa's husband The plasticity af If r his was attributed by y some of ot th the critics to his mo- mo Ion picture experience In Germany The he h Schillings score did not receive re- re eh e a high rating from the reMany re- re Ifwers Many Salt Lakers Laker enjoyed the of Hillam who composed staged and directed the musical pro- pro Oh Gracious Me