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Show Latest News From Music's Realm . FLONZALEY QUARTET HEARD IN SUPERB ' CHAABER MUSIC Recent successful recording of tills form of musical art elves rdded evidence of Victor Supremacy rAJVrl " ' V HE F 1 o n t a fe y SJUpMfji NRVj Quartet Is an or- Wf"S Jm ganiiation abso- V 1 tt t c 1 y unique. IV, A-i Tor fifteen years ML&J :'.s members have PBf1 ")cen associated, MRanA3 and their liar- llBSFBlim tnony ot citorc rrliHttBH) nas Biven a rau- NyVSiaX tuallty of pur- IliCBKicMLW Pso which finds UsStDSu expression in fttX.l!vVW$3V musical intcrpre-K intcrpre-K "! n tations of a high' IV .A&sHsiBr order.. In fact, Kyr'y the Flomaley. m Quartet is with- out a rival in its pedal field. The string quartet two violins, viola and 'cello II regarded by many as the highest form of Instrumental music. The four instruments have each their own Individuality! yet they blend together to-gether with a perfect homogeneity of tone. The Floazalej! Quartet was founded la tooj bx Mr. E. J. de Capper, a Swiss-America millionaire, and was named "Flomaley" after his residence en Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Through his support the Quartet was enabled to foUow a rigid devotion to the cultivation cultiva-tion of chamber musio, and ultimatelyi to become independent. It is only natural that the worK of such artists should seek preservation on Vlctrola Records. Difficulties, however, how-ever, sulked in the way of perfect reproduction, re-production, but Victor mastery eventu. ally overcame them and now gives chamber musio to the world in lasting form. The Introductory numbec the Flon saley Quartet hat chosen for a Vlctrola Record just issued is the "Canzonetta from Mendelssohn's well-known Quartet Quar-tet In E Flat. . i f'K very timely and Inspiring orchestra or-chestra number Is VlctOfl Herbert's ''American F a n-taslo" n-taslo" played hy JVictofl Herbert's Orchestra on a Victor Record just issued. The fan-tasie fan-tasie is a brilliant piece of musicianship. musician-ship. A ma'gnifi-cient ma'gnifi-cient Introductory movement leads to a full orchestral presentation of 'Hail Columbia," and there follows ,. - such soul-thrilling airs as "The Old Folks at Home." "The Girl I Left Behind Me," "llixle." "Columbia "Col-umbia the Gem of the Octan." With tie c'd (.' '.''a rr'o"l i---ur--'i at". a ttriss;, P:.s.cla, c'-so ::Jfa terprctativc value Is given these familiar famil-iar tunc. Finally the rumbcr reaches n splendid crescendo of growing orchestral or-chestral forces in a strong presentation of "The Star Spangled Banner." ffoaf of tho hour and of war.. Billy Murray rolls off one of his Inimitable In-imitable Irish songs on a new Victor Record "They Were All Out of Step But Jim." A doting mother saw her Jimmy on parade, "as still as starch, and Just like his father on the seventeenth seven-teenth of March" ; and she fondly gives expression to her thoughts. On the reverse of the record "Sailor" Rellly sings of how "We're All Going Calling On the Kaiser to fit him with a wooden kimono." This Navy man has a strong voice and enunciates enun-ciates clearly. His singing has brought in many recruits and much money tor war service The Peerless Quartet presents a song on a Victor Record this month that we are all willing to echo "We'll Do Our Share (While You're Over There)." It is a promise made in abetter from a mother to her son. She writes to her boy in France, telling how much she would like to be with him to shoulder his troubles for him as she did in the early days, but that she is doing all she can at home. A sort of return messajs is fourfd on the other aide of the record; In "Cheer Vp, Fathers Cheer Up, Mother" In words of comfort from a soldier boy in France to tho folks at home. 'It is ef- , fectively sung by Lewis JamesT With all the ' Z t.. - wing and tune- .IBHtfKgSgaaHfl a popu- H . Jar song, ut- H Merly devoid of the! iiiiiiiiiiBrsiiB commonplace is a !LJsH . presentation by gtHVBI flH Mhbel Garrison iiiiiiKi'''&2-B on a new Victrola H&Oft'H ' Record. "Khaki HksTJI is a tVHifVsjH . v splendid songy f--9HLjH " ncter., 'and. fairly j EjSpwSkSH nlivc (with energy. t ltjS?N ft best efforts of' j ' J''5!f'"'e--.jy even so famous" a Jl ".: 'iriSAjs singer as Mabel wwjMtto Garrison of the Metropolitan Opera, I And it is a hopeful sign, indeed, that . 'pur leading composers and singers are nhle to produce music that is populas In feelic and intrinsically good, i - '" Harry Lauder recites tor a change. Always new and unusual, genial fc Harry is moro so than ever in his red- tation of "Granny's Laddy" on a Victor V Record this month. He modestly ex- plains, by way of introduction, that it ' js ' A little story about a lad I met at the front.'1 , 1 , ' .You know him, perhaps, as the great Scotch humorist, but war has made many chances, and its tragedies have ujeUowed Harry Lauder, into a shall We say veritable humanist ; for this is n human story, f eer there was one. . "it is simply the story of a .boy in the' war, a hoy who admits 'to being seventeen seven-teen and a half and has had experiences enough to be forty-two, He tells quite limply of the joys of the trenches the Joy of being among hraye men, and of seeing them laugh In the face of death : the joy of being "one of the boys who went"; the joy of looking forward to a safe return. The lad also has a mes-I mes-I sago for his Old Granny in Scotland in I case the worst happens. The messa-jc I iniglit have come from Lauder s own 1 son, who paid the last price Freedom I exacts, on tho battlefield of France and, In doliig so, unwittingly released I undreamed-of forces In his fathers soul, for Harry Lauder is using his great gifts t5 aid in winning the-war villi astonishing cloqucnce, . I Now danco music for midsummer 9 merrymaking. The Oricinal Dixieland Jaw Band comes along with some weird and wonderful won-derful numbers on a Victor Record this month one of which is the "Skeleton Jangle" fox trot. The melody stands out ividly against mysterious noises that clearly suggest the rattling of bones. On the reverse of the record "Tiger Uag" one step has enough tiger in it to sound like feedtng time at tho zoo, but there 1 a clear and definite melody behind the medley of sounds. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra presents a quartette of dance numbers on two Victor Records calculated to keep th feet of dancers active, no matter how hot the day. "My Dough Boy" a one step has as much "pep" in it as a regular American Infantry soldier, and events are proving that this is a great deal. There is an Irish touch at times, and a brief but unmistakable phrase from the "Marsclllalft" that keeps the 'military suggestion in mind. "Call-coco" "Call-coco" fox trot, on the reverse of this record, has a strong marking of the rhythm that will challenge- any fox-trotter. fox-trotter. , Some new effects crop up In "Smiles calculated to keep dancers active. It is a fox trot with a song in it something of an innovation. The refrain describes how many different kinds of smiles there are, and what they mean. On the other side ot the same record "Rose Room" fox trot is combined with "My Oriental Rosebud" and makes a most attractive number. "The Magic of Your Eyes!" How do you suppose this enchanting love song came to be written ? Well, Arthur Penn confesses that it just came to him while playing the offertory in church service; andthe motive of Gregorian sternness which occupted his fingers, S.ve way at the will of his mind to e tune, and with it words and music flashed before him. After service the rector mildly expostulated ex-postulated with him for his dangerous dan-gerous approach to the secular, but having done that, was human enough to ask what it was. Everybody olso who hears It for the first time is equally curious. This la the bewitching be-witching song that Trances Alda has chosen for a new Vlctrola Record this month. TIiourK melodious, melodi-ous, the song is an exacting one. Its high pitch, however, seems merely to have broadened Alda s opportunity. Tho purity nnd sweetness of this great operatic oper-atic singer's high tones arc remarkably in evidence, and ono is lost in admiration admira-tion at the free and effortless singinar. Indian Soogs by Princess Watahwaso. To the work the schools are doing nlong musical lines comes this contri-tui'on contri-tui'on on a new Victor Record. Princess Watahwaso (Bright Star) is the daughter of a Penobscot Indian chief near Oldtown, Maine. She has a rich mezzo-soprano voice of great sweetness and emotional power; and in this native American these songs find an Ideal Interpreter. "By the Waters of Mlnnetonka" is founded upon a legend about two lovers from the Sun and Moon clans of the Sioux tribe who, when in danger of be ing captured ana torturea, enguueu themselves beneath the waters of Lake Mlnnetonka, near Minneapolis. . The "Sioux Serenade," on the other side of the record, is -another Indian love song founded upon a Sioux melody. f ... The popular songs of the month, with .' scarcely an exception, are burdened 1 with the consuming thought that Is naturally nat-urally on the heart of the nation; andthe and-the lights and shadows of that thought are reflected in the hearts of Its people peo-ple Individually all concerned about winning the war, or giving expression to their tender feelingg fot Jpved ones "over there." m "When I Send You a Picture of Berlin Ber-lin (You'll Know It's Over 'Over There,' I'm Coming Home)" Is a song by Arthur Fields and the Peerless Quartet on a new Victor Record with an original idea in it. It is sung witlf fine effect, yindianola," on the reverse of the record, is the song of the Red - Man preparing to "do hiSWt' In the . war. . "".'". Another Victor- Record contain "HeIlo Central, Give Me No Man's Land," the pathetic plea of a little tot whose daddy is in the thick of it. "My, Belgian Rose," on the same record," is n .vmlUr tnnir tntendlnir ta rouse thel drooping ''Belgian Rott" by promising to Jhake an American Beauty of her. i AnheTeh'd the refrain is 'played ,as a violin soft with .delightful effect. I Charles Hart and the Shannon Four present on another Victor Record -Paul . Revere . (Won't You. .Ride for. Us Again f)!an Invitation to the g.reat patriot to jrouso us once more with ( war's' alarunisr . .,, "Bring Mo a Letter Frqm My, Old Home Town," on the same record, is delightfully' sung by Lewis James and he Shannon Four. " , , , A" practical exemplification of the "k saying, "The worker goes, but his work goes on," is found in the passing of Evan Williams, Bfor his voice will go on and on with messages of cheer and inspiration for myriads in days to come. Though other ar-leavlng ar-leavlng a few Victor Records as a living memorial behind them, the first of these whose records are so numerous as to place them in the front rank of Victor favorites. One of the last of Evan Williams' Interpretations for Victor Records is this, "The Song That Reached My Heart," newly presented this month. It is a song that has reached the heart of many hundreds of thousands of people peo-ple since it was first written, and is now .one of the immortals among popular soiiks of sentiment, Whether at home or away, in season or out of season, it Is gratifying In know that you trlay alwaysskeep in touch with what is going on in the world of music, by means of the Victrola, Vic-trola, Any Victor dealer will gladly play any of the new sonus or old masterpieces that you with, to hear, by simply calling on him with your-re- t quest. |
