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Show SURIMER MUSICAL OFFERINGS I RACHAUN1N0FF PLAYS HIS PRELUDE IN I G MINOR Other Famous Artists Heard In Notable Compositions U " a 'remarkable RMWKxiiri 15lJi f'rrforTTinnce and BtfOBCfAliwAfrAffl an equally re- markable experience experi-ence to hear this, for the combination combina-tion of a ?reat composer and a rre.it virtuoso is a rare one rare enough a!mot to He counted, sine? the days of Beethoven and Schubert. While listening to this on a Victor Record, one is impressed with the fact that here is another noteworthy Instance In-stance of Victor tone supremicy. Rachmaninoff plays the prelude as no nut else could hope to play ir the conception of his own hroin ffiren to the world by his own finder-:, knowing know-ing and feeling every noe of its intricate in-tricate and splendid structure. The G Minor Prelude is in a fine, rolling, sweeping, m.v'e't-e Style with powerful rhythms, with clangorous, almost al-most fierce returniiiji melodiei The harmonies are as lucidly beautiful as anything in the works ot the "Old Masters" of music Thunderous, tlirtll-ing tlirtll-ing chords and octaves boom forth e-'ith the force of a volley of cannon on the quid;, almost Polcro-hke opening open-ing theme Suddenly and unexpectedly, unexpect-edly, a soft, melodious, purling passage follows which enables the listener to drink in the full beauty of tbe pianist's light, bell-like touch Doubtless, the mosr popular of all nifican songs old or new is Stephen Fcicr's ' Old Folks At Home" From its very simplicity from rJOfjaZk. . the fact t'.iat i 19 Tf1; 'U '' T5 ' in some less fa- . . J fc Ti'on. CT frWmJgg Wars this on a ' "8&& Victor Record, there is not a n,ote of it -which does not :iwake, by some dim alchemy of association, in some remote memory-cell, memory-cell, trains of thought, feehng and emotions, which together constitute the true inward life of the American pe pie Schnm.inn-Heinl; sings this old sonc with a pathos and a subdued intersity of longing that are irresistible. irre-sistible. Zaza the music hall singer, a fimple-hearted w-omsn hene?tli her pairt and powder, her paste jewelry and her cheap Lianific-.-ice, learns that her lover, Dufresne, has a wife and child Zaza. invades Dufresoe's own house and, meeting the child, her own starved maternal feelings are aroured. She refuses to exy-osi; Dufrcr.e and inflict suffering upon tbe innocent wife and child. The music ot tlits fcenc "Mammi us:iva ci casa" ( Mother Has Gone! is not dramatic. It is pure and lovely Sung by Farrar f 11 a new Victor Record one hears the beautiful, high sustained notes, ushered in by the full passionate sweep of violins Toward the end there are Some equally beautiful soft tones. two alternating fingers of the right hand This is spectacular, manly, virile and altogether fascinating composition. com-position. Destinn, this month, sings, a Bohemian Bo-hemian national song "Home" (Doma) on a Victor Record. The iong opens with a crashing fanfare of trum- , lt pets, drums and D leads Hljl march rhythm as I spirited, perhaps, ivisTSEBsl in jJVjK&IB music Though lJH3 the nni is Bo- (HsaM hemian speaks IBH of impulses nn,i .(WKBKKSSi longings and as- dfcfHBttfc'jffftt are not Bohc mi-ni l-il-x V"Sfl alone, but 1 1 -1 n r - I Atjt&SDtKu ral. Into t li 1 sVn"jj .fl&CsiWBBB song, Destinn puts the full strength SmbM jf of her mighty "SiS voice. - S Philadelphia Orchestra Plays "Blue Danube Waltz" The "Blue Danu'e Wahr" ranks easily as the waltz of waltzes Popular Popu-lar as other dances may be today there was a time, not so many years iC, when the whole world seemed to have gone waltz mad. At the height of this time the beautiful "Blue Danube" mi written and it took the world by storm Ita appeal is truly irresistible omethtrig that never can be lost It is doub'.ful if anything yet has approached, for sheer beauty and perfection, the present recording, on a new Victor Record, by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Flonzalev Quartet this month has choren a little masterpiece from Tsehaik-owsWy's th.rd quartet in E Flat Minor for recording on a new Victor Record. This scherzo is rnt'ier more in Fastern style than in pure Ru ssian and r cher tone colors we--? never called for by a string quartet compocr and proriurd by a quartet organization. The che-:' theme is vivacious viva-cious and brilliant; th? second theme .-nno inccrd by the viola be ng in contrasting con-trasting style heavy with the desert languar' The joyous first theme returns, re-turns, bringing the movement to a rippling close, in which a pizzicato r.ote here and there touches it otT as a bnoht rem touches off the colorful folds of some , 5! r.inge Oriental rat-meet. rat-meet. Those who enjoy listening to each instruTT-ent "voice" ai a thing apart as well as to the interwoven voices find this number of untold interest, in-terest, in which the harmonies are readily observed. Mabel Garrison sins th-it r.oble old hymr. "Heaven Is My Home" On "us new Victor Record she sings it ' with all the inspiration she has riven in the past to the difficult, brilliant numbers with which her name has been associated Her voice is of flute like purity and her siag'ti exhibits the sWill and delicacy ot the finished artist. ar-tist. Sones like this, in very truth ret loose the hidden springs of life. Mi's I otme Homer, daughter and ramesaWe of Madame Homer, the great contralto, makes her debut as a singer. Miss Homr, un- $t&WB&m JBgy I ''''c kfr mother, is 1 ''ftr3j a soprano, there- yfi'j. 4ShbbsR8 ore her t, i-j. ' jjSfrflwKEHMl of different rang'. MBBttffi, ,jjf Such is t!-e magic tfiSS&SSN&W 'Vt i n li e r i tance, HyfflMW J2b however, tint HEmST ;- 'JC every not.- there JuBb' is an echo of hr Sv.-V 'jgWiHI mother's voice. In HF Xjk?A compositions like Night" by Halfdan Kjerulf it is as , thoajh one of the Uteag two voices m.r- liomer Tored its own true counterpart. The song Is sunp on a new Victor Record almost entirely in close two-part two-part harmony vsith a background of rich string tone iu the orchestra. |