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Show MUSIC GOSSIP ! OF NEW YORK Fifth New Opera Presented by Metropolitan This Season (Special Dispatch.) NEW YORK. April 7. Mount's opera. "Coal fan Tuite. ' since it was brought out at the Metropolitan. March 24. has been so woll received by the critics and the public that It bids fair to become one of the' popular popu-lar additions to the company's repertoire. reper-toire. Dissenting voices are heard as to the Morartian quality of the performance, per-formance, but they are in the minority minor-ity These criticisms corne from the older generation that still cherishes memories of the days when such singers as Sembrlch, Melba. Fames. Plancon. the De Keszkes. etc.. are heard on this stamo stage in oher Sfosart wotks. Those were the daysj ol superlative vocalists who have not their equals now. Only by forgotting them can one receive the Mozart singers of today with equanimity. It has boon claimed that "Cos! fan' Tutto ' (Which, literally translated means. "They all do It" that i, nil worrren are inconstant was manyi years ago produced in San Francisco I Hut no official record of th. ; performance per-formance h;is I'ccn found. So. as far' as public record goes, this production, at the Metroplitan is the first given in this country, although Is 132 years since the opera was written. This marks the last premiere at tiie opera for this season, and u , i, , good all the promises given at the beginning of the scaeon h Director GaUi-Ca-sazza as to the production of w orks new to the patrons of the, I Mvtropolitan. These works are i Bdouard Lalo's "Jbe Itol d Ys . Erich j Korngold s "Die Tote Stadt"; Eilms-1 ky-Korsakoff's "Snegourotchlca": Al- fredo C.ilalanis "Loreiev" and "Cost fan Tutte " The enormous amount of work mi-' tailed in producing eveu one new work the endless rehearsals, the designing and execution of scenery and costumes, the preparation not onlj ol principals, but unden id is little short of appalling. Anl v. hen five such works are produced In B lesson in addition to a number of revivals re-vivals and the carrying on of the iihuhI r.portmir. it -l..,,, ii o hind 1 scenes at the Metropolitan this ho.i - i son has been as busy a place as Wall . Street itself. YIIARS OF ORCTTl's, FT, VI MTIMTV i The Philharmonic orchestra Of New-York, New-York, on April y. will compacts k" .vears of continuous activity, and with the present season goint; on record :i-tne :i-tne most prosperous of its career. In observance of this eighteenth anniversary, two special performances! of Beethoven's nimii ftmphony will ; be Riven, the first on Wednesdav evening, eve-ning, April "(J. at Curnegi.- hall, and the second at the Metropolitan Opera House on the following Sun.li. evsn-lng. evsn-lng. F1.0N..LF.YS SAIL. The Flonzaley quartet sailed fori England. April 4. on tho Mauretanlal after having closed the most successful suc-cessful American season of their entire en-tire career. Alfred Pochon, second lollnist of the organization said ju-i before he left his hotel for the beat "Yes, our success here ha been tremendous, tre-mendous, but we could never have achieved it if tho country at largo were not musical. For. no matter how well we may ;d i .. n couldn't get a chance to be heard if ihe people! w ere not as capable of . p reclatlng chamber music as we ore of presenting present-ing it to them The people engage us not because they feci they ought to hear us, but because they want to. So our suroes" Is due fully .! rvich to the American public as to out-selves. out-selves. SOCIAL LIFK AT WniTI HOCSJ According to Mary Jordan, the White House, under the Harding regime, does full credit to tho besl social traditions of the American people. peo-ple. Miss Jordan w as recently summoned to the White House to sir:-, at a recital re-cital which followed one of the n" formal state dinners of the season. When asked her Impression of the, social so-cial atmosphere of this chu-f home of the nation under the present regime, she said: 'It has all the aspects of a genuine borne I cannot express strongly enougli how this feature impressed me. The dinner that preceded the recital was extremely formal. This formality was in evidence throughout the evening, as It should have been, but It was a formality permeated by 8 flexible dignity, a spirit of the personal per-sonal I hat was most delightful. I have sung at the White House before, during another regime, when the formality for-mality was so In evidence that it made one a bit self-conscious. But it 1 Is not so now. There is case and the same time the desirable resti ,, .. ''How did j like Mrs. Harding' She seemed to me in all respects to be fully equal to the position imposed on her. The pictures published of her arc far from doing her justice. She Is a most charming looking worn in with the loveliest of brown eyes, and In acinn and speech to the manner born " "Then came the all important question: What did she wear?" "A black gown that was the last word in elegance. She had around her throat a black velvet band from which w as suspended a diamond pendant. She looked wholly the Fii st Lady of the Land." It was suggested that singing at the While House even under the most congenial conditions must seem like poing outside of American life Into another remote and alien. To which Miss Jordan replied: It was In this ease Just the opposite op-posite Indoed, the deepest Impression Impres-sion left with me is a culmination of my American experiences rather thju something epart from thcni I never felt the national spirit more deeply than I felt it that evening Not because be-cause this spirit was obtrusive, but because it was all-pervading. And now I'm prouder than ever of my country, which moans that I'm tremendously tre-mendously knoud of it." WINS INPANT RL( Of.MTION. Among the scores of young singers who made their New York debuts this season. Ethyl Hayden, lyric soprano, so-prano, won the greatest success not only with the public but with the critics. Miss Hayden is a pupil of Mme Semhrtoh and it was generally remarked that her singing in liquidity liquid-ity of tone production and in phras ing, waa moueieu tuier mat oi tno famous diva. No ! s TO RETURN. Guiomar NovaeS, the brilliant voting Brazilian pianist, who this season has been confining her concert appear-: ances to South America, will return! to this country next January' for an I extended tour. |