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Hammerstein Imports Opera Singers
Great European Artists Will Appear at Manhattan Opera-House This Season.
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NEW YORK, Nov. ir-. (Spetial Cor
respondence.) Tifsd are the smiling
tares of ome of Ms slnscrs wlilrh
greeted Oscar Hammrrstpln when he
met "I.a Lorraine" recently. Do the
!ng-era love Mr. Hammerstein? They
certainly do. They all kissed him on
one cheek or the other, and- voiced
their affection for lilni In unmistak
able term. Why do the singers love
Uior Hammerstein so? Because he has
revolutionised opera In New York and
made It possible for so many of them
to obtain contracts to appear in this
country at top salaries, because he has
shaken the mu&u-al worid out of the
tut Into which It had fallen and caused
a, complete reorganization of the older
opera-house. Because he Is Oscar: and
Oacar stands for enterprise and daring
and taste and Judgment.
To understand why the singers love
Oscar one must go back a little in the
history of opera. When the Manhattan
Opera-House was planned, the Metro
politan was under the management of
Helnrlch t'onrted. ilr. Conned was a
narrow-minded man. whose ciiief am
bition was to force the expenses of the
Metropolitan opera-House down and
Its receipts up. He had a splendid
subscription list, whose permanence
waa almost assured by the soi-lal pres
tige attaching to the ownership of sea
son tickets to "the opera." So he had
little to. fear from his ratrons. So he
et about dealing with the songbirds
on a cold business basis. He announced
to each that .lis or her pay would be
reduced so much -If not the a:nount
paid for each appearance, at least the
tiumber of appearances during a sea
son. -In this way he proposed to keep
feafor tdm subscribers the same long
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list of of renowned singers, but to give
them about half as many appearances
of efceh.
The singers objected strenuously.
Some of them quarreled with Conried
and went on concert tour, refusing to
appear in ..ew York opera at all. Oth
ers fought as hard as they could up to
the last minute and succumbed to the
new conditions, still protesting. When
Oscar Hammerstein announced his
plans for the Manhattan operahouse,
Mr. Conried had his establishment on
an economic basis unknown to recent
years of operatic management. - He did
not take Mr. Hammerstein very ser
iously, especially when he found that
the new impressario was planning tb
rely on perfection of ensemble rather
than great individual singers for his
success.
Mr. Hammerstein tried good ensemble
opera and learned that ha had mis
judged the taste of the American peo
jjlo. They wanted stars ths old con
ditions against which every manager
of the Metropolitan naa ioubih vmnij
for years. So Mr. Hammerstein de
cided to give them stars, dui ue na
another card up his sleeve. He had
discovered In his first season that there
were many good voices in Kurope un
known to the American public He had
"discovered" Boncl. one of the greatest
lviHn tennra of modern times. He had
brought him to America and Mr. Con
ried had bought mm away ium
Manhattan at the end of the first sea-
ii ti..r.iin went to Europe
and' haunted the operahouses on the
search for other voices. luu.m
them. He brought to New York the
i tt. v, i.nnr tcaw York had ever
heard Charles Dalmores. The Metro
politan tried to get him away last
season and failed. He discovered Mary
Garden, the darling of the Opera Com
lque In Paris. He discovered Tetrazzlnl
the "second Pattl" over whom London
was going wild. And he discovered
new oDeras "Louise.' inais, iva
Contes d'Hoffman." With these he made
a season of opera which toon new
York by storm and in the face of the
Kn.lnaa. .-rtTl fl i 1 1 0T1 In 15 VOarS
and of powerful opposition. Mr. Ham
merstein scored a Dig nnucwi " c"
as artistic success. This year he has
more singers, chief among them that
vnnrierfni harltone. Sammaroo, Mary
Garden. Melba, Tettraziinl all the peo
ple who made his season auccesstui usi
year and new ones, too.
Mm, nifio whn him Inlned Hammer
stein, is a Boston girl who went abroad
a dozen years ago on the recommenda
tion of Philip Male ana maao utr u
but In Brussels six years ago as
"Brangaene" in "Tristan und Isolde."
Dalmores sang the part of "Tristan."
Mme. Dorla will sing "Amneris" and
nth.. iMdinff enntrAlto roles. She
brings a great reputation from Europe.
The jaDia, wno aiso comes w jum
Oscar Hammersteln's forces is a real
"Contessa." She la unmarried and the
youngest of four daughters of the
Count Labia. Her oldest sister Is a
successful singer: the other two are
a Dlanlst and a violinist, respectively.
Labia's mother accompanies her
wherever she goes. She has made a
great reputation in Stockholm and at
h Onera Comiaue. in Berlin. One of
her favorite roles is "Tosca" and as
Hammerstein has procured the right
to all the Puccini operas this year, she
opened in mat opera.
P. dl Segurdla is one of the new bass
singers. He Is from Barcelona and
has sung with success in South Amer
ica.. Charles Dalmores blew a cornet be
fore he discovered that he had a fine
tenor voice. He was one of Hammer
steln's discoveries. He has sung both
seasons at the Manhattan and helped
Mary Garden last year to make a suc
cess of "Louise" and "Thais."
Benefit Concert for St.
Agnes Baby Home
A PROGRAMME which appealed be
cause of Its diversified beauty was
the reward of the large audience that
crowded the Heillg Theater Friday night
on the occasion of a concert toward the
funds of the St. Agnes Baby Home, and
the event was In every way a pleasant
success.
Never did the Heillg stage look more
daintily pretty. The scenery was exceed
ingly well selected, the background be
ing a woodland view and a hint of a
fountain. Rugs and flowers helped out
the artistic picture, and the four lady
singers and the accompanist were gowned
in white. To help the cause Mr. Heillg
gave the use of the theater, only charging
the net cost of operating. Other friends
were equally kind.
The Lakme quartet, composed of Mrs.
May Dearborn-Schwab, Mrs. Ethel Lytle
Boothe, Miss Petronella G. Connelly and
Mrs. A. T. Bushong, gave the concert,
assisted by Miss Cornelia Barker, violin
ist. Miss Delia Bradley, reader, Stuart
McGulre, baritone, and Mrs. Arvilla Mc
Guire Stolte, accompanist. I found the
programme Just of sufficient length, the
last number concluding exactly at 9:30
o'clock P. M. This is a good hint for
future occasions.
The Lakme quartet Is making marked
advances in art, and is a real credit to
musical Portland. Its work Is serious
and dignified, and the ensemble work of
the singers has now that finish and ease
which marks the first-class musical or
ganization. If there Is a better ladies'
quartet than this anywhere around this
part of the country, I want to hear It
The three opening numbers, sung by the
quartet were distinguished by delicacy
and fine blending of tone, but the real
triumph won, from a musician's point of
view, was the singing of the quartet
"West Wind," written by Father Domi
nic, of Mount Angel College. All the wail
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and sweep of the tempest are In the lines
and Mrs. Schwab deserves credit- for the
clarity of tone with which she sang the
high C in altissimo. The last quartet,
"Ust the Cherubic Host," from Gaul's
"Holy City," with Mr. McGuire as bari
tone soloist, and Miss Barker as solo
obligato violin accompanist, was rendered
with necessary dramatic intensity.
It was a pleasure to hear Mrs. Schwab
so delightfully sing those children's songs,
and so thoroughly enter into the delicate
humor of them. Her encore was "The
Swing." fully suited to her high soprano
of flute-like- sweetness. Mrs. Boothe
never sang better, her enc3re being "His
Lullaby" by Carrie Jacobs Bond. Miss
Connolly sang with fine taste, and her
encore was "You and Love," D. Harde
st. Miss Bradley, a Marion County girl
who has received her artistic training as
a reader in Chicago, vastly pleased by
the genuine fun with which she invested
her numbers. She has a very good speak
ing voice and marked talent as an enter
tainer. v4i. no.uw nWintirallv olaved "The
Swan" by Saint-Saens, and for an encore
she chose Jocelyn's "Beuceuse," the latter
receiving delightful shading a'nd wealth
of tone. Mr. McGuire should sing oftener
in public, posseysing as he does such a
mellow, well-cultivated baritone voice.
His first number was Schuman's "Two
Grenadiers," which was sung with fine
declamation and true spirit. His encore
was that old Greek song with an Irish
name "Drink to Me Only," Mrs. Stolte
was an admirable accompanist .
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