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WAGNER AND SHAKESPEARE.
The Opra And The Drm in New York
Pasiopate Playing of Tb Belgian Violinist
More Than Tea Thousand Person in The
Metropolitan.
Your Editress has asked ine "to send
a criticism on Ysaye, or a letter giving
an account of some opera or ply, " lor
this issue of the Prks.s and Carolin
ian, and 1 am glad to do the very lit
tle I can for a work m which I am o
much hiTrested. If jou knew how
often 1 have thought of you all when
I was enjoying these rare treats and
wished ytu conld he with me to share
them, 1 am-Mire you will pardon the
personal note in my accounts.
When hall I begin? Well, my lat
est pltutMire was "Lohengrin." 1
do not exactly agree with the police
man who was found asleep in the
Opera Hue. although I think of his
reply to t he Mirprfee expressed at his
not .listening to the music: And
phwat do I be wanting to listen to
them Daotch singers for after hearing
Milby and the DeUooshkies." Gadski
was a good Elsa, but Brema's Ortrud
was Hirer. Here Uothmuhrs Lohen
lHin was very well vocally, but he a
most substantial middle aged "Knight
of the fcjwau," sadly lacking in knight
ly elegance. The chorus, especially
the men, were like caricatures in Puck
of "The Great Unwashed." The music
is wonderful,-for the richness and
breadth f the Vagnerian ' Drama is
unrivaled in Lohengrin. - 1 shut my
eyes ai 1 listened to . the ravishing
music, an 1 from the beginning of Act
III, whioli'.o peris with tha famous Brid
al chorus until the scene changes,
there was not a break in the dre am of
beauty (with eyes closed!).
When i recall being transported in
to the heaven of sweet sounds, I think
. pre-eimnently of . Y. save ''and of The
Huguenots with the ideal cast: Mel ha.
the-Do Ues.kes, fcjcalchi, Plancon and
Ancona.. every role taken by a star.
-Never have I seen The Metropolitan
so elosely packed, with not an inch of
standing room left on all the six floors.
You can imagine the auoienee wheu it
seats ten thousand. Very rarely has
such wild enthusiasm been displayed,
even in the days ot A I vary 's Seigfried.
You could feel the electric tension, the
holding of the breath, the excited
glances of '- ecstatic delight, Pefore,
when hearing Les Huguenots, I must
confess, over lour hours of it dragged;
but this time, such was the mighty
way of transcendent art, only the next
day's uttor exhaustion made me realize
its length.
How can I give you an id-aof Ysaye?
By the way, that curious looking
name isjironounced as the French and
Hebrew pronounce Isaiah, Ee-sah-yea.
He is a Belgian and is tire llrst profes
sor of violin playing in the Conserva
tory of Brussels, as Yieuxtemps
and Wieniawski, his teachers, were bv
fore hiui. Ysaye was also a pupil of
Massart in Paris and is a disciple of
the French school which attained the
supremacy after the death of Pagan ini,
rivalling the German of which David
and' Joachim -were masters, 4jut from
the Polish he has gained breadth,
warmth and romantic sentiment. He
is thirty-six years old and has a wife
and four children His personality
is commanding, for he is east in a large
mould, large features, very mobile, that
suggest Beethoven and Rubenstein,
straight hair, cut square and rather
long with one large lock that falls ov
er his cheek as he plays. Then as he
stands, dignified, abstracted, impress
ive, swaying to and fro in his playing,
his violin nestletFunder his chin seems
a part of his very inmost soul, a part
of himself just as the voice is of the
singer, beating with every pulse, tak
ing changing color and pitch and form
from every variation of fueling. He
made his first appearance in America
here in New York at the Philharmonic
Society Concert under Anton SeidI,
Nov. 10, 1804. It has been my good
fortune to hear him several times, to
delight in the enthusiastic ovations he
has received, to join in the recalls up
on recalls even to eight and nine times.
It was interesting to see the violin stu
dents following him with their scores
and noting down his renderings. As I
look over my programs, I despair of
particularizing. There was that "Fant
asia Appassionata" of Yieuxtemps
which made tears come to all eyes, the
Mendelssohn Concerts, the Kreutzer
Sonata and some of his own composi
tions, and oh, the Bach Sonata, for voi
lin alone when he gave the quartet
effect with such a singing tone, melt
ing into tenderness, ringing out with
gladness, all variations. Poetry, vital
ity, life is in every tone a human
voico that tells us ail we have felt or
thought or known. That is his great
power. He feels much and expresses
every phase of emotion in his violin.
He is a popular player, because he ap
peals to the feelings which are univer
sal and the great throbbing human
heart responds.
Have you had enough of music?
It Takes Strong Nerves and Clear
1
Brain These Days.
The Rev. I. P. Quimby of the Broadway Church, Bo:ton, Says It
Is His duty to Recommend Paine's Celery Compound It ,
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Clergyman today need big hearts
and sound nerves to accomplish all
the good they intend.
It isen't merely the fact of preach
ing once a weak that makes the life
of the minister of today wearing en
nerves and brain. Their every-day
labor is a round of exacting duties
that tax heavily their nervous
strength.
The modern minister must keep up
his enthusiasm, his hopefulness and
his genuine love of his work. He must
feel strongly, think deeply and have
confidence in his labor and in him
self. But all this taxes heart and brain to
their uttermost. It calls for a tre
mendous outlay of nervous energy
seven dsys in the week and ?C5 every
year. Many clergymen break down
utterly vnder the nervous strain.
Rev. I. P. Quimcy, the well-known
Boston preacher, has been saved from
nervotls prostration.
In a publication of his Sunday
School he has recently published the
following open letter:
Boston, Nov, 1894.
Never in my life have I commended
any proprietary medicine, but I would
be derelict in duty if I failed to let
the public known what a great boon
to humanity I believe Paine's celery
compound to be. With a family of
seven, I have not paid a dollar for a
doctor in ten years, and I owe to the
fact that I always keep Paine's celery
compouud on hand, and when any of
us are "out of sorts,v administer it.
You know me of old. I would like to
tell you of the wonderful boy "Cellist
Gerardy, about Gounod's Romeo and
Juliet with that ideal cast, and about
Rob-Roy, too. You wouldn't care for
Falstaff, Verdi's latest and worst opera,
for several timee, when a part begins
to be interesting, it stops.
I went to see "Two Gentlemen of
Verona" at Daly's because it is Shake
speare. It has not been played her
for nearly fifty years. With all the
wealth of stage setting, the scenery of
a dream, historical costumes, dance8
and music, it was rather tame for it
lacks human interest. In a literary
point of view, it is worth seeing, for it
suggests other and stronger plays; and
then one likes for once, at least, to see
Shakespeare, as it were, illustrated.
Ada Re ban as Julia is Ada Rehan still.
Sylvia is beautiful, the two sets of con
trasted lovers mildly interesting. Your
sense of the fitness of things is out
raged when Julia accepts Proteus af
ter all his faithlessness and his mean
ness, too, she so delicate, refined and
HICKORY PRESS: MARCH
Mill! Ill
QUIMBY.
Both wife and I, in our arduous
church work, are often, bV anxiety
and overwork, reduced tbe verge of
nervous prostration, and as often, by
the use of Paine's celery compound,
restored to our wonted energy of mind
and rigor of body.
Our sons, who are young pharma
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Yours for Paine's celery compouud,
REV. I. P. QUIMBY.
Pastor of Broadway Church , Jioston,
Jfa.su.
When the nervous strength has be
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Paine's celery compound, the great
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make? people well. And with the
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the faulty nutrition of these tissues
dissape-xr. Such are rheumatism,
neuralgia, heart weakness, headaches,
low spirits, lack of strength, and that
general poor health that is so impossi
ble to define.
Sonnd nerves, healthy blood ;:nd an
all round, vigorous constitution of the
body is the invariable elfect of taking
Paine's celery compound. This great
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Try it.
high-minded. You exclaim it is un
natural until you remember in your
life's experience, you have seen just
such women love just such men. Un
like the person who said he didn't like
Hamlet because it was so full of quota
tions, one greAt charm of this play
is the peeping forth of familiar lines.
Anyway we must be grateful for "Two
Gentlemen of Verona" as it contains
that exquisite sonnet: "Who is Syl
via' Launce and his dog live in the
same world as Saneho and Dopple.
This play, though not -so beautiful,
suggests in its setting, "Twelfth
Night." played earlier in the season.
But best of all was "Taming of the
Shrew," where Ada Rehan is the his
torical Katharine.
I wish 1 could tell you about Boer
holm Tree and Madame Sans Gene;
but w ith much else I would like to say,
unsaid, I must say farewell, since art
is long and time is short.
I am yours sincerely,
ElJWlNA CHADWICK.
21, 1895.
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