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Has the Glory Now Departed?.
“ROBINSON CRUSOE" FILMED.
THRILLS IN MUSIC.
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Scenes Taken on Tobago laland.
After spending nine weeks in Tobago Mr. M. A. Wetherell has completed the filming of Robinson Crusoe's sojourn on his desert island and has sailed for England. Tobago has been thought to be the island on which Dafoe placed his hero, and Mr. Wetherall declares that for photographic purposes its scenery and climate are unsurpass- ed.
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Shades of Palestrina, Belling, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi! Is Italy no longer to supply the world with music and song? asks A. Beaumont, writing frem Rome for the London "Daily Telegraph." The terrible question looms up when one reads the report of the seven leading
Res Muestros, Giordano, Luaidi, pighi, Zandonai, Pizzetti, Alfano and others who have rejected all the compositions of the young Maestros of Rome and Milan They were called upon as an official committee of mature and successful operatic composer to award the prizes to by seventeen now operns written seventeen young musicians, their pupils, proposed by the Ministry of
About 100 negroes took part in Fine Arts in Rome, and they un the dannibal scenes, while the per animously decided that not one ofsonnel of the British ship and the the seventeen new works
mutineers was supplied by mem- worthy of being produced on thebers of the planting community, stuge. Therefore no prizes were to be awarded. and all the efforts of the young Verdis and Rossinis.were In vain!
was
Playing the part of Crusoe, Mr Wetherell was able to secure the whole of the company required for these scenes from local patives and white residents.
Man Friday.
Given the chance to show what he could do, he revealed himself as an
A remarkable discovery was "Man Friday," a young coloured man who had been engaged to drive the This happened only a week ago, and the fact was recorded amid de motor-car of the party.. He con- spondency. It augured sadly forced that he had once acted in the Italian lyric art, and the Press, with part in a school play. patriotic feeling, concealed its dis appointment. A few days before the same lustrious committee sub-accomplished actor. fmitted to Mussolini a paper on the "Grave Crisis of Italian Opera," which Mussolini read, with the greatest attention, and afterwards discussed with them personally. Luadi, talking on the subject later, said that the greatest trouble to day is the indifference and almost the hostility of the public as regards contemporary productions. for the stage.. People get more enthusias Be over a new charvari
Sites for the principal scenes answering with amazing fidelity, to the descriptions in the book were found without difficulty:
Era of the Great Singers.
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At first, the question that Ameri- out of epera music. They arrived cans asked was, how to get a thrill at an answer clearly, according to abundant testimony: both oral and written, in the period, roughly, from 1886 to 1900, which may be called that of the great singers. Next, the question arose, how they could got a thrill out of symphony music. They accomplished this quest in the period, again roughly, between tho years 1900 to 1925, which may be called that of the great conduc- tors.
At present, the question which piques their curiosity is how they may get a thrill out of quartet music. For the third time, answer seems forthcoming, and in a period quite near, which may be called that of the great ensemble inter- pretera
Not but that 'opera performance reached remarkable heights now and then in the earlier decades, and symphony performance in the later onca, of the nineteenth cen- tury; not but that quartet perform- ance, likewise, has often been brik Hant in the course of the twentieth century, as far counted off. Still, says the "Christian Science Monitor, the grand thrill of such things undoubtedly demands long of the preparation, and the day
van quartet in the United States hardly be described as farther along thah at the dawning.
Definition of the word, American, There was the traditional "Robin-
For. son's Cave," wonderful stretches of necessarily affects the case. desolate sandy beach, the famous strictly speaking, American opera performance has always been Ita- "Look-out" at Mount Dillon, undan, German or French; while great tracts of dense tropical forest. American symphony performance
Mr. Wetherell found
has been mixed German, French, Robinson Crusoe myth was firmly Italian, Russian and much else. or a jazz || established in the minds of the local about his actual residence on the island.
that
band than over a new opera. The | negroes, who entertained no doubts" But the proof of music is in the lis-
happy days are gone by when a new opera was discussed in the cafés and drawing-rooms with ar-
Buried Treasure. dour and passion as used to be the case o 100 or even fifty years ago, Indeed, the visitor is seriously as when there was a scramble for sured that "Some old, old people seats, and even riotous demonstra-here, Sab, does remember Robinson tions. At the time of Rossini,. Bel- Crusoe."
ini, and Donizetti the cagerness for After the party had been work.ly yet developed.. new operas was such that impre-ing there for two or three weeks sarios scoured the musical conserva- the story was spread amongst the toires for youthful composers of natives that, the cinematographic the lightest promise, whom they business was a blind..
This immediately commissioned. is how some of the old masters made their debut as composers at an ex- ceedingly early age. Rossini was 18 when his first opera was given, Donizetti 21, and Bellini only 17 In opening a "career thus early to young composers, the impresarios only satisfied the public taste and clamour which wanted a continuous supply of new works.
To-day it is all changed, It fills one with melancholy when one ready the prospectus of any opera house at the 'opening of a new season. Publie taste now just the con- trary, apparently, to what "it was last century. The whole season of an opera house is practically, Alled with a repetition of the long-stand-" ing works of the repertoire, and it is a wonder if occasionally one new opera is "announced: The world over we have an incessant repeti- tion of the "Barber of Seville," "Traviat." "Rigoletto," or the Wagnerian operna. Living com- posers are happy if they can squeeze in and take a second place in publie favour. The ghosts of the great the past frighten away the living. Italy, which was once the happy land that supplied most of the musical and operatic novelties, is threatened with los- ing her prestige altogether.
composers Of
The expedition had really come to search for Robinson Crusoe's treasure. This is another local tradition, the belief being, that Crusoc fetched a valuable treasure from the wrecked ship and buried it in a cave on the island."
The cave is said to have been visited, and an old canister is said to have been observed, but always as the search party approached this bbject the candle was blown out by supernatural means and a hurried retreat followed.
THE MIKADO" FILMED IN
COLOUR.
Among the unique features of the "Gaumont Mirror" the new British screen" weekly, which has been ex- sensively booked for showing in the cinema from February onwards,
is an item giving excerpts from the 'Oyy. Carte production of "The Mikado" in colour, which takes on particular interest because of Mr. Charles Ricketts' newly designed costumes of the 1720 period.
Among the artists appearing in: the aim are Darrel! Fancourt, Charles Goulding, Henry Lytton, Leo Sheffield, John Huntington, Elsie Griffith, Alleen Davis, Beatrice Elburn, and Bertha Lewis.
Before they, sailed for Canada the, whole company crowded into one of the Gaumont private theatres
The sume public Interest in operas is no longer shown as it was only twenty or thirty years ago, when peasants in country carts and wagons came to Parma, Modena, or Bologna, not to mention Milan, for the opening week of the opers, and slept in stables and lofts with to see themselves on the screen for the. Arst time-ahd found the 'ex- their whole families" around them.
immensely amusing To-day the impresarios find it imperfence so cult to fill their houses. They pull that they shrieked with laughter along as best they can from season from beginning to end. to season continually on the verge of failure. The great publishing houses are partly in fault also be cause they do not want to take the risk of a new opera, and prefer to continue to draw revenue from the works of the repertoire of which they keep jealous possession. The public also wants to see operas staged without regard to expense, and the impresarios can no longer afford it. The only hope left la It remains to be seen, whether in State intervention on a magnanim- a year or two a sudden change will ous scale, and this Mussolint has not take place under the impulse of promised. But he also expressed the great Fascist Duce, whe whilst the opinion that composers and im- directing the destinies of Italy also presarios might do well to try to finds time to indulge in playing the supply real good music which the violin,
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general public could appreciate; and which made the fame and fortune of the great composers of the past, and with this rather enigmatical dictum, he dismissed the illustrious committee who in their turn had been so hard on the young geniuses of the conservatoires..
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toning. The keenart opera audi onces were indisputably those of from thirty to forty years ago the most penetrating symphony audi- ences have been those of the last twenty-five years; whereas really independent and shrewdly discern- ing quartet audiences are scarce, Formerly American quartets were recruited from prchentras. A master broke away concert from submission to the baton; viola got another violinist, player and violoncellist To join him, and went
the concert circuit presenting the cham- ber music classics. Immeasurable good resulted, but trafy, no remark able thrill. To-day, artists who have made the acquaintance of the American Hstener as solo players. and have discovered in him a desira
Orchestra. The boy for a higher emotional experience harmonie than can be had from the Mendels- studied with passion. He is stated soth concerto for violin,, the orches to have received $5,000 for every tral episode of Berlioz with the concert he gave, and his parents de solo viola part, or the Haydn con-clined' a contract offered to him for certo for violoncelo in D, are be- $100,000. He will remain in Europe for educational purposes for a year, ginning to institute quartets. Noteworthily, Mischa
musical Elman but will continue his drops a large portion of his busi- studies under M. Georges Enesco. ness, if that is proper to say, as virtuoso, and assembles a group of four to offer Beethoven, opus 39, Nos. 1, 2 and 3; Brahms opus 51, Nos. 1 and 2, and other things of like significance to the considera tion of the musical public. Mr. Elman's renown as a solo, violinist by no means assures the outcome. His known temperament as an inter- preter, however, indicates the pur. pose; which is to give Americans a long-expected, and perhaps overdue, thrill.
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Something like a sensation has been caused by the appearance in. the Salle Gaveau of a 10-year-old American violiniat with the strange The name of Yehudi Menuhin. musical critics are in agreement in halling him as an "enfant prodige" and a real virtuese. Yehudi Menu- hin evoked plaudits almost delirious
aretu In their expression by his tion of Lalo's "Spanish Symphony " the "Scherzo" of Wieniawski, and the sixteenth-century melody" of Joseph Achron
The strange thing about this youthful musical genius is that his parents do not understand music. "His father was connected with various schools in San Francisco and the child was taken to concerts. When he was three years old, he expressed a wish to learn to play the violin, and at five he had a master, Mr. Louis Persinger, form- erly solo violinist of the Berlin Phil-
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