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To those of lon keeps us con- !hefore crow [us whose® |stantly in a houses and concert | halls the faces of the listeners will be j unfami They will be those of de- |vout pe who think they are per- forming something of a religious duty In hear ndel's work, 1 who tly at the first bars of Chorus,” and remain '. Androw Car- the * standing until negie, Presi 6 Oratorio So- , 1s reported once to have sald: “Give us ‘The Messiah’ and ‘Blljab’ and never mind anything else.” Now, there is progress in oratorio, as in everything, and music lovers should not indifferent to It, unless they are resolved to eschew it alto- gether. 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To this production Mr. Koom- menich, the conductor; his imposing chorus of mep and women, the choir | boys from the churches of St. Andrew | and St, Edward the Martyr, the Sym- phony Society Orchestra, and seven soloists’ had devoted much time in preparation and rehearsal and yet the house was not nearly full, We ought to be rather ashamed of the fact. The only other musical attraction last night was the Opera. The “Mystery” begins with the birth of Joan. The prologue is beautiful with pastoral and childhood scones, with celestial voices, with the appari- tion of St, Michael, The first part tells of the taking of the oath of al- logiance at Blois, of the triumphal entry into Orleans, of the devotion of the people. The second part holds the ride to Rheims, stunning in both chorus and orchestra; of the corona- tion of King Charles and one electri- tying "Gloria!" There is an interest ing intergiexzo and then, in the third part, the news of the capture of Joan, her soliloquy in the prison at Rouen on the nigit before her execution while the soldiers outside sing a drunkards’ chorus — most effective this; her sentence to be burned to death, the singin Angels and of the People as a , and a splen- did apotheosis, » her, whom Heaven hath el The musical tre oan of Arc” runs far a accepted canons of Orat The work ts full of modern ha nies, It is in It has moments that are If Mr. Bossi has not kept dramatic. of others, 1 do work will wear well, who shall say upon a first hearing? ‘It surely should be presented agai Of the soloists, Marie Sundelius was successful as Joan perhaps because of ja certain naiveto in her voice that | fitte ed the peasant girl. Morgan King- ather hard as the Archangel 1, the Duke of Alencon and pity his voice joesn’t take on mor |inherent quality. Cl the Archbishop of Rheims, the Mayor of Rouen, ayd Pierre Cauchon, espe- olally as the latter, was effective, Tho other soloists were Grace D, North- rup, Rose Bryant, Master Lewis Per- kinson and William Denham Tucker, Charles A. Baker waa the organist, the Australian pl- ean winusual pro- at Grainger, 23 3: Flute’ got its first per- formance of the season at the Metro- Magic |politan Ope: Mozart's 1 | faults in v Pamina, beautiful to the eye, was disappointing to the ear. Frieda Hem- pel, who has come into her own this | year, was altogether satist: as the | Queen of the Night. 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