Abstract

Music

Nearly all the nations represented in the Avenue of the Allies are also likely to be heard in the concert halls of New York. Even Japan, though her own music is as unlike as her language, is not overlooked. There are now at least two Japanese prima donnas on this side of the Pacific. Last Friday the Society of American Singers revived "Mikado" which, as everybody knows, sounds some genuine Japanese strains, and the same is true of the most popular of modern Italian operas, "Madama Butterfly." It was a little surprising that the later Orientalizing products of the French school were not more conspicuously represented in the two programs recently played at the Metropolitan Opera House by France's leading orchestra, the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, which has come over here for a tour of the U.S. and Canada under the auspices of the French Government.