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...Lonely." It was a big week for Edis. Just a few nights before Thaïs, she had sung for the Paris Opéra's younger and less gaudy sister, the Opéra-Comique. It was a performance to deter anyone with a less unrelenting ambition. In the heat and humidity, the Opéra-Comique's production of La Traviata was so languid that it threatened to expire with each bar. The tenor bleated woefully and the rest of the cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost...
...Director Hirsch had another surprise coming from Edis. After her performance of Thaïs last week, he went backstage to praise her, said: "Of course, I cannot congratulate you on your first performance of Thaïs. You have sung it, I suppose, many times." Said Edis: "You asked me one day if I had ever sung Thaïs and I said yes. Well, I hadn't-except in my dreams...
...unhappy business about my singing the Lord's Prayer." London critics, who considered the song (by Albert Hay Malotte) in bad taste, had vigorously lambasted her that morning. Unfortunate details noted by the Daily Express: she had dedicated the piece to "the people of Britain," and sung it "with the line about 'trespasses' changed to 'forgive us our debts...
...longtime church organist and head of the conservatory of music at the College of Wooster (Ohio), Professor Gore divides the church music he scorns into two broad classes. One kind is "soft purrs from the organ, a gentle humming from the choir, hymns sung slowly and glueily and ... a maudlin ditty played sotto-voce on out-of-tune chimes," the whole being calculated to "lull the listener into a dream state." The other kind is erotic music calculated to excite the listener into a state of unholiness...
...grammar and syntax, not one in a thousand knows its esthetics." Good church music, the professor believes, besides being written by the best composers, must either: 1) be set in a musical style that does not sound at all like secular music (i.e., the unaccompanied Gregorian chants-still sung in many a Catholic and Anglican church); or 2) have its secular elements "assimilated and purged of their worldly connotations" (i.e., the cantatas, Passions and organ works of Bach...