Miss ELENA GERHARDT was born in Leipsic on November 11, 1883. At the age of sixteen she began to study singing with Mrs. Marie Hedmont, and was her pupil for four years. When she was twenty years old, she made her first public appearance in Leipsic. Since then she has given Lieder concerts in leading European cities, and has sung a few times in opera. She made her first appearance in the United States at New York, January 9, 1912.

She gave a song recital in Boston, January 12, 1912, and her programme included songs by Franz, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Wolf. At her second recital, January 18, she sang songs by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Wolf, Strauss.

SCENA, "DIE KRAFT VERSAGT" ("MY STRENGTH IS SPENT"), FROM "DER WIDERSPENSTIGEN ZÄHMUNG" ("THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"), ACT IV., SCENE 3 HERMANN GOETZ

(Born at Königsberg, December 7, 1840; died at Hottingen, near Zürich, December 3, 1876.)

"Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung" ("The Taming of the Shrew"), a comic opera in four acts, the text freely arranged by Joseph Viktor Widmann from Shakespeare's comedy, music by Hermann Goetz, was produced at Mannheim on October 11, 1874.

The first performance in the United States was in English at the Academy of Music, New York, January 4, 1886,-first night of the American Opera Company. Baptista, W. H. Hamilton; Katharine, Pauline L'Allemand; Bianca, Kate Bensberg; Hortensio, Alonzo E. Stoddard; Lucentio, W. H. Fessenden; Petruchio, W. H. Lee; Grumio, E. J. O'Mahony; a Tailor, John Howson. Conductor, Theodore Thomas.

The Scena sung at this concert-Adagio, E-flat minor, 4-4, and Allegro moderato, G-flat major, 4-4-is the third scene in the fourth act. "Katharine, overcome by Petruchio's violence in the scene where he finds fault with every dish served up to him, soliloquizes about her love for him and her intention to change her previous shrewish demeanor."

Die Kraft versagt, des Kampfes bin ich müde.
Und wie ein Schiff im Seesturm untergeht,
So stirbt des kühnen Muthes letzter Schimmer
In dem Orkane seines Zorns dahin.

Sind Weibes Waffen doch Strohhalmen gleich!
Wo ist mein Stolz? Wie bin ich jetzt so weich!
Und hass' ich ihn? O nein! welch' Wort, ihn hassen!
Mein Leben wollt' für ihn ich lassen.

O könnt' ich ihn versöhnt und milde seh'n!
Sonst muss in seinem Zürnen ich vergeh'n.

Es schweige die Klage!

In Dehmuth es trage,

Was noch so Schweres er dir beschliesst!
In freundlichem Scheine

Winkt dir nur eine,

Nur eine Hoffnung, die dir's 'versüsst:

Das ihn die Arme

Zuletzt erbarme,

Dass ihre Dehmuth ihn endlich rührt.

O Wonnegedanke!

O Glück ohne Schranke!

Dass ihn die Liebe an's Herz mir führt.

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My strength is spent, of fighting I am weary.
And, as a ship goes down before a storm,
So does the latest glimmer of my courage
Before the wildness of his anger die.

Are woman's weapons only made of straw?
Where is my pride? Why am I now so weak?
Abhor I him? Oh, no! Abhor I cannot!
My life for him I would surrender.

I would that I could see him placable!
For else beneath his anger must I pine.

Keep back lamentation
With meek resignation,

And bear the trial he bids thee bear!
To calm thy repining,

One hope is shining;

With thee it lingers, and sweetens care.

Blest expectation,

That such resignation

His heart to mercy at last may move.
O thought full of pleasure!

O joy out of measure!

That I hereafter may have his love.*

This Scena was sung in Boston at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 22, 1894, by Miss Gertrude Franklin (now Mme. Salisbury).

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