New-York tribune., 1869-06-28
PEACE JUBILEE SUMMED UP.
A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF THE NET RESULT
Second Article.

rard to their opinion and yet perforce with Difference
In the composition Of the programmes TOT hgher taste
which 1t is to ignore and having run the eye
rapidly over the concerts OF the i've days. We are pre-
pared for a brief summary Of
III The Net ResUlL-As occasion, OF new klnd OF
unexampled magnitude unless In semibarDarous times
or Oriental countres)-whatever 1t may have been mu'
Eicay-the Jubilee q success All acknowledge H.
not without JOY though at times 1t may come over
soe OF US again IN the character 1t wore from tho hrst
as strange overshadowing apparltion, vast work Of
ylfulDess which had ntrnscally, Ideally no right to
he As man eminent in letters and In public LIE re-
marked to yesterday, the amount OF 1t Is this: "A
ridiculous plan redeemed by magnificent success It's
friends have perfect right to be wild over It, Many an
unbeever wholly in great part converted, or
nt least reconciled 10 1t. 1t has become splen-
did Fact which has to be accepted II the protector ana
his fellow architects were wrong attempting the mpOs
sible in many points of view the undesirable, they
a.bulded better than they knew" 1t f-the ball
once set in motion rather tho vigorous first twist
once given at the heart and center of the revolving
and soon formdably expanding maestrOm-as the dream
and the intense will Of one, magnetzing few, theh
many passed by degrees into popular movement as
Buming almost national dimensions, until the very ar
was full Of tsoon every particle and feature OF H. as ~
were, underwent ga sea change"-in the temperlng'
Transforming vtalizing and ideazlng element OF the
now best life and genius of great, free Peoples having
adopted almost before they knew It, ana hardy Know
Ing what was they meant that 1t should De American
In some sense which they could be proud Of and thatthe
biggest gathering and musical array In human history in
spite Of It's extrava should still denote us truly
and be an earnest TO the world Of what an ambition
for the true glory Of great nation, what seepless
Ideal Of an higher type Of Citizenship and Of So
ciety what energy and wealth Of means, what zeal
for culture what aprncpe of order and deep love of har
mony in spite OF dversltes and the wide space
over which we spread. And so it came to pass And
NewEpgland, Boston, the place for it, We need not
eho has
edged that such Feast could have succeeded nowhere
else but here.
MusicalY, the Jubilee had It's chief triumph in precise
y those selections which the least purely musical
of account Art interest earnest musicIoYers
The parts addressed to these were certainly
not great and yet more successful than they
for the most part had anticipated Reasons pror were
against It, and the result does not dsprove their sound
ness.
Consider In the first place, the mingnng Of ncongru
ous nternecne clements in the programmes, have
seen An ncOngruity involved in the 0lired
aaOtives Of the plan. There lay the knot Of the
difficulty: the project ambiguous; music needs
simple motive To fire the maginations Of 500 people
and bring them ali together something other than good
music had to be held up to them pure feast Of high
Art could not do it, could the genius of high Art do
otherwise than run away aud hide its face from such
publicity as that On the her hand when 1t came to |
the ambitious promise Of combining all the vocal and
ehesra Of the land conductors OF high stand
ing artists sehoOled in Philharmonic concerts, accus
toned to the Interpretation Of the great masters, how
pould their cooperation be had without giving them ft
work to do making the occasion worthy OF them You
have them for Mozart Beethoven, and Schubert but
not for Anvil Choruses and "YanSee Doodle" only. |
The pride Of their profession, and what |
there is select, superior in It, has to be respected
They must appear to work for Art, else will |
they come Now, the question was not simply Of Mu- |
steal Festival but also Of Peace Jubilee Doubtless
sources Of the land combined in collective effort
found sincere opportunity in the return of Peace. |
Monster Concerts his passion; Peace and Country
also were no strangers TO his heart Glorious and sub
lime Il seemed to him to make the two ends meet; what
IN electric chain OF sparks brightness unspeakable shot
through his brain bringing Of those two poles tOther
Ehen, again. the circle widened, less ideal motives
came in the Jubilee would give Boston "srch an adver
ttsement as it had" trade wOulS aow 10 u.s. &C.,
dhough sburnt their fngers). These motives were
most openly avowed and the sr zeal to hundreds of sub
scrbers WAS li'"hiy Pu' these grounds. AL very
well; but not lor NUS" Symphonies promised to
conciate the n~ cal; guns and anvis national airs
&c, to draw ne million and make so huge a project
practice e We seen how the two got on ogetncrj
how he anvils killed the symphony, and now hafu was
pstinence from anvils when classical programme was
sor once allowed its cOurse.-There could not Do
beter Illustration of the law in programmemaKng' 70
h,e wa have alluded: that elements iDcongruous DC
,e aDart as damaging If destructive TO each Other
zach piece for its effect is much dependent on what goes
eore and after sensat Ona pieces sure 10 De ehcoou
rob all that follow OF all fair chance Ior aVVeH
,ion or effect It is the art OF pioture-hahg
ing as applied to We are far from saying haV al
te good things we're lost; a few OF them were hghy
ENJOYABLE to thousands fayOrably placed some OF the
neble choruses no doubt TO all one cheering sgn' 100
oud be read in all this the indication, spite OF
iuperfct realization Of many good things u sho"eu
how strong and deeply seated how widespread the o'e
Of the highest kinds Of music has become In our com
nupitv since it was found essential to concate II ana
defer TO 1t so largely in these programmes
Aeousucally or asthetcay, with regard TO space ana
or ~ ru,ohers the Festival was welcome for It's OPP
nortunites to test some problems. The vast han had
beep propounced good for sound because single voice.
violin could be heard in its furthest corners But the
walls bul around the utmost limits OF the range OF
rope voice we're far outside that Of many voces-two
voices 60 no further than One ten thousand no iurther
than an ordinary chorus the only gain is In intensity ana
quality 40 far as they do reach Vast volumes OF tone
we're swallowed up in those great spaces smohered by
flags and awnings or leaked away through creyces be-
fore they reached the ear Neither the reach the loud
ess nor the sublime sense Of and volume were az
all proportioned TO the colossal numbers II dscords
ineouahtjes were swallowed up IN the general mass
so TOO. on the other hand, many true sounds
must have neutralzed each other III
rapid. complicated movements, too, there was a
confused Impression due to the fragment OF second
difference in tho time It takes two sounds starting at
ponts 300 feet apart 10 reach the ear, even supposng
perfect unity in execution AT any rate the general tes
tmony is that all these instruments and voices IN thst
space we're not telling not stimulating 10 the sense
or mind not as startling in the sudden chmaxes not as
preoccupying and absorbing 10 involuntary attention. as
few hundred IN ten times smaller hail. Music as such,
acting by ITSELF without other Reinforcement to the
listeners Imagination. did not speak to musical people
with fbe nover a has done n moro ordinary circum-