New-York tribune., 1872-09-30
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA
MUSIC.
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THE OPERA
Tho nrocramme for the first week Oh itaii',i,
onera IA now officially announced Sme huuos W"
mako her debut this evening as StNoa IN - N nii0"
81 an Iv,,e Ine,, the new robust tenor Abrugnedo
|,,1o, ard the new baritone Moriami (Nelnsko)' NJ
,oo, "a IN lie the Don Pedro. On "Wednesday Mnc.
Tucca sings in Faust" and vizzani and sparapahl WI"
make their debus. well as the contrailo oeho "i
NJ Jopet win be the Mphfsofele Miss Kellogg has ner
rentree on Friday. the opera being La iia''"'"
THE RUBINSTEIN CONCERTS, o
The great feature of the concert on Friday
r,bt vyas Rubnstein's performance Of tho schumann
Coero IN minor and the Beethoven Sonata In c ma
40, The lonr and beautiful concerto IL well known In
NewYork Almost every player OF celebrity has under
taken IT, Miss Mehg played it for the Philharmonic
Society last year Miss Krebs made success Win IL
the wear before II taxes all the best qualities OF the
artlstquickness OF appreciation, fneness OF touch
seutiment force, dextery, and endurance. That Ru-
binsten excels in all these qualities need hardly say
His sympathy with Schumann's genius seems moreover
to be perfect He gave therefore such an Interpretation
of this noble work as never hope to hear from
any other hands, filling 1t with new life ana spiennor'
and making speak as in tones more eloquent than II
ever uttered before And yet We are not sure put
he even surpassed this magnificent performance wheh
he came to the Sonata The spirit OF Beethoven, IN all
its awful beauty, was revealed there. There was no
criticism to be made upon 1t one had only to bow ones
head and admire. A Suite Of his own, consisting of
saIaband, a Passepied, Courante, and wonderful
Gavotte came next in interest This was In Bubnscins
most magnificent vein, closing with one OF those unap
proaehable rapid fortissmo passages with which he 80
exctes his audiences.
Herr wienawsk played Beethoyens Romanza In
accompanied by tho orchestral with exquisite refine
ment and sentiment and good broad free style, ana
gave also POlOnaise Of his own and the Carnival OF
Venice" The programme in fine was OF high character
throughout containing nothing common except Hun
garan song by Nile Ormeny. Mile Liebhart substituted
for the ballad previously announced for her the Vol
che sapee" from the Marriage OF Figaro" and gave
also with Mile. Orneny the Zephyr" Duet from the
Same opera.
There was immense audience at the matinee on sat
urday when Rubinstein and Wienawsh played together
Rnbinstens Sonata for piano and VIOLIN This week the
concerts will be Tuesday Thursday and Friday even
ings On Friday Rubnstein is to play the Kreu'zer
| Sonata.
THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The programme of the New-York Philhar-
monic Society the S1s has just been issued
The plans announced by us few weeks ago have been
somewhat modified generally for the better Inc Drst
public rehearsal is TO take place on the LIST OF NoVempe
and the first concert the 10th The novelties an
| nounced for the season Haydn's "Oxford" sym
| phopy a new symphony by Raf CNO 4. in minor) a
new symphony by Gade mo. 8, In minor, new over
ture by EdmannshOfer e. Prinzessin Ise'1. new over
| ture by Mr. Matzka e. GalileD Beethovens overture,
The ConsecratOn Of the House, and the Pastoral Song
! (Hirienqesan0) from Liszts "Chrisus" OF standard
sympbonies we TO have Beethoven's 9Th and Tth'
schumann's No. lin @ major). Rubinsteins Ocean,"
Berliozs Romeo and Juliet" and Liszts "Dante;' OF
| overtures Mozart's "MIgc Flute" Sehumann's" Man
| fred" Webers Oberon" and Wagner's "Tannhaiiser"
and the VOrspiel from "Tristan and Isolde" The i'm
porant announcement Is made that Rubinstein will play
| at the first concert.
The system OF reserying seats, which has given so
much satisfaction for the last two seasons will be re-
aiDed Single seats for the season will be sold at the
usual offices the 14th of October at SIS each for the
season. This Of s. the previous rates.
but ii Is not much. The proscenum boxes will be
sold by the President Mr. Strong his office October
22 The other will be put mp at auction at the
Academy on October 2s at O'Clock y. M, at the mini
mum price of 500 for box holding four. and eco for
box holding SIX addition TO the price Of the admission
tickets This makes the minimum cost Of the boxes $50
| and 500 EACH a considerable advance on the former
rates, but fully justified by the high premiums COM
manded at the last sale.
Annual Report shows that this admirable society
is prosperous than ever before The receipts last
year $40 956 the expenditures including dividends
81 s2l; balance hand, 1882. AS result OF last sea-
sons operations the of $15,4S0 divided among
the orchestral $23SS paid 10 orchestral performers
not members OF the society; $3.50 divided among
eight solo artists; the conductor received s0Q and
rent consumed 81 $50.