New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-22
MUSICAL NOTES.

4 lady in Brooklyn has determined to do
something for the musical culture OF the people by giving
establish regular series Of matinee entertainments but
n, scheme has been given up and less ambitious one
concert viii bc given at the Brooklyn Academy next
Wednesday at o'clock The artists VIII be Miss IIol
admission VIII he 30 cents, with reserved seats up to 20
cents.
Thomass fourth symphony concert takes
symphony in c. No. - (which has oLy once before been
no 467. KjcheD, played by Mr.. William Mason
Beeih0yen'a COriolanus overture, and an entirely new
work by Ra. iust performed for the first time in Ger
many Ii is SUITE in the Hungarian STYLE consisting Of
movements, oil Of them striking and richly coloed
We doubt II will attract great deal OF notice
and be generally rcishei
The programme at the 9Th of Mr.. Hamerik's
symphony at the Peabody Institute IN BALTIMORE
consisted entirely OF. American and English works
name " Il symphony in ID major, by Mr.. q. Boise of
this city, Mr.. A. H. PeaSe's pianC-forte concerto OF
which have already SpOken; S,elndae Bennttts
"Naiads overture and English songs rendered by Miss
Beebe. Both symphony and concerto were very well re-
cciyed The baltimore Butlciin says: I've had known
Mr. Pease heretofore Wrier OF very poetic ballads
with rich and scholarly aecompannents but did not
know OF his mastery 81 orc ~tIal compositions nor OF big
rarc skill a. u pianist. He is the best pianist that
New-lork hos yct cent Ia us, not excepting, fat
tiSon Holman, or Mills His technique Is rs good, ana
hs inspiration much liner This + Nat eoneerto has
Instrumentation is very heavy, ana we are Inclined To-
think that the composition would De- improved by less OF
utt effects varied orchestral color and lighter
usace of brass and Instruments OF percussion The piano
p.r Is admirably written, bat in deilcaie passages II Is
nxaVf q
and we think that Mr. Pease has not yet reached Dis
maturity ms a composer. His studies have, wo
bclieye been chiefly In Germany; but he has
not modelled himself on any other composer nor
even upon German traditions We m mirly
claim HIM distncyely American writer, and ~ yet
the pioneers The other work OF great interest is
the symphony by Mr. q. Boise, written especially for this
concert The writer calls II symphonic poem, In
Memoriam' But is symphonic form, and more
analogous to the Fantastique and tue Harold sym
phonrs OF Berol which emhody poetic idea than 10
The symphonic poems of List and Rubnstcin Tue work
gains n sad interest from tDc TACT that the composer Is
now III the South of France, dying oI consumption lilo
has probably put his last creative energies into this
symphonic poem and II II be ieNerlsh, or dcsPahg,
haf uttered OF fraymentary II is but an echo Oi his
fragnenary hafuttered young life. Oberon was writ
ten by Won Weber while he sinking under consump-
tion and called the deatlless creation or dying
man. Mozart put his last pulsatons of life into b, n-
mortal Regte. and died before he ever heard II. II -
snid that Mr Boise has dono the same tMng-perlHps
this il why he calls his work In MemOriam The nFst
movement is NIL OF genius and originality. IL reminds
one now and then BeroE OF Moyerbeer but not 10
the eNtent OF imitation either OF Thought or treatment
II shows great ingenuity in the handling OF the
reeds and flutes, appreciation OF the color OF
the yIons aud 'cc Tile SchSrO IL wild and bizarre re-
yerlsh and ierky. IL Is scherSoif the erm were
allowable n:ht say Sche.iss'no 10 mas the chart
OF novelty and originality, though Il lacks melody anu
beauty IL has great Yalue, TOO us lon ~
| tho next movement, which Is an adagio-a Dead
March, This also Is fcyeush and pitched IN the staln
OF ntensos grief grief keener than the funeral mnen
of Chopin, rather the sharp cry Oh anguish tn t W.
music came from the depths OF genuine feeling
could redeem IL from the charge OF oVerstraineu sha
theatrical Tho deep reed tones ana the pa ,
aud clangor Of cymbals verge upon the nelouramc %
the movement has like the Others the stamp OF ue.i
and original GERMS The last movement Is tue Des,
ccpt perhaps the first; ana II mas gea'e, nrr Il
beauty than any OF them. Upon the whole ths WORK
one that we can proudly claim as American us ias
ma we'll as s beauties rooted in an original ANA sudS
| cious American genius"