New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-03
MIISIC-DRAMA---ART,
r,xru SYMPHONY CONCERT.

SIXTH SYMPHONY CONCERT.
.,~.h concert of the New-iork Symphony
-, tool Mace last evening at Steinway man,
.,.,.cted An audience which filled the room'
- r.ve frequent expression to ITS pleasure ana
..,.t,ction. This is the programme which Dr' Dam
ro.ch selected:
oxe,turc--. Flying Dutchman ',.......... " amer
Ana" Flying Dueh,aar; ~, '''''''''
overture-"CsrDavsl Roman ".''''''''''' p ~
ooe- Sig Gssssi and male chorus r.o,,o,.on
seventh symphony .....--......-.-. ''-'''-'-' =, -.
Tho proOramme was rich III that music Vi
..,ong and broad effects and vigorous rather IMAM
. .-.ceful or expressiye-ln when Dr' bd'n'OS'"
% delight. and in the performance OF which
- !. most successful. Whatever be the cause
-h.tber music of this sort is more to his taste
"a vhether he is in greater sympathy with II;
-..,hsr that nervous energy which he so abnn-
s...I nosseses infects his players. or whether DIS
.hSAs of conducting are calculated To secure
-, and vigor in his band rather than del'cacy,
-. and refipement-it rs an unqnestona0le TACT
a.. tbs hest work OF this orchestra, under this
anctor has been found in its p'rioiman'e s OF
-rs,c Of a somewhat noisy ahd bo'sterons
.h.rarter and it's worst IN compositions ol inc
s,ro.ite Sort For the most part, Dr. Dam
.o.cb Was peculiarly at home in his music last
,;oh,. at apy rate during the frat hall oil the con-
80. The ylgorous Flying Dutchman overture.
,h ts striking contrasts aud Its sonorous lnstru-
,.r,ation the splendidly dramatic scene from the
80. opera. aud Berlozs brilliant "Carnava
pmanp overture, expressive. at least In the latter
80 ~ boisterous and unbrldled mrth, were all
o. H,ted 10 call out his best powers as a con-
doctor. and they formed altogether the nost salts
factory part OF the concert.
Berliozs "Cmq Mai" setting of all ode by be-
\ fl.n ia
s;.,;rct novety on the programme. The theme was
an. In call out the best work of both poet anu nluSl
.;.n and it is little surprising find that neither
AS made more OF 1T. B'Iaugers words are the Ia
,,.nt Of An old soldier of Napoleon's who
=. ...,r,;,o IN France from exile in India, and
vho learns of his hcros death his ship passes 81
m.,... on ,ts bom,ward voyage. lie mOurus first
io fall. then for his DEATH but III strains WHICH,
~ far "a conld be gathered from the translation
,unned on the programme neither very touching
M, vary effective BerhOz however, has made use
NJ ALI the dramatic effects which the verse
Afforded him. and has composed LOT IL
music which is sometimes very p"'h''"'
sometimes strikingly dramatic. and always sc'reu
With that effectiveness OF which he was at All uh's
40 great master. The chorus sings one or two
verse; but most OF the vocal part Is allotted To inc
baritone; and it is accompanied by the orchestra
4bronUhout. Ii is Thoroughly interesting, per
hans deserves the place which Dr'
Damrosch gave it his programme
for 1t possess besides passages OF grea' beauty
but it Is very sombro and. was 10 becxrected from
its subject preemineutly melancholy. 1t hardly ac-
corded with the selections between which II was
placed Signor Galass~ rrb singing lieut. IL great
charm and il Is TO this that II owed most oil It's AT
trsctiveDess.
The seventh SYMPHONY. which Closed the con-
cert was gwen with spirit and force. but with a
peelect of attention to details which made IT once III
n while less effective than it should have been
Siguor Galassi was 10 splendid voice. and sang adj
miraby all throu gb the evening. The scene from
che " Flying Dutchman" was given as we are not
likely to hear il again in long while for hc brought
to 1 such "a combination of nue qualities as ~ not
often to be met vlth-a noble voice, "A perfect
sly L. fine dramatic instincts, and breadth ana ai'-
illness OF delivery. lie even better III TIE beIlIz
music because IL belongs 10 "a school with which ho
eeeips to be more familiar II not more III syupaihv
His singing of it altogether I'll" bIght-
Set feature of the evenings performance. lie
was exceilently supported bv the orchestra IN boih
his selections and IN The "CDq Mai the chorus dli
good service as well. The performance was de
Cidedy the best OF the srason. aud u II one on
which Dr. DamrOsch and his men have reason 10
congratulate themselves. Tor IT marked decided
advance i'll excellence.