New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-01
THE COMING SEASON.

There is always piQuant uncertainty about the
Italian Opera season i'll New-York, and the public
after reading the prospectus, waits serenely to Know
what if is going TO hear when the doors actually
omen This year we are grayely assured that III
consequence of the very brisk subscription the man.
aeer finds himself justified in reducing the price of
what now remains unsold 50 that the populace may
indulge in opera boxes at $500 instead of 81 ,OO0
Tins the opera ceases to be monopoly of tho
proud aud Mr. Mapleson appears III the favorte
role of the Peoples Friend.
Curiosity about the opera having been some
what blunted by circumstances to which we
need not more particularly refer, the
nrincina features of interest in the coming musical
season will be found as usual in the announcement
of the important orchestral and choral organizations
which give New York such a high place among the
great art centres of the world All OF them appear 10
be more than ordinarily active aud ambitious. The
recent Festival proved powerful stimulus TO
energy aud enterprise among performers-as such
affairs almost always do-ald there are many lndl-
cations of increased interest among the public.
The novelty which will be AWAITED with the great
est curiosity the production OF specimens OF ag-
ner's Parsifal." Both Theodore Thomas and DR..
Damrosch have bought portions OF this work non
the German publishers who control the orchestral
score and all these extracts arrived stimuli aneOusy
in manuscript the full score Is not prlntedJ few
Thomas
tant selection from the close of the third act, in
GLIDING the scene of the baptism and the - Good
Friday Spell (Chartreitags Zduber) with vocal part
for Porisfa[ and Garnem0Rz and DR.. DamrOschs
share consists of the picturesque finale OF the first
act Our earliest opportunities TO hear any ot TINS
remarkable music will be on the Sd and 4th OF No
vember when Thomas, with an orchestra OF 12O
will give the selection from the third act, at the
opening rehearsal and concert OF the Brooklyn
IL,
Philharmonic Society, and DR.. Damrosch' on the
same dates will produce the finale OF the inst act
in New-York. The New-YOrk Philharmonic So
cietv viii play the VOrspiel week later. The
SYMPTOMS Society removes this year to the Acad-
emy of Music. A symphony by Max Bruch is an
uounced as one of its fresh attractions for the
SEASON hat mono of the full programmes have yet
been made public.
Tho Me-, York Philharmonic Society promises
two nov elites for the opening namely, Mr.. Frederick
II. Covers Scandinavian Symphony and the
Parsifal Gorspiel Miss Thursby will sing; and
Beethoyen's Seventh Symphony forms the second
part of the bill. This is beautiful arrangement OF
p.cces offering at once elevation brightness anu
Variety Mr. COwen is one OF the most earnest and
gifted of the younger English composers and hh
symphony has been highly successful not only ID
Z his native country but also in Vienna where per
hans the success OF an English symphonst is mofe
oSNA N~NN~
il possibly still finer and more thoroughly enjoya'
Die than the first A new symphony by Dvoralt
will be given in the course OF the season.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic Society has taken
step which we should like to see followed IN New
York it has increased the number of its concerts to
eight, with eight public rehearsals In the course
Of the season IT promises to give the SIXTH seventh
and eighth symphonies OF Beethoven one each by
Mozart, Haydn and Schumann, the ninth sympho-
ny of Schubert. John X. Paines Spring symphony,
etc. The two Philharmonic Societies have an
bounced the folio wing programmes:
-Y0RK-YEsI CoScRKT
Scandinavian symphony '.--.......-.F Ii. Cowen
ana id lss IhhoDyl
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Symphony ia A, No. Beethoven
KEw-YoRK-sECoSD CONCERT
Jupiter symphony Mozart
concerto No iMr Josehy) ................ Brahms
symphony IN Is nat NO I---.- .ocnuhianh
DEO0kLYs-FIRsI CONCERN
overture LodOsks" .Cherubini