New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-28
Burlington Free Press.
MUSIC.
WHAT Is DOING IN BOSTON

WHAT Is DOING IN BOSTON.
The Boston Musical Year BookD for N.
season of 18S465 is record Of the musical dones -
the NewEngland Capital during the season Just ends
compiled by Mr. G. IL Wilson study of its pages =,
abes one to form pretty good idea Of the quantity ana
quality Of the musical pabuium supplied to the c,zsns
OF Boston, well of their tastes and the tendepca
OF the concert organizations Boston has long plumed
herself on the excellence of her and the dep
OF her musical culture 1t would be little less thar cruz
If We to this record to prove that her concers
last inferior in artistic value and iuteres
to those OF New-Y0rk, In the deparx.
ment In which heretofore the metropolis
has been inclined to concede superiority her-he d.
partment of choral music For decades the advantage
In orchestral performances has been with New.York
We have had scores OF frstcass nstrumentasts whsn
Boston has had individuals, and we have had Mr.
Thomas, who has been host in himself Ia
elevate the standard Of our orchestral concerts
and develop the skill OF the players. But our chora
organizations have wanted stability. IL has seemed
almost impossible to awaken and maintain for any,
length Of time the social spirit which is essential to the
prosperity of singing societies. New-YOrx a
given up TO traffic. its population shifts about
continually and its musical energies arc mo
nopOlized by those persons who make music
their vocation This the essential difference between
the musical activities of the cities Hghclass pro
fessional musicians have directed the our AZ
their leading; in Boston the people have taken more
active part themselves in the music making, conse
queuty the schemes set out in Mr. Wilson's book show
greater conservatism than those offered to public
during the same period. The generosity Of Colonel
Higginson since he established the symphony Orchestra
has done much 0t the standard Of Bostons instrument
tai concerts they yet fall much short of the
conducted here and in Brooklyn by Mr.. Thomas. Mean
while NewYork has taken up choral music with greater
energy than before. it therefore happens that
comparative view OF the in the two cities shows
that have had the generous and the moro I'm
teresting performances in this field well as In thu
other
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave twentyfour
concerts and the same number OF public rehearsals I'M
der the direction OF Herr Wilhelm Gerieke of Vienna
imported by Colonel Higgnson. The programmes Of
the concerts invite comment. Nearly all the works
were OF the old German school, the only non-German
COMPOSERS who had hearing being BerliOz Cherubin
Gade List, Rubinsten and Saintsaens. Seven
orchestral works introduced to the public and six
new solos of various kinds Compositions By American
musicians ignored completely they were by
Philharmonic Society. -Four New York artists
Juea Miss Agnes b. Huntington Miss Emily Winan,
anu Franz Remmertz. The Handel and Haydn Society
devoted its SEVENTEEN season 70 celebration OF the b
centenary OF Handles birth Three concerts were given
At the first The Messiah was sung for the seventy
sixth time by the SOcety at the third Israel IN Egypt
for the seventh me while the second was gwen up 10
selections from the masters works These concerts
Club, b. j. Lang conductor outlined its fourteenth
and three concerts. the last or which was
devoted exclusively to music composed by resident
musicians. The Cecilia also conducted by Mr.. Lang
four concerts the being the society," mirth
The works performed were schumanns $ Paradise and
the PERI" Dvora<s "stabat Mater" aud Mendessohn
"Cimachts Wedding" (as q eantata aud with pianos
forte accompanimeno The BoylstOn Club, under tho
leadership Of George L. OsgOod gave three concerts and
repeated two or them. II the clubs twelfth season
and It increased It's repertory with sehumanns
Page and Princess" and Rhenbersers Legeni or ST
Christoforus."
ton was visited by tnr.e opera. !, e 9
"Troyatore" Faust" La Sonuambula" AHA" and
"RgoleIto'i Mr. MaplesoG =" La sonnambnla,s "Iray-
lettO" Aida MARTA" Puritani." Faust Linda
di ChamOuni' and " FayOrita"j tue German company,
from the NewYork Metropolitan House. der Prophet
"Urpheus" Die wakure" and Die Weisse Dame"
In the symphony and miscellaneous concerts OF the
lows, the figures including prescriptions Of their works.
Bach, 80; Beethoven 40; Beroz, 81 Handel 40 az NUM-
10; List, Is, Mendelssohn. %; Moza.t II;
RaH ID Rubnstein, % Schubert, %; Schumann, 81
by Boston musicians were heard for the first tme bus
scattered through the schemes OF the miscellaneous CON
COMPOSITIONS by the following American com
f. H. Bracket. q. w. Chadwick, q. l.. Capen l.. G. r.
s. +. Emery, Arthur Foote, C. Lavaee, f. Lieblne
l. Mas, ". Mason, f. A. MaeD0well, Edmund NeuperJ
john Orth, q. L. 0sgood, J. X Paine, j. c. D. Parker
Petersea, G. schlesDger. T. Il: Sherwood, W. H. sher
Mr.. Wilson has attempted append to his
local record list OF the first per.
lormance OF important new works In Europe and
the United States. This list contains several errors for
instance: Governs q" Welsh symphony was not brought
out by the symphony Society on February 81 but by the
phOny IN NO ~ which Is still in Ms. was played yeas
by Mr. Thomass orchestra III the Central PARK Gar
den no mention Is made Of NEEDLES symphonic Varis
TONS Berliozs "frista, g. renpleton stronys sym
phOuic poem "Undine," Rubinstein's Heroic Faa-
lsla and Tshaikowskys serenade for strings. ali dgnr
fed works heard here for the first time last season