New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-16
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MUSIC-THE DRAMA.

TIE SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS.
MIR. Van der Stucken's second Sunday after.
noon concert took place in Steinway Hall yesterday. II
the number of persons attendance and the manifesto
ons of pleasure were ihfable indication Of popular
In tho enterprise would BIO safe to that Mr.
Van der Stucken projecting these entertainments had
supplied n real But numerous audience this
son does not necessarily vouch TO. strong financial sup
port The programme yesterday was as follows:
Concerto in E aat op rs ............ Beethoven
'0"''' ~ p Panoiorte. Sir August Hyestod.
IS &i 81 u.s.: Son .an Marriage of Figaro" Mozart
M Ms SDsc soprano MIS-, Francesca Guthrie
Swedish Mayer
pianOiOrte solos waltz. op. ii. No i.......:cScpn
su,,e ia Korrirane F nyo'.o NJ widor.
Prelude. Ala MarcIs; Tempo di Mszurka Adssioi
scherzandO Valse Lento Finale
Tho COED music In this scheme began with the march
composed for the coronation Of the King Of Norway
1873 and ended with the Mozart air. The
an arid waste with but single oasis-the hrst waltz
of Chopins in fiat major, which Herr Hyested played
instead OF the second Op A. which was announced on
the printed programme II the first time that Mr.
Van der stuckens plan to acquant the public with
music seemed proftess Mr.. Mas and his orchestral
nocturne large apparatus to say what II IL was
to be said might have been said on the panofore Tho
contents piece do not call for more varied or elo
ouent utterance The bit OF Scandinavian music is LITTLE
better than commonplace and the Wldor whom we know
I'm the organ symphonies altogether unrecon gable
in the closing suite. I: evident that Mr..
Van der stricken had runmased among his new
music to find something which presented no difficulties
70 the band and was adapted TO the unexactnS tastes Of
"A sunday audience.
Herr Hylestcd. who played the pianoforte on this &C.
casiOn made his hrst appearance" before an American
audience. He young Dane, who was heard not long
ago in Great Britain where he seems, in some unac-
c0unable manner, to have robbed the newspaper re.
viewers OF al sense OF Judgment Ills bearing ana
appearance the stage promising, his pr0nle sug
costing likeness with Schumann yonug man but
the expectations raised by such fancy are not fulfilled
IN his performances Herr Hyesed brings 10 revelation
from across the He has suhcient
nimbleness finger to shine an eXecutant II Ills ma
uipulatiOn were directed by sound JUDGMENT; But nc
uses pedal IN Il sOyenly manner, as TO dur his
work until frequently tue notes are unrecognlzaDe His
touch T. irregular and lie falls TO bring out the tone OF
lis instrument. He has two extremes forte ana piano.
with scarcely IA graduation OF tone between aud his piano
barely perceplibe. His performance OF the agnih
cent concerto by Beethoven Was not OIL KIND TO give
rlcasule to cOLuOsseurs. Better qualities OF play ap-
peare IN the Chopin Waltz IN which he displayed lie
ightfully crisp in tile ripping runs, the airy
denccs which interrupt the fist broad melody. We shall
expect work from him In the concerts which have
been planned for him la conjunction with NJ Musln by
Mr. Ruben.