New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-25
eMCSlCAL COMMENT.

great deal OF musical entertainment has been
crowded into tho last ten days in the obvious nope
of benefting from the circumstance that the MetO-
politan Opera did not figure as rival attraction 10
concerts. That season of hay making is now past or
VIII DO in two days, and henceforth till next spring
managers will have 10 consider the institution IN
uprer Broadway in all their local arrangements.
To-day and tomorrow full dress rehearsals OF The
Flving Dutchman, and THE Queen of Sheba' Will
DO held and on Wednesday the season Will begin.
1t Is doubtful whether a German season was ever
awai'el with greater interest Tho company Is a
strong one, and the newcomers, though young are
credited with excellent voices by those who have
hoard them al study The subscription list is larger
by over rs 600 than that of last year and is more
gene a. this being indicated by the fact that tho
number OF subscribers for single seats IS more numer
ous Tho repcrtory has been chosen with a view To
an appeal to all tastes, and the German, French and
Italian schools of composition will all have fair
trial Wagner will OF course not be neglected, but
his larger and maturer work will probably be held
hack until later in the season. Then, unless the
srns all fail they will be brought forward and, as
usual the contents of the exchequer will begin 10
grow Meanwhile the confirmed growlers az the
METROPOLITAN policy will have to find something else
TO scold about. Perhaps they will demand the per-
formance of " The Drum Major" or said Pasha"
There were features of the concert of the symphony
Society which took place last saturday night which
deserve mention, but not many of them. Mr.. dAl-
hort PLAYED Beethoven's Concerto In major, to
tbo delight Of everybody present capable of forming
an opinion as the merits of performance and the
amazement OF most Of them 1t was indeed a splendid
achievement no less remarkable for holiness and
strength OF conception than brlliancy of execution.
Mr. n Alberts performance the feature of notable
| excellence The new sernade by Felix Draeseke
which followed the concerto notably wearisome.
| Draeseke has been writing long time, but
his chief claim TO distinction is that he belonged to
| tho Wagner i,zt-von BueOw coterie In Germany
vben tho severest struggle between the old and new
snrlt in music took place. 1t IS possible that an
amable prompting was responsible for the presence OF
the serenade in the scheme OF a symphony socety's
| conccr.-say the desire to do reverence to an old
friendship between the composer and tho founder OF
| tbo symphony Society 1t can scarcely have been an
| exnecta,on that the music would give pleasure 10
IN, public Mr.. Damrosch has Incr ased the size OF
| his hand and now has control OF an excellent body
OF musicians.
Mention has several times been made in Tho Trlb-
| me OF tho concert projected by Mr. Thomas and a
| local committee OF management In aid of the tund
raising In Bonn for the restoration and preservation
of the house in which Beethoven was born
rho committee consists of Carl schuu
Theodore Thomas william steinway, Oswald
| Ottendorfer, Jesse Segman, +. Naumburg. H. r.
| Krehblel Edmund c. stanton, 4. Francis Hyde and
George william Curtis, and arrangements have been
| completed for grand concerl In stenway Hall on
the evening of sunday December Is. the eve OF the
| anniversary of BeethOven's BIRTH one hundred ahu
fifty nrstclass orchestra players, members OF the
Thomas Orchestra Philharmonic Society and the Metro
polan Opera orchestra, have volunteered their SGT
vices and helped By Mr.. Thomas, conducor Ma1SIS
will perform representative programme oil neo'ho
| yens music. ,,y.-,o. and upI,us
features will be given In the Metropolitan opcla
next sunday evening for the bcncht OF tne vio ne
OF the German Press Cub. Mr. Seldl VIII conuuo .H
musical portion of the entertainment Wiicn ,"lc
include a series of tableaus, with accompan, rug in .sn
| illustrating tho Folksongs OF many OF thc ha"o"
| OF the world. . ,xA. a., oner, of
| NIgnon will be given with Miss Constanla DonIt.'
MIS- Anna R,egl and Mr. Carl streitmann In the cast