Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
THE MUSIC WORLD.
Performance of the Boston symphony
Orchestral Club.
QUESTIONABLE USE OF A NAME.
Rich Treats by the Belgian Vielilist sni
the Beethovens.
LATR NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST

An audience of exceptional size and quail
ity assembled last Friday evening in the
handsome Dilworth Hall, at the Pennsylvs'
MIA College for Women, to hear the Boston
Symphony Orchestral Club in the following
programmeI
symphony in G major. Haydn
(Minueto, Allo. Motto. Trio-Alegro
di Molto)
Boston Symphony Orchestral Club.
2. Flure solo-Les Echos d'Alsaee.
Fr. Ruca1oy.
5. Aria-Linda.. a.......................D .Donizetti
Fraulein Anna c. Manten,
sITm5sr Song De seve seye
= BOSTON, siomSSr SSmDbonv Orchestral Club ~
5. Vjolincello Solo-Grand Fantasia on
Ernest oehlhey.
PART II.
"a. Loin du Bal. .Glllet
L b. Intermezzo. Grand Waltz from
Ballet of Malta" new. ....-Delibes
Boston Symphony Orchestral Club.
q Violin solo-Zigeuner Dance........Nachez
Alfred LIE Seve.
o. Fraaiein Anna G. Nantci.
Z. Viola d. Amour solo (Fantasis) .S:oelzer
s. Hungarian Dance. Brahms
Boston symphony Orchestral Club.
Two important points call for strong
censure. This club has nothing whatever
TO do with the famous Boston Symphony
Orchestra and can have no good purpose in
ste sppropriating that honored name. The
confusion intended to be produced by the
misleading title has in fact appeared many
times in the press and in conversation in
this city. Such breach of common honesty
merits severe rebuke.
Furthermore a club purporting to stand
on high ground as representative chamber
music organization ought to give some rea-
sonable worthy examples of that fine form
of composition. In this programme the
Hsvdn symphony was totally out of place
in the hands OF six players, while too large
a proportion ot genre pieces of the sugary
muted kind were given. The solo members
were, moreover, chiefly devoted to technical
display.
The redeeming feature was the violin
playing of Mr.. Alfred De Seve, virtuoso
of the fiery school of Ole Bull and Remenyi,
and a very good exponent thereof. His
handling of the Gypsy dance-as also of
his own versions of the Carnival of Ven
ice" and Home, Sweet Home" given in
response TO successive encOres-was the very
acme of pvrotechnic virtuosity, and COM
pletely carried away his audience. In strik-
ing contrast was the remarkable breadth,
tlcuuess Auu EepOse VIII WHICH ne rendered
Bach's noble air for the G string, making it
much the most artistic performance of the
evening.
Mr.. Rucquoy's flute playing was admira-
bic in point both of execution and of
phrasing. Miss Mantell (who is not
'Fraulein" and a"Mlle." as programmed.
but simply Miss Leah Van Dyke, of Phila-
delphia) sang pleasantly and unobtrusively,
but had not enough good points to counter
balance her distressing tremolo. The other
performers do not merit especial mention,
except for the fact that one of them misused
that rare, but delicious instrument, the
viola d'amore, which has seven gut strings
10 play on and IA metal ones strung below
the others to aid with their sympathetic vi
brations.
This club could do better work if it tried.
and it would sound sweeter under another
name.