New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-02


the first three Mile Devere sangi last
Sunday 1t was Mrs Blanche Stone Barton and TINS
evening it will be Mrs. Ida Klein. Arrangements
have also been made for three appearances of Otto
Hegner at future concerts. For tonight the pro-
gamme is as follows:
Invitation to the BerliO1
S sP55SaHS5Sa lid Act "IoAensrin Wagner
Concerto for Di'qTGs ss l On Friend S'A''~'nA,
svmn,ono po.r, M NP5,d Ida Flen. saIntsaens
PoioRase, from ''MgnOn" AMBROSE Thomas
b. "Murmufing zephyrs' Jensen
Mrs Ida Klein.
Waltz "visge Swallows Joseph Strauss
High class concerts were insured for the patrons
Of Brighton Beach next summer by the signing iaso
Tuesday of a contract between the Improvement Com
pany and Mr. seidl. Verify Brooklyn is to be con
graduated on the possession of men like General
Jourdan and his colleagues. The musical enterprise
at Brighton Beach has been exceedingly costly, yet
they have not attempted in any way to cheaper the
entertainments. The high standard fixed two years
ago was maintained last summer, and most admirable
fruit was shown in the steadily increasing attend
and the better appreciation OF the pest music:
The the concerts approached the standard SET
the more numerous was the attendance II will be
safe to predict that next summer the concerts VIII
"a
IDENTIFY this is the belief Of the Brighton Beach Com
pany for in the contract just signed there an option
years. These concerts are splendid agency for the
advancement of musical taste and love, ana 1t Is
work of truest philanthropy to MAINTAIN them'
The season at the Beach next summer will begin
on June g. and last until the end of August-possby
a week or two longer If the weather should invite
the prolongaton. Mr. Sedl will have band of fifty
six musicians and two concerts will be given daily.
The features which were popular last summer VIII
be retained IN the arlsuc Soene I raS iii les
devoted to particular composers.
Few persons who witnessed Herr Niemanns first
representation Of Trst;n at the Metropolitan Opera
House. will ever forget the awful intensity Of his
death scene When he reached the supreme moment
of delrium and tore off the bandagcs from his wound
many persons shuddered and turned their faces
some almost swooned. Herr Niemann being told
that his realism passed the boundaries OF art modified
the performance to the extent of not exposing the
wound. Herr Vogl's exhibition Of vast expanse
of red flannel to simulate bloody bandages is not so
impressive as Herr Nemanns exposure OF the sword
cut but it is much more shocking and offensive. 1t
is TO be hoped that he will modify his performance in
the future A lady writing TO The Tribune forcibly
states the Objectionable nature of the exhibition as
follows:
should like TO say something on my own behalf
about Tristan in the third act. TO make suffering
thrilling, heartrendng iusthabe: but 10 add the
touch which makes 1t shocking revolving Is going too
far. | cannot believe that good art When Vogl
tears open his shirt, my whole current OF feeling Is
changed it's from the sublime to the ridiculous !n, a..
forget the wounded, suffering man and thlnk OF the
red thing which is supposed to represent his wound
II in real life delirous man should expose his hurt
it would be pardonable bu some one would instantly
hide it from view. But an artist who Stimulates
delirlum knows how he is going to portray it, and that
he should deliberately decide to do such shocking
and indicate thing is something I cannot under
stand And when this thing Is in view. as 1t Is
them verR 't end Of 9ode death ne ee outraged
1t is not pathetic-it is horrible.
The weekly first performance at the opera next
Friday will be devoted to Die Goetterdaemmerung,
with Herr Vogl as slegfrled. This is one Of the
Munich artists finest achievements. German ANA
tours seldom speak of the heros recital of the events
OF his life which Immediately precedes his murder
without induging in enthusiastic comments on Herr
vogls mimicry of the warning forest bird; Since
TannhaeuserS was given for the first time this year
Ahe Wagnerian dramas have largely monopoized
popularity and the long wait for the Nibelung operas
has quckened interest and curiosity anc whetted de-
sire to such degree that there vii be an %
Herr Reichmann outs SO dashing figure and sings
so admirably, will be repeated on Monday, Tam
haeuser" on Wednesdsy and Ada on SATURDAY
spring tour 1t will begin on April in Boston.
Walter j. DamrOSch WI conduct the
mann, Perotd and Fischer, viii sing three times a
week.
Attention was called some time ago in The Tribune
to some church music composed by John White of
this city. Mr.. White recently gave recital Of a
number of his compositions at the Church of the
Ascension. Such services and anthems we have
seen from his pen are marked by devotion TO an aim
which many will recognize being the true idea Of
worship music. This ideal Mr. White forumlates as
follows:
Let us define music being the musical expression
Of the idea Of the thing per Sc and let US accept as
this world 1t follows Then that church
ose pasns which pertain to the Sn on the
contrary the expression Of those ideas which belong
trina ' and in our own day Wagner S in ' his Pars stat
have most perfectly cxemplihed this truth. The
Catholic, does not admit Of the use OF the work OF
these great masters altogether and the demands made
be met. have followed In some cases the example
set by the above mentioned masters in taking church
less freely. and furthermore in other compositions
have endeavored 10 express the idea without their
unohan and the task Of the artist con
sists In not endeavoring to change Il or to mann
jectively grasps IT, clothed in that form which spon.
taneously occurs 20 him.
Mr. Fleck conductor of the Harlem Philharmonic
Society," is Of the opinion that the organization will
become permanency. It's second concert will take
place in the hall OF the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, in Onehundred twenty ffth-st on Feb.
rnary 90 the programme being follows Symphony
No. in d, Beethoven Overture, The Jbbenainosay
Bristow conducted by the composer: Scherzo op.
10, Goldmark; Romance and Rondo from the piano.
forte concerto In + minor. Chopin Mrs Clara ThOms)
" Invitation to the Dance" Weber Berlioz.
Notes and Announcements-The last Of the Korbay
pianoforte and vocal recitals will take place as
Chckering Hall on Tuesday evening. Mr.. Korbay
will be assisted by four Of his pupils. Miss
Strong, Miss Katherine Boese, Beverley Robinson
and DR.. Carroll Durham Brahms and List are the
composers represented In the panoforte list, and
Brahms Wagner and Liszt in the vocal list. Mr..
Apuente is the manager of the classical afternoon
orchestral concerts TO be given In Chickering Hall
this season By Mr. Van der Stucken, as mentioned
In this place last Sunday. Mr.. Klahre's third and
last pianofote recital at steinway Hall will take place
he onrth Of