New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-25

Clmarosas Die vcreitelte Ranke,' AnfossrS
Gree, Das Sommerfest der bramlnen, py
Wenzei Mueller, Martins "CoSa laia Swhlcn
Mozart honorca by humorous quotation IN
Don Giovanni j. and three of Dltt2rsdori cAevef
musical comedies
Inis list is fairly representative of the activi-
ties OF small theatres at the time. n STUDY vi
the programmes OF tue year lS01 the middle OF
Goethe term as Artistic Director OF the Iheatfe,
shows great improvement. The performances
are more frequent, the list more ambitious, lhe
novelties more frequent, and the character Oh tne
WORKS seems 10 indicate most marked Dettcr-
ment of the interpreting forces: The chlel hoE-
elites are Paers Camilla MAY 26l Sailerl
falmirl' MAY 81, Mehuls Treasure Dl7eerS
June IA, and Paer's " Die Wegelaecrer (Deccm-
Der l0). The fact that every one OF these oteras
has disappeared from the stage may SET some
one To rejecting the peculiar mortality OF
operas, for Paer, Salieri and Mchnl helonSed 70
the great composers OF their age. The otner com
posers represented in the years list were CilIosa'
Cherubinl, Martini Schenek, Dell1 Maria W
nityky, whose " Oberon' was cOnsidercu q "oh.
derful romantic opera till Webers came IN tle
last year OF the Consulship Of Gocthe the ehsase-
ment Of pair of Italian singers leu W .i'c PoI,
Torrance OF some Of those singular pot-pouiri
operas, the music Of which was put together 5noae
or less deity by the conductors OF those Jay,
Another singular episode is t4e appear"T With on
other woman in the titular role, however, LOT
which Himmel had written the music III VIZ, of
period falls the first production at Weiihar %
FidcliO which took place on september 4, loio
tho communion of the Grand Dukes hours OF
recreation being the Leonorc Of the occasIoI, !
went no further than the programmes W N",n
what measure e success BecthoVens opera en-
loved 1t was given five times In eshC inoiiy'' -;
And Beethoven is set down as Soh pdnthoren,s
n van" on the programme DeSlues p~ 1;n,diau
,ho names of Wcgl, Isonard, ltcnda, Doieiuleu,
Snontini appeared in company with lhoso ., Cn o
already mentioned. Then came the ial'i I'm
of April, 1917, and Jagcmanns ehecoNe i'V'"
ir Go,bo cp""d not approve the action of the
Grand Duke who opened his theatre 70 d pmooCrJini
and resigned That was the end OF the 1Isy pJtnor
in the history Of the the15Te wmCm i The second
ncriod specifically musical, also cnueu WIN -
resionation This time the Jagemann appears "
have been public taste, lhoug1 sncS S traininf as
mystery how after ten years OF Sucn lraliiH 40
/ iszt gnye the people Of Weimar they couiI ia
been deaf to the beauties OF Corneliuss ~
Of Bagdad.7 There is c0lnlcal pn ith
the circumstance that career whlch neS'-i -,
= sucrcssful production OF Martha as noNeltS
should have ended with disastrous prou"o'tio
Of The Barber There is also. doupt iess, a GnHp
coz - n,written history somewhere which explains
LETS withdrawal from the conduct OF the Opela
a. Wemar more satisfactorily than the current uc-
counts Herr Pohl has rendered uhmcesstis
ans. detailed account Of LISTS activities rs our
Conductor Extraordinary AT Neilnar' DuC oon-
fcss that the evidences Of his laborS surprseu me
Never the devotion OF an nrtIoV W. ihoraiit,,
moro ouicllly demonstrated. never was llo'ralIN
~ taste more generously displayed never "Is d
lofty ideal more deeply impressed upon the ar"S''1
activities Of an INSTITUTION ias is his nres
cnc, announced, rs the conductor OF the new
onero Martha, before the evidences of his loity
striyings begin to accumulate. In two % Week
thr orchestral concerts begin. and soon the ehtr ,
o"tcs =. tLe plays are filled Gri:h high class mnsica
ncrformanccs. Through this medium many, ar
isis are introduced 10 the public. and It VIII IN.
,rrest New-Yorkcrs 10 learn that IL was mus tat
,L o,c DR. Damrosch appeared for the first time
in Wcmar A memorandum coai'd from me org
irnl houscbn is before \c-Ertrace' April ~,
ls55 First movement 81 a concert lor VOLT Ii
FnGne C. minor, for violin. Bach; tamil
nolpiti." Paganlni. Played by Leopold Dam
rosch. of Posen.' H. H. IN