St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-13
AT THE COLISEUM.
Rare Music DiScourSed by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.

rare huSlC b1IScOurScu DY INC
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1t was an extremely fashionable audi
ence that crowded to the university
Coliseum last night to listen to the pro-
gramme of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra, and we'll were they rewarded
for the time spent for the journey. The
Coliseum is not, in the first place, the
auditorium for musical event of this
sort. Such thing as full dress there
last evening would have been out of the
question. The Coliseum is not sufficiently
we'll heated for an early spring enter
tainment, but the acoustic properties of
the chamber for concert partially
make up for other detects. That the
concert of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra had been looked forward to with
interest was attested by the size of the
audience. There were but few seats
vacant in the galleries, and more than
tWo-t thirds OF the orchestra was filled
1t was an enthusiastic audience. too.
and the way it lavished applause
upon the Seventy-three performers un-
der the direction of Herr Arthur Nikisch
showed that MinneapolitanS appre-
ciate classic music. faultlessly rendered.
The first number on the programme was
the symphonic poem, Lies Preludes,"
bs List, and we'll is it called SYM
phonic poem. 1t tells as clearly as the
most lucid poetry and az sweetly as the
most divine music, the preiudes to the
final dissolution which are passed
through by a sensitive spirit. Les
Preludes" is written for full orchestra,
and so well is this orchestra trained
that the fine shades of mean
ing in this exquisite piece of
music are as delicately shaded
as if rendered by single violin.
Nine. Stelnbach-Jahns sang the pages
aria from Meyerbeer's 'Huguenots' in
a manner that would please the most
soprano of great LANCE and remarkable
power. These qualities, combined with
an excellent stage bearing, should
make Nine Steinbacli-Jahns brilliant
success in grand opera. Later she
sang three selections in one number.
Schumann's "Widmung," Brahms
..St9ndchen, and Umlauft's "Ef-
wartung," rendering German love
song as an encore. These three dis
played the various qualities of her
voice, and nothing but praise was heard
for her. Greig's snite, peer Gynt,o
Up. 46. was probably as enjoyable as
any number of the evening. Especially
expressive were the second, third and
fourth numbers, illustrating the death
of Peer Gynt's mother. the dance of
Anitra. the Bedouin maid, and the tor
ture of Peer Gynt by the imps, the last
grotesque march. G.. II. Loef-
fer. in Lalo's symphonic Es-
pagnole," for violin and or
chestra, showed himself a master
of the violin. But particularization Is
useless. Too much can scarcely be
said of this Incompatible body of must
clans and Of their performance. Each
and every number on the programme
was rendered with such rare expression,
such delicate shadery, that criticism is
almost out of the question.
For Memorial Day,
The floral mittee of the G. A. R..
appointed to make arrangements for the
collection of flowers 10 be used in the
decoration of soldiers graves on Ne
mortal day met at the Nicollect house
last evening. The reports Of the COM
mittees were heard and various plans
discussed for the floral part of the Me-