New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-27
MUSICAL MATTERS.

7, T. wars the purpose OF musical criticism 10 in
struct composers. or 10 encourage medlocrlS' o'
promote the egotism Of musicians. or hep do" the
trump OF a few men who are very assiduous in that
occupation themselves, the concerts OF the Manu-
script Society might come within the purvie" OF the
newspaper reviewer. The concerts, however are
private affairs which the society arrdhses io' Us
subscribers and though the attention OF critics Is
asked IL might still be set down as unwarTanted II
they should indulge in the luxury OF an opinion on
the works brought forward The k!ndest OF "orl''
so they were truthful would be apt 10 cause heart
burnings and recrimlnaton. The concerts ought
10 be OF great educational value 10 the composers
OF orchestral music whose works are performed
even II they dc not conduce 10 the edhcdon OF Inc
pubic.
The Boston symphony Orchestra. under the d.
rection OF Emil Paur will give five concerts IN the
Metropolitan Opera House on the evenings OF NO
vember l5 December 49, January q, February q
and March g. Among the 500 artists VINO are 10
take part in these concerts are Nine. Mcloa, Ben
Davies E. A. MacDowell and T. AdamoW SKI Inc
orchestral works to be performed are Beethoven
third and fourth symphonies, and the overture
Conservation Of the House" Schumanns sym
phony in b fat. Schuberts Unfinished sym
phony, Tschakowskys Pathetic symphony anu
the variations from his suite. the prelude TO
Humperdinck's .'Hansel and Gretel' overture 10
Cornelius BARBER OF Bagdad" overture. cor
sa.r" by Bcrlloz and the minuet and waltz from the
same composers 'Damnation de Faust an over
ture. Donna Dana" by Reznlcek' prelude ana
entr'acte from Richard Strauss "Guntram Md
night Of Sedan" b., Heinrich Z6.lner. and Wagners
"K aisermarsch The Boston Orchestra. which
was founded by Mr. Higginson in 1881. was half
way through its sixth season before 1t PAID us Tst
visit TO New-York. Its first concert here took
place in Steinway Hall. on February H. lsS" Since
then the band has given forty-;wo concerts In New
York-nf.een in Steinway Hal fifteen In Cnicker-
Hal
series in the Metropolitan opera House, one con-
cert with MI Paderewsk In the same place for
the benefit OF the Washington Arch Fund, and one
with Mr. Albert in the concert nal or M%dIsoh
Square Garden. OF these concerts eleven "ere
directed by Wilhelm Gericke twenty-onc by
Arthur Niksch. and ten By Emil Paur. MI
Henschel who was .he orchestras first conductor.
from 1881 10 ls5 did have the privilege OF con-
Quoting here His successor was Mi Gericke VINO
came from Vienna. and 10 whom much OF the Hh4Sh
and precision Of the orchestras playing Is Que.
After five years OF untiring zeal and persistent
striving for absolute perfection Of ensemble dur-
ing which time ne spared neither the orchestra
nor himself. Mr.. Gercke returned 20 vienna, ieaN-
ing behind him the stamp Of skill 50 marvellous
that II cannot be eacsd. II was indie u, gracious
compliment TO Mr. Gercke thai on MS arrFa N
Vienna he at once assumed the leaurrsh'p OF ~, .'c
Geselschaft der Musikfreunde society not unlike
the Handle! and Haydn Society in Boston me
mart The above society having offered It's leader
ship 10 Mr.. Gericke just as he was ieA:lE vienna
A
him until ne should return ana Kept lfs ~oru "lT
Gericke retained this position until last season
neriod OF SIX years and Is at present resting on
bis well-deserved laurels. The third ana youngest
Conductor of the Boston symphony Orchestrf vas
Arthur Nikisch a Hungarian .eader OF the orchts-
ira at the stadt Theatre az lep'is His reign ~ en-
dured four years. year longer man that OF AIR.
Uenschel and a year less than NJ Ger'ckes. Nhen
NI<sch left the Stadt Theatre IN Lepsic 10 come To
Boston he was succeeded BY tte same man VINO
followed him as conductor OF the Boston symphony
orchestra the present leader. Emll Paur II H. also
worthy OF comment that MI Niksc1 and Air Paur
PLAYED at the same desk as hTst F'oInlStS under
Mr. Gerickc the very same Stadt Theatre seN-
eral years before.
H. f. Krehbiel announces a series OF lectures
such as he has been delivering for some years. on
the PROGRAMMES OF the Philharmonic and SYM
phony societies These lectures Will take place In
the Chapter Room OF Carnegie Hall tentrance by
elevator on the Fifty-sevenh-st side) On the after
Moons OF the Thursdays Immediately preceding the
Philharmonic and symphony concerts, beginning
at o. clock The dates are as follows: Philharmonic
Isl. November H. December y January .. Febru-
airy 6, March and April o. symphony .ist; Octo-
Der 81 January p February =. March 70 ana
April 6 The purpose OF these lectures f. to study
the compositions which make W the concert