New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-12
MUSICAL MATTERS.
MORE OPERATIVE MOsENTHAL MEMO
RIAL-CRITICAL AMENITIES-PADE-
REWsKI.NEws NOTES AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS

REwsKI.NEws NOTES AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tomorrow evening the supplementary season OF
grand opera by the Abbey and Grau company VIII
begin in the Metropolitan Opera House. Inc sup
scrIption season will consist OF eight evening per
formances on Mondays, Tuesdays. wednesdays anu
Thursdays. and the matnees on saturdays i"e'e
will be extra perform ances on Friday ana SATURDAY
evenings and two Sunday night concerts. Inc hst
for the first week consists of Romeo ana Juiee
on Monday. with Nine. Melba and enc oro'heis
De Reszke in the cast; Carmen on Tuesday. with
Nine Calve and Lola Beeth "Lohengrh o"
Wednesday, with Nine. Nordica ana jean ue
Reszke; Don Giovanni" on Thursday; Lucia al
Lammermour" and "Cavalleria Rusticana' on Fiji
day. both Meba and Cave singing Les Husue-
nots" on Saturday afternoon. with what used TO De
called the ideal" cast. and La Traviata ana Id
Navarraise" on Saturday evening
The foundation OF the Robert Center char OF
music at Columbia College ought to yieid suos'ah-
tial encouragement to the committee having III
charge the establishment of a scholarship at the
same university 8 n memorial to the late Joseph
Mosenthal This committee has Issued the following
circular
The many friends Of the late Joseph Mosenthai
DESTROYS that the memory OF ms NE snouu o os
perpetuated by a memorial, In the establishment vi
which all who appreciate his work and influence Oh
music may Join -, - u.,,
held at which various plans and Suggestions were
considered. II was thought that FELLOWSHIP ,h M
Joseph Mosenthal Fellowship. would be more per-
manent in character. broader in scope and more
suggested II was. therefore decided to make an
EFFORT 70 raise the sum Of $1,000 necessary for the
endo vment Of such fellowship. ana committee
was accordingly appointed for that purpose.
The object sought would be threefold IN its ac-
compshment: .
II would establish a permanent memorial to one
whose personal interests were sunk In MS devo1 ,
was spent In persistent effort to promote the high
est and best In that art II would add TO the po~st
would give the student OF music pecuniary assist
In the prosecution Of his studies. which might
The Committee beg to present the matter for your
consideration. and to ask tina; you VIII SEND any
posed memorial to the treasurer. Mr. f Francis
Hyde Central Trust Company. 81 Wall-st. New
Horatio j. Brewer. No So West Nnetieth-st.; Mrs.
James Herbert Morse. No. i23 Madson-ave: Miss
Isaac Selgman. No. SO West Ffty-fourth-st.; Sam
uel Colman, No. l2l East Thirty ninth-st.: r. Il.
l. cheney. 10 i3i East Fifty-seventh-st.; +. Fran
els Hyde Central Trust Company. No. "a Wall-st
The amenities Of criticism beautifully illustra,-
ed In the Chicago comments anent the opinions ex-
pressed By the New-York newspapers concerning
the recent concerts OF the Chicago Orchestra and
Mr. Theodore Thomas. II to be supposed
Chicago would believe NETWORKS Judgment either
honest or intelligent II II CHANGED 10 be at all differ
eni from her own but the worst that the newspapers
have said is that tn. judgment was prompted by
jealousy /, remained for Of the members OF
the Thomas orchestra. however, to charge that the
New-Ycrk writer's bought bag and baggage
by the founder OF the Boston symphony Orchestra.
This he did a letter addressed 10 the critic OF one
Of the local German newspapers which Is such
splendid specimen OF courtesy In the confraternity
Uhe German critic being himself a professional
p.Fc ri md q
the good qualities OF Mr.. Thomas) that 1t deserves
TO be published Here Il Is In translation. which
is wofuily inadequate to convey it, epithets:
Your contemplate C'HunisgemeiEen') criticisms
have certainly Disguised everybody who has read
them | am not coatendng that everything was
criticism. Nv no mesns: but what you did was
simply 20 depreciate without rhyme or reason There
Is but opinion concerning your cor!uct and that
on ora cam, Tn peronaIv TO- Newyork in order to brbe
Se press IN favor Of his enterprise We'll in Your
case he had gigantic success The check mus,
psnny-a-lineT resist such Jnsiing arguments? And
the conductor. HIS name Is Pauer. and he Is a
Hisgnson's money who would ever ask question
about him Thomas overtops him as Mont Blanc
enough 10 ext,r ID your miserable ck-splttng 10
the kneisei Quartet ! remained in New-York ex-
In my life did hear anything so wretch che as the
names for II. And your criticism next day? Oh. II
is too disgusting to discuss fellow who writes
fSs s SSs
here and made a miserable fasco on all hands n
a s Ena ye OF n 80
let the bohemian Quartet play for you. and learn
what ''''''' '''''"' 4 THOMAS MUSICIAN.
p; s, That the critics were purchased. purchased
OF 81" Ger err Thomas never gave him a serious
thought-the silly halr-spll,ter. Who thinks OF him
n .o Conduct dSued Kim out Of town and now he
M h and o. the b ns Are er4 his
sssrnnS n2' IA sp a ou. name VIII
The last OF Mr. Paderewskls concerts this season
will take place this week. and the 22l inst he
Will sail for Europe. This afternoon he will assist
the Alamowsk Quartet at IA chamber concert 10
be given in Carnegie Tyceum. Mr.. Adamowsk and
his confrares will play Beethovens quartet In A.
major op rs. No. s. after which Mr. Paderewsk
viii take part In Beethoven's Trio In h Nat. op. 81
AMI Brahms's Quartet in A major. op. u. To-mor-
row evening he will give his last recital in the
Brooklyn Academy OF Music for which occasion the
following programme has been arranged:
Mr Taierew.< Messrs. r and j. Adamowski
Impr, mpu op iis No. 3..................;s schubert
Variations theme BY IasanIq3. cp
craSeysqnne fania-aue cp H. No arranged
~ 7 A,amows' and Mr.. radsrew.ki 'D''s"'~'
Eisds Is S2s and
voss noi on a No CChhopm
Nocturne y Nat. op. 10 No t............ PaIeewsk
khapsonle lioAsrois" lIszt
Mr.. Pnderewski
There are some rather rocco ideas In the follow
Ing letter. but 1t may be suggestive In some quar-
ters:
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In looking over the programmes Of Easter
music that were performed In the different churches
In this city last Sunday I struck by the lack
If all
organists In not vsnturng 20 enter the Wagneran
gold fields 81. Ignatlus's Church. I noticed had as