New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-24
MYSTICAL MATTERS.

In Carnegie Music Hall yesterday afternoon M
Morris Steinert. of New-Haven, delivered the SEC
ond lecture in the musical course arranged py 10
umbia University His subject was the EVo'u-
tion of the Piancforte and he illustrated his ac-
count of the development OF the most popular and
useful OF all musical instruments by playing upon
specimens of the clavchord. spinet harpslchora
and early pianoforte taken from his own superb
collection. Unfortunately the music lovers OF the
city did not TO be aware OF the priVllege
but sparsey represented Inc III connec
culiarly dep!orabe There is no subject IN colieG-
ton vim he history of music which there is
a denser ignorance than the nature ana raphe snS
Vet the character OF those instruments had much
do with the style of b 1se payed by all serious
pianoforte students In music nearing Is Nd wait
lifeline before finding such objeet-lesson as
Mr. steinerts lecture is He mas and his per-
fnSmances are as delightful listen 10 as they arc
instructive
rho third and last OF the concerts Of chamber
music by the Kaltenborn Beyer-Hane string quar-
tot took place In Chamber Music Hall last nish'.
Tho organization. which Is so heavily hahoicdpPeu
bv its name is most praiseworthy oooy. us
members are earnest artists, and everything tha'
,hav do tolls of a high ambition and jealous woTK.
Last nights programme was OF miscellaneous
order confessedly made so for the purpose oi
popularizng chamber music but Its efncacy IN inns
direction might be questioned Chamber music Is
an nw and lis support must come from the
knowing and loving few. Moreover II popular enler.
tainment In the sense suggested by the quartet .
onnomncement is TO be strven for, Il is open, 20
question whether the course OF wisdom was aas a..
Iau,sd in choosing short and easily comprenenueo
concerted numbers for the club and injectng me me
whole Of Beethovens kreutzer sonata i iro The
measure of the talent possessed by Mr. kaltenooraa
and Miss Francesca Ornstein who ,asSt bishy
cOmmeh to ns,ify so strong Derivation as it sig
froyr, no
quartet has admirable material; especlas u. ~
voloncest, Mr. BeyerHane who howeyeb IS r goo
s sbie 10 ''''' 10 '"'"'
Preparatory to his series of Wagnerian perform
ances at the Metropolitan Opera House. Mr. wal
ter Damrosch will give n series OF six explanatory
recitals at the Waldorf on the forenoons OF Marcn
T. s. H. Is, % and 25. Mr.. Damrosch's method Is 70
play the music OF the principal themes upon the
pianoforte point out dramatic sgnihcances and
their symbols in the thematic material Of the
score. and recite the text English The follow
Ing dramas o s be De Makre
fried" Die Gotterdammss,r9ns Tristan sia =, 9 sSs
box office of the Metropolitan Opera House.
Tomorrow afternoon. beginning at s:l5 o'clock
NJ Auguste Van Biene will give violonceho reel
Mr.. w. II. Barber will give a pianoforte recital
In the Carnegie Lyceum on Monday afternooos
beginning at $3.50 o'clock
The last concert for the by the Sedl 30
ciety in Brooklyn will take place in the Academy
Of Music on next Tuesday evening the programs
being follows:
Grand Poionaise LIZ
Horn solo Mr. Dutschke .,-u
(b) la Cinquanaine ............... Gabriel M"
Vioioncelo solo NJ Redrich. ,,
Suite, Peer Gynr ~
concerto
Henry Schradieck. ,,-s
Good Friday SPELL from "Parsifa .''''''' '"~eA
Mr. Alexander Lambert will give cohcer ~. -
noon Of this week, with the help OF Ericsson ~
Bushnell David Names. Howard broekway 49,
a string orchestra.