New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-25

MANY stories arc being told Of Brahms's ready wit
He was once playing a sonata with a viooncellsI
Perhaps It not altogether accidental that as inc
music proceeded the pianoforte grew louder and
louder until the 'ceilist called halt ana COM
planned: II can't hear myself play
Happy man. said Brahm'
AT another time a quartet club played one OF his
string quartets in his presence which was no
sooner finished than one Of the players approached
Brahms with the question. Were you satsned
with the tempt" go
ENTIRELY" said the composer, particularly WIN
yours
He was an Intimate friend OF Johann Strauss
and his wife and spent great deal OF his tims
when a: Ischl with the Strauss family Last suh-
MGR Frau Strauss hit upon a plan for securing
photograph OF him. Among tho visitors 10 lsc"
were Mr. Franz Kneisel and his associates or the
Knejsel Quartet of Boston. These FRAU srauss'
unknown 10 BrahWs. placed in the dnins-room
close 10 the place on the piazza near which Brahms
was sitting at game Of cards Wlthou' "aini''s
thu artists began OF the master cohlpos'loi''
Al arst he seemed displease1 at the interruptions
bnt he admired the Kneisel Quartet sreaty ana 10
soon melted in the warmth OF MS own emoerS
and was deeply moved when the music came 10 an
end. -, r
Strauss.
"Anything" answered Brahms
make me famous by joining me on photo-
graph"
~, n lsnsth he was won over and amateur
rrotoprapher who strangely CHANGED 20 DO at
hand made the picture.
Among the many messages OF conference anu
.ribute received in Vienna was ono 10 Dr. hahshch
from St Petersburg asking him TO be the medium
Of expression Of the grief OF musical Russia ana
to admiration for his genius. IL was eisheo
punskv-Korsakov, Cut. I.adow. Glazounow. Soko-
low Withol and Blumenfeld
Al tho concert Of the Manuscript Society IN
c,b,crer,nr Hall last Thursday evening compo-
,,ion had It's first performance In New-fork which
can be discussed with pride as well as pressure
Such opportunities have been offered 10 the re-
viewer very seldom. seldom. indeed, that all de-
sire 10 talk about the doing OF the society left the
minds OF candid and serious men some years ago
Al thu greater therefore, the delight In greeting
co,nosition like Mr. Arthur Foote's Suite for orches-
ira In D minor. Ii has been puohsheo IN score oy
Mr. Arthur F. Schmidt. In Boston and Leipsic' ane
was first heard at a concert or the Boston gym
rnorv Orchestra under Mr.. Paur late last season.
II was TO have been brought forward month
- ,,yo ago by the Manuscript Society. but tho
narts were lost at There was no hurry ana
me work lost nothing by the delay ana prooaoiS
Gained from the fact that the composer WAS Oh
Ind las. Thursday 10 conduct It, or the per
I've pces AT the Manuscript Club under the pest OF
circumstances IT is not possible 10 speak IN praise
qrt arc given without sufficient preparation. they
lack authoritative command and they are cruce ana
unsatisfactory. 1t may have been due TO TINS ract
,ha, there were many moments IN the playing OF
ur Foo,e's suite in which the work suffers from
on unfortunate thickness opaaneness ana mo
o,orv Of tone color. The wind instruments all but
-, a,,os sanmed TO utter all their sayings IN the
-. ,ora nj voice but what they said was worth
wsfering TO. ard so 1t is pleasanter to tell OF INC
hasutv OF Mr. Foote's ideas and the ingenuity win
ah,cb they were worked out, than 10 complain
~ defects OF technical manipulation inc iniuue
,a,oAnts of the four in the suite arc me com
" ', charming IN their moods and their vari-
.,ons ~ them. while the last movement win us
meal beginning Is delightfully."- spirited ana lresh
10 u,orI should be heard here again under oe'-
ter auspices.