New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-01
. MUSIC OF BOHEMIA.
TIE LAST OF MISS BURBANK's COURSE
~ OF LENTEN LECTURES
BIRTH AND CHARACTER OF BOHEMIAN COMPOST
71oN-rHE WORK OF PRINCESS METER
N-cH-FREDERIC sMETANA THE
FOUNDER - HUNGARY
CONTRIBUTION

Amid the great regret Of their hearers Miss En-
ry Burbank and Mss Florence Mosher yesterday
morning ended me course OF National music leot-
ures they have bee7 giving at he Waldorf The
theme OF their last recital was the music OF DO
hernia and Hungary
Mas Burbank began By saying that Il IS claimed
the 1860 square miles watch make Bohemia
have been the scene OF more suffering tnan any
Ike extent Of territory. she then VEN on 10
sketch the history % persecution IN Bohemia men
t,ontnr such epoch-making characters as John
I7uss Jerome OF Prague and Ferdinand. that arch
duke of Austria who. as King OF Bohemia ruled
the land with the iron hand % despot saying
Better a desert than land full o. heretcs.
As ire political history and artistic history OF d
country are necessarily closely related. II foIo~s'
Mss burbank said that the artistic and Intel
lactual DEVELOPMENT OF Bohemia IL comparatively
recent In 1850 imperial freedom was given 30
hernia Before tha, time bohemian musicians "en'
abroad % seek fame and fortune Since then they
have remained at home 10 express IN ther Hlu''0
the national consciousness developed by oppression
The founder OF the Bohemian national music was
Frederic Smetana. who returned 70 Bonenha sl'e'
having been conductor Of the Phiharmohlg con
c4rts in Sweden. He held mat the 4oNi'I|
so1es y national music must be Guarried al nome
ana thar large compositions. Ike sonatas, .snouio
ba a DEVELOPMENT Of the germ IN the foiK-sons
Mics Burbank spoke next OF the character a 30
Ae-~ian music the sadness and witness OF H. 10
,o-+iauv explained I'm The history OF the country
9
~ military bands and dance orchestraS OF Sou'"
Germany are Bchemians.
The person who has done more than any one e'se
20 make Europe acquainted with Bohemian music
g Tho Princess Metterulch. 70 whom Miss BurDank
e. II she was indebted for many or the 1ac's Use"
Il - &C. elections PLAYED by Miss Mosher were
.-o,1 curious work Of Zdenko FlDicn. cailed
Moods Impressions and Memoirs MES u, nu -
-, cla~or-eriz-C u musical skei Dhpooh IN
v.ri@h the composer had made rOuen ho'es, III.
- selection was the simple song OF a peaSdIli
-,~,s- orCo~od our OF r. heavy heart; the s|coh1
srov-e5 20 the lecturer above the white coll,ee u
- raaearts castle. forest ana q MIR
10 Marty he third was polished lyTc SusSrS
~ -.rrrert'- melodies. the ionitu ~.
,ri,6e1 one OF the gypsy camp scene IN ."ii
a. 49, fortunate Tor Bohemia mat Smetaild
,--.s tfst, v,ss in opera music for me cultivation
81 .ha- meant the development or thre' a. -
literature and painting Miss Bur'aBh apSA rrfi
e.~a.a~e.s TWO symphonic poems. hlchaiu -!
- w nereteir's Lager" mis- hiosraphica quar-
a., "Aus Msinem Leben." and then Mss M on
-laved a selection Of his called Ia -, ,-,,icn
ci-[ie dances n Anton Dvorak iolo"en IN N HlT
%fi-e pu~bark pointed ont the touch OF ne -
90 51s,irgt,ished thcm from the gypsy dances OF
Afer Mics Burbank had spoken Of h enrg6asrs
musical WOrlr on coHlpo~'i
erlb as Havder Beethoven. Scnuhcrt, INS1t az
r5reb,0s who had dcyelonoc musica thei,ntS ~ -
80 nod road what List himself mao 'Sdlp Oi
hungarian music Miss Mosher clQse ,l ''' 'spssko
,~a nTroe by PLAYING national melodies aaah1I,-
-, ~o+ao md dance called "CZardas ana uia ~
Tisz-'s "Rhansodie Hongr0ise No ~ % 80
Fcf-r o,-e- fha audience crowded amour MISS i5u4
t.rk ard Miss NOsher 20 express tnelr regret 'i"'
tbere were 70 be no more lectures