New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-18
MUSICAL MATTERS.

THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-THE LATE
GEORGE F. BRIsTow AND THE PHIL
HARMONIC SOCIETY-A MUSICAL
ART sERvICE-NEws NOTES
PROGRAMMES AND AN
INDUCEMENTS.
Following IS the local musical calendar for the
current week:
sunday-Metropoli.an Opera House. s:15 ?. m, con-
cert at popular prices; Carnegie Hall sl 9 p. M
n Within and members OF the
Quartet: hall of the Mannergesangverein Arion
private concert
opeEa M9Sse S m
toria, II 10 a. M. Mr.. Bagbys musical morning;
recital by Dr. Hanchett.
MISREPRESENTATION Hail. s:15 p. m, concert Of
shame Gden 0 Soeer Hail. s5
chestra concert of the National Conservatory:
hs Rev rrf D o%ard Before
club S Concert ef G Re yco
Wednesday Metropotan Opera HOUSE: 8 p I'M, nj
pookyn m lesson in form by car Faue
Ing Of the Manuscript Society; Association Hall.
David Bispham and Bertha Bucklin; Church of
the In;ercess.cn p. M. free organ recital by
Samuel a. Baldwin.
Friday-Metropotan Opera House. p. m. Ger
opera "Lohengrin
saturday1Metropolitan Opera House p M.
French opera. Faust P: M Italian opera
III Rarbiere di Sivigla'; No. 120 West Sixty
sixth-st.. 10 a. m, lecture by Hannah Smith
Perhaps the Oldest active practitioner Of music
IN its larger forms in NewYork passed away when
George +. Bristow died last Tuesday. He was
within few days of seventy five years DID, and his
act!vity as a musician Of influence extended over
period Of more than half century. He was born
in Brooklyn December 10 1895 and may be said
10 have effected his entrance into the significant
Of W iOned
the Philharmonic Society in 1siS 1t was the Sec
ond season Of the society. and he soon became an
active factor In the sum Of its existence. To him
fell the honor Of being of the earliest local
composers TO be hOnored with the privilege OF
bearing composition OF his own performed b.
st; in fact so far the record be recalled at
this time he the first native-born musician
thus honored. Tho first composition written In
America which the society admitted to its pro-
gramme "Marmon' overture composed by
George Loder, who at the time was conductor OF
the society; this IN 1916. The second compost
ton chosen for a similar distinction was an over
1ure by Mr.. Bristow-his third numbered work 1t
was played under his own direction on January
O. lS7 The circumstance is OF nteres. in con-
nection with the National movement in music be-
cause Of its relationship to an agitation which
few years later threatened the disruption OF the
society Its founders set down the encouragement
OF American compositions as one OF the aims OF
the organization. But they were not narrow. In
adopted II provided that:
II any grand orchestral compositions. such
overtures or symphonies shall be presented to the
society they being composed in this country. tbs
society shall perform every season. provided
a committee of five appointed by the government
shall have approved and recommended the COM
position.
While this article looked TO the announcement
of composers resident in America, II was not mar
rowly nativistic and MI Loder. who first benefited
under It was an Englshman. Mr. Bristow was the
second and no American composer has received
so much attention from the society as he. He
celebrated the arrival Of NJ. Julien in America by
composing a symphony (hs second work in this
form; II was in d minor. called the Julien
symphony" and was played by the Philharmonic
Society March !. 1856; third symphony, in F.
sharp minor. was brought forward on March 26,
1859, and a fourth in minor which bore the
title "Arcadian." February IA 1874 All this
time he was actively interested in the Philharmonic
Society. He assistant. as the directors
and 1906 For the year 1S66'67, he vicepresf-
dent and on the resignation of William Scharfen-
berg. In December filed his presi-
dent He had figured solo player
casons taking a part in a concertante for four
volins and orchestra. and playing the solo part In
two movements from Hummels pianoforte
certo.
1t at the apogee of his activity in connection