New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-09
MUSIC.
THE BOSTON ORCHESTRA.

The first OF the series OF concerts to be given
here this season by the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira took place In Carnegie Hall yesterday after
noon. The occasion introduced no new music to
hearing there will be plenty of that at the
second concert tonight but It did Introduce
new pianist and stage arrangement. Mr..
Gericke is stickler N the matter OF acoustics.
He has no regard for large rooms In which the
sound OF band is always in danger OF being dis
sipated and much OF It's tonal beauty lost He
loves homogenety OF tone. and euphony next to
distlnctness OF utterance. and the stage OF the
music hall. though constructed FOR concert pur-
poses. has seemed to him subversve OF some OF
his best efforts He has sought to remedy the
acoustic deficiencies OF the room by putting box
scene on the stage. and the impression created
by yesterdays concert that he had succeeded
Certain It is that the orchestra has never sounded
as brilliant since It left Stenway Hall. Of admra-
bic memory. many years ago. The new arrange
Individually lent interest to the virtuoso per-
Torrance of yesterday. which the playing OF
Tschaikowskys italian Capricco. work built
on commonplace tunes Of a foksong character
and redeemed by brilliant orchestration
The pianist who effected his entrance on the
Metropolitan platform this occasion was Mr.
Mark Hamburg He disclosed himself as dash
ing technician in Salnt-sasnss concerto In minor
but we shall wait for his performance OF Rubin
STEMS concerto in minor before attempting an
estimate OF his powers.
THE KNEIsEL QUARTET IN BROOKLYN.
The second in the series OF chamber concerts
under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute was
given last evening In Association Hail. BROOKLYN
by the Kneisel Quartet Miss Gertrude May Stein.
contralto. the solo performer. The programme
included interesting novelty in the shape OF
terzetto. by Dvorak. for two violins ana VIOLA
II is Though the programme omitted so to state)
the COMPOSERS seventy fourth numbered work
The combination of instruments IL an unusual ana
Their unpromsing one-ess promising. In fact IN
the matter Of tonal balance and variety than the
combination OF violin. viola and cello. for which
Beethoven wrote several compositions But. while
Dvorak has not attempted to express in 1t Ideas
OF the highest moment. he has made II a singular
~ effective vehicle for music OF delightful grace
huency and charm. In certain portions Following
the composers Bohemian spirit in its mode OF ut
terance and all through characteristic OF his most
captivating mood. The potency Of the three instru-
ments in giving balance and color Is remarkable:
and TO such length has the ingenious composer car
ried his experiment that in the last movement
he has introduced a decamatory passage for the
first violin with an orchestral tremolo on the Sec
ond and the viola. So skilfully. however. is the
whole conducted that the result finds unquestion-
ing acceptance. II met with the mark of unusual
favor from the audience. Mr. Kneisel and his as
sociates also played the sixth OF Boethoven's nrst
set OF string quartets Op. IS, and the romance
from Griegs quartet Op. q. giving to the former
a lovely warmth and rpeness OF conception en-
bodied in an execution finished and hawless In de-
tail. Miss Stein sang with the intelligence and I'M
Outstanding In the matter OF pleasing that she
has long since made familiar TO concert goers IN
New-York Her songs were LISTS perverse and
distorted setting of "Die Lorelei" and four by
Wagner.