New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-18
THE COMING MUSICAL SEASON.

Some years AGO when the Boston symphony
Orchestra was vet Young in It's benefccnt minis
trations. the complaint was uttered that 100
great public interest I'm II threatened ruin to all
other musical enterprises In the New-England
capital Forty-elght high class concerts each
season. II was said which had to be patroniZed
for the sake Of good form created monopoly
which meant death TO the ambition OF pianists,
yiolinists and singers who had hitherto given
concerts on their own hook, with advantage to
themselves II not to the edifcntOn OF the public
There may have been grain or two or truth IN
the plant. for there can be no question that
the establishment Of permanent concert instltu-
tons Of the best kind In several OF the large
cities Of the country-Boston, Chicago. Cincin-
natl Pittsburg, etc-has wrought change In
the character Of musical entertainments not
only in those cities, but elsewhere. Entertain
ments Of the smaller kind have grown fewer In
number. but they have improved in quality and
the peoples opportunity to hear the finest talent
which the world produces has been very appre-
Gladly bettered and the standard OF music raised.
II is possible now for an artist Of worldwide
fame to ruin his reputation by playing the shall
low show pieces which would have insured his
success two decades ago. The sufferers from
the new regime. If sufferers there are. are the
musicians Of small talent who now find fewer
opportunities to hoodwink the public than for
merly and that is a state Of affairs which trne
music lovers can abide with eQuanimity.
Besides. the love Of music is like jealousy in
that II doth make mot mock the meat IL
feeds on" NewYork never had so much music
as last season. nor ever rewarded It's purveyors
more richly There was complaint here, roo. OF
the runous effect of excessive devotion to the
opera, but II did not come from the larger ana
better institutions The Philharmonic Society eX
perienced a slight reaction in popular favor be-
cause Of the death of Mr.. Seidl. whose large fol-
lowing had begun to think more OF the man
than Of his art; hut the artistic results or the
concerts under Mr.. Paur were emnently salts
factory and the season about to open ought TO
find the society sailing high and buoyant on the
waves of popular favor. There was change of
conductors also in the case Of the Boston sym
phony Orchestra whose concerts are now as
much n local feature as those Of the home nsti
tuition: but here the element Of personal equa
ton has always been kept at n minimum. and
tho concerts were more successful than ever
before.
Recognizing that though some may have TOO
much they "still do crave for more, our man
agers have made such arrangements for the
season about to open that it seems likely to put
all the past in the shade. New-lork Will b"
called on between now and May to hear about
five hundred performances Of opera ana operctta
of all kinds There will he at least forty orches-
trail concerts Of n high class and the same mum
Der Of popular concerts at which excellent or
chcstral music will BE- blended with the per
formancos Of singers from Mr.. Grau's Metropol-
tan company and others. We shall be priv-
legged on two occasions to observe the growth
elsewhere OF interest in the highest class or
music on the lines already discussed; for Pitts
burg's permanent orchestra. directed by Mr.
Herbert and maintained by an art society which
has the potent backing Of Mr.. Carnegie. has re-
solved to challenge the Judgment Of the metrop-
oils We are TO be visited by Paderewski. peer
less In popularity: Pctschnikoff. one or the FIRST
violin playcrs OF the day: Mark Hamburg. a
Young pianist Of good European reputation. and
Dohnanyi. who eaped into fame last season In
London both as composer and pianist ut n single
bound De Pachmann Is already with u.s. ana
no will have company too numerous to men
ton from among those who. with nmbe fingers
walking over dancing chips. shall sway that
"wry concord" which doth our ears confound.
Tn Emma Nevada and Leonora Jackson Amer-
cans will greet two Of their country folk who
have kept fair and bright the artistic fame or
their land abroad Old friends and new shall
enjoy our hospitality and-if they deserve 1t
our gratitude