New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-03
MUSICAL GOSSIP.

OF THE BOERS-MR. VAN DER STUN
EMS PRELUDE. TO WILLIAM
RArcIIFF' NOTES. PRO
GRAMMEs AND AN
INDUCEMENTS.
Hall SS % pSntsr' opera
House. SIS concert under the directoh Vi
Walter Damrosch uo
MonafES English. cavaeria Rustisana and the first
act Of "Fidelio wallacks Theatre; a Sii' wPce l
Casino s p English rs oRer sG2sre If The sns
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TuesdayKn2Ho Hall S5 % p HAM, sse p m
pyv yTe concert Of the Mendelssohn Glee Club
sherrys high noon recital; , Assembly h mi'
TS%TSfye by and %ndFST .ss Ge
Astoria $50 d. M private concert OF the Mu-
cS %ss of Of M Max s sS E and
KEqqd old Ts c snG Mis-. &a md M iS4
gar harp Hotel ST. George Brooklyn $50 sI p IN
lecture BY hstT r. Sr bT Mrs Krehbe soprano,
and Miss Lolita Mills. pianoforte'
Observation-Disclosures Hall, 315 p. m. song re
resdt PS by Arthur Whiting: Carnegie Lyceqm
ii a. m, concert Of chamber music by Liz LeS
Concert Of the German Arion Singing Society;
Knapp Mansion. Brooklyn, SIS p M, concert vi
the Cncia Ladies' Vocal Society
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hall. p. M, song recital
by David Bispham assisted by W M;Hs wanda
k se2 music knf by the SewYork string Quartet
SondeT Of ,Ss Satio1s Orchestra
Waldorf Astoria $50 p ~ M F{ TFlyse III a. m
lecture Ss ApS OIL the SG opera by Miss Mary Bailey
assisted by Miss L9tta Mills ;a1 M9 recital
BY Mrs Harcourt Bull; Church, Of the Inter
eession p m. free organ recital by sanue' a.
Baldwin.
rr,asv-Carnesie Hall. p. M. put''c rehearsal Of
the Philharmonic Society; Waluorf-Astoria II
Ma Dyas: Mendeissohn Hail. SIS p, m. concert
by Nine. Cappisnt
acknowledgement Hall s;15 p m second Sonc err
o. m. private meeting Of the American must
clans and composers
Herewith The Tribune presents its readers with
the song to which the Beers in South Africa are
marching and fighting in their against Great
Britain They have no brass bands In the Trans
vaaI but they know the value Of martial music
and like the Hussites of the fifteenth century, they
cheer themselves to deeds of valor by singing tneir
patriotic hymns OF these they have several. but
their Marseilaise Is the song which we print to-
day with the original text and translation II Is
not only the war song Of to-day-it has been ad-
vanced to the dignity Of the National Hymn OF the
South African Republic. Though II cannot be DID,
It's authorship seems TO be unknown. At least Dr
Ieydt when applied to the subject recently was
unable TO give any information. except to discredit
a theory that the music had been written by
Dutch composer named Richard Holl' the author
Of large number Of popular songs. the crews
furnished by the text are vague. The lines IN the
last stanza:
Maar toch door't machtig Britsch bewind'
Wei ver<laart voor VIII.
NAV refer 20 the Sand River Convention OF 1882
which guaranteed to the Transvaers the right
10 manage their affairs and to govern them-
selves according TO their own laws. without any
interference the part Of the BRUSH GOVERN
rent': or to the convention signed two years later
by which the Beers living in the sovereignty De-
tween the Vaal and Orange rivers were declared
TO be a free and Independent people This speclnc
declaration would appear 10 be the one referred 10
in the hymn. but it would not require stretch
of the Imagination to find an echo or before anu
after Majuba Hill in the last stanza;
Transvalersl edel was streven.
En- pijnlik onze smaad,
Maar God die uitkomst heeft gegeVen'
Zij lof voor deigen Staat!
The translation Of the song made at the re-
ouest of The Tribune by the Rev. Maurice u
Hansen. Of East Orange. TO whom this journal
was also indebted at the time OF queen winner
mina's corona ton for spirited rendering of VIII
helmus van Nassouwen"-the national hymn of the
Netherlands In transmitting his version Mr.. Han
wrote:
As to the song itself II is rather crude COM m
position but has the right ng b EHStv Years
War with Spain and Of our own Revolution. 1t
S 6ss sGme but Marked distinction between Vok
'1and." and "Staat'; and also in the metre, whnch
AS TO the translation l have made 1t as nearly
exact as possible. Please do not publish In the
Sunday edition
An extremely interesting novelty is TO be brought
forward at the second public rehearsal and con-
cert OF the Philharmonic Society next Friday after
noon and Saturday evening. 1t is a symphonic pro-
In Heine'S tragedy civilian Ratcif,' com
posed by Mr. Frank van der Stucken. formerly OF
this city, now OF Cincinnati where he is dean OF
the College Of Music and conductor Of the SYM
phony Orchestra. Mr.. der Stucken composed
the work when he about twenty years old,
but rewrote II under the influences OF the ultra
modern orchestration. which fact accounts for tho
extraordinary array Of Instruments employed In H.
To the ordinary symphony band there added a
piccoo. two English horns. bass clarinet contra
bassoon bass tuba, triangle side drum, big drum,
cy7nbals. tamtam two bells harp and pianoforte.
There are also separate parts for two comets and
two trumpets The form Of the composition and
the term used 10 designate it-"symphonic pro-
logue"-are both the inventions of Mr.. der
stucken, though the term got into musical lera-
ture through Arnold Krug's Symphonic Prologue
10 Othello" which Mr.. van der Stucken says was
written after his work had been publicly per
formed in Germany. "Tant de bruit pour une
omeette." wrote he. in communicating the fact
some years ago but the omelette is made Of
Coumbus's egg!' However. the music is a more
interesting subject OF discussion than its name, and
because fits understanding depends upon knowl
edge OF its thematic contents and the composer:
purposes In their employment have thought 4
worth while TO supply a lack In the analysis printed
on the annotated programme.
The constructive method pursued In the piece Il
Wagnerian. Typical phrases are associated will
the psychological elements Of the drama and these
lines,