New-York tribune., 1900-03-18
MUSICAL GOSSIP.

DICTIONARY-SAINT-SA -SAENS
AND RUBINsTEIN-
NEWS NOTES
cert under the direction Of signor Mancinelli:
Chapter Room. Carnegie Hail. p m, musical
by Lewis Coleman Hall.
Monday-Metropolitan Opera House. p. m, Ger
opera die Meistersnger AMERICAN .tss The;
(all week.; Academy of Music, Brooklyn. S:5
p. m. song recital by Mesdames Nordca and
TUESDAY Metropolitan opsTa House p I'm M Ser Ger
SIS p m concert by Aiulf Hjorvard: Hotel
Majestic. Pm m lecture by the Rev Hugh qshar +
HI Hail p M free lecture 0oT by We a spTrests sso
E Society. %: meeting Of the "Omen's philharmonic
wednesaay-carae Hall, 2:so p. m, concert Of
eTn House sea laa SRsra gsia d kan
crosbx on egfe p % ieStaFe So ss fE MFs Is
a M recital by Miss Harriette Cady.
Thursday Metropolitan Opera House, ! p. M Ger
na an opera % M p m a concert stk for the tn
concert of the Boston Symphony orchestra;
y IF S b snd %f fss
Church of the Divine Paternity, 43o u. m. free
organ recital by J. Warren Andrews.
f5s 5 PhiJhafmonif s s3eissty; MstrGPol5an oPsFs
s West i FrepS@ so Pea m meeting Of the the
by Mrs ". S, Crosby ou 'G6't terdammerung."
satGrday- Metropolitan Opera House; 1:So p m.
italian opera, lie Nozze di Figaro: Carnegie
Hall Hall S:l5 p M, concert Of the Philharmenic
m, concert Of the Boston symphony Orchestra;
Garnut Club, Music in scandinavia"
supplementary season of opera two weeks in
duration will be given the Metropolitan Opera
House. beginning April ? There will be six
evening performances. Mondays. Wednesdays
and Fridays, and Saturday matinees. Sub
scribers the season desirous Of retaining
their seats for the supplementary season do
by notifying the fact the subscription depart
Inent not later than Wednesday evening, March n.
Seats not retained by subscribers will be offered TO
new subscribers from Thursday. March q, to Tues
day, March 27 The sale of seats for single per-
formances will begin Thursday, March 90
There is book which stales more quickly than
biographical dictionary especially If 1t be
that aims to present the lives Of contemporary
men and women Populations spring up in one
night, and greatness sometimes vanishes with the
light Of a single day. To meet the requirements
of one desirous to keep well informed concerning
the happenings in any department of life monthly
or even weekly editions of dozen encyclopedias
would scarcely be too many. Such a provision
being impossible. every biograph compen-
dunn, especially every devoted TO special field
is & welcome contribution the students library
80 the proper amount of zeal, discretion knowledge
judgment and taste be disclosed in 1t. notable
example Of excellence of this kind "Bograph-
1cal dictionary or Musicians compiled edited
by Theodore Baker and published by G. Schirmer.
1t represents the labor of years. and contains
nearly six thousand names Many dates
brought down 10 six months ago. and a special
stand has been taken 10 make up for the scant at
TenGon which American musicians have heretofore
received in musical encyclopedias. The men of to-
day rather than those of ancient history have
kept in Dr. Bakers eye and he has striven hard
obtain the highest degree of accuracy. On his
success he deserves to be congratulated though 1t
fails short Of faultlessness Perfection in such a
work is. indeed out of the question. special and
individual knowledge of many titles, which alone
could assure absolute accuracy. being, of course,
quite impossible. The book is illustrated by
three hundred vignette portraits reproduced from
pen and ink drawings by Alexander Gribayedoff.
In his preface DR.. Baker speaks a special word of
thanks to Mr.. Richard AIdrich for careful and
critical proofreading and for timely assistance in
completing several important articles
An opportune publication that will. interest many
lovers Of choral music throughout the country is
that of Cesar Francl1's oratorio Les Beatitudes"
just issued by G. Schr1ner. Of this city There is
at present an access of interest in this French
composer whose works were so persistently neg
lected during his lifetime notwithstanding the
prominent official positions he held in French mu-
scai activity. The somewhat expansive claims of
his admirers are being put frequent test by the
performance OF his orchestral and chamber music
and now the public is have an opportunity of
hearing his choral music. Les Reatitudes' is
considered his masterpiece by those who speak as
been
underlined for performance at the Worcester
Festival; it is expected that the Society of
this city viii perform fl within a year and next
Sunday evening the Liederlranz will give il its
first production in NewYork. The handsome vol
uIne in which il is issued by Schirmer is therefore
timely and welcome in its appearance 1t is an
extremely creditable specimen of musical bookmak-
ing.
The seventh public rehearsal and concert of the
philharmonic Society will take place in Carnegie
4 PEr aft
ing. The solo performers will be Marie Brema
who viii sing Gluck's ''Che faro senza Eurtdice''
in French WhyO and songs by Schubert ('.Der
Atlas'D. Brahms c'Der Fruhlng'') Br,Ineau
cLheureux Vagabond") and Tschaikowskv (.Der
huckuckD and Leo Schulz who will play the
Schumann violonceo concerto a work that GO
seldom heard in America-or Europe either for
that matter. The orchestral numbers will be the
overture TO "A Midsummer Nights Dream" by
Mendelssohn, and Rubinsteins Ocean symnhonv
The latter viii be played in its original form as IL
was heard when brought forward for the first time
In New-York in 1871. When Rubinstein conducted a
performance OF the work for the Philharmonic
society, on April l9, 1873, movements were
Incorporated with il. They were an Adagio in D
major and a Scherzo Presto in F. Shortly after
ward a third new movement, Lento assai and An
dante con motto. in a minor, was added and this
movement was played with the original from move
rnents when the sy nphony last performed by
tho Philharmonic Society on November Il 1895
Now, return will be made the work as Rubin
stein first conceived it. We thus put aside the
question whether Rubinsten DESTROYED the
symphony Of his composition and muddled its poeti-
cal contents. As originally written at least il
gramme music" Its entire verbal programme con
sisted Of the word Ocean; from this II derived