New-York tribune., 1900-03-25

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NJ De Pachmann.
Sonata, Op. ~. A major. for panofore and violin
NM. De Pachmann Marteau.
The sixth and last Symphony Concert for young
people under the direction of and with explana-
tions by Mr.. Frank Damrosch. will be given on
Saturday afternoon next in Carnegie Hail. The
solo performer will be NJ. Henri Marteau. Mr..
Damrosch will end this series of concerts with the
fifth symphony by Beethoven Eighteen orchestral
works Will have been given this season. each pro-
gramme having contained example of the
sonata form, song form and dance form. The
programme for the last concert Is follows:
Violin solos:
s@6do R0manee svendsen ;s Sess
NJ Marteau. SAINT 'ae"'
''waldweben' from .'siegfried" "...... Wagner
At the residence of Mrs Edward N. Gibbs. No
277 Madison-ave. next Tuesday evening Miss Otie
Chew, vionist from England, will give a recital
with the help of Mr. William Shakespeare. of Lon
don; Max Liebling. Orton Bradley and Leo Schulz.
The programme Will be follows
Trio 2s violin sHa a2s % oB s ssa
>0''o'"e' Mr. Bradley; Chopin
A"dan's and H0nd0 caSfse'4fS &ss GSsw .s'in's'en'
ReGtative a and aria Deeper and Deeper stin and
Mr. Shakespeare
1,'" 'p''"SD'"''Hen Mr. schulz. i'aTa0''
Miss chew i'' N''''''
The third and last of the chamber music matinees
of the Kneisel Quartet will be given at Mendels-
sohn Hall Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock.
The programme will be follows:
Theme and variations from Quartet in major
sextet for string op 20 CsouvenIr de Forence9
Tschakowsky
Tschaikowsky's Souvenir de Florence" will be
repeated by request. At the last evening concert.
on March g. 1t created a profound impression on
the general public, and the critics as WELL and
its repetition will doubtless meet with approval.
This Is one Of two compositions (he other being
the orchestral "Capricco Italien'O, In which
Tschaikowsky has recorded his fondness for Italy,
where he spent several years after he resigned his
professorshp in the st. Petersburg Conservatory
1878 The first two movements full of char
acterisically Italian melody and ingrat,ating
harmony-a note which the thoroughgoing Russian
does not seem long able to keep up for In the last
two he returns to the strongly marked rhythmic
and melodic forms that characteristic of the
folk music of his native land. and that he makes
such frequent use of in his better known works
To judge from the results at the last concert in
which the Quartet assisted by Messrs Max
Zach. VIOLA and Fl. Heberlen. violoncello. 1t
will be again an extremely brilliant and sonorous
performance ought to be expected.
The influence of another folk music will also be
heard on Tuesday afternoon In the string quartet
of Edward Grieg-his only published composition in
this form. He whom DIR. Hansllck has apty
called "Mendelssohn in seaskins'' has tried to
do for the folk music OF Norway what Tschaikow-
sky, Dvorak, Chopin and Liszt have done for that
Of their own native landsto incorporate its spirit
in his compositions. using sometimes real popular
songs and dramas and sometimes melodies fash
ioned in their mould the material of his work.
The Mendelssohnian influence that the viennese
critic has found in Grieg's music is evident
In this quartet, in which the rugged rhythms and
uncompromising harmonies, bordering almost
been exploited only in the tender romance does the
composer seem to seek euphony.
The quartet from which the theme and variations
are taken is the fifth of the set of six that Bee
thoven published in Vienna in 1901 his Op. IS,
dedicated to Prince Won Lobkowitz. There five
variations, with coda in which the uxuriant
fancy of the master is at work in ever changing
and delightful fashion. They are variations after
the older Haydn and Mozart, and form
a striking contrast with Beethoven's later more
serious and more organic style of treating varia-
tionsa style that has perhaps It's highest exempli-
fcation in the sharp minor quartet that Mr..
Kneisel played his last concerts in New
York.
Brevities.-Mrs. Marian Van Duyn will give a
song recital at the WaldorfAstoria on next Thurs
day evening. NJ. Marteau will make his 6QOth
public appearance at his recital next Wednesday
Miss Lolita Mills gave concert with NJ Mar
teau. in Washington. last Monday, which the
sonata by Henry Sch6nefeld, which took the Mar
teau prize played. Mrs. Hadden-Alexan-
der will give concert with the help of Mrs. Ray
mond Brown and Harvey Briggs for the Womens
Philharmonic Society, in the Chapter Room Car
negle Hall, on next Tuesday evening "A quar-
tet for panoforte and strings. by ReinhoId L.
Herman was played recently by the Waldemar
Meyer Quartet, in Berlin. The work is still in
manuscript. 1t praised for its neatness of
workmanship and pretty ideas. Franz Jauner
who was director of the Royal Opera in Vienna
from 1915 TO 1885, and afterward director of three
theatres In the Austrian capital shot himself to
death on February g. Financial difficulties led
to the act......Dr Hans Richter his wife cele-
brated their silver wedding on January 2S
Horace Wadham NichO. English musician we'll
known In New-York. where he lived for years has
published six single and many double figures
for the organ through Breitkopf G. HarteI.
Miss Cora Lange. of St Louis sang successfully
TWO weeks ago in Geneva. She is enter upon an
operatic career in Italy. Another American
singer Miss Hortense Paulsen. is said TO have
made an excellent impression lately at a ballad
concert in St James's Hail. London The Amer
lean Women's Orchestra. OF which Nine. Jeanne
Frankie is conductor, will give a concert in Car
negie Lyceum next Tuesday evening .Gounod's
oratorio The Redemption" will be sung under
the direction of Paul Ambrose at ST. James's
Methodist Episcopal Church. Madison-ave and
hundred and twenty y-sixth-st this evening at
Z 45 o'clock The solo singers Will be Mrs NJ p
Wood. soprano; Miss Fielding Roselle alto; John s
Macdonald tenor and Nj. h. Wood. barytone.....
A. symphony in minor. entitled Walt Whitman
by William Henry Bell, English composer was
given at one of the recent concerts the Crystal
Palace Sydenham. Miss Julie Geyer pianist
will give concert in Mendessohn Hall on Tues
day evening, April 3. with the assistance of Miss
Leopold Luckstone. This will he Miss Ruegger's
previous 10 her deDartura