New-York tribune., 1900-10-28

Of Daniel Frohman, at the Lyceum Theatre. have
been changed to November 81, December II and
January Is At the first concert Leopold Ldchten-
berg will play Niottrs seventeenth concerto This
will be Mr.. Lchtenberg's first appearance with
orchestra since he made tour with Theodore
Thomas years ago In the concerto he will intro
duce a manuscript cadenza composed by Henri
Wieniawski and dedicated TO him.
". Weber, in Berlin, announces the completion Of
the first volume of the second edition, revised
rected and enlarged, Of Thayer's Ludwig van
Beethovens Leben." The translator of the orig-
nal work. DR.. Hermann Deters, has made the
vision, and is at work writing the concluding
volume from the data placed in his hands by
Thayer's heirs. As this volume appears
work will be begun the English edition. which
is TO be published by Charles scrtbner's Sons
Here is example which deserves emulation
here The incident is related by 'TThe Boston Jour
nal': Baltimorean visited recently the Sym
phony Hall, and he particularly struck by the
opportunity given students and others TO hear the
symphony concerts for 25 cents After he had
turned to his city he wrote Mr.. Gomez and asked
whether similar arrangements might be made in
Baltimore when the orchestra gave concerts there.
The result that this gentleman, MIR. J. B. Noel
Wyctt, subscribed 500 to certain number of seats,
which he will distribute to members of a school for
the blind and others. He allows his TO be
mentioned simply that others may be melted to
follow his example Something of the kind is done
chestra.
At the concert of chamber music to be given in
the Scottish Rite Hall this afternoon by Edward
and Carl Hermann, the music will consist of Bee
thoven's Trio op. l. No. /; Brahmss sonata for
pianoforte and VIOLIN op. rs. G major. and Chris
tian Bindings Trio g. in D major
There is some information in the prospectus of
the Oratorio Society which has not yet appeared
in these columns. Dates and works remain
nounced: November "a, Bachs Mess in B minor;
December 26 (afternoon) and q (evening), The
Messiah; April 4. Dvorak's Requiem Mass" Mr..
Frank Damrosch will be the conductor, and the
solo singers Will be Mesdames Gadsh Rlauvelt,
Schumann-Heink and Stein, and Messrs. Van
Williams, Joseph Baernstein and David Bispham.
sliding scale Of prices for single concerts and
subscriptions has been arranged. Parquet seats
which cost 81 so at the first concerts will cost 81
the evening Messiah and Requiem perform
ance; other seats and boxes in proportion.
Dohnanyi will play his pianoforte concerto with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its first concert
in Carnegie Hall on November 8. This is the COM
position which took first prize in a competition
founded by Bosendorfer, the Viennese pianoforte
manufacturer. Mr.. Gericke of the judges,
and associated with him were Professors. Lesche-
uzky and Epstein. Compositions received
from Germany. France. England, Bohemia and
Holland Mr. Ger1cke examined over seventy-two
works, but obliged to leave for America be-
fore completing the entire list At the time when
the competitors sent in their composition Mr. DOH
nanyi had not finished his concerto, and so submit
ted only the first movement. This work was so
pre-eminently superior to all the others that Mr.
Gericke left a letter his departure addressed
70 the other judges, stating his opinion that Mr.
Dohnanyts composition far ahead Of all the
others, in which opinion his associates concurred
The orchestral numbers on the first programme are
the overture to "Euryanthe." the incidental music
from schuberts 'Rosamunde" and Dvoraks SYM
phony From the New World"
The Pail Mall Gazettes' music reviewer il still
exploiting his discovery that Brahms's German
Requiem is 'cowardly' music. His proclamations
belong to the curtosites Of criticism and as a
specimen his last is herewith reproduced:
There is necessity for me 10 repeat the opin-
ions which have over and over again expressed
that this Requiem" is perhaps the most coward
ly word in music ever uttered by the tongue of
man, while at the time, the fact of ones
knowing and appreciating how cowardy Il is only
adds to the interest of the which gave IL birth
When l say that 1t is cowardly I do not mean
which distinguishes IL; for, indeed. the technique
is remarkable enough. l speak entirely from fhe
emotional point OF view. II the Requiem" were as
noble composition, from the purely maGhemati-
cal standpoint, Don Giovanni" or the Mat
thew" Passion should still call the sentiment
which inspired II cowardly.
1t must be comforting to the Brahmins 70 know
that the Pail Mall" man does not S.alt Brahmss