New-York tribune., 1900-01-28

Rass pn Messaggiero. .signor yanni
Conductor. sienor Mancnelii ~
SATURDAY EVENING. DER FLIBGENDE HoL-
LAENDER" GIN GERMAN.
Nine ch1manne M5f ffeshi
Der Holander.. Herr Bertram
steueTmann n--.-..-......-. NJ. Jacques Bars Bars
Conductor. Herr Emil Panr
There will be a special afternoon performance
Of Carmen" with Nine. Cave as the heroine.
on Thursday of next week. February s.
Mr.. Grau announces his plans for two cyclicaI
performances of the entire trilogy Der Ring des
Nibelungen," Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
in February and March The evening perform
ances are set down for February 90 % and q, and
March !; the afternoon Ma Is, 90 D. and q.
The four works, "Rheingold.' 'Walkire," "Sieg
fried" and Gotterdammerung will be given with
out cuts. and among the singers will be several
who have given Iustre to the representations at
Bayreuth. Mr.. Paur will conduct all the perform
ances Concerning the sale of tickets the an
nouncement is as follows:
Subscribers to all the performances of the regu-
either series by notifying the subscription depart
nent not later than ham Monday. February at p m
preference after the first allotment is made The
either series VIII begin on Wednesday. February
q Sno continue m untl saturday evening FebruarE lS
stall boxes, S0 and $780, orchestra stalls $40; dress
circle So; balcony front row. SO; balcony 0back
An seats not sold for the complete cycle of four
fCrmances at the regular prices Monday, Feb
ruary Y, at a. m.
Nine Calve Nine. Schumann- -Heink, NJ Salignac
and NJ. Plancon will sing the concert in the
Metropolitan Opera House this evening. Because
of the unusual attraction there will be an advance
Of @ cents and 50 cents in the reserved seats the
prices ranging from 70 cents TO g. Following is the
programme:
AIR from ''ManOn' .Massenet
Aria ''orpheus''. Gluck
Aria from Der 44Rf SFsisoS69g Weber
Air Du Avre from ''Hamiet' '............ Thomas
Songs =" eOT' " s'n Saf'heF
AIR from Ia Perle Bresl .Felicien David
Aria Marina F1otow
Songs:
S) rei Iieder aus Dchterliebe LOUIS cSnma55 M saa5
o.-.-. .,,,,,,,l Nine; sch S9humann-Heink
Mr.. Frank Damrosch will give two orchestral
concerts for young people at the Academy of Music
Brooklyn, under the auspices of the Institute of
Arts and Sciences the afternoons of March II
and April Z.
Mr.. Anton Van Rooy will give song recital in
Mendelssohn Hall on the afternoon OF February 15
He will be assisted by H. H. Wetzler.
Mr.. Mark Hamburg will give another pianoforte
recital in Mendelssohn Hall next Wednesday after
noon' when he will play these pieces:
Sonata, E fat op. 81 No s.......... .Fssetbovs,
f2ntasa major cWanderer) Schubert
Traumeswirren. .Schumann
BeTcease Chopin
Eude False .Rubinsten
1SI2nHee -Leschetzky
Hungarian Rhapsody No fszt
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Tak sur Wsa ao reference 1fa ers to y9gr publication Of NAL
that it appears in Beethoven's Battle SYMPHONY
viii you please state what that symphony is? l
advised thai 10 Beethoven only the fourth (Pas-
toraD and the ninth (ChoraD symphonies were
known otherwise than by their numbers-that not
Sonatas known such to him. / do not
know II this be so. though am advised it is; but
obliged by your stating what number the Battle
And can you further obige by saying in what is
sue OF The Century" account of the NAL
brouck stanzas and the music was given?
TarrytoWn, n. Y, Jan. 25, 1900. NJ H. B.
The Battle Symphony" is not symphony at
all The name is a loose designation that has
become current in England of Beethoven's or
chestral composition, op 81. known in German
as "WeIlington's Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Wit
toria." It is an extremely weak and futile pro-
duction, of the crassest order of initiative pro-
gramme music, and nobody has dreamed of per-
forming IT, probably. within the memory Of liv-
ing 1t purports 10 give musical repre-
sentation of Wellington's victory at Vittoria
on June 21. 1913.
AS TO the designations of the other musical
works our correspondent mentions, he is partly
right and partly wrong. Beethoven's Pastoral
Symphony is the sixth, not the fourth and was