New-York tribune., 1900-12-09
MUSICAL NOTES.

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TON SYMPHONY cONCERTs-MR
GRAUs PLANs-ANNoUNcE-
MENrs AND PROGRAMMES.
SUNDAY Church OF the Divine Paternity. 7a5 p. m.
soecial service The Music Of Germany"
Monday-MetropOitan Opera House, p m opera
n concert by the Severn Trio; Assembly Room
eSsBsEs saalh ash @ hsrdh n so ''a % free organ
recital by Gerrt smith; German EEahse gen ~
by Hugo TrOeschel.
aycarnegis Han $50 m song recital by sy
,. m. concert by the American sy mphony Or
chestra; Metropolitan Opera House, 8 p M op-
era IN English Faust; Parish Building. one
hundred nd -hfty-eighth-st. and Broadway - 4 ?,
Opera: ii Richard wagner and His Music Drama,
es,6F ss hEyfe y hs No R Society Old First
Church. D. m. free organ recital by ~ IN "a
Scholarship Fund OF the College wOman's Club;
academy ot Music Brsokyn S'lR fsI 4 i srooyn'
$50 p. m concert OF songs and chamber music.
Hall 20 2 m 095ssT pefa
House. ,. opera in English Ai4fShs 1fctsI os
chopin's music by Julian Pascal
Hell s5 M S0SSsft by 6p 6Re
man @ STi 70 a Vest ssti Fiffy.niStn-si $50 p
m. song recital by Frank Eaton
MetTopolitan Opera House 4 P 2ia1 m e opera
IN English, AIDA cooper Union R5S maIiS Ss,p - p
m Ham s M SSy oonoerf by Hattie schoder Old
B b Pso9 G6Srs Sp zesSey on on Ec BFooE Sc
lyn. s:l5 ?. m, concert by the Boston Symphony
Carnegie Hall 2I5 p m; concert by the the
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Metropolitan l Op- &
kade P M SPera IN a
chestrs.
The second concert Of the American Symphony
Orchestra under the direction OF Mr. Sam Franko.
viii take place in the Lyoeum Theatre on Tuesday
afternoon OF this week. Mr. FranlOo has again sue
ceeded IN putting together a programme OF new
old pieces OF fascinating interest. The compost
tions are the overture from Bach's suite In ID
major (the FAINT ~ one which contains the great
air) a svmphony ''PhaSton" by Karl Differs Won
Dittersdorf. the church air. ''se miei sospiri."
attributed stradella; a suite OF dances by
Rameau and the overture 10 II Matrimonio
eegroto," by Cimarosa. Mr.. Franko notes the
s,ynnhonv and the last number first perform
ances This raises question which is not easily
10 be disposed Of. Cimarosa's opera was sung here
in the season OF 1854 ana OF course the overture
was played: but It may be answered that this can
have nothing 10 do with a concert performance
ike that projected by Mr Franko. So. also, the
Dittersdorf symphony may have been played In
whole or IN part. by some amateur orchestra sew
enty-fve years ago, when the composer. Nahhali
and Peyel still ranked with Mozart out on
that point all convenient records are silent. The
COMPOSER OF "Phaeton" contemporary OF
Gluck as well Mozart. and in his day enjoyed
greater popularity than either Of them. His name
being conferred upon him at the climax OF his
career 20 enable him 10 accept a post OF service
under the Prince Bishop Of Bresau 10 which noble
men alone were eligible. Among his more than
half hundred symphonies twelve were descriptive
and founded on the ''Metamorphoses" OF Ovid or
them six have been lost. 'Phaeton" is the second
of the ''AIetamorphoses' symphonies. which repre-
sent programme music OF the type cultivated by
Kuhnau. Bach's predecessor in Leipsie 1t consists
OF four movements contrasted in tempt and mood
like those OF Haydn, each OF which has a super
scription from the Latin poets account OF the fate
which befeT Phaeton. son OF PhRbus. who under
took drive the chariot OF the sun. but misguided
the coursers and was threatening the universe
with destruction when Zeus struck him down with
thunderbolt. Mr. Franko's confessed purpose in
these concerts Is TO bring 10 appreciation the
music OF the classical period as it sounded when
II first produced. II WILL therefore help those
who intend TO hear the symphony read an
analysis of the ''Phaeton" written in 1875:
First-Regia Soils erat sublimibus alta columns
ovid; Met lib IL Y / C,on lofty columns rose the
''The composer goes At once from an Adagio into
an Allegro; Guided by him we wander through the
where we shrink back dazzled by the majesty of the
sesond17pepospit radios proapiusqqgge aoeedeTe
the radiant crown from his brow and bade Phaeton
In this adagio with bassoon obblgato we fancy
We see Phaeton on his knee before Apollo. The
him plead for permission 10 drive the chariot OF
the sun ana dread the gods compliance Gould
anything be expressive than the refusal OF
The pod which speaks To us from the second part
especially in the passages when the first violns
play piano while the second, the viola and the
hasses play forte!' - -, -,
II. v al f'Then rspented the father OF his oath =
"The minuet depicts the growing anger OF Phuebus
his oath. In the madcap trio the Joy Of Phaeton is
Fourth-Intonat ct dextra nbratum fulmen alb
azure: Misit in aurieam. Ovid. Met. nb. II. V. 3ll
SO ('Thundering the while zeus hurled the forked
brand upon the IN starred charioteer.O
Rather than speak would hold my peace about
this vvace How shall make the reader compre-
The climax is the lightning flash Scarcely one in
hundred would have guesse9 WI winch E IN instrument
one but uttered a cry when the fire fell. The up
roar in the orchestra would leave q painful emo
tional state II the destruction OF Phaeton ended
the piece. The composer knew how 10 avoid it; ne
the distance and the heavens grow bright again
above as"
AT her song recital in Mendelssohn Hall on next
Wednesday afternoon Miss Minnie Tracey Will be
assisted by David Names and Isidor Luckstone.
The programme will be follows:
Air from .Iphigene Tauride' .Glucx
'Apros Reye' Gshe Faure
''L'IIeure EXCUSE r. Hahn
violin solo, raTsifai Iara@Rhrase @ Wagner wheimj
AR from .I.Hercdade' .Massenet
Die Junge Nome Scbutsr,
.tleheires' ....-..-- ~
violin solo sAbendiied' schumsnn
Violin solo. le MenetTisr WieniaWsld
fschsuTs dIslande rompaints Iand6ers
songs NJ Mother Taurht DvoraE
Violin obhigato, Ave Maria ......-........- Howlana
Mr. Clement r. Gale. who for ten years has held
the position OF organist and choirmaster in Cal
vary Church. has been appointed a similar po-
sition at the Church Of All Angels. at Eighty