New-York tribune., 1900-04-29
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The work which Professor II. W. Parker
commissioned to write for this years Three Choirs
Festival. in England is finished and in the hands
Of the publishers Novello Ever & Co. It is q
:ata for solo voices. chorus and orchestra. and
setting of portion Of Psalm evil, beginning ''They
that go down the in ships" Professor
Parker's orchestral composition. "a Northern Bal
lad is to be played at the Cincinnati festival next
week. Likewise Mr.. MacDowelrs 'Lancelot and
Elaine"
To Judge by the title. German composer has
found operate subject in the story which
George W. Chadwick utilized in his cantata. THE
Lily Nymph.' At any rate Der Mummelsee,'
opera by E Sahlender, was brought forward on
March 16 at Heidelberg. Mummelsee is a lake in
the Black Forest of Germany the lilies in which
are enchanted maidens who once a year. on
midsummer night permitted resume their
original forms. Should mortal one of
them and the pair love each other death is the
penalty. In Mr.. Chadwicks cantata, for which
Arlo Bates wrote the text this fate overtakes Sir
Albrecht, who meets of the lily nymphs while
on his way 10 meet his bride. The cantata had its
first performance at Carnegie Hall on December
z 1885, under the direction of Frank Dessert and
has since been performed at festivals in Springfield
and Worcester.
The principal number at the concert given by
the Mount Vernon Musical Society Alfred Hallam
conductor. c. Vilers Stanford's setting of the
spirited things in the whole cantata field It is
Young LochinVar' done into Irsh with a few
characteristic native ornaments.
OH Phaudrig Crohoore was the broth of a bow
And his arm was round as another mans thigh
Tis Phaudrig was great
MI Hallam has society of sixty-nine voices
HIS solo singers at the concert were Mrs Adele
Laeis Baldwin, contralto and J. H Mckinley
tenor
new cantata, of which both words and music
were written by Frederick r. Burton Will have ,+s
hrst performance under the direction Of tbe com
poser at concert OF the Yonlers Choral Society
next tuesday evening It IS entitled 1.-The Legend
OF Sleepy Hollow" and deals in a somewhat mixed
manner with the familiar story by Washington
irving Musically its model-if it has one-seeros
10 have been Stanford's "Phaudrfg Croboore.n p+
any rate. the thought is suggested bv one of ,ba
numbers which is a rustic merrynakdng with
fop Noes me weasel" its musical foundation
just as in 'Phaudrig Crohoore'' the scene of tba
wedding which Phaudrig interrupts is built on an
Irlsh rg- Mr Burtons work might be called a.
oallao II II were more closely knit As it is 1t is a
series or detached episodes with fragments of the
Legend" IS their motive. First there Is a descr4n
tive chorus devoted TO depletion of that "drowsy.
dreamy influence which hung over Sleepy Hollow
and its dominant supernaturaIism:
So Still the air the thistle down
Low bends beneath its Brilliant crown
And stoops to kiss the fragrant sod.
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Upon The ground lie thicky spread,
Rich promise Of a bounteous board.
This the beginning; but the mood becomes
ghCstly:
The shades creep on; from churcbyard nook
The nights weird spirits gin to wake.
-''Gin to syoool" is what we wish Mr.. Burton had
written In the second division Van Tassel invites
his netghbors TO a harvest nerTymaktng. Next a
female chorus and soprano solo tell US about Ka-
trina Van Tassel, hose ''eyes We're deep as the
a emit bod
and fuu chorus Brom Bones. In No. 8 a soprano
solo tells OF the meditations of Katrina, who IS
pouring tea in the kitchen, smiling coquettishly
but irnpartially, all the company:
smile IN response 10 prir t Icabods boz f boT ea9"
To taciturn Brorn smile for his frown
Greetings impartial for all Tarrytown.
The dance begins in real old fashioned country
style vigorously and merrily to the old tune:
No sooner said than into the. hail
They formed along the middle;
A sight IL them all.
Squeak. the fiddle.
Tsrorn Bones is out sorts. tells the tale of
the Headless Horseman frightening Ichabod. who
proposes 10 Katrina. is rejected, and for
home only to be pursued by the ghost. We fancy
low bassoons and kettle-drum taps al the pumpkin
comes crashing against the luckiess wight. The
wedding of Brom and Katrina brings the work TO q
close
A free organ recital will be given by w. c. Carl
at the Old First Church next Tuesday evening
Dr. Duffeld will comment on the programme
Mr. Arthur Won Hoeben, the German Ambassa-
dor at Washington. has received from Berlin Ger
many the prize which the German Emperor has
donated for the celebration of the nineteenth ma
ticnal singing festival and the fftieth anniver-
sary Of the Northeastern Sangerbund to take place
simultaneously in Brooklyn during the first days
of July next. Dir. Won Hoeben Will retain the
prize until short time before the festival, when
a delegation Of singers will go Washington to
s-a
saeuger the president Of the United Singers Of
Brooklyn and delegation Of prominent members
OF the Bund will cross the ocean for the purpose
of thanking the Emperor An audience has already
been promised them. Emperor Williams gift con-
sists Of a statpette about three feet high. Many
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