The age-herald., 1901-02-24

The Leipsc Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hans Winderstein, will open it's first American engagement on Friday next at Carnegie Hall, New York, and after giving two or three concerts there will start on tour which Is to in- cllide the principal cities of the West and South. The coming of this famous sym phony organization is indeed notable event in the musical world, and musical New York is in state of keen eXpectan- cy. Eduard Strauss, with his Vienna ball. room orchestra, has made two trips to the United States-first in 1890, and again in the current season, visiting Birming- ham in December last. And of sympho- ny conductors of European fame We have had tho elder Damrosch, Nikisch, Seidl, Gericke and Paur. But Winderstein is the first to venture with a high-class sym phony band. It is bold enterprise, this crossing the Atlantic to compete with the Boston Symphony, led by William Gericke; the Chicago Orchestra, led by Theodore Thomas, and the Pittsburg Or chestra, backed by Andrew Carnegie and led by Victor Herbert to say nothing of a half dozen other good orchestras. But musical culture is catholic, and if the Leipsic Orchestra is as fine as the Flu ropean press leads one to believe it is Winderstein has made no mistake in bringing his organization to the United derstein is almost sure to be cordially all first-class musical talent and Win derstein is almosa sure to be cordially welcomed in every city that he may visit
 The Leipsic Orchestra numbers seven ty-odd performers, and its string choir is said to be singularly strong. The Leip- siger zeitung, in criticising an exclusive Beethoven programme. said:
 "The handling of the orchestra was masterly. Herr Winderstein's direction was full of emphasis, and was highly in- telligent. He was recalled innumerable times by his enthusiastic hearers
 The Munich Anzeiger had this to say:
 Herr Winderstein showed himself finely constituted and high minded He leads his musicians with extraordinary surety, and he knows how to draw them out. The first part of the Haydn Sym phony already showed extreme life and freshness entirely in the spirit of the work; therefore in the great. especially in the emotional, is his working out of the dynamics remarkable. The way it strikes the ear proves the diligence and actual love and study that he has given the york;
 The Christiania Dagsavis said:
 "The Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first concert before crowded house-packed from pit to dome. The musicians had a hearty welcome from the public and were applauded vocifer- ously, the conductor being recalled in- numerable times. The very strong pro- gramme was marked by a finish of exc cution which, if referred to in detail, should be emphaaized in LohengrIn,' where a climax ITS reached, 1t being grandly played, as alsp the 'Waldweben, to which it was real pleasure to listen. Just as great powers of execution were displayed in the Tristan and Isolde and the 'Parcifar selections, the 'Feuer Zau- ber' having to be given da capo. The "Tannhauser overture was the last num- Der on the programme, but in reality The Meistersinger' overture was the last selection, being most generously given as an encore after furious applause, literal ly carrying the audience off their feet These are fair specimens of scores of fattering notices found In the European press
 Greg, the composer, speaks of Winder- stein as a great interpreter of Wagner and as the best conductor of all for the interpretation of his (Grieg's) music. Winderstein was born in Hanover in 1856. He entered the Conservatory at Leipsic at an early age, where he studied the violin under Schradieck, known the