The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-18
YALE YEAR IN MUSIC.

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 Some Extra Curriculum Advantages Undergraduates Little Interested.
 The Yale Alumni Weekly in it's issu
 this week says:
 The Yale year in music was practical
 ly finished Monday afternoon, May
 when Assistant Professor Jepson gave
 the last of his series of organ recitals ir
 Battell chapel. It has been a goo6
 year too, with opportunities for Yale
 undergraduates to hear great deal of
 the best music in almost every form
 and style of composition.' The value of
 such course of instruction, which lies
 outside of the curriculum, can hardly
 be overestimated, but it seems to be
 appreciated by comparative few. The average Yale undergraduate concerns himself very little about the best In
 music It would be wrong to say he is not musical. He is musical-very musi- cal-in the rhythmic and melodic sense,
 as is attested by different and, in their
 way, excellent musical organizations and by every group of students one may
 meet on 8 spring evening. And it Is
 a kind of music that is pleasing, per-
 haps, but hardly educational or uplift-
 ing and certainly of no permanent val
 ue. In the main, too, 1t Is away from
 the sentiment of the college and is prin-
 cipally a reflection of the music hall.
 The tendency has been in that direction the past six or eight years, as one may
 see by locking at the programmes of college glee clubs.
 But in the year which has passed the student attendance at frst-class con- certs, though small, has been larger than before. The influence of the depart ment of music has already been felt, and it is hoped that 1t will operate more and more to raise the standard of the music in the university and that In the time to come Yale men will become pa irons of the best concerts.
 THE SYMPHONY CONCERTS.
 The series of six symphony concerts which were given throughout the win ter, by the New Haven Symphony or chestra, under the leadership of Profes- sor Horatlo w. Parker, were the prin- cipal events of the musical years. An increasing technical proficiency in the orchestra permitted the production of larger works and the series must be set down as the best in the seven years life of the orchestra. At two of the con certs the soloists were teachers in the department of music-Professor Sam uel S. Sanford and Isidore Troostwky. This gave distinctly academic flavor to these performances. Professor Sam ford played the great Beethoven P flat for piano. and the Liszt Hun- garian Fantasie, at the second concert of the series, and at the fourth concert MT. Troostwyk played Bruch's concerto for the violin In c minor. At the fifth Arthur Whiting of Boston, one of America's best known composers played his own Fantasy for the piano, op. II, with several smaller works of Brahms. The soloists for the other .hree concerts were Miss shannah Cum ming, sopranos; Miss Marguerite Hall, ,ontralto, and Ericsson Bushnell, oasso.
 The symphonies which were produc- d were Rheinberger's Wallenstein, in !! D minor; Beethoven's first, Haydn's in | , flat. Raff's I'm Walde" and iDvorak's | Symphony in E minor, From the New | World" Other of the larger compost | ions were: Moszkowsli's Suite No. | n F major, Mendelssohn's Hebrides | Overture; Humperdinck's Dream Pan omime from Hansel and Gretel; Rob- rt volkmanns Serenade for Strlnged Massenet's Overture to Phe- Ire, Wagner's Melstersinger and Tann- lauser overtures. Goldmark's Overture o Sakuntala, and Griegs Peer Gynt 'uite. Other smaller pieces were in- through the various con- erts.
 The finances of the orchestra, which were this year handled by the Yale reasury, are better than ever before.
 There were four chamber concerts U his year. the fourteenth of the Yale hamber concert series, two by the ldamowski Quartette and two by the .neisel Quartette. All the programmes ,ere carefully selected and included the est compositions of the old masters as yell as works of the modern writers. t the second concert of the year Pro- sssor Parkers Suite for Violin and 'iano was played by T. Adamowski and 'rofessor Parker
 HE BAYFIELD, ORGAN RECITAL. II Probably nothing has given more enuine enjoyment and instruction nan the series of organ recitals by assistant Professor Jepson in Battell hapel Monday afternoons at o'clock uring the winter and a part of the bring term. MT. Jepson's idea has cen to present each week pro- ramme of the bes. in organ music, Id and new, and he has kept the andard high in selection and inter retation. Each programme has gen ally contained one or two large works lken from the writings of some mas 1T, with smaller compositions inter- )ersed, illustrative of the progress in