New-York tribune., 1901-05-19


hem win probably have an opportunity to OBJ
serve this week. the of trombones to make
solemn proclaYnations from the church belfrv
already in existence in 1145. a year later
an Indian convert, the Mohican chief Tschoop.
who IS supposed TO have been the father Of
Uncas with whom Cooper made the world IA
niliar, was buried in the Morayian cemetery at
Bethlehem TO the solemn strains Of the from
bones Nine years LATER il is said similar strains
announcing the death Of Of the members Of
the unity, We're interpreted as an alarm by a
hand of lurking saYages who We're about to at
tack the settlement and Bethlehem was saved
by music.
THE FIRST ORGAN.
IN 11i4 q class Of theological students who
were learning the Indian language TO prepare
IL usselyes Tor the chief duty Of the Morayian
church Chat Of carrying the Gospel to the
ie4thel) formed q -'colle egium muslcunl" on the
lines cf The Colesit r-usica OF the German uni
H,rslV cities. II l.4G came the first organ.
-portiF' 0pcrtable organp, made 10y Gustavus
Tesselen tHessalius) descendant OF one Of the
SHedes. who. under Minuit or Prntz settled on
the Minquas Knill in ZWaanendael. or in TIM
cum Delaware. Other Instruments French
horns and fiutes-had preceded the trombones.
and Benjamin Franklin writing to his wife in
l7J6. said he had heard very fine music in the
Moravian Church at Bethlehem, and that flutes
oboes, French horns and trumpets accompanied
the organ.
n lGe0 Bethlehem already boasted Cor might
haveD Of an orchestra OF fifteen men. made up Of
violins. VOlas Y!olcnceilos. French horns flutes,
oboes and trU-nIets, 10 which added
tassoon in 1870 and double bass in lso6 In
l7s5 string quartet was organized to play
Haydn's quariets and there was direct connec-
lion between the composer and the little band in
The backwoods Of America through Of the
ccuEreg2ton, a Wheelwright named Antes. who
Went out as 2 missionary among the Turks III
EgEIt from his American home. hastina-
doed- composed quartets while recovering from
The effects. and made the acquaintance Of Haydn
ia Vienna. He also mad q viol0ncellO in 1864.
which is stll preserved at the Moravian Church
IL Bethlehem The first copies Of Haydn's quar-
t-ts were brought TO Bethlehem by the Kev.
Emanuel Nitschuan in 1875. ans the first
violin of the little string band that played them
was another clergyman. the Rey. john Frederick
FruaufT. Two clergynen, the Rev. M. Nitsch-
man and the Rev. Jacob Van Week. who after
ward became a bishop, were the first Violins in
the original orchestra But OF The influence of
the clergy upon the cultivation Of music more
shan he said anon
In 1916 a society was organized for the pur-
pose Of giving concerts Of vocal and instru-
mental music and though for thirteen years its
gave 24l concerts and performed portions OF
Havdn's Creation in lsll. In leeO the orSanl-
zation took the name Bethlehem Philharmonic
Society and continued actively al work for three
or four decades reaching the height Of its utility
and skill according TO monograph published
in 1873 by Rufus a. GriGer) in 1913. The works
10 which II Seems 10 have given chief attention
were Haydn's Creation Rombergs Lay 81
the Bell" and Loege's seven Sleepers-' In 1870
the band numbered twenty-five.
OBSOLETE INSTRUMENTS TO BE USED.
The ma jority Of the players in the festival or
clestra th.s Week--he players of strings par
ticularIy-wiu be amateurs. Bethlehem Viii also
furnish a portion Of the br2ss-Wind cont nSent,
fllt rroressionaI musicians viii Dee drafted from
. Hew-York and Philadelphia 70 care for the
difficult vood-wird parts. Among these are
some assigned 10 Instruments which are 40"
Obsolete Chief Of these TWO o5oi Gamote.
The color impaired 10 the score b. these in
strur-ents il the y minor mass is 80 striking
thar Mr. Frank D.-1rosch went TO the trouble
and expense OF h-slEg tie instruments made
for rhe r,erforraarlce of the work by the Oratoro
eociety in NeH-Yor.1 on April =. 1893. ana these
be has placed II the disposal Of Mr.. Wol!e
II does not appear that Il thleaem differs 10
any ,reat extent from other AT:eri -an c.tes OF
its size in the cultivation Of instrumental mu-
sic. except possibly. ia the earnestness which
has so remarka ble ar illustration in the willing