The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-07
BOSTON'S FINE ORCHESTRA.
4 BRILLIANT AUDIENCE At THE
FIRST CONCERT.
brahms. Beethoven ana Richard Strauss
on the ProEramme-Thc Debut OF
Frederic LamOnd, q scotch Pianist.

He was an irrevercnt disturber OF harmony
who once described the Boston symphony
Orchestra and Its conductor as "Fraulein
Gericke und die Weiner Damen kapelle."
That was Of old time, when it was regarded
good form 10 SCOT at all musical per-
Torrance that did not thunder in the pref
ace like a Tschaikowsky dream Of 1872.
1t was not so long after Theodore Thomas
fell asleep in Bach. II was about the epoch
when hirsute Anton Seidl began To- loose
the tonal torrents Of Isolde's immola,ion
To the dicomfiture of all sopranos to whom
nature had denied the vocal trumpet peals
Of Liln Lehman or Analia Ma,crna.
We have ideals somewhat different from
those We had Of old. We know now that
orchestras need not fire continual broad
sides nor conductors say, like Lear in the
storm. Blow. winds. and crack your cheeks
We have learned-and we learned not a
little Of it from Seidl.that tho message
90 an orchestra may be read in natural
tones and yet be more eloquent than the
whirlwind We have learned that the
airy level of an ethereal art is he true home
Of Instrumentation. and that when the
thunder is called for. II strikes downward
from that level like the bolt of the heavens
themselves.
Refinement, polish. mosacs in nuancing,
clearly out lined tonal architecture are our
aesthetic food now nj orchestral concerts,
and where are these served in such goodly
measure as at the Crtanmcnts Of the
Boston SYMPHONY Orchestra? Therefore
tho town filed Carnegie Hall last night.
when tho frs: Boston symphony Orchestral
Of the season took plnco. Il was an audi
sncc of brilliant garb ard representative
q -. -.
that Gotham has II was made up Of tho
people who know what is new and what
is good and who reverence what is old
when it does not fray out in years of wear.
The programme. except in one number,
was classical in school 1t consisted of
the + ma ior symphony Of Brahms (No. 81,
Becthovcn's F-hat piano concerto. known
ms the Emperor" Richard Strauss tone
poem, Don Juan" and Recthoven's over
turo. "Lcouore" No {, The pian;., Who
was hoard for ,,o a., ,i,,o H. ~. VI,
,.aa T.s,a,i, ,G '''''' III ''" io'"'
'aH i'c''c'" ia"Io"u'
There was nothing unknown In this list
The second -Ieonore" over,ure tho ono
in e major l. soldo,, rlo,.,I 49,. -.
It. 49, f'",'' ou' "io7V
music i"NeIs nave heard IL occasionally.
IL was the iirst OF the four overtures which
the composer wrote for his opera "Fdelios
|
and the -Fidelio" oyer,ure in i major ,b,
,orr,h 1ha " /, no., ,,..,,. - t' ''''
49, ~ W. ""o ."''''eh because
'e''"i' passages 'roupeu the WIND lnstru-
ment players OF Beethoven's day. Those
of to-day can play almost anyt hing. for
tbev haye a mora biybIv ,Ia,.oion,l -
,i,,,., .,,d ,,,,,,,.,. ;,L
-. - q. ' "''' '!''
'eIn OF lingering
The Emperor concerto is sure to make
y,h.
10 subject himself IN ono of Tho so,.oro., :,
all ,as,s ,ha, =, ,la ,.i, 80 80 80 eo' "
az -, '',a' " p'ay"'s piece OF music
III Which 'here If almost no opportunity
for brilliant technical exhibition, but the
largest demand for breadth of conception
and depth os feelinu Rrabms,s y -
s,.r,,honv q haard o,,an anI ""'V'
,nad i ~. ros,i,ia anu Iainio' DC
mace "earlsoHhe ny repetition. ~ is music
of the highest. purest kind beautiful in IT,
themati, mat erial rich and profound in il
deyelopment
AS for the Strauss number. tba, has con,e
10 be one of the things expected in these
DAYS. II is founded on Ienaus nam
and is one Of those tremendo,,s orgies ~
orchestraiion with which the Munich com
poser made his amazing mood nic,,Ires
II has its moments of disheartering ugli-
ness. for when Strauss endeayors 10 do
hneate disgI in music he creo,es /, in his
hearers. Thus is the power Of music "a
communicate efnotio again Demonstrated
Disgust, however il hardly tho SORT ~
feeling that most artists would wish m
aroIse Ru, ,bore aro nassa COS or ,,,ra,,r
dinsrv beauty in This tone noe,n and IL
Won read Iensrl's verses fr!t and ~
know wha, il il all about IL /. oil n. L.
N, n prisrn
or MIR Lamopd's norf.rm,noo ~ tho
B,nthoyen concerto many nieasa,t ,hinas
may be said I, was n reading somn,,od 81
spotlcss rcctituda and dis, in uuisbod nv rioid
Integrity Of nurnose I, vas nayei Ny
robic intentions and rear.d ,,non n sonna
rosnec, Tor tho traditions bntb 800 amd
bad Mr. Ianond l. not torn h,, cor ri,,in
onnntions wham he nay. tho ,ioro' a, s
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c,uec,od ,,J ,hn,a n,,ar 80 'n ,I, a,I,
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GOWN lpf nun, seldom Striking any that