New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
MUSICAL MATTERS.

THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-sCHUMANN
PARADISE AND THE PERT-CoN-
cERTs FOR THE DIET KITCHEN AS
ISOLATION - THE LAST CON
cERTs OF THE BOSTON SYM
PHONY ORCHESTRA-PRO-
GRAMAIEs. NEWS NOTES
AND ANNOUNCE
MENTs.
6unday-MetropoIitan Opera House $50 p m. popu-
lar concert with Harold Bauer and Fritz krels-
Ter & masc 3aEheE5s By the @ am y m Quartet and lecta
Gihord: Herald Square TheatTee e ; m conc H N M
recital Of Passion music.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Hall P M recital GltaIor OF
~ nSy 6f f5 Gg6 3 g @ Fc6en S4nSeeT l &ssoaon S
Ia $50 80 P s % S9hg rf6fa 9y ec 1s
recital by Gerrit Smith.
Tuesday-Lyeeum Theatre. $3.50 P m, concert OF loo oo
time music by the American symphony Qrches-
ira; Waldorf-AstOriat p m, solree musical oy
Miss Marie Hanlon; Carnegie Hall. Room no: !;
womeni's PhiIhsrmonic Society; Association
music i Bv Mrs. H H' 4 Beach: Waidorf-Astoria
$50 ?. m concert by Nine. Kitty Berger, zltheri
The Tuxedo, e:lS p m' concert oy the 0ef'efH
wednesdaywalaorf astoria. m, entertain, e,1sIn
nent Of dramatic rnSnologues ana muse; GncTeH ita
by ". R, Hedden.
f5Seton sTapbo9v 6rchestra WaIdorf-Astoria 3
p m. song recital by Miss Elise Lathrop; Trinity
}. WinteTbottom; 80 834 MadisOg-ave,. p IN m;
lecture by Mrs. William Forse Scott on The The
Spirit Of the Ballad Illustrated by Miss Hs;- Char
!oLIe v alKer oIllICn o. 'l% c s9 f II birf f. W.
third-st 3 p. m. song recital by Francis Rogers;
by Miss Henriette Weber.
FdaycaTnegs days. I'm Hal dSe p nj o1 TsSita{ i5 Gf y violin m
Peoples Symphony concert; Association Hall,
BROOKLYN. SO p. m. concert Of the Boston
sat4rday-CaTnegie Hall go P M Sc concert Of the the
6eTf for The beneft Of the Pubic Education As
sociation and The City History Club: Metro
benedt Of the German Poliklinik.
The Oratorio Society IS TO perform Schumann s
paradise and the PERI At its last concert for this
season in Carnegie Hall next Tuesday evening. Ihe
solos VIII be sung by Nine Gadski Mrs. Hlssen De
Moss. Mrs Gertrude May Stein Ellison Van Hoose
and Joseph 5 Baernstein 1t viii be al: interesting
revival OF extremely beautiful work which has
not been heard in New-York since 1876, when Dr.
Damrosch brought II forward At concert OF the
Oratorio Society. Paradise and the PERI vas
composed in 1873 and had its hTst performance on
December Of that year in Leipsc- II at once won
great popularity in Germany Schumann watched
each production with great interest, ana was
overjoyed when he learned tnat the work was to be
given Ney-Yorh in less than tve years after Its
composition Ife wrote to Nerhulst that II had
given him great FUN" 70 hear the news. and after
the performance ha5 taken place he recorded his
delight in the columns OF his 'Agemeine Musk
zeiturE-" The performance iu question was given
by the Musical Institute. under the direction OF II.
C. Tlurn. one 70 the founders Of the New-York
PhTharunl.e Society. on April H. lsfS- 1t was not
until eiea. E..Tz lar,r that Paradise and the
Peri Was heard iE London. Then it was per
formed ar tre command of Queen Victoria by the
Philharmeae Society under the direction of Stern
dale Bennett Jenny Lind sang tie soprano solos
At the tlrne the Aer6elssohn cult was dominant in
England. and Sohgmanu bitterly antago-
n.zed ny musicians and critics as Wagner. then
and long while afterward OF this feeling an
amusing instance IS preserved in the article about
The performance written by one Of the foremost
critics of the time. Robert SchImann has had his
innings and been BOWED out-like Richard WSg-
ner.' wrote this asrlte Judge, Paradise and the
Per- has gone 10 the t1m5 Of the Lohengrins'
The story OF Paradise and the Peri" is the sec
oud OF tho four tales which the young Persian
foet. Ferarnorz. relates TO The Laa Rookh C'TUiIT
Cheek az Thomas Mo1re's poem while away
the time during the journey from Delhi 10 tho
Valley of Cashmere TIE young woman is the sup.
posed daughter of Arur-z,te. Emperor OF Delhi
and ls on her aay 20 he married 10 Aliris. Sultar
OF Lesser Bucharla- She falls love with Fera.
morz. and IS overwhelmed with delight when she
discovers al last that poet and Sultan one and
the same person.
In Oriental mythology peris are gracious. fairy