New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-04
MUSIC FESTIVAL ENDS.
THAT AT WORCESTER \ SUCCESS ARTS
TICALLY. BUT NOT FINANCIALL1-
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Worcester. Mass oct. 3--The forty-hfth festival
OF the Worcester County Musical Association Is
ended 1t began in gloom and ended In g!acness. so
far as the audience was concerned. what the
managers are bordering is another matter. There
will be a large deficit. comparatively. and many
causes WILL in all likelihood. be assigned in eN-
PLANTATION. or course, the weather had something
70 DO with II; but the decrease In pubic interest
vsas made manifest In the subscription sale or
tickets before t was given any one 10 know what
the weather would DE in festival week The meet
ing was appointed for a week later than usual this
year. and had last week been dry and bright ana
this week wet and gloomy the meteorological
croakers would have had the floor: but As il turned
out the weather was propitious this week
than Last and fault can be found with the man
agcment that score. An element IN the com
munity will place the blame upon the management
FOR not Offering greater attractions in the depart
ment which is peculiarly dear 10 the Worcester
heart, but in doing they will have to CONFESS
to 4 sadly provincial notion OF the proper scope
and mission OK a music festival which is fondly
believed hereab0ut 10 rank with the biennial Gin
cInnat festivals and the historic affairs OF England
Meanwhile the sincere and cultivated music lovers
in the community viii comfort themselves with the
reflection that under the inspiration OF the new
conductors Messrs. Goodrich and kneisel. dig
nifed standard was maintained and fewer cOnces-
sions made 10 The taste which. a decade or
ago. used TO find the contamination of the festival
idea in artists night and pay glad tribute to the
singers OF ttNufS snow pieces ana Sucn MOVING
proclamations OF religious sentiment Les
Rameaux' sung in English TO pianoforte accom-
paniment.
Those days happily past. and rather than
have Them return it would be better that the fes-
tivaIs should come to end. and the choir and
association enter upon its higher mission Of keep
ing musical interest alive during all the season
instead of killing 1t by week OF artistic gorging
To talk about the future would be speculate
merely. for the managers not disposed this
what haDpen.
is not likely that the festival books will be closed.
Neither is it likely that they will be balanced and
account opened with concession TO frivolity
a chief asset To return TO the old regime would
be 10 move the hands of the clock backward and
10 make more hopeless than the task of pro-
noting love and appreciation Of good art.
To-nights concert took the place of the old art
lists night" love for which cannot be quickly eradi
Gated from the Worcester heart There was some
thing like the old attendance: all Of the DID, inds-
criminate enthusiasm over every thing good. bad
and Indifferent. and more than the old enjoyment on
the part of the audience in itself and its habili
ments. 1t was thrice happy evening and doubt
less helped TO endear the institution the public.
while IL caused less than the usual amount of con-
scientious perturbation to the judicious.
For there were fine features in the programme.
good orchestral music choral number. Faure's
Birth of Venus" which. though brief and de-
cidedly light wasted as compared with the choral
pisces of the preceding evenings was yet interest
Ing as being new and coming from an unusual
source. Then too. there two compositions by
that image smashing young revolutionary. Richard
strauss There were the instrumental love scene
from 'Feuersnoth,' which accompanies an episode
IN the opera that does admit detailed de-
scrlptlon. and the air tTOm "Ciuntram," which de-
scbes and celebrates the beauty and bessedness OF
peace.
Both of these compositions were heard in New
YORK last season, when the air sung, II
to-nlg ht oy Mt George Hamlin. of Chicago. Per-
IorHahces py the solo singers are not considered
significant material for The Tribunes discussion OF
festivals given outside the metropolis. because they
seldom X ever offer anything in singer
with which the metropolitan public is not familiar
but Mr. Hamlin has been eloquent a champion
OF artlstle dignity nobility and sincerity that he
praise So does Nine Suzanne Adams. if not for
exhibition of the qualities. least for the
IoVeiiness and brilliancy with which she sang
sided training OF the singers OF to-day. Nine
Italian air In French
weighed IN Importance all things else in the days
scheme. They the superbly passionate read
ms winch Mr.. kneisel gave to Tschaikowsky's
F3thetc symphony. and the production OF
orchestral poem by c. NJ. LoefileT. of Boston The
%ofk was one or the two compositions, in Mr..
LoeHlers poetcal and utterly unconventional STYLE
poems from Paul Nerlaines La Bonnie ChansOn."
Both compositions were brought forward by Mr.
Iericke IN Boston last season The basis of the
one played here this afternoon is the idyiliC poem
oeginnlng. "AVant que tn ten allies" a pro-
1ouhGy peetlcal and rhapsOdc Outpouring. in
which a poets reflections on his love ere consort-
tioils OF the Phenomena OF nature, the fading of
tne morning star, the call of the quail the soaring
h ot the skylark the Joyous genufexons of the
Wheat heids. the slittering dew and the rising
Muslcat delineatons OF thesa things float In Mr.
Loelner.S composition ardent yet tender
heert The score glows with color both orches-
piece harmonic anu N Us way II l. E. E.i K