The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-21
THE SYMPHONY doNoEnr

the New Haven SympnOny ofcheStla a was given in the Hyperion theater, yes- terday afternoon, before the usual se- lect but thoroughly appreciative audi ence. The programme aside from it's usual high order of excellence was par
 ticularly interesting to New Haveners
 as it announced a symphony composed
 by a popular local musician, William
 E. Haesche. owing to an unfortunate
 accident which befell the soloist of the
 afternoon, Miss Estelle Lieblng, it was
 necessary to change the entire list of
 solo numbers. At the conclusion of the
 first number MT. Kelley announced that
 as Miss Liebling was driving from her
 home to the station in New York she
 was thrown violently from her carriage
 and so badly injured that she would be
 unable to fulfill her engagement with
 us this afternoon, but owing to the ! presence of mind of Professor Sanford 1 a soloist had been secured, Theodore 1 Van York, whom Professor Sanford re- membered had been singing for the
 Young Mems Christian association 1 Wednesday evening, was obtained on 1 very short notice. The first number on i the programme the overture to Mo
 zarts opera "The Magic Flute" was played for the first time by our orches- | tra, but is a very familiar number on | orchestral concert programmes. The | overture consists of two movements, | the first, an andante which furnishes material for the opera itself and cheerful allegro, fugaI in style, which last is usually played little faster than MT Kelley gave it yesterday af- ternoon. The number is very charac- teristic of the composer. Naturally great deal of interest was manifested in the next orchestral number upon the
 programme, the symphony in A flat by
 William E. Haesche and as the com
 poser appeared upon the platform to
 conduct his own composition he was
 greeted with generous round of ap-
 plause from the audience. The sym
 phony as a whole is a very pleasing number and possesses many good quail
 ties It certainly shows Mr
 Haesche to be very thoughtful and
 panstaking musician. He uses the re- curing motive employed by Tschai-
 
 position with very good effect. The second movement is the greatest and by the logical harmonic treatment of it's themes and their marked contrast gives promise of greater things from the composer in the future. The scherZo presents rhythmical variety and is written in very pleasing man ner In the finale very good use is made of the recurring theme heard in the first and second movements It appears in this last movement first in the form of a fugue and finally reap pears in choral form upon the brasses, I bringing the wrok to a very effective close
 The Nut Cracker Suite, which fol- lowed the Haesche Symphony, was an- other number presented for the first time by the New Haven Symphony or hcestra In this suite Tschaikowski has set forth number of national dances typical of the Russian people. In this number we see the great Rus sian composer in his lighter style, in marked contrast to his pOnderous sym phonic mood. A very novel effect is produced in the first number of the suite. the Miniature Overture, by the non -employment of bass instruments, the lowest instrument used being the viola. In the third number, Dance of | the Candy Fairy, the Celesta part was very effectively played by Mrs. Kelley | upon the pianofOrte The last number, | Trepac. a Russian dance in which the 1 dance grows faster and faster until the l dancers fall from sheer exhaustion, | was given most excellent reading by | Mir Kelley and the work of the orches- i tra was very satisfactory.
 The Vorspiel to Wagner's "Lohen- | grin" brought this very interesting pro- | gramme to a close The work of the orchestra in this number was a little | below the high standard they have es- tablshed this season. The violins were lacking in precision and the brasses | when they did come in overpowered the | rest of the orchestra when the diminu- endo was begun This number was | also played to US for the first time by | this orchestra and no doubt they will | do better another time.
 MT, Van Yorx's first number was s group of four ballads. He was heard l to best advantage in the second of this group, "The Secret" by Scott. He was l very enthusiastically received by the audience and at the conclusion of the fourth ballad was recalled several | times and finally sang another rather light ballad His second number con sisted of two selections, the Berceuse | from Godards opera ''Joslin' and a from Mascagni's new opera, ''Iras" The first of these would have been more effective had the artist not used so much falsetto voice. He was more enjoyable in the Mascagni num- Der and was obliged after several re- calls to sing it again. MT. Van Yorx has a very smooth light tenor voice, but is not thoroughly artistic in his in- terpretations
 At the next concert, March 13, Beet hoven's Eighth Symphony and two Liszt's JE flat major and D minor, will be given with Professor Samuel s. Sanford as