The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-31
THE SYMPHONY.
Immense Audience is Assured for Next
 Wednesday Nights Concert

1 Wednesday NlgnJ concert. | An immense audience is assured for
 the concert of the Boston Symphony
 orchestra at the Hyperion on Wednes- | day evening. The indications at the box office are that every seat to the
 last one will be sold before the even | ing of the performance. A great mu- sical treat such as cannot be heard outside of the large cities, awaits the | lovers of fine music in New Haven. Two great features of the concert will be Elgar's overture, "Cockaigne" CIn
 Lodon Town'O, played for the first time, and Tschaikowsky' wonderful symphony, Pathetic No 6, in B mi nor. The overture is described as 9
 succession of scenes it may be called
 panoramic The scenes are connected
 by slender thread, the composer i'm
 agines two lovers strolling through the
 streets of the town. The first picture
 suggested is that of animation, of the
 intense vitality of the street life. Then
 comes a section, according to the com
 posers sketch, expressing the sincere
 and ardent spirit underlying the Cock
 aigners frivolity and luxury" The
 lovers seek quiet in q lark and give
 way to their own emitions They grow
 passionate, but they are interrupted
 and disconnected by the rough pranks
 of young Cockaigners,
 The lovers leave the park and seek
 what Charles Lamb described as the
 sweet security of the streets, A mii
 tary band approaches passes with hid eous rage and fury, and at last is at safe and reasonable distance, The low CTS go into a church The organ is play
 ing, and even here they cannot escape
 wholly the noise of the streets. To the street they return, and the former eXpe- riences are renewed,
 In reference to TschailSowsky' sym phony Pathetic" Rosa NeWmarch writes that "One of the reasons of the extraordinary popularity of this work lies in the fact that it has been invest ed with an autobographical interest for which there is no real warranty It Is said that in some vague and mysteri- ous way it foreshadowed the composers approaching end Perhaps it is also with the idea of supporting this theory that sensationalists have discovered that Tschaikowsky shortly after com mitted suicide The idea is Eicturs sque, but neither in Russia nor abroad have l discovered any substantial ground for the report It seems more reasonable to interpret both the overwhelming en- ergy of the third movement and the abysmal sorrow of the finale in the broader light of a national or historical rather than to narrow them to the expression of individual experi- ence. If the last movement is intended to be predlctve if is surely of things vaster and issues more fatal than are in a mere personal apprehen- sion of death Ii speaks rather of a 'lamentation large ct souffrance in- come and seems to set the seal of frailty on all human hopes. Even if We eliminate the purely subjective in- terest this autumnal inspiration of Tschaikowsky, in which we hear the ground whirl of the nerished leaves of [ hope, still remains the most profoundly f stirring of his words, Few works have [ awakened such an immediate echo in the hearts of the public"
 Universal regret Is felt in reference i to the continued illness of Professor . Sanford Josef Sli0inski the great Pc fish pianist, who has been engaged to . take his place, will play Rubinstein's . for piano, No. 4, in n minor