New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-13

,.r.r WEEKLY CAIENDAR-A REVIEW
OF THE CONCERT SEASON-SToRl1o
ABOUT REMENYI-MORAVIAN MI
STCTANS IN BLUEFIELDS-AN-
INDUCEMENTS, NOTES
AND PROGRAMMES.

AND PROGRAMMES
Hall sT M 15 o2 %esf Fl ff f9e
ssthhs 2 aP K maSe4 I RGssoc s
Church p m organ recital by W HroaTv n
SIS D. m free organ recital by Hugo TroetscheL
TUEsDAY-victoria Theatre p M. La Mas as
cote Carnegie Hall 49, s9 p M Music brooklyn
$50 D. M. private concert Of the Apollo Ciuo'
Theatre S,2d P
THGRsDA9V9s9 TnsatEs Hall ali
SIS o. m concert of the Choral Art society
Union Hall p Tic eS9seT Th e1 nRe
5 .. m La File de Madame Angot"
-Mendelssohn Hall P m Tp haa+re
ment by George GTos MadaTn Angot p M
Fla 6irande Duchesse-'
Observers of local musical affairs generally
count the season ended with the last concert OF the
Philharmonic Society. though that affair never
marks the close Of the ctys musical actVlues-
Those activities drag along generally TIL into May,
though the concerts gradually lose in Value anu
eventually out into affairs which concern Only
the concert eivers their relatives and their FRIENDS
Teachers embrace the opportunity 10 duHellASo
themselves. pupils to feed their vanity and am
btion. in the present case there are stll several
concerts class Importance TO he gwen such
as the production of Israel in Egypt" by the
evening and of LISTS st Elizabeth" by the
Rrooklvn Oratorio Society April %; but Win
these kept in mind it is possible now 10 cast q
retrospective glance the season S ooIhss III
the concert field. has already been done IN ti1e
operate The simple facts as drawn from the oa4s
record as preserved in the columns OF Inc tribune
will speak with sufficient ioudness OF the NaiietE'
extent and quality of the music offered Tor poiuiai
support in the metropolis TO make EXTENDED COM
ment unnecessary. They are however commenced
narticularlv to the attention Of those selI-coin-
placert critics Of New-Tork who find sauslactlon
in arguing that New-York is unmuslcal because II
does not possess what is called permanent or
chestra" institutions OF that character are ING
,,ossession of Boston Chicago, Pfttshurg, Clnclh-
natl and Philadelphia. In each case, except 'iie
FIRST they live off the bounty or & committee Va
public spirited citizens. who annually pay a larse
deficit Philadelphia has just mace us Il''
erience in this direction and the deficit Tor twenty
concerts is about $4,000 with the quesuon ol PEI
manency 1ust where il was when the season VI
1e01-'o2 began. Meanwhile. New-York has hearo no
less than forty-eight symphony concerts pE 'he
Thflharuonfc Society. Boston and Plttsourg sym
phony orchestras and the local bands orSailZeu nS
Mr. Sam Frankie TO give concerts or archalc must
by Mr. Frank Damrosch TO give concerts OF hgh
class music for young people ana MI +. ~ <AreIIs
to give symphonic music prices within the reach
of the poor Besides these concerts Of the hlshesl
artistic dignity there have been tWenty-slN OF
chestral concerts of popular order, by which we
mean such concerts as occupied the. metropolitan
Opera House on SUNDAY nights. in which the best
Of Mr. Grau's operate artists participated Such
concerts would. of course, be affairs OF supreme
importance elsewhere here they are counted as
popular entertainments. Concerts pE nllilidrS
hands like Sousa's Innes's the British GUARDS,
the '.Kilties" and the marine band which came on
the imperial yacht Hohenzollern are not considered
in the review. are scores or semi-prlVa1e al
fairs which were given In hotel parlors and private
drawing rooms.
For the ACCOMMODATING resume have gone to
-lt- so1aT
November and ending April 6. The period com
passes twenty-five weeks, making tsince SUNDAY Is
also a concert day in NeV-Yorl0 154 days 1t must
also be promised that the list contains only the
concerts which under the notice or Inc IT'D
une's reviewer either for record or criticism or
both-concerts which seemed to have bearing on
musical culture and which made appeal for public
support The only complete exception is found by
the organ recitals, which all free. and when
6o1htless were many more than fell under The
Tribune's notice Concerts which belong in cate
CORY by themselves those of the private singing
societies. which depend for their support either
upon actual associate members like the Mendels-
sohn o;lee Club the Liederkranz. Arion, etc, or
sort Of subscription membership like the Musurg1a
New-York Apollo. etc. IN the category OF mixed
recitefs. are included public concerts which did not
employ an orchestra, and in which the programme
was Of a miscellaneous character-songs, with Vio-
lin violoncello pianoforte solos, etc by song
violin or pianoforte recital is meant an AFFAIR De
voted exclusively the exploitation OF song VloHh
concerts by organizations devoted 10 the cultlVa-
ton of classical chamber music-that is. the hhelse
Quartet the Dannreuther Quartet, the Names
Quartet the Bendix Quartet, the Mendelssohn mo-
the Breitner-Schulz Trio the Severn Trio, the con-
certs by the brothers Hermann, and by arthur
Whiting with the help of the members OF the
Kneisel Quartet The choral concerts were those
of the New-York Orator1o Society the Brooklyn
Oratorio Society, the Musical Art Society. the
Choral Art Society Of Brooklyn, the prospect
Heights Choral Society and the Sunday night ora
torios given at the Metropolitan Opera House. under
the direction Walter Damrosch, devoted 10 the
,,rodpction of THE Messiah Rossinis ''Stabat
Mater" and Verdfs Requiem. The other ora
torios which had hearing in New-Iork with nun
chorus solo voices and orchestra were Menoels-
.ohns Elijah" ana Schumanns paradise ano the
Peri" Under the head Of concerts OF private sing
ing societies are included the entertainments OF the
Deutscher Liederkranz MannergesansVereln Arloll
Brooklyn Arion and Brooklyn Sangerouno' IN which
rull orchestras took part and the Menoelssohh
Co. cp,b New-York Apollo. Brooklyn Apollo
n5usnrFsa Rubinstein and Banks Glee clubs Con-
.er,s tv college clubs not considered AND now
for the tabulated record:
Popular orchestra concerts
-ooerts Of private singing societies
Concerts OF chamber music
Panoforte recltaIs. - - .......... IA
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The following novelties were produced at the
various orchestral and chamber music concerts in
the course Of the season;
R,cbars Faurmeister The Two Sisters" dramatic
hsiIad FOR confralIo voice orchestra; Dali Abaco
concerto quattro and trio sonata I9 9 stfaas ,
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