New-York tribune., 1903-01-28
MUSIC.
n Dau's Chamber Concerts.

Chamber music was the order OF the day yester-
day-chamber music IN the old sense. as distin-
guished from ecclesiastical and dramatc niHSi0-
One of the concerts which brought 1t 1or"aru "a'
an orchestral concert but even the most nooeih u
number the programme symphony oy mozai :
was chamber music when 1t was composed duu i'S
performance In a small room by conparatiNeiS
small band for the delectation of select company
% music lovers was excellent exemplincatioh Oh
the old tenn Yesterday.
The concerts were recital Of songs, solo
and duet by George DevoIl and Edwin Isharn'
which began at 8 o'clock in the afternoon III
MAndelssohn Hall; the second Of Mr. sam
Franko's concerts of old music. at $50 p m-'
in Days Theatre. and a concert by the Damn
reuther Quartet in the Chamber Music Room
of Carnegie Hall Had the MendeIssohn Hall offer
ing turned out to be of a considerable artistic
callbre there would be occasion for an expression
of regret that 1t in conflict with the concert
in Days Theatre. AS it was. there was no oc-
casion for the mildest deplorings To judge oy
their singing OF two duets by Mendelssohn, Messrs
Devoll and Isham are the mildest of gentlemen
Their offerings tea at a O'Clock In sentlest
Boston or mush at a girls boarding school far
from the strenuous world. The gentlemen are
neatly synchronized. very neatly and accurately
indeed, but they to feel too much Tor many
utterance; which is deplorable in a day trine
overfOnd of vigor. In spite of the pretty interest
in the music of the eighteenth century "nlch MI
Franko has fostered with his archaic concerts tne
innocence of the Mendelssohn Hall singers. re-
beIIed a trife against the Bach concerto which
Mrs DoImetsch played with an accompaniment OF
half a dozen strings at Days. There was muscu
lar tissue the music. but the performance undet
the circumstances made it seem fabby despite the
clean manner in which Mrs. Dolmetsch played ner
tinklng instrument. Sc far she was concerned
she did the to which she is devoted a more
effective service IN the solo pieces by Rameau
which she played afterward-
pIynfC a
were those devoted to the two graceful and aoso-
lutely charming dance pieees-a cfaconne ana II
gaudon from Monsigny's opera ''AIine, ftelne ue
Golconde," and the delightful little Mozart SYM
phony in A (Koehel. 2OD which Mr. FTanke intro
duced in New-York on March "A. 1897. and MT
Wetzler repeated January Is, 1Sss- SlsniIicdii'
of Mozart's forwardness I'm harmonic instinct ana
skill in poyphony the fugue WHICH saoNa't
composed for two claviers in 1873 and transcrioeo
for strings in 17ss. Beethoven so loved TINS tusue
that he scored 1t exercise, but 1t furE'sneo
forth one of the dry moments OF Mr. Frahko
concert yesterday. Only TO the student Of musical
history did the novelty OF the programme make
appeal. This a symphony In major oy GIuch
touching which there was some discourse IN this
journal last Sunday. Casually considered. 1t seemed
little more than trife, but it belongs TO a class
of cornpositfons which contained the germ or the
classic symphony and were In vogue half century
before the form became crystalltzed In the sym
phonies of Haydn. The music is ingenious In eA'
preston, but it's anegros are spirited anu SUI
A numerous and appreciative auolehce Aseehsu ~
Mr.. Franko's concerts.
The Dannreuther Quartet has labored arduously
and conscientiously in the field of chamber music
for sixteen years and the audience which sath-
cred in Chamber Music Hall was large enough aho
of such a kindly disposition as to represent
bind and deserved tribute. The club IS composed
of Gustav Dannreuther, Henry Hess, Joseph NO
varik and Emil Schenck-a change OF personne
where such changes usually take place IN strins
ouartets In the middle voices But this c9anst IN 3
1uhcf NAV or NAV not be Yecent) an Increased Viz
or seems to have come into the playing OF @ tne or m
SANTA tion~but not greater purity of intonaton OF
ssnretv Of utterance Mrs Gustav Dannreutnet
assisted the club last night and me R 5s Nm
consisted of BeethovenS Quartet IN Z, Up o5 NO, .
Irieg's Sonata in G for pianoforte ana vlo1n dio
Rhefnberger's pianoforte Quintet in u Up. liz