New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

Walter DAmroseh has prepared the following
programme for the fifth and last Sunday afternoon
concert of the present SERIES which takes place at
Carnegie Hall this afternoon at O'clock The SOLO
ist will be Thibaud. violinist
Concerto violin with orchestra minor BGGcS
Variations ana double fugue on "a merry. theme
Symphonic poem The Sleeping Beauty
New-fTst u-neJ
The success OF this first series OF Sunday after
noon concerts by the New-York Symphony Orches-
ira has been immediate that the board OF d.
rectors takes pleasure in announcing second series
Of five subscription symphony concerts Sunday
Hall and continuing on successive Sunday after
Moons. with the exception OF January 81. when Mr..
Dsmrosch has promised to conduct the orchestra
IN Pittsburg.
Walter Damrosch and his New-York Symphony
Orchestra will give the last concert but tonight
at Weber Fieldss West End Theatre. II
originally intended continue the concerts until
the close OF the season, but Henry w. savages
grand opera season begins tomorrow evening.
and the stage Of the West End will be needed for
rehearsals Sunday nights. owing to the frequent
change of bill in the five weeks engagement The
Wagner music. including selections from Parsi-
ha fy 5ias ,Iiata1iagsr .af
terdammerunE,' and Tristan und Isolde" Walter
dental to the selections
Tomorrow at the West End Theatre will begin
an engagement OF five weeks by Mr. Savage's Eng
Iish grand opera company. "Othello" and '"Tosca"
are the operas recently added to the rePertory
OF this COMPANY rms week CIleII0 VIII alter
"Othello," to be sung on Monday Thursday and
and special matinee Christmas Day. is as follows:
othelO Mr. sheehan
Cassie. Mr. Fulton
s ,T2ocs,eO' 49, Mr. l'' a2
EIera1 M
Desdenona. Miss Rennyson
Nliiii4 Conductor. Mr. Emanuel '-4'SS newman
The cast for Carmen" to be sung Tuesday
wednesday and Friday evenings and Saturday
matineeG
R P6a 5Iis Nj NJ S Gs4ss5a
Il DancaiTo Lawrence
z z{n1.;a; Mr. boyle
Aichaea MISS Braok.
Frasquta. Miss Farm
Merosdes Miss James
Conductor Mr. schenck
Miss Reid Will sing the role Of Michaela on Tues
day and Friday evenings and Miss Brooks on
Wednesday evening and Saturday matinee.
A change has been made in the list Of sooists for
the Oratorio Society's performances Of 1.-THE Mes
siah" at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday evening, December % and 80 Miss May
Walters who have sung the contralto solos,
is ILL., and Frank Damrosch. who will conduct has
engaged in her stead Miss Janet Spencer. who IS
also a newcomer
When Professor Horatio Parker directed Han
deFs masterwork in New-Haven last week. Miss
Spencer was contraltO soloist, and her singing
praised. She was a Boston church and concert
singer until she entered a Brooklyn choir year
ago. Miss Spencer's studies were made in Boston
and Paris. The other sooists win be. already
announced. Nine. Lillian Biauvelt George Hamlin
and David Bispham.
At Professor Parker's New-Haven Messiah per
Torrance the new Prout edition Of the work, which
the Oratorio Society used last Christmas for the
first time In this country was employed ano IT was
also recently followed in Brooklyn. English choral
societies taking II up widely as the standard
version. Music publishers declare 1.-THE Messiah
alone sells from 1000 5000 copies year of the
vocal in this country, and estimates the total
American annual sales in addition to rented copies
at five times that number.
The programme of the first concert Of the Rus
sian Symphony Society Ito be given at the Cooper
Union Auditorium Thursday evening. January
p. has been completed The soloists Francis
Archambault. BARITONE. and Alexander Sasavsky.
concert master Of the orchestra The following
numbers make up the programme;
Overture s. Ru5 Sian: and Lgndinsla'' ainka
AIN Francis Archarnbauit
InterTnezzo
String orchestra
sefeia's Alexander sasIavsy'
Symphonic suite ''sheherazada' .Rimszy-Korsakor
DR.. L. 3. SPERRY TO SPEAK.
For the mems mass meeting at the Orpheum
Theatre this afternoon the Central Branch Of the
Young Mems Christian Association has the Rev.
DR.. Lyman B. Sperry. professor in Oberlin Col
lege. His topic will be THE Significance of Sex"