New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-30
MUSIC.
High Glass Sunday Concerts.

II the standard set yesterday by three orchestral
concerts is maintained for the rest Of the season.
there will have to be a readjustment OF musical
values in New-York and distribution of in
terests. There have been concerts in which orches
tras have participated for many years. but they
have generally been directed toward middle level
OF popular appreciation, and when they have been
successful QiEe those given at the Metropolitan
Opera House, their chief element has been the per-
formances Of operate singers in pieces which made
appeal to the indiscriminate and undiscrimnating
multitude Yesterdays concerts were of different
complexion In Carnegie Hail Mr.. Walter Dam
rosch and the Symphony Orchestra gave concert
in which the opening number was BTahn1s's third
symphony. and the chief solo feature Griegs con-
certo for pianOforte. played by Nine. Boomheld-
Zeisler. In the evening AIr. Damrosch carried his
musicians to the West End Theatre in Harlem.
and there though the programme was Of lighter
and more varied order there q generous in
fusion OF Wagner's music in II. Meanwhile at the
Metropolitan Opera House. the concerts which for
years have been associated with the opera season
were resumed. but with difference. Two singing
members Of Mr.. Conried's forces took part. and
one of them. NJ. Plancon. yielded to the old and
popular conventions by trotting two of his old
battle horses after singing air in French trans
lation from Der FreischJtz," but the orchestra,
under Herr Motif. filled the entire second part OF
the concert with Beethoven's Heroic" symphony.
New-Yorks music patrons thus had an opportunity
TO hear the two famous thirds" Of Won BulOws
famous trinity of BIS.
Here serious Sunday music with q vengeance;
and the gratifying facts in connection with both
concerts was that both admirably played. and
both were heard by Audiences fine in point Of
bers and also attentive and appreciative as
could have been asked from the regular patrons of
the Philharmonic Society Boston Symphony Or
chestra- The Metropolitan concert brought for
ward Herr Mottl concert conductor. II there
were any studiously inclined persons at the
certs filed with curiosity to hear a reading Of
the old classic, their penchant not grated. for
Herr Motifs reading differed in nothing from that
with which New-York has long been familiar.
which has been approved by half century OF New
York tradition; but it delightfully."- clear and
convincing, and served disclose his splendid
mastery OF his art and the sterling qualities Of his
musicians. AS for the popular features in the
cepted sense, Miss Fremstad sang the air Eco
Il punto," from Mozart's La CIemenza di Tito
acceptably that she called for more. Be-
ing unfamiliar with the hUraoTs of Sunday night
Metropolitan audience. she repeated part OF the
air. Not SO Mr.. Plancon. He knew what was ex-
pected Of him. and gave It Any one might guess
what: First, Faures Les Rameaux." and then
Schunann's die beiden GrenaGiere." in French,
of course.
Mrs Bloomield-Zeisler played Grieg's concerto
with that nervous dash and vigor which is always
expected Of her. and her performance had commen-
surate appreciation. She was followed by Leo
Schulz. the violoncellist, who played short solos
by MoQue and Dvorak As a concluding num-
Der Mr.. Danrosch brought forward some pleasing
variations by Georg Schumann At a conservative
estimate 1000 persons heard the days music