New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-01

Campaign against Instrumental Solo
INuac-Praise of lie Football.

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Paris JAN 3l-A consderab BILE commotion has
been caused in musical circles by an eccentric ana
noisy campaign against Instrumental solo music
For several weeks a persistent band of demon
strators at the LamoureuX and Coionne CON
certs have protested against every kind OF
concerto virtuosity. Vionsts. ceiiists ana
pianists. regardless of nationality or SEX nave
been ruthiessly Kissed at these concerts and
have been unnerved by the storms OF misses ana
avalanches of invective- Nine Bloomheio-
Zesler an American was one of the earliest
victims of this band of demonstrators While at
tempting TO play Saint-Saens's music Anothef
victim is Miss Fanny Davies. an Ehsnsh pidiiis''
The most recent case is that OF Emile Moreau' "
Partisan musician of distinction, who tried IN
vain to play his own compositions NJ Moreau
defied the noisy group TO upset him. out 'les
finally did so. and the virtuoso broke into tears
on the stage and retired amid groans, yeIis ana
misses NJ Cheviard, conductor of the concerts
offered 70 refund the demonstrators the price or
their tickets if they would only leave the hall,
hu+ this they refused to do and maintained
their legal right to hiss at public performances
The demonstrators, who know the law ana
keep well within its limits, are mostly Souiie
musicians They have issued pronouncia-
,nento in which they declare that their Prolests
have nothing personal or national III thenn'
They say: I'VE pay TO hear orchestral music
and We mean TO have II. If Beethoven came
himself and played of his own sonalas We
would hiss him off the stage In this connec-
.ion il is interesting to note that by decree OF
the Ministry of Fine Arts pianos of foreign
make are now excluded from all the subsidized
concerts in Fran e.
Somewhat after similar vein in which WASH
ineton Irving described the Spanish bullfights
and in which Hippolyte Tame portrayed the
British pastime of horse racing and the Derby
Day. so Jules Huret, commissioned by Figaro
to make psychological and analytical studies OF
America and Americans. occupies half the front
mage of that paper this morning with LIE Foot
ball" which is designated as the grand national
sport of the United States The recent football
match between Harvard and Yale" at when
the lynx-eyed Partisan observer was present,
serves as a text and the game of football is
for the first time, 1 believe, in the French IAN
| guage described with minuteness OF detail
and a conscientious truthfulness worthy OF
Emile lola.
The mascot dog of Yale led by a LOUIS Nv
groom: the Yale cheer. taken from the Arts
tophanes fog chorus, "Brekekekex. koax, koax.
and the Harvard 'Rah-rah-rah!' the strident
wells of the smartly dressed college men, xiii
him. Break his nerkr the nervous Ameri-
can determination and CLEAN Of the eyes, are
all set forth with true Gallo picturesqueness
The French observer says that the undergradu-
ate who shouts xiii him, Kill him. isn't
really wouid-b be assassin, but nevertheless it
may we'll be asked whether a pastime which
ELECTS such brutal frenzy can be good for
civilization.
Football according to the Figaro" is the
great national barometer of American charac-
ter. and it states that public opinion is divided
whether it BE- supported suppressed. NJ
! Huret's conclusions i'm favor of the ma
tional game, which, he says cultNates strength,
prompt decision generous comba cour-
age and sangfrod; and the anita gonists. after
their ferocious struggle, become friends just
as Frenchmen do after fencing bout. NJ.
Huret concludes the psychological analysis of
LIE Football which attracts wide attention
here. with vivid description of 1.-The lightning
rapidty of American reporters they tele-
graphed accounts of the great Harvard Yale
match. eating their meals they wrote, which
consist Of chocolate and popcorn" The Figaro
declares the grand national sport of football
| and the American newspaper reporting are feat
ures far ahead of anything be found in
France in the Old World
Coquelin the elder. who after his series of per-
formanceS IN Berlin is now acting III Vienna
has written TO his friends i'll Paris giving his
impressions of Emperor William and of numer-
GUS conversations ne had with his Teutonic
majesty, and states that ne was deeply Inn
pressed with the fact that the Emperor spoke
, French with absolute perfection and fuency,
without the slightest foreign accent He dis
covered that the Kaiser knew how turn COM
pIiments with exquisite Partisan grace. and that
the charm of his manner was simply capti-
waiting" THE Emperor particularly agree
| 2 bic TO me-" he says He talked affably with
me in the wings of the theatre. leaning against
formally about theatrical matters. and we even
| touched on politics. The Emperor hates the
| lltTa-modern sadness and degeneration that
| characterize the works of many of dram
artists. / said ] agreed with him in this The
| Emperor laughed and said with emphasis that
he liked the plays which left the spectators in a
| gay and happy frame of mind, instead Of morbid
and sad
Coquelir states that while Neudeck, in
| Silesia, at the country seat of Count Hennel,
| the Emperor talked with him for hour and d
half, and thirty-fiVe minutes of this was de-
voted exclusively t. tiambetta. in whom the
| Emperor took 4 profound interest. 1t will be
| recollected that Coquelin enjoyed the close
friendship of Gambetta The Emperor, aware of
| this cross questioned the comedian and drew
| him out into f-1ent descriptions of the great
| Frenchman's personal traits and habits.
| Rostand has just completed a play for Coque-
| lin 1t lis al adaptation In verse of Faust"
| Coquen will take the part OF the philosophical
| doctor.
| General and Mrs. Nelson \. Miles seem 10
| have fully enjoyed their week in Paris They