New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
MUSICAL NOTES.
The Russian Symphony Society
Mr.. KneisePs Programme. !.


sunday-carnegie Hall 3 and SIS p. m, con- on
certs by the English Grenadier G alos1t
Band; Majestic Theatre, SID p. m, conceie
by Victor Herberts Orchestra; br0oh,yII
concert Of the Brooklyn Arlon. hs ,,s
Casino. p. m. concert by beethoven man
nerchor.
Monday-Mendelssoh Hall. p. m, pianoforte
recital by Vladimir de Pachmann Manhat,
tan Theatre .. m, lecture recital OF oio
music by Arnold Doirnetsch; Carnegie Hail,
SIS D. m. concert OF the English Grenaoier
nerSorrnance Of wagnerss '.Parsifal'' in Eng
fish. TO continue through the week, win
morning performances on WEDNESDAY ana
Saturday.
MISREPRESENTATION Hall. Sis p. n- concert
of chamber music by the Kneisel Quartet:
Old First Church. SIS p. m. organ recital by
Alexandra Guilmant.
wednesday-Berkeley Lyceum. ii a: m. song re-
citaI by Sarah Macdonald Sheridan.
Thursday.o Iendelssohn Hall. S:15 p. m. piano
forte recital by Mime. Eifriede Stoffregen;
Carnegie Hall. 8 p. m, concert recital OF
songs with Shakespearean texts by Anle.
Gadski, Mr. Bispham and others; cooper
Union concert of chamber music by the
PEOPLES Symphony Auxiliary Club; Asso.
citation Hall, Brooklyn, Sl5 p M concert Oh
chamber music by the kneisel Quartet
Friday-Mendelssohn Hall. SID p. m, song re
citai by Helen Niebuhr: Association Han
Brooklyn S:15 2. m. lecture by Waiter pam
rosch on Act OF Tristan und lsoloe.
Ssturday-C Carnegie Hail. . 80 p. pianoforte
recital by Josef Holman; $40 p. M, concert
of the Russian symphony society; Menpei hy
EOlQ 3 ID.
vladimir de Pachmann
The first concert OF the Kneisel Quartet's New
York series VIII be given in Mendelssohn Hall
on Tuesday evening" at S:15 o'clock. The sub
scription sale for these concerts is larger than
ever before and the hall bids fair TO be COM
pIetely flied every performance. The pro-
sZramme of the first concert is as follows:
italian serenade. for string quartet Hugo Wolf
The piano part in Dvorak's quintet VIII be
played by Mr.. Walter Damrosch. The tragic
fate Of the Austrian composer, Hugo Wolf. is
now we'll known-his long struggle for recogni-
tion Of his talent in song composition and his
vain attempts TO gain foothOld for his few in
strumental works, his bitter poverty and con-
iinued disappointments. his enormous fertility
IN producing songs that have only recently at
fracted widespread attention, the darkening of
his mind by insanity when he was but thirty
eight years old and his death in a madhouse in
February 1902 after five years OF hopeless SUI
ser.ng His Italian Serenade'' is one of the
TWO works written by him for strings that have
been published. the other being string quartet
sn minor, in four movements. This serenade
IS a fragment OF an uncompeted work, and
consists of but movement, in q major. Like
the other, Il did rot appear IN print until after
his death 1t IS transcription OF movement
originally intended for small orchestra which
Wolf began IN the early 9Os. How enaInored
he was of the italian spirit, at least il pre-
scented itself to his mind. be seen in the
selection Of songs entitled The italian Song
book" that he composed in these same years,
no fewer than forty-six songs in all. After
recent performance OF the Serenade. Philip Hale
wrote IN THE Boston Herald that 1t seemed
Bingularly individual and delightful in its fresh
ness and piquancy. There is not for moment
u suggestion of the commonplace of the yul-
garland IL IS easy 20 be vulgar in an at
tempt TO sing and to strum in the Italian musi-
cal atmosphere. Nor IS there too apparent labor
which Is perhaps bizarre seems inevitably in its
proper place" DVoraks pianoforte quintet,
which has become Of his best known and
most popular chamber compositions, was first
played IN 1890. and contains some OF his most
characteristic traits composer. The adagio
Sc -DuInka." which finds its prototype IN thu
Bohemian folksong. 1t is a kind of elegy, of a
complex form which, Ike a sonnet sequence,
holds in combination a series OF separate poems,
:n which there are recurrent themes Of sharply
Eontrasted character.
The first concert Of the Russian Symphony
Society in Carnegie Hall viii take place next
Saturday evening portion OF its programme
has been arranged 10 commemorate the centen-
airy OF Glinka's birth, which took place on June
:. 1904. To this end the concert wifi begin with