New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-27

charlber music hy Mr. ana Mrs ->el -. - -.
others: the Auditorium o.o3 l-uHi1oI "a 'li'
Manuscript Society,
rucsssv-a-eudelssofn Hall SIS ?. n. meet
INK OF the Tonlllrstler Society
Thursdav-Cooper Union. SIS p. m. last con on
cert u The Russian symphony S.~-e.s - -
l43 East Forty-tfird-st-. . D. NJ I.el-leu t
cal 80 Mr. and Mrs Frederick Dean. SUD
Ject 'Stabat Mater
sauurdsy-Banquet room. carnsgie Hal p, ~
81 n- historical lecture and song Tecllai y
Miss Margaret GOetz and others
The questions OF The validity Of programme
,,,,eio nd ifs limitations are as old as the hs.
and Dr. strauss's Sym horia domestica' neea
not cal them I'D. The work has been hea'u
under the same pretence Of mystery as was
maintained for q while after III EuleN-
spieg,rs Merry Franks" had been brought for
80 AZ Cologne The public asked 70
listen 20 Il as music pure and simple. But TO
she music reviewer OF The New-York Times
r-. Strauss conhded his Inspirations and mean
ings. ard in his criticism Mr. Aldrich wrote
these things;
But now. on the authority OF the composer
himself many OF the most intimate oelalIs %
. the symphonic doInestica' and the SUCCESSION
OF pictures may be disclosed
TO begin with, Dr. Strauss gives as sub
fifle 20 the work Fin Tag aus ulelreIn Z AM
rienleben" "a Day IN My Family Lhe') intro
Clcinr at once the personal element that is
generally recognized 10 enter into Tin fte4uell-
hon ud
uoen as IL were. the familiar ana humorous
EVERYDAY counterpart OF that stately picture
Its three principal themes represent tapA
afalran 20 Bebe" the father, the motheI anu '1ls
Ti,r introduction presents the three themes that
ere representative Of the husband, the VIE ana
49, child Tho husbands theme comprises three
. fontrastea sections These are eXpOunded IN the
! order mentioned. the child theme being repre-
f.uted bv the tender and gracious tones OF me
oboe d'a5nore, which DR.. Strauss has awakened
from its long slumber of a century and halI 20
fsi-e q place IN the modern orchestra- A curious
detail IS disclosed in the score. Inc only NM
. sb-+ Sis f.acps urCseut OF any incident depicted
81 the music IS p passage IN which the aunts
are represented as saying, Just like the iatheT'
re TracTzo thar follows is a development Of
these three themes like playing or the talher
err mother with the child" rs DR. Strauss has
Described g.: the third theine, the chlid > ls
carried out 10 special claboratiofl A merry
EPISODE closes this movement in which-afd ms
g. fhc authority of the composer -lile eliiI1 y
v-ashea and put 20 bed with cradle song Inc
TIE sdlrfo shows us papa alone He is in q
revere II8 ts at Wori-heing a composer, ne
Is composing music. and Dr. Strauss has at
tempted as an ultra refinement or me pro-
eramme idea 10 show. through music, hlnlseH
81 fhe act of composing music. there is a Iole
FceIe. lie Is troubled with the cares or ms
family. lie dreams The third part brlhss US
20 the next morning. The clock again slrlkes
= The baby wakes and cries. Finally there
comes dispute between papa and mamma over
the bringing up or the child; IT is represented
by a double fucue-in the Straussian definition
II that tern-oue At which FuE and Alhrechts-
berger would have torn their hair. and Whlch
Is likely % give pause to theorists or much
more modern tendencies
That WIN serve Now read John Phunix's
analysis of The Plains. Ode-symphonie. par
Jahez Tarbox." written exactly fifty years ago;
The symphony opens upon the wild and bound
less plains in longitude 10 degrees west latl-
tude % degrees 20 minutes ana . seconds nortn.
and about sixty miles from the west bank OF
1 Pitt River. These data are beaurfulF ana
clearly expressed ny long CopOgraphicaly)
drawn note from an E-fat clarinet The sandy
4 nature OF the soil suarsev dotted with punches
4 ~ cactus and s.-.cr.,fei7 the extended view fat
/ and unhrC}Sen 10 Jhe horizon, save by the rising
4 fInoke in She extreme verge oen0tiuE the vicin-
ity q PIute village are represented by the
bass drum. few notes on the riccolo call the
"fienton 10 a. solitary antelope picking Up mes
cal beans Ga the foreground. The SUM- having
attained an altitude ~ 36 degrees = minutes,
majesty gradually the sounds roll forth in
song" of rejoicing 70 the god Of day:
or THY intensity
ana great iumenstty
-coN2- ll'L. W s-lEt.s
Thee fu thie latitude
'yrleu- ching
which svreIis cut :uto 'IIoy Jim along. Jim along
-Jose,.. Then legreecen-o mas @ menos. POGO
pocita. dies away and dries un.
suddenly "e hear arIrgaching train from
IKE county. '.''isiiLG oi seven lttlll-es' Win
forty-sis wagons. each drawn by thirteen oxen;
each family tr1eiete+Cf a man I'm butteTnut
colored clothing driving jfe oxen. n wife in but
ternut l0iural clothing riding in the wagon.
holding hUttsrn-t baby. and seventeen but
te~nuf children running prom iecuoGsy about the
eefef,riel,,7.,.+. .r ma r.-raroo+a7 ,7f7s7, and
/ smell unpleasartIy. can these Circumstance are
expressed 10y raII fddlinr for some minutes,
winding up with uUf from che Ophicleide
played by an Intoxicated Teuton with an afro
cious breath is Impossible % nisund6rstalld
+ The description. Now rises Ger the plains IN
Is rnellifuoUs accents the grand Pike County
chorus:
IN ....- .t.~-
IL TIE land OF sold.
IsIo'EA -- l.l'-t
Win ', sg,ri,s l5is- ''
Oh. come. come.
And wei soon Pc thar.
Gee ~ B5lIy; WHO'D hup WHO'D Law,
The train now cncomp The un0aclling Of the
kettles and nlasspcus The unyokIng Of the oxen,
the gathering about she N-erious carnvfres. the
trizzllng 81 the pork ARE SO clearly expressed by
The music that the most uututored savage could
rea 1ily comprehend IT, Indeed. vivid and life
like was the Repatriation that lady sitting
near us Fundamentally exclaimed aloud at n GER
tain passage; Thar, that perks burning" And
ID VAS truly interesting 10 watch the gratifed
expression OF her face when, by a few notes of
the guitar. che pan was removed from the FIRE,
and the blazing pork eNtinEuished.
THIS IL followed by the beautiful aria,
on. marin! I want pancake,
followed BY that touching rec.tative
shet up. CT Z win spank you
10 which succeeds n grand crescendo move
rnent representing the Eight OF tire child with
the pancake. the pursuit ~ the mother. and the
maj arrest and summary punishment OF the
Former. represented by the rapid and successive
strokes OF the castanet
The turning in FOR the night follows. and the
deep and BtcrtorouE breathing cf the ercar0n-
uneut Is wen given by the baSsoor.
The night attack o. the Piutes the
fearful cries OF the der0oniac Indians the
thrieks q the females and children. the rapId
and effective IRE OF The rIfer The sts~7resa- -
the oxen. their recovery and the final repulse.