New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06
MUSICAL NOTES.
Continued from second page.

OF Matthew Locke. for treble alto tenor and
lass Ass .loIs; the suite for viola da gambia by
90 I MHunnel which was introduced last year
CIV. iIu 10 wen worthy OF being repeated: ScarattPs
Eats Fugue." and Bach's Italian Concerto for
ia ne narpsichard. and some newly acquired Ital-
Inc Musical Art Society enters this year upon
itS t"eiltn season. and Thursday evenings. De-
cehoer 10 and March o. are the dates upon
winch the concerts will be given Under the
direction OF Mr.. Frank Damrosch the choir is
i 81 suhS programme OF rare beauty which
VIII uensnt the appreciative and earnest audi
enSe which always fills Carnegie Hall on these
occasions. The society has this year leased an
once IN the Century Building No / West Thir-
y-iourtn-st:, where tickets and programmes
can be obtained.
Mr.. Frank Damrosch will this season present
to the subscribers to the Symphony Concerts
Tor Young People" a somewhat different plan
from that followed in the last six years. A SYM
phony will be given at each concert. followed
by one lighter number by the more modern mas
ters The various musical forms in this
way be contrasted, and the Young People" will
hear six symphonies by the great masters. David
Bispham, Josef Hofmann. Fritz KreisIer and
other eminent solosts will assist Brief ex-
plantations viii. as heretofore precede each num-
Der These concerts have large and vital place
among the artistic institutions OF the metropolis
One week IN advance Of the Ysaye concerts
Harry Rowe Shelley will give a musical and
descriptive lecture on the programme that is to
be rendered In each respective place by the
violinist. These lectures are invitation affairs
and are controlled by the leading musical club
society Of the cities in which Ysaye is to play
Ysaye sails next Wednesday from Cherbourg
on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
Rudolf Friml, the Bohemian pianist. who
makes his first appearance IN concert at Car
negie Hall on Thursday evening. November H.
will play his own concerto in major. op. 10.
with the Damrosch Orchestra. The concerts are
under the direction OF Charles f. Tretoar.
Mr.. Richard Aldrich. the musical critic OF
THE New-York Times" has written Guide
to Parsifal" which has been published by the
Oliver Ditson Company. of Boston 1t Is a
handsome booklet Of seventy-three pages.
planned and executed with wise purpose. well
conceived and steadily held in view. The pur-
pose is to help serious music lovers to
enjoy and understand performance OF
Waguers "Parsifal." There are many books
with a similar aim. but none made exactly in
the lines which Mr.. Aldrich has followed. He
does not write for schoolgirls, but neither does
he attempt to edify the folklorist or student OF
medieval literature in any OF the numerous
branches of study to which the GRAN romanCes
give allurement. he concerns himself with the
dramatic and musical form into which Wagner
has wrought the old tales. In one chapter he
sources; I'm another he relates the story as
Wagner formulated It. and makes a study OF
its personages: in third he describes Its rnu-
steal structure and sets forth its musical ma
terial. with an account. sUcCinct and Untech-
meal OF its employment. All this Is done pleas
antiy, lucidiy, continuously, ana without the
least sign of pedantry affectation of learning.
Therefore, the book VIII be welcomed. in spite
OF its many fellows.