The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-14


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 of fstadents- Other Works, sehuberi's
 symphony and Overzture by David
 stanley smith.
 The New Haven symphony orchestra brings it's most successful season to a close this afternoon with a concert in woolsey hall at 4:1O o'clock. A most attractive and varied programme has been prepared by Professor Parker and the concert promises to set the stand ard even higher than that of it's four predecessors.
 Two or three years ago skeptic said that symphony orchestra could not live in New Haven and prophesied the speedy death of the present orchestra. He said that there were not enough people in New Haven who cared about the best in music to pay to listen to a programme of even semi-classica1 mu- sic Indication were then that he was right. The hardest kind of work brought only small audiences and al- though the few were enthusiastic the many did not come. When Yale threw lopen it's great hall to the orchestra the situation was changed. It became pos sible to put the prices at popular fig ure thus making beginning of an educational plan in music that has great possibilities. The success of the plan, which included thorough adver- tisement of the concerts throughout the Ineighboring portion of the state as well as in the city of New Haven, was at once apparent. Instead of six or seven hundred people three thousand came to the first concert and there has been no failing off in numbers. The evening concert drew so many that admission finally had to ebrefused and many were turned away. The afternoon con- certs have all drawn great crowds and there has been an interest and enthu- lsiasm quite unprecedented. The in lcreased interes. in music has been shrown by the great audiences at the Passion music given last month, and the Boston Symphony orchestra con- cert, which latter has been, with few exceptions, very poorly patronized in previous years It looks as though the ! New Haven Symphony orchestra had not only aroused interest in it's own concerts but had stimulated interest in all kinds of good music in the city It that is so it has done most worthy work. and laid the foundation for big ger things in the future
 The programme for this afternoon i'm cludes the Schubert unfinished sym Dhony. Saint Saens' symphonic poem "Phaeton, a paraphrase of the Good Friday music from Parsifal; David Stanley Smiths overture Joyeuse and Professor Parker's setting of the Greek Festival Hymn. the words of which were written by Professor Thomas D. Goodell
 The Schubert symphony is one of the most charming of orchestral crea- tions abounding in the exquisite meli- dies which run so freely from the pen os this genius of melody. The story of Phaeton's attempt to drive the sun horses caught the fancy of the great French writer Saint Saens and he has drawn a picture in tones of the rash drive or the youth and his final de- struction.
 Much interest is being shown in the composition oe David Stanley Smith the "Ouverture Joyeuse," which is one of the numbers for this afternoon. MT Smith, who has written some very , beautiful songs and some smaller or chestre.l pieces has done his best work in this overture which, in it's public per formances has been very highly praised , by the critics. Possibly the Greek fes- tival hymn will undoubtedly attract 8 large number of people to the concert It is one of Professor Parker's best , choral works and was feature of the Bicentennial for which it was written Only a very few of those who wished tC : hear the work then could be acconmo. dated so it Is particularly fortunate that it is to be given again. The cho. rus will be made up of Yale men, train.
 ed in the pronunciation of the Greel by members of the Greek faculty o
 Yale. The solos will be sung by Wal l lace Moyle, tenor and Mr. Truemann baritone. both of New Haven and ex
 cellent musicians. In the paraphrast of the Good Friday music Professor Troostwyk, concert master of the or } chestra, will be the soloist.
 f Tickets go on sale this morning at Il
 o'clock at Woolsey hall vestibule, anC will continue on sale up to the time o I the concert The doors will be opened , at 3:30 o'clock.
 FORMER NEW HAVEN LAWYER