The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
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 Great preparations are being made for the fourth concert of the New Haven Symphony orchestra to be given in Woolsey hall next Thursday afternoon at 40 o'clock. The programme is splendid one in every way but some of it is so difficult tha there has had to be extra rehearsals for its preparation. The soloist is David Bispham, the oper- atic baritone whose name is well known to New Haven people who follow the New York opera season. Bispham has the reputation of being one of the greatest actor-singers now living, and his selection as the soloist for the Sym- phony concert is considered an excel lent one. Such artists cost money but at the beginning of last season it was decided to have only the very best. New Haven music lovers appreciate the ef- forts of the orchestra and have given their hearty support. Such founda- tion as has been laid this season means continued success.
 Bispham will sing for his principal se- lection the Wotan aria from Wagner's opera, Die Waulkure," " in which he is magnificent. Naturally the composi- tion may lose something by being di- vorces from it's scenic surroundings but this particular aria lends itself better i than most of Wagner opera excerpts to the concert stage. Bispham will un- doubtedly make it a performance long ! to be remembered. For those who have not seen the opera and do not know it it would be a good thing to look up it's story and familiarize them selves if possible with the character of Wotan They would find it would give them much additional pleasure when they come to hear the performance on Thursday Bspham will sing besides | this Wagner selection an area from von Weber's opera. of "Euryanthe,' less dramatic, but one of the most beautiful of it's kind.
 The orchestral part of this concert is expected to be unusually good. The | first number will be Beethoven's Over i ture to Egmont,' one of the noblest of Beethoven's writings in this form. It is a setting to music of the words of Goethes tragedy of Egnont. A lighter work is that of Volkmann's S sSerenade for String Orcehstra and Cello, the solo part of which will be played by Ludwig Hoffman, the leading 'cellist of the orchestra, who has only recently become a member of it. He is an ad- mirable artist and strengthens the strings greatly by his presence. The orchestra played this Serenade of yolk- mann's several years ago. Those who heard it will remember it as a very beautiful composition in quiet mood.
 The great orchestral performance of the concert. however. will be the Tschaikowsky Symphony, No. 6, com monly called the Pathetic Symphony. It is the thing the great Russian mas ter composed. The whole work is tinged with melancholy, which clouded his last days. Tschaikowksi died sud- denly, some say of cholera and others, who claim to know inside history, by his own hand These latter and many who have studied his writings claim that the Symphony was meant to fore cast his death. The extraordinary end ing of the last movement-a blow on the drum, after a long passage of al- most gloomy music-is certainly unique From first to last the Symphony is full of melody, sometimes of almost un- earthly beauty but so apparent that a child may understand it. The orches- tration is rich and full throughout
 The sale of seats begins Tuesday morning, March 1, in the vestibu1e of Woolsey hall, where a ticket office has been built for the better handling of the work. The sale will be from 10 until 12 noon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day, and on Thursday afternoon from until o'clock. Admission and reserved seats will be sold for $1. There is like