New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-16
THE MUSICAL SEASON.

,.io, ,o+o hoax Is already sufficiently ad'
- a., o,oIIo ono TO make something like an
ANALYSIS. qualitative as well as Quahil'dure' %
,he musical season confronting the peoPie "
New.York The prospect Is pleasing III Oo'"
,,a,+,o,,Iors +boucb calculated 10 cause the won
dering question how it is going TO De poSsIoie =,
eniov il all. Some years ago the musical people
~ BOSTON especialIy the artists OF modest cal
ihra who had been wont to turn an honest penny
bv q recital or two every season, were express
INC concern touching the ultimate eHect upon
their activities of the fOrty-eight set ahu resu'
IorIv recurring concerts Of the symphony Or
chestra. TO them it seemed as II their puny el-
forts we're like tiny fishes going down ols
retacean's gullet and that soon they "oulu al
be swallowed up. There were philosophers at
the time who professed to envy New-Aork the
want Of what was called permanent orches-
ira. even while ralIying her upon her poverty
Rut the forty-elght afternoon preludes ana
evening fugues OF Boston were but drop III
the bucket compared with the flood OF music
which rushed through the metropolis then ana
which has been swelling ever since. obviously
New-Yorks capacity for musical enjoyment IS
large Instead OF the forty-eiSht symphony con-
certs which Boston and Chicago viii be called
mon 10 asslmilate. the thirty or forty set down
for Philadelphia the twenty for PlttsburS ana
twenty for Cincinnati TO coniine the record TO
the recognized orchestral centres, New-AorS
will this wear listen to sixteen concerts ny the
Philharmonic Society, fifteen by the Boston
symphony Orchestra, six tat LEAST each by 1he
New-York Symphony Orchestra, the Young Eco
pies Symphony Society. the Peoples symphony
Society and the Russian Symphony Society. oe-
sides three concerts Of archaic music Dy the
American Symphony Orchestra, under the direc-
ton OF Mr. Sam Frankie. The enumeration Is
confined 10 orchestral concerts Of the most disnI
aod nd nfIY-8lGlt
To these there will be added the orchestral con-
certs OF a more popular order on Sunday even
ings In the Metropolitan Opera House and the
Majestic Theatre and the concerts In which
orchestras viii be employed to lend extra I'M
portance 70 the Introductory efforts OF artistic
visitors from foreign lands, and thus the total
OF high class orchestral concerts will be raised
20 about one hundred.
In such a mass of music there will, Of course,
be something for every one; but TO those who
hunger and thirst after novelties the most gem
erous offerings will be made by the Russian
Symphony concerts. These are TO come up from
their old, democratic East Side quarters and
enter the more cheerful and aristocratc walls
Of Carnegie Hall. II is many years ago--egh-
teen to be exact-since The Tribune after lis
tening to a symphony by Tschaikowsky, uttered
the warning cry: Look our for the Muscovite.
He's dangerous power in politics, and the
SNAi'e
"ened" Then Tschaikowskys music sounded
revolutionary and aggressive. Since then, how
ever, our concert rooms have been invaded by
men like BOrodine, RimSky- Korsakow and Gla-
ZOunOw. and now the measures Of Tschalkowsky
seem most sedate and courtly. But read with
something like trepIdation the promise Tor is IL
the threat0 Of music by men with such forml-
dable and terrifying names as Dargomyzhski
Mousorgski, Ippolton-Ivanoff and KalinuikoH.
-fv, Paea fiov, tn h.
ganda which Russia has been making for its
native school Of music for the last twenty years
1t needs but little more and the sceptre of SUI
premacy in the instrumental art will be wrested
from Germany. AS for the opera, we are not
sure but that the only thing which prevents the
world from realizing that the creative centre in
this form of art has been transferred 10 Moscow
and St Petersburg is the fatality which has de-
MED a hearing to the works of Tschaikowsky,
Rimsky-KOrsakow and their fellows beyond the
Russian border. Our opera at the Metropoll-
tan threatens to become reactionary. We are
promised fifteen weeks full Of activity but
more than One-half OF the operas in the list
from which the repertory is to be selected are
italian. "ParslfaI' we shall have, as well per-
formed 1t was last year doubtless anG also
the other works in the effective Wagnerian list;
but nothing new. Would not the announce
ment of Tschaikowsky's "Eugen Onegin" or
tHCA VA Lie LOE lue NLdT, SOUND re-
freshingI I'hirty-fve years ago the SlaviansN
Russian Opera Company visited American cities
presenting VerstOwskys "AskOlds Tomb" Since
then it is doubtful IL n single opera by a Rus
sian composer has been heard in the country
except Rubinsteins Nero and Nero was in
no sense a Russian opera.
For chamber music the Kneisel Kaltenborn
and Dannreuther quartets will care as usual
In the lists of the first named organization there
is to be meeting of the old and the new in
the shape OF compositions by Bach and Boo
cherini on the one hand, and three latter dav
composers on the Other-an Austrian, Hugo
Wolf; Frenchman, Debussy, and an Ameri
can F. s Converse. The recent death OF Or
Dvorak Will find recognition in the programmes
or several OF our concert institutions. First IN
Importance, however, will be the performance
of the dead masters 'Stabat Mater" the Wort,
with which he first won wide recognition I'm
England and America. As for the Musical Art
Society, its concerts ought to command PARTON.
lar interest, especially on the part OF musical
churchmen, because OF the command of Pope
Plus y that for artistic music return be p,ade
10 the style Of composition which this society was
organized to cultivate Anerio, ArcadeIt Allegri
COrsi, Josquin DIES Pres, GabrieIl Orlando m
LassO. Lott Manlni, Palestrina, Vittoria and
other old masters OF the a cGpeILG STYLE haye
figured on the programmes of the society. and
perhaps 20 continue the instruction SO we'll he