New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11
MUSICAL NOTES.
Philharmonic and Kneisel Concerts
-Melba at Opera House.

Acknowledgements Opera House o30 ?; M
operate concert at popular prices; - Is6
Hall. SID 2. m- concert by sous ous@ nv - We
Majestic Theatre, SID p m, concert DE ~, &c
tor Herbert's Orchestra; ChannDeT 4NuSt0
Room of Carnegie Hall. p M sGI B,t e.
cstal nv Margaret Goetz and DR.. carr DuHt;
Arson Hail. Brooklyn. i p. m. fTst lha'iiee
Of the Arion Society
Neutrality-suspicious. Opera House, p m;
French opera, Carmen; MenoelssCStli11 -, -
8 p. m, pianoforte recital by RuaoL / TIL iIi
waldorf-Astoria. 11:l5 a. m. MI bagoy
second musical morning.
Observation-Disclosures Hail. S:15 p. m. concert
OF chamber music by the Kneisel Quartet, OF
Boston; Carnegie Hall. $50 p m, recital OK
violin music by Eugene Nsaye; $40 P M
concert by Miss Marie de Rohan; Hotel Ma
.estic, y. n, concert OF chaInDeT Ihuslc 0y
the Mendelssohn Trio Glib.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Opera House, $50
p N. German opera, Die MeistersingeT-
Thursday-Carnegie Hall. $50 p. m, concert OF
the Musical Art Society; Metropolitan Opera
House. > p. m, performance OF Wagner S
''Parsifal"; Mendelssohn Hall. $40 p. m.
concert Of chamber music by the Kaltenborn
Quartet; Cooper Union. S:lo =. m. concert
Of chamber music by the Peoples symphony
Society Auxiliary: Waldorf Astoria, $50 P
H. private concert OF the Rubinstein Club;
Association Hall, Brooklyn, $40 p. M con
oerE OF the Kneisel Quartet OF Boston; Wal
corf, II q. m. concert by the Harlem Phil
harmonic Society.
opera, La Boheme"; Carnegie Hall, go
p. n. public rehearsal of the PhilhaE1nonic
Society. ASSOCIATION
p N, lecture recital on acts two and three
OF 'Die Meistersinger."
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Opera House. 2 p. m.
German opera, Die Walking; p. M
SsiIet .-coppeIia"; Carnegie Hail, S.15 p M.
concert OF the Philharmonic Society; p. m
-'' concert Of the Young Peoples symphony So
.4s c!ety; No. 141 East Fortieth-st chamber
music by Arthur Whiting and others at 3
?. II
Tbs third concert Of the KneiseI Quartet will
cake place IN Mendelssohn Hall next Tues
Gay evening. Miss Adele Aus der Ohe VIII be
the assisting artist and the programme will
consist Of a quartet for strings. n A minor. by
2. s. Converse. Schurnanns pianoforte quar-
tet IN z fat and a quartet by Haydn IN D
major. CD. 76. No. 3. The first Of these works
ss novelty by an American composer, which
was heard for the first time II public ct the
drst Of Air. Kneisers Brooklyn concerts this
season Mr.. Converse IS at present instructor
OF music IN Harvard College, under Professor
]. X. Paine. He Is thirty-three years DID, a
native OF Newton. Mass. and graduate Of
Harvard IN the class OF 1898. having already
then composed his opus l, violin sonata \
few months experience IN business sent him
back into music his profession He studied
piano with Baermann and composition with
Chadwick, and then went TO that nursery OF
American composers. the Royal School Of Music
Rt Munich, under the direction Of Josef Rhein-
berger. he finished there Ia 1895. having COM
pleted symphony. One movement Of Il was
played by the Boston Orchestra the next win
ter, and Il also performed at the Worces-
ter festival Mr.. Converse has written several
orchestral works. one OF them, 1.-The Festival
Of Pan" having recently been performed IN
London; violin concerto, two poems" for
pisnoforte and orchestra, a ballade for barytone
and orchestra, and two string Quartets, of
which this is the second, and indeed one Of the
composers latest productions. having been COM
posed last summer
Mr.. Converse's quartet has only three move
ments. the customary scherzo being omitted. or,
rather, being absorbed IN the finale, which re-
fleets the character Of the 1ocose movement in
parts. Otherwise the work has the usual form,
the composer leaning on the classics though IN
dulging himself In free and modern expression.
The first movement has short, slow introduce
ton. the theme Of which. beginning