New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27

mann's Faust" also sung with Miss Olive
Fremstad now of the Metropolitan Opera House.
a sooist.
"A German Requiem" which has no relation
to the mass, is in seven parts. with text from
the Old and New Testaments. The opening
chorus. blessed are the dead" Is accompanied
by volas and 'cellos. The second chorus. Be
hold all flesh is as the grass starts with an
impressive funeral march in unexpected triple
rhythm and passes into free fugue. A barry
tone solo. Lord. make me to know the meas
ure of my days earth'' begins the third part,
and the chorus ends it with fugue on long
theme But the righteous souls In the
hand of Cod" the final thrty-six bars, in double
time. being built upon D as a continuous pedal
point.
After the short fourth chorus. How lovely
is Thy dwelling place" comes d soprano solo
and chorus against muted viOltns. Eye now are
sOrroWful'; this was inteTpolated by Brahms
some years after the first German performance
under the impulse Of a deep personal grief.
Part VI, Here on earth we have no cOntinu-
ing place. with it's barytOne solo and Its over
whelming fugal choruses is the crux of the
composition The trombones enter with thrilling
effect when AT the sound Of the trumpet" Is
uttered and the climax comes at Death. where
is thy sting?" sung in urgent triple rhythm
The German Requiem" ends in solemn serenity
with Blessed are the dead"
Bach'S 'Sleepers, wakel for night is flying Is
declared by DR. Ebenezer Prout. who edited 1t,
to be one of the finest of the composers 100
church cantatas 1t was written in 1912, accord
ing to the best authority. for the twenty-sev-
enth Sunday after Trinity, and its text antici-
pates the warning spirit of Advent. 1t is In
three short verses employs soprano. tenor and
bass solosts. and ends with chorale.
Interest has been aroused by the announce
ment that Victor Herbert would play cello
solo at this Sunday night concert at the Ma
jestic Theatre. This will be the first time In
four years that he has played on the cello in
public, and 1t will be the only time this winter.
The other soloist will be Miss Marguerite Hall.
The following will be the programme:
q Pgsrs Tsnees fTo Henry e Mens5
BeTceGso "Jooelyn"
Na1u'AA Victor Herbert 0''0'
Second BunsaTian RI RhaBsady ;. Iss.
'' "Toy sS!iisrs March
.s4 he s,I Toy% n !ss as shoP
Habanera 'carmen' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS zet
Miss Marguerite Hail.
Malaguena. from "BoablU .Moszkowski
De Pachmann is announced for fourth
piano recital Tuesday afternoon. December
6, at Carnegie Hall. The programme will be
again all Chopin numbers but it will be wholly
different from the last Chopin programme and
will include fantastic. a noCturne, a poonaiSe.
a scherzo, five preludes. five etudes, four ma
Zurkas and three Waltzes. The recital will begin
at 80 o'clock as the pianist leaves that even
ing for Milwaukee.
John Philip Sousa will conclude his twenty
fifth semi-annual concert tour with his famous
band at Carnegie Hall on Sunday evening" De-
cember 4 This has been his seventh transcon-
tinental trip. and has taken the band 10 such
unfamiliar localities as South Dakota. Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory. we'll the more
frequently visited cities of the Pacific Coast.
Mr.. Souea will s.gna!ize his return to NewYOrk
by playing for the first time a march which he
has just composed-his first In two years-and
he will also offer a orchestral suite from
his own pen The soloists at the Carnegie Hall
concert VII he Miss Estel'e Liebng, soprano;
Miss Jessie Strauss. violinist and Herbert L.
! Clarke cornetist. Mr.. Sousa will take a short
vacation before sailing for Europe on his fourth
foreign tour with his band
At the Church of the Ascension on Wednes-
day at SIS p m. organ recital will be given
! by Charles Heinroth The programme
Sonata style OF wostenholme
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r'1uae TO ''s'' tf;aascripuonj n .ss
Miss Elsa Breidt a Young pianist, pupil OF
Alexander Lambert. viii give a piano recital at
the Lyceum Theatre on Monday. December .. al
1915 p M. assisted by David Bspham Miss
Brcidt has been engag by Mr.. Conr.ed to an
pear at one Of the Metropolitan Opera House
Sunday night concerts and also al the F1ttD
Symphony Concert of the Young Peoples Series
with Frank DamTOsCh
David Bspham will give the last OF his series
OF song cycles on Wednesday afternoon At Men
delssohn Hall Miss Marguerite Hall viii be the
assisting artist. and after Mr.. Bispham sings
Four Serious Songs 10y Brahms he will read the
story of Die Sch0ne Mageone'' ana he and
Mss Hall will sing the cycle. Johannes Brahms's
Die Sch6ne Magelone' CThe Lovely Mage
Ione') Op. 80, is made ~ of five books Of three
songs eat n. The first two written in 1850 the
other three in 1e6S, 1t is a setting OF TteeH
Romance OF Magelone.' and depicts. like the
| poems. an inner life 50 intense so thangefli as
10 exclude the simple lied form. and Br1 Inns
has had recourse TO longer movements with m
| tern.ezzo which combine the several parts into
whole
Ericsson Bushnell basso, an oratorio soloist