New-York tribune., 1905-12-20
MUSIC.
4 Concer By Wmd Instruments.

The Longy Club. a body of wind instrument
players from the Boston symphony Orchestra
gave concert in Mendeissehn Hall last plght.
The artists composing the CLUB are not stranssfS
to the music lovers Of New-York They nave IA
dividualy won admiration by their work IN lh7
orchestra of which they one of the chief orna-
ments, and as body devoted TO the style Oh
chamber music which they exploited last nignt tI5S
we're heard in the same concert room as late a.
March of last year. Two flutes, two oboes Two
clarinets, two bassoens and two horns make np
the instrumental apparatus Of the cluo ana lhe
men are artists of extremely fine type. Iher
progra nlne last night consisted OF beethoFeH
quintet for pianoforte, oboe clarinet bassoon ana
horn Cplayed by the first instruments of the or
ganization, with the help Of Mr.. A de Veto a
pianist also of Boston,, nocturne by Gaoriel
Faure an internezzo by c. Lefebvre and slu
fonietta by Raft all for the eight instruments q
single solo number graced the list romance anu
rondo from what the programme described as
concerto III E fiat major for oboe, which may De d
transcription or transpesiten, since the only enoe
concerto OF which Koehel makes mention IS IN the
key cf r,
All Of the music, with the exception of the
Beethoven quintet, which is fairly familiar to prac-
titioners of chamber music in two arrangement
Cor pianoforte and strings, one made by BeetneVeh
himself and one by Ernest Nauulann, was new 10
the local concert rooms. Music OF TINS eharactet
long ago voted archaic IN Newly orA' tnousA
an Organization similar to that maintained BY Mr-
Iongy lived out a brief existence here some fifteen
or twenty years age-when the wood-w1nd con-
tingent Of the Philharmonic Society was better thah
it Is now. Since then the musicians of the Aschen-
broedI Club and the Tonkinstler Society have cu4-
tivated It for the deectation of their members Dpt
net in public. It would not be surprising however
were local club soon to come forward composed
of the excellent wood-wind players which Mr. " al
ter Darnreseh has enlisted in the New-York Sym
phony Orchestra For an unexplained reason the
best players of woed~wind instruments come to US
from France
Except the French horn players and enc of the
bassoanists, all are members of the Longy Clup
It appeared from. the music played last nlgfl'
that composition their instruments IS also cut
tivated more assiduously and with more success ~
France than elsewhere. The compositions 'l
Faure and Lefebvre. especially the former we're
decidedly effective, even charming, and did mleh
to diss3pate the feeling of monotony disseminated
by the Beethoven quintet, with all it's Mozartlan
beauty This rlonotony is the one obstacle to tne
popularity of this tyne of chamber music whieh
had as many admirers little more than century
ago as the string quartet has now. But nothing less
than the perfection attained by the Longy Club
can make it tolerable. Mr Longy's oboe playing,
often admired before. admiration in the
solo number Mr. de Voto played the pianotoFte
with fine taste, discrimination and artistic dis
tireticn in the quintet The thoroughly delightful
concert was heard by a small but keenly appre-
ciative h T. ~