The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-10
The MUSICAL ART SOCIETY.
ms fLOSING CONCERT PROVES
ONE or mon INTEREST.
i.lt's Chorus OF Angels, Assisted by Full
Orchestra, and MDZarts Ave Nerun'
IIord the Audience Great Pleasure
Pedestrians "Stabat Mater" Repeated
Two Bcauttful Works hN Bach.


,uord the Audience Great Pleasure
Pedestrians "Stabat Mater" Repeated
Twn Bcautiful Works b> Bach.
Tire Musical Art Society closed its season
.- night with a beautiful and singularly
.,,ert-.,ug concert at Carnegie Han All
t.e concerts of this organization oher
delights not to be found in the majority
az musical entertainments The choral
works reformed are of nature not suited
ro rte proportions Of the Oratoro Society
. Peoples Choral Union They are de-
signed for smaller bodies and for more
intimate communication Always too, the
society presents some OF that old time
music # the sanctuary which modern
composers have striven in vain to surpass.
last night the first number on the pro-
grant me was the 'Stabat Mater" OF Pales
trina a composition which is no stranger
tarairons of these concerts. but which has
ne,erheless not been heard too often.
r. creme and wonderful beauty its Gle
,atiuu IF style and its marvellous moulding
n original harmonies into an apparently
-mr.e and inevitable succession entitle 1t
10 a place among the masterpieces Of
musical art. In its own domain it surely
stands IN the foremost rank. 1t ia worthy
child Of him who gave to the world the
Inproperia and the -Marcelline' mass.
From the remote and foreign harmonies
Of this composition to the fluent sweetness
Of Mo7art's ave Vorlm' was long stride.
vet tho Mozart music was second on the
Ii,' N Is only a few days since the at
ferdsnis at Mr. Franko's concerts Of old
music heard this Ave Nerum,' and then
h had the same fortune with its auditors
rs IL dad last night. 1t was enthusiastically
reaemanded Occasionally Mozart, the child
of melody and the master OF spontaneous
composition. comes into his own
H. After the Mozart number came two works
nv the inexhaustihle Bach The first was
H. komm. SUSSEX Tod" and the second
the eight part motel Sing ye to the Lord.
The former Is a hymn which was left by
Rach IN the simple form Of melody with
Indicated harmonies The voice parts were
written ont by Franz Wullner. It * work
perfect in its kind. a pure and satisfying
expression of religious resignation. II
trcathes the spirit of Bach in every meas
ure
The motel. written for double chorus.
* no less characteristic "komm, snsser
Tod" belongs to the realm Of the chorale,
while this is a member OF the old lEphomG
family and is one splendid and masterful
hurst Of that fugato writing In which Bach
was and is the master of masters This
motel IL appallngly difficult. perhaps the
most difficult thing in some respects that
the Musical Art Choir has yet undertaken
j. was sung with admirable spirit and with
fine clarity The intonauon here was
much better than il was in the Mozart
number. in which there was constant
tendency 10 flatness.
Tho -homm, SUSSEX Tod was we'll sung
hut the choir reserved its best aChieve-
Inent for the music OF the aspiring List
He was represented by his chorus Of angels
setting Of text from the last part OF
Goethe's Faust composed for that
Goethe festival at Weimar which poor
Wagner could not stay to hear because
the police were after him for being revolu-
ZIONIST 1t would surely have soothed
and sustained his Tannhauser spirit to have
beard this dulcet voicing Of angelic fancies
ny his future father-in-law.
The chorus was written originally with
piano accompaniment, which must have
been sngularly inade'unte Afterward
List rewrote the work for womens voices
With harp, which ought TO have been a
better arrangement. Heinrich /ollner, who
used to be conductor Of the I4eder-
Sran1. made an orchestral arrangement
Of the first version for mixed voices, and
this was used last night.
The composition was well worth giving
j. is one Of List 4 best bits and is not only
rich and effective but full OF color and
suggestion. 1t was excellently done. The
other numbers on the programme were
three old Netherlands folk songs. arranged
tv julius Roentgen mo relation TO the
rays Mendelssohn's -Fruhzeitiger Fruh-
ling and Absched vom Waldo, Brahms's
'Walde-nacht Won altes Liebesliedern
snd All meine Herzgedanken and the
spring chorus from Hugo Volts unfinished
opera. Manuel Yenegas Altogether it
vas captivating programme.