New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19

A conductor Of Philharmonic concerts.
Germany to take the place Of the late Theodore
Thomas, who was to conduct these concerts Mr:
Kogel has arranged programme which VIII
include the following numbers by wagner: Ihe
Overture TO THE Flying Dutchman. Siegfried
Idyl" and the prelude 10 Die Meistersinger.
"A Faust Symphony Of List. including the
finale with tenor solo and male chorus, VIII make
up the second part of the programme. The
chorus employed in the finale of the symphony
will be provided by W. r. Chapman Edward
p. Johnson will sing the tenor solo.
The sale Of seats for Paderewskis only recital
in New-York will open at Carnegie Hall and
Ditson's tomorrow morning at o'clock. The
recital will take place Saturday afternoon
next at 2:30. His present tour has been one of
the most interesting well as one Of the most
profitable he has ever made in this country
Keeping along the lines of his original plan, he
has devoted himself more to the smaller places
than to the large. Through the South and
Middle West he played in many towns which
could hardly have been expected TO furnish
enough patronage to make such undertaking
remunerative as compared with the more i'm
portant cities The results have been aston!sh-
ing Towns of 10000 and 5000 have given him
audiences of huge size, the gross receipts aver
aging considerably more than $1,000 This
would hare been Impossible few years ago and
that it is possible now can be traced TO two
main causes. The first and more important is
the enormous growth OF musical taste in all
parts of the country. The second is the vast
improvement in interurban communication in
the South and especially in the Middle West.
which makes the task Of attending a concert
twenty or thirty miles away h3fGly 10 DE con-
sidered seriously. Nj. Paderewskls present tour
has proved that the field OF musical activity has
increased at least twenty-fold in the past ten
MI Paderewski arrived in New York Tues
day from Chicago. where on the eleventh he
gave his 10th recital Of his present tour. Yes
terday he resumed his tour in Philadelphia and
he will be busy up to the time he plays here.
He leaves for the West again after his Boston
recital On the first and expects TO sail for Eu-
His programme Tor next Saturday is as fol-
lows:
Fantasia, %. Il. in three .schumsnn
!s o. fs e 81 o. S.S.
assseGs. slSs: 8 & &. oD 10 Chopin
S2oturne major, op. g.
The last concert of the season by the Kneisel
Quartet viii be given in Mendeissohn Hall. on
Tuesday evening s:15 o'clock. The programme
will be follows
SIret op a. fat for psno and
Quintet o.. les c major. for victims, and
The assisting pianist will be Ernest Schelling
Saint-Saenss piano quartet. though 1t is ranked
among the modern classics Of chamber music
has not often appeared the programmes of
the Kneisel Quartet. 1t first played in
Paris in 1879. with the composer ct the piano
and Sarasate as first violin. At that Iiuae they
thought the syncopated rhythms that appear in
several Of the movements were Hungarian In
their character but they seem now rather per
sonal TO the composer than showing any such
national colorlng. The second movement con-
IL
strings and accompanied by a vigorous figure
on the piano.
In the last movement, after a quotation OF the
opening measures OF the first Increment the
second theme of that movement reapDcars COM
bned with the chorae-like melody OF the an
dante in freely treated double fugue. with
which the work closes. The device Is similar to
ment OF his piano quintet.
As DR.. Hanslick pointed out. this quartet Ia
OF special interest. as being one OF the first
successful chamber compositions by a French
composer chamber music having been a rnonon
eiy OF German nusicianship, and as showing
now me spirit OF German masters had been
caught by Frcnchman. Orc of his merits Is;
That has themes are Instrumental in character
aec developed In the true quartet style: and
II this work is not filled with deem strong mas
sion, II reaches far above the merely pleasing.
Won ltaish serenade" made pleasing i'm
preston at the first of Mr.. Kneisels concerts
last November. As we have H. II is In one
movement ii was originally intended by the
composer for small orchestra. and bv him uas
transferred to the smaller apparatus of the
string quartet; it TO be In several move
inents: for the third, we are told, Wolf in
tended TO use a theme the "Funiculi Funi
cula,'' which is sung popular song In Ma
pies and has deceived moro than one rnusiciar
into believing IL is true folk song Though IN
reality IL was composed not many years ago by
the drawing song writer, Luigi Denza
Wolfs purposes were interrupted by the col.
lapse of his mind in September, 1897: that led
20 his committal TO an insane asylum, where he
died February % 1903
Sci III ~ str
compositions having been written in 1928. the
year OF his death. Like many Of his works Il