New-York tribune., 1905-01-13
MUSIC.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Mr.. Gericke adventured rather bewildering dis
tance into the French neo-romantic school of music
at the third evening concert of the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra. when he brought forward SYM
phony by Vincent d'Indy. 1t was the second work
of that composer. and IN the key Of B fat major;
but the key does not signify to the public since IL
occupied the attention of the composer so little II
is cited only to assist the coming muslcal genera
ton in the work of identification when antiquarian
labors begin on the musical monuments OF the be-
ginning of the twentieth century. The new french
romantcists must not be confounded with the as
ciples of Schumann. nor exc with those OF wagner
though NJ. dIndy betrayed a marvellous capaclIy
for conveying fragments of Wagnerian thought
when he wrote the singular work which New-York
listened to for the first time last night 1t was IN
dubitably misfortune for the hearers that he ou
not borrow more extensively from Wasners . hai
monic scheme which the younger Frehchlneh ol
to-day seem determined 10 relegate 10 'i'e
limbo OF infantile and elementary Things
The symphony quits confOunds cursofE
reviewers power OF analysis ana oesciip
ton That the official annotator OF the boS'o"
programmes Mr.. Philip Hale, who is seldom at d
loss for suggestive phrases, should have taHeh
back in this case on the analysis of a fantasuc
Frenchman was not at all surprising TO those VINO
lent a discriminating ear to the music Ila1 =.
irritated interest undeniable; that, win a.
its ncomprehensibe singularties. 1t puollsheo sii
cerity on the part of the composer was equaliS "i
questionable; but what it all meant, either as aO
sollte or illustrative music, We shall not attehp'
to fathom until it is performed again Win H9 - e.
san+ial accessories which might be preliminary
debauch with hasheesh, moving pictures oy Tue
inopressonists who paint red houses with blue pig
noents and odor disseminating machines such as
Anuleius describes in his Golden Ass ana which
have already made their appearance In the IatteI
dav theatre The audience felt in duty oound 10
enjoy IL last night but the patter Of applause
which followed each movement indicated thdt Ne"
Yorks musical mind was sadly perplexeo-
After the symphony Mr.. Josefy brought forward
r,robros,s nianoforte concerto in the same key NJ
a.1ndv II is said is an admirer of the German
o,.rstcrornanticist and once visited him. Pity that
he was not inoculated with the Brahmsian manner
:, .nosin1 The great concerto received a dlf-
ferart reading from that to which we are accus-
tomAd although Mr. Joseffy has played II lot US
hasore Last night he carried his notion of tonal
oortinence 10 an extreme. OF the nne NIlllS
which marks the first movement little was 10 De
heard and the surprisingly beautiful and orilhaht
ereIe was given out with airy grace and studied
elagance which made wonder what had as
Stnated all the Magyar spirit in the performer
and the always dominant Teutonism OF the
eomnoser Accepting Mr. Josenys conception OF
+ba concerto however it was lovely plahoIor'e
nlaving and sent thrills of delight through the
,o-s A tribute to the memory of Theodore
Thomas Mr. Gericke sacrificed the overture 10
s.czenoveva - which was to have opened the con-
schubert The music proved to be Liszts transcript
ton for orchestra of a march in E fiat minor-the
ffth of a set Of six for pianoforte. four hands,
which Schubert published op. 40 1t was I'M
nressivelv and beautifully played, like the sym
nbonv the accompaniment to the concerto ana
DvoraI's "Carneva1' overture which brought the
concert TO a close.