The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
THE PHILHtRnONtC SOCIETY
AND IT'S FJTtEE.


Felix Welnsariner rs Permanent Con-
ductor-'Thc Present system Illogical,
Productive only 0f Inartsuc Results.
Felix Weingartner has gone home leav-
lng behind him the memory OF q great con
Iuctor He made 4 deep impression when
ne was in this country last winter. but IN
The season which is now approaching It's
close he cut much further into the nppreca-
ton Of a retcont community. Last winter
he conducted too much Of his own music
and eoothcd VA almost TO celestial content
with his field, Of the blessed This year
he projected into space a symphony OF ms
own conception and caused tho heaVlhS
II a universal sigh OF relief when 1t came
10 it's pcaling end
But he conducted two representative
compositions at the special concerts oil
he Philharmonic Society 1t Is YAM to
say that ii calls FOR no great skliI to give
roa ing Of Berlozs Harold in Italy
As a matter OF demonstra1lo fact ~ j.
possible 10 destroy tue effect even of Johann
Strauss's "Piazcato Polka by conducting
H. badly Tho Bcrioz composition Is truly
not a MASTERPIECES but il it Is TO be heard
- all. it should bo given fair hearing MI
Weingartner directed it in "A style when
placed il in the most favorable llght. lie
gave a performance which was notable ior
rs perfect symmetry for tho beautiful
BALANCE Of tone and the discriminating
distribution Of light ard shade.
His conducting Of the ninth symphony
II Beethoven, however, was the perform
ance that oponcd the eyes ~ the douhiors'
Those who believe TINT great conducting
= inseparable from vigorous dcmonstra-
ions and who find the secret OF important
interpretations in the waving of hands
and the heavinG Of convulsive shoulders
must have learned something from tins
superb achievement. Mr. WeingartEer
conducted the eymphony without score
That was feat Of memory worth remen-
herring. He conducted it without playing
to the gallery lie made no spectacular
zestic,ila ions He beat time when mere
ime beating seemed to DO all that was
necessary. He did more when more
vas denandc He hurled himself INTO
the last movement in manner winch
swept the chorus into vortex 81 en-
thusiasn Never before has New York
heard the seetling temper Of those iast
vocal numcors sustained 80 brilliantly
The only downfall was in the singing OF the
soloist, and in these days where Is the con-
cert quartet when can properly sing TINS
music of Beethoven: Let US avoid that
question for the present II leads far afeld
and into a country filed With rocks, pitfalls
and Wild beasts.
Mr.. Weingartner is gone and there re-
mains behind him the active unduiatlon OF
the musical watets lie was huge stone
buried into the placid millpond, and the
savelsts have not yet ceased streaming
% every shore from the spot While he
vas hero the old movement for permanent
orchestra hobbed up serenely from below
That is IN Intermittent movement II
abs and flows Strangely enough It al
ways seems 70 come TO life when the womau
see Great Light
Several admirable women have close to
their excellent hearts this plan for the estab-
.ishnent of a permanent orchestra, They
cannot bear To abandon il vet their efforts
have been frustrated on every occasion.
When they started out several years ago
With the lfou OF getting together a fund
70 build an orchestra for Nj Seidl, certain
unsympathetic persons told them that they
would never raise the money If they per
nitted scaptioal capitalists TO get hold Of
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