New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
MUSIC.
The Musical art Society.

The spirit OF Christmas entered into the musicaI
season last night when the Musical Art society
gave the first its concerts In Carnegie HAL Inc
picture presented by platform, choristers ana audi
enca was In itself enough to invoke gladstone
emotions and these were developed into oehght
by the music. Mr.. Frank Damrosch as mas oeen
his custom ever since the society was organized
devoted large portion of the churchly part Oh tne
programme to two Christmas canticles Of the six
teenfh ceutury-Naninis "Hodie Christus Natus
Est with It's tubilant shouts OF NOE, noe anu
vyttoria,s 80 Magnum Mysterium." with It's awe
STRICKEN proclamation of marvellous mystery OF
Chrst's iowly birth. its apostrophe TO the virgin
Mother and its ioyfully proclaimant AIieiula-
Appropriate to the season. too, was the seeNHe
for three choirs Of four voices each oy Fa1est,a
of the famous antphon 'SalVe reg1na. Inc oH.e.
uoetv of the concert. In the climax OF TINS mo'el
.be first exalted moment OF the evening was
reached, though the choir did not enter INTO rs
finest estate until later, when modern music vs.
80 rrba yoo+e+ has an interesting history. II IS
o,e NJ seven rnotets for twelve voices never plto
&, +ba lifetime of its composer and discovered III
fra gmentary shape in the archives OF the "Ps
choir long after Paiestrina's death an every c@
the third choir was missing. Two hundred years
ago a PapaI singer named Biordi suppheo the
voieeinq rarts to one of the motets with great
success according to the testimony OF Palestrlna
biographer Baini. but the magnitude OF the taSA
seems to have frightened him ana ne Went L"
further with the experiment
ire result of even that enc effort has since disap-
neared from musical literature and 1t remained Tor
Dr. Haberl when intrusted with portion OF the eoi-
torial work on the complete edition of Palestr1naA
o-t,s IN persuade the Rev. Michael Halter teacher
:, ,,,nternoint in the Ecclesiastical School or
nT,Sic in Ratsbon to compose the third chorus FOR
the ..Salve Regime" The difficulty OF his task
nil hotter be appreciated when 1t Is known thsIt
the third chorus had to be written SO that IN ph7
climax Of the motel It would blend with the light
o,oas written by PaIestrina and scar with them
to a height comparable only with the hghesC plans
reached in the famous Marcelline mass. the mass
..Assumpta est Maria and the Scapat Mater'
whether or not the modern musician had sncceeoeo
r,oa questionable on the first entry Of the third
cboir hut when the twelve voices were united II
seerned as IL nothing could have been petteF' ere'
too the singers of the Musical Art society having
narentI, got rid OF a oppression. sang WIN
splendid spirit .,..zt4-
II Nan,nPs motel there were signs Of hmidlty'
Az. nrobabIy TO the fact that the piece is ptcheo
s+ an uncomfortable altitude. Vittor1a was suhs
ereIv but It was not until the modern music Hi7t
20 all C5eorg Schumann's setting OF Poftion Vi
o.1r, XII Kerr VIE LANCE, was reached that
+ba f effectiveness of the choirs singing peeailIe
manifest This hymn Is fine example OF eccle9'as @
ticaI composition, strtkingiy rich IN haiiiO'i0 -
feets. ,,o, - oo,,a
Generating the sacred from the secular songs cams
49,, Z, major suite for strings. oboes and Dassoon
= set Of merry dance tunes played by nleinDeES "a
the New-York Symphony Orchestra, IN winch Winch N4
nTexnard the bassoonst, distinguished himself "A
corr,an dance song, Mach Mir elm Lnsuees Aheue
- :. r1ans Christoph Haiden published in l6O4'
- f,u of humor and grace. despite It's archa1Sla'
I'D was brilliantly sung. -Four exqulSies PAL.
81 b,z I,asseu Morning. Noon. Evening Night
stcb had been sung before By the society as hao
.a concluding piece. TaneIews Sunrise ana two
- F3rahus's part songs for wonlens voices "i.h
oorpnanirnent for two horns and haTp' in<hao
~, the rest of the programme. Ihe concert ne" -
so respect uplifting and peculiarly gratyins' as
- evidence that serious and beeuutu spi4t
@+tu prevails in music in spite Of the tenoency
+oward vulgarity. RIGHTEOUSNESS ana saiy s-Op
- otber forms OF entertainment a. L" @-