New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-05
MUSIC.
Some Incidents of a Busy Day.

Nine. sembrich and Messrs Gilbert and Pugno
gave concert in Mr.. Anderson's studio at 4Otn-
St and 6t-ave-. for the benefit OF the Music School
settlement, yesterday afternoon Mr.. Bispham
gave his second song recital at Mendelssohn Hall,
where, in the evening Miss Bessie Shay gave
recital of pianoforte music. In Carnegie Hall, also
IN the evening hours the vo1ps Symphony Society
gave the first of series OF orchestral concerts.
while IN the hall Of Cooper Union Ludwig Maruu,
with the help of the brothers Jacob and Modest
Altschuer and Michel Bernstein, played pro-
grarnme OF chamber music which ended with
new composition by a young Russian composer
named Gllere. Mr.. Modest Altschuler. who plays
the violonceIlo IN the quartet. is the con-
ductor OF a symphony society which is seek
ing TO propagate the SIuscovite gospel IN music.
Rich men have come to his assistance, and
the work Of propagandism proceeds amaln. The
Music School Settlement Is educating young people
OF the East Side to play upon musical instruments
and sing. They be kept out of the sweat
shops. where many OF their parents are toing and
are to become teachers. There some thousands
OF music teachers in New-1ork. and some hundreds
of them giving lessons for Is and 60 cents an
hour. Obviously the need Of adding TO their num-
Der Is great and urgent Nine Senbrich's gra-
clousness added s2,Oo0 or $500 10 the fund de-
voted to that end. and incidentally gave sincere
pleasure to as many persons as could crowd into
the studio They were the great singer. and
there was between her and them the sympathetic
bond which canrot exist when she sings before
thousands in Carnegie Hall the Metropolitan
Opera House. The VoIpe Symphony Society has for
its mission the training OF young musicians for
orchestral work. A laudable mission. and rich men
have come forward to promote it. But It would ap-
pear that there is something one-sided about the
training Those who enjoy It affect the violin All
of the wind instrument players in the band which
played last night members OF the New-York
Symphony Orchestra and the most excellent among
them were recent importations from Europe. 1t
would seem, therefore that the laudable labors of
Mr.. volpe and his wel-meaning supporters hold
little promise for the serious betterment OF the
orchestral situation which has prevailed in New
York for three generations. We are still Romans
who hire Greeks to practise the arts for us. But
musical philanthropy Is rife Audiences must be
found for the Russian concerts; audiences for the
exhibitions of the orchestral training school;
audiences for the concerts of the Peoples Sym
phony Society. which this year have been trebled
and dispersed In different sections Of the great city,
audiences too for the chamber concerts OF the
Peoples Symphony society's auxiliary, and Mr..
Marun's quartet. The philanthropsts provide the
money and the managers provide the listeners. It
must be by sending out their servants into the
highways and byways and bidding every one that
is met to the feasts. It is very likely that two
thousand persons, TO most Of whom hall and music
seemed equally unfamiliar, heard the concert OF the
Volpe orchestra last night; thousand more listened
to the Marum Quartet in Cooper Union Musical
education Is proceeding various linesi we are
time. If redemption is possible through the art we
are bound be redeemed.
Mr.. Volpe's concert was decidedly meritortous.
He has labored with obvious devotion and his
young men have been apt pupils. They are nu-
rnerous: the orchestra, we should say. contained
fifty or sixty Of them. and the principal. Harry
Welsbach, when he rose from his chair and be-
came a solo performer. took on most admirable
artistic stature. He played Bruch's second con-
certo the IN D minor, q stronger and a better
composition than its popular companion in G
minor. The young man disclosed high degree OF
talent and considerable rfpeness Of understand
ing. EmotionaIly the flavor OF garlic hung about
It, and few vigorous additions would have helped
it to a greater cleanliness Of intonation; but It
was played with spirit ana It made it's beauties
known. Mr.. Bispham entertained his listeners.
who all his admirers, with excellent list Of
songs, which he supplemented. since they would
have 1t so. with three additional song-Scbumann's
'Iche groe nicht'' "Quands ero Paggto'' from
Verdrs "Fastaff' and the old English setting of
unknown authorship. OF Ben Jonson's Drink to
me only with thine eyes" Then, to close, he gave
his hearers melodrama INTERCOLLEGIATE action-'CLag-
daleaa; or, the Spanish Duel by J. F. Waller with
music by Max Hefnrich. our old song singer now
a prosperous citizen Of Southern California Mr..
Bspham decaims with even more JUNCTION than he
sings; and he dearly loves to act Even in the
Verdi air he illustrated how in his slender youth
he might have been drawn through a finger ring
Of the Duke Of Norfolk Miss Bessie Shay has little
in panoforte playing, It would seem, for any
thing except fugacious fingers and crisp tintinna-
buaton. She was honored by a fine audience.
H E. K