New-York tribune., 1906-12-09


Nine Eliza Szamosy In the coming week
will sing the title role on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings and at the Saturday matinee. Miss
Rsna Vivienne Will appear Monday. "Wednesday
and Friday evenings and Miss Florence Easton
will be seen at the Wednesday matinee and SAT-
urday night performances.
Madam Butterfly closes its New York run
OF fifty performances on Saturday. December q,
and Will be followed at the Garden Theatre oy
THE Student King In which Miss Lima Aoar.
paneii. formerly with the Metropoitan a anu
Royal Berlin opera companies. Will be pre-
sented.
The Oratorio society's Chrtstmastide perform
ances of Handers Messiah" will take place as
usual this year. under Frank Damrosch's direc-
tion, at Carnegie Hall The public rehearsal
Will be on Wednesday afternoon. December 70
and the concert Thursday evening, December
q. The soloists will be Mrs Corinne Rider
Kelsey, soprano, Miss Laura Graves and MISS
Alice Sovereign. contraltos; Dan Beddoe. TENOR
and Frederick Wheeler bass. Miss Graves Will
sing at the public rehearsal and Miss Sovereign
at the concert.
In connection with these Messiah perform
ances. it is interesting to note that deter
mined effort is being made in Germany 10 poPu-
larize Handlers oratorios. Written first in Eng
lish, and for the English public. after Handel
had made his home in London. the oratorios
have never commanded warm and general alle-
glance In Germany. But Berlin has just had a
Handel festival. which attracted great attention.
ana is expected to give the present movement
strong impetus.
No matter how good the German translations.
the English language Is by far the most enectlVe
for these works To this the latest witness Is
DIR. Otto Neitzel, the German pianist and critic
now on tour here. He testifes TO his much
greater enjoyment of Handel performances in
London than in Germany, and ascrioeS thls
mainly TO the language
There has been recently published letter
from the late Alexander w. Thayer, BeethoVenS
biographer. to H. E. Krehbiel. taking the same
ground in stronger terms. He wrote:
'I have been hearing German and Italian IN
oratorfo and opera for some thirty years and
feel that there is bold, free, energetic some
thing in the English not found IN the others
which is also heard in Handeps music. which
does not seem to be the product Of his peculiar
genius; which I do not hear in Bach's Passions,
in Craun's Tod Jesu' in Mendelssohn's st.
Paul Though some of IL in Elijah, composed
after he had been much In England). nor IN the
many other German oratorios which have
heard; something which i feel Handel must
have caught from the language itself.
81 have for long. long years been in constant
warfare with my German friends upon the
question of the possibility of the English IAN
guage being adapted to music, and my constant
assertion that, on the whole it stands next 10
Iatir and italian Is always met with smile. II
not with ridicule But I have noticed that Ger
mans able TO understand the text are invariably
converted by hearing an oratorio or two in Lon
don or Boston"
Alexander Scriabine. the Russian composer
and pianist is coming the steamship Ryndam.
due tomorrow. for his first American visit NJ
Scriabine comes as guest OF the Russian SYM
phony Society. with whose orchestra. on Thurs
day evening. December 20. at Carnegie Hail.
he will make his debut. soloist in his own
new pianoforte concerto.
AS both composer and pianist NJ. Scriabine
has gained a high place in Germany. France.
Belgium and Holland. well as in his native
Russia. Born in Moscow In 1872 and first
prize winner at the conservatory In 1891. Scri-
abine's marked individuality, both IN compost
tiOn and performance. early noted. His
imagination was found both powerful and of a
curiously personal sort. His first works for
piano drew attention to their originality of idea
and their complex but clear and ingenious
treatment
AS he developed NJ Scriabine according to
French critics. has become more and more de-
voted TO the psychological in music. but he has
not relaxed his devotion TO what is beautiful
The left hand nocturne, already known in New
York, reveals phase of the composers talent
Another side is said to be disclosed I'm his re-
cent "Poeme Satanique.' and still another in
his sonata, op. 23, entitled Soul States" Many
reviewers have recognized NJ Scriabine as de-
riving certain traits from Chopin himself. the
nervous passionate element In some OF his
works. Scriabine has written three symphonies
music and the exquisite sentiment of other
besides other orchestral pieces on large scale.
His third symphony, lie Divan Poeme," based
on phiosophic programme. was conducted in
Paris by Arthur Nikisch with success The
new pianoforte concerto In which Scriabine will
make his American debut. had its premiere ar
Odessa with MIR. Safonof conducting and the
composer as soIoist. Mr Safonorr Is rnnch inter
ested in the Russian. and is said 10 admire
greatly his plano playing. AS pianist Scria-
bine Is said TO play with passionate energy
very influential: beautiful tone quality supple
technique and rhythmic intelligence" Besides
the Scriabine pianoforte concerto the Russian
symphony Orchestra under Modest Altschuler's
baton. Will play. for the first time Glazunofr's
third symphony and Rachmaninor's "Caprtccfo,'
at the concert of December 20.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony" which
Walter Damrosch has chosen for production nv
the New York Symphony Orchestra ar the fourth
subscription concert at Carnegie Hall next
Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. has
not been played in New York during the last
SIX years IL was published eighty years ago
but was composed by Beethoven in the country
near Vienna during the summer of 1908 at the
same time as the Fifth Symphony The soIoist
at these concerts viii be Moriz RosenthaI Fol
lowing is the full programme:
Pastoral Symphony
Concerto for piano. with orchestra Oh aat minor
NJ ~, scharwenka
Hiofoeau SyHphonque. Redemption'' Cesar Frsnck
(first time in New
Symphonic poem ''Ultava C''Riv.r Wotau.0 sme,ans
Mr. Damrosch considers the novelty Of tho
pr"stdhlhle-Cesar Franck's "RedemptiOn'-to
ne one or the most exquisite creations OF this
composer Contrary To Franck's usual manner
- hes TWO strongly contrasting themes the one
tender prayer. first enunciated bv the clarinet
we sle ot.er triumphantly proclaimed by the trom-
The concert by the Royal Walsh Male Choir
III carnegie hall ON SUNDAY December lC Wiu
oe ,ne hrSt ana only appearance I'm Manhattan
~ 1''s ono"' me programme arranged for the
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