New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
MUSICAL NOTES.

Walter Damrosch and the New York symphony
Orchestra have gone for series OF concerts IN
Willow Grove Park Philadelphia, and at IA
vinia Park, Chicago. During the tour recently
completed cities visited that had never
before heard a symphony orchestra However
Mr.. Damrosch declares that musical appre-
citation in the South has improved wonderfully
since his first trip. when as boy he acted as &C
companist TO August Wilhelmj. As an instance Oh
this, Mr.. Damrosch describes symphony concert
he gave at the unmuscal hour of o'clock IN the
morning. a large school for young women at
Blackstone. Va, which is such a pnhead of a town
IT gets only the largest maps, wished to hear
Mr.. Damrosch. His manager found no vacant
time his schedule. but proposed TO the school
mistress performance between trains arriving at
a. m and leaving at noon, the way from
Lynchburg TO Norfolk. The school was delighted
at the suggestion, The Town Hall was promptly
o'clock, and not only the students. but nearly all
o1 dne m eT on be3 bere Sg g9 ANYTHING Else
70 do large part OF the S saSS ana nsaed
silently at the players they boarded the midday
train for Norfolk.
Felix Weingartner has accepted the conditions
imposed on him by the trustees Of the New York
Symphony Orchestra Fund, releasing him from his
present contract provided he give them the option
his services If his health at future time per
ever, Herr Wetngartner reiterates ms resoiutIon
VIII cease and that he viii devote himself in future
only TO writing and compositions.
Frank L. Sealy has planned series OF four sym
phony concerts for young people in Newark for
next season Not only will he follow the plan or
Mr.. Frank Damrosch in the compilation OF his
programmes. and in prefacing their performance
with explanations OF the compositions, but ne VIII
also choose his players from the New York Sym
phony Society. The first concert will be given on
November 3 10. and the programme will consist
of the first movement of Mozart's symphony in G
minor the Scene by the Brook from Beethoven S
Pastoral" symphony. HandeTs largo. air and ga
Vote from Bach's Suite in D. the Prize Song from
die Meistersinger by Wagner, and the overture to
THE Merry Wives of Windsor" by Nicolai The sec
ond programme viii probably include two movements
from Meudelssohn's Scotch" symphony. Tsehai-
kowsl1y's Nut Cracker suite and the overture TO
subscriptions from the citizens of Newark for his
very laudable undertaking. Founders are askeS 10
subscribe s25 year. for which Lhey receive nv nve
fund which last will be returned II the popular
subscription is sufficiently large. Founders have
the advantage of first choice OF seats subscribers
pay S year and receive two tickets 1or each con-
cert.
Herbert Stavely Samnond. organist and choir
master Of the CIassOn Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn has planned service Of music by Aner1-
can composers for this evening. The music Will
consist Of an organ prelude and Te Deum by Dud-
ley Buck an anthem by John Hyatt Brewer q
quartet by G. W. Chadwick, an anthem by VIII G.
MaCfarane a chorus by F. s. Hastings, a bass solo
and chorus by r Huntington WOOdman. quarter
by Arthur Foote. anthem by Horatio W. Parker,
an offertory anthem by Harry Rowe SheLey ana an
hymns will be by Lowell Mason and IhoIlss
Hastings.