New-York tribune., 1906-12-09
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dsy evening the management announces another
nerformance of the successful opening bill Of the
season Romeo ct Juette" with the cast al
ready heard in the opera. including Miss Ger
aldine Farrar Julfette. Mime. Jacoby as the
mage Stefano: Nine. Leuendorfr Gertrude.
Mr. Rousseliere Romeo. Mr.. Plancon as Frere
Laurent, Mr.. Journet as Capulet Mr.. Bars as
Begue in the other parts. Samuel Bovy will
conduct Giordanos Fedora WILL for the
second time this season. be interpreted at the
Saturday matinee. with the original cast. For
arce of the season, Mr.. Conried announces
''TannhHuser." with Nine Fleischer-Edel as
Elisabeth; Mime. Fremstad in her beautiful rem
dering of Venus: Miss Mattfeld. for the first
time here as the Shepherd Carl Burrian
cast win be completed by Mr.. Blass the Land
grave; AIr. Reiss as Walther. Mr. Muehmann as
Bterolf, Mr.. Gunther as Reinmar. and Mr.
Bayer as Heinrich. Miss Blanca Froehlich will
take part in the Bacchanale, and Alfred Hertz
viii be at the conductors desk
Miss Ltna Cavalieri is TO be Of the stars
who will take part in to-nights popular concert
at the Metropolitan Opera House. She Will be
aided by Nine. Josephine Jacoby. by Mr.. Dippel
and by Mr. Scotti. On this occasion. Miss Cav
alieri will make her first appearance here as a
concert singer. She promises to interpret
air from Boito's 'Mefstofole," and three songs
the ''Mattnata" of Leoncavallo. "Je taime" by
Barthelemy, and Tostis "Pensoi" The orchestra
will be under the direction of Samuel Bovy.
The second concert Of the Kneisel Quartet
will be given in Mendelssohn Hall Tuesday
evening st S:15 o'clock. The programme will be
follows:
e1te 9aseTtet ma nsoE r. Maurice ss,6oTsI Raysi
For piano oboe clarinet. horn and bassoon
Quartet in F, Op Il. No Schumann
The assisting artists Will be Walter Damrosch.
piano, and Cesare Addimando. oboe; Leon Le-
roy clarinet; Herman Hand. horn and August
Mesuard. bassoon. of the New York Symphony
Quintet Club.
Maurice Ravel is known TO this public by
scarcely more than his name. which appeared
twice last season on recital programmes of the
pianists Harold Bauer and Rudolf GAM, the
author of a picturesque piano piece called "Jeux
d'EauX' and a "PaYane on the Death of Girl"
fe is one OF the young men OF the radlcal
French school of contemporary composers. Ra-
vel IS thirty-one years old, and was born in
the Lower Pyrenees He studied for time at
the Paris ConservatOire but chiefly with Gabriel
Faure and his artistic tendencies not at all
those of the ConserYatoire. He has composed
an overture "Scheherazade" and a poem of
the same title for voice and orchestra: Noel
des Jonets,' also for voice and orchestra; songs
and piano pieces. The string quartet is the first
of his works in a more extended form to be
heard here. Philip Hale has recently written of
Ravel thus: 'Ravel has been accused OF being
imitation of Debussy From what know of
his music this charge is not just, for his melodic
and harmonic thought in the better movements
of this quartet and in the piano pieces is in
dividual. Certain members of the ultra-modern
French school have a few mannerismS of eX-
preston in common; some attempt deliberately
TO initiate Debussy but Ravel has a voice of
his own"
The quintet by Beethoven for piano and wind
instruments is better known in the form of a
quartet for piano and strings for which Bee
thoven himself arranged II, and which he pub
lished simultaneously with the other. 1t
composed in 1896. probably, when Beethoven
was still comparatively a newcomer in Vienna
and was hardly known as other than a teacher
and piano player at private concerts: Its first
performance in Vienna in April, 11SI. at a
concert given by his friend. Schuppanzigh, the
violinist.- It is, of course, still strongly under
the Haydn and Mozart influences to which