New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

:, FRIDAY May "a will be devoted to an organ
pscital In the evening the first part Of The
l,aesIon According 10 St. Matthew will be given
"a the second part Saturday evening On
- afternoon Of the second day there will be a
uIe uIeasrt of vocal and orchestral music On sun
o. o. ,notets Jesus. Priceless Treasury and
.acinr Ye the Lord" will be sung There Will
choir OF 125 voices, a supplementary choir
~ boys and an orchestra Of forty-fva
A. the second OF the two concerts that the
p,ttsburg Orchestra, under the direction Of Emil
porr and the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto
,,ser the direction OF A S. vogt, are 10 give
,o,utly in Carnegie Music Hall on the evenings
~ February 10 and 13. the orchestra Will play
SET OF variations OF interesting history One
of the last tasks that Schumann set for himself
that he unable to carry out was the COM
nosition OF set OF variations for piano on an
original theme. Brahms completed the work
Years after. Emil Paur. rising young conduc-
tor asked Brahms TO orchestrate the variations
p-ahn1s denurred and suggested that Mr. Paur
undertake the work. Mr. Paur had been par
tIcularly impressed with the intrinsic beauty of
the variations and their suitability to orchestral
nerforrance, but he put of the matter of pro-
yiding an Instrumentation until last summer at
his home in Charlottenburg, Berlin, when he
IL.
tions successfully produced at Pittsburg
orchestra concert recently. Included IN the New
York concerts programme with the variations
Is the LsZt-Busoni Spanish Rhapsody for
piano and orchestra. in which Mr.. Paur will ap-
near as pianist for the first time IN this city At
the first Of the two concerts the orchestra, the
Mendelssohn choir Of 220 voices and solo quar-
tet composed OF Mrs. Rider Kelsey. Miss Spen-
GER Mr.. Haralin and Mr.. Witherspoon, under
Mr. Paurs direction, will produce Beethoven's s
Ninth Symphony. Seats for these concerts may
be had at the office of the Musical Art Society,
No. l West Saith street; at Luckhardt & Bel
dsr's No 10 East 18th street and at the box
Office at Carnegie Hall.
In view Of the contention over la Boheme" :"
with q recent court decision in favor OF Mr.
Hammerstein. and the presence OF the composer
himself in this country, II is interesting TO note
that the Puccini opera has already been pro-
duced five times this season by Henry Russell
Il has proved in New Orleans to be one of the
most popular operas IN the San Carlo repertory.
The last performance, given on Sunday after
noon "a great opera day in the old French city,.
drew the largest matinee audience that has been
recorded recently in the historic French Opera
House with prices advanced 30 per cent. Mr..
Russell presented an all-star cast, including
Constantine. Fornari, Dereyne and Alice Mel
sen.
The Mozart No. 2. in G minor, is the SYM
phony chosen by Walter Damrosch for per-
for7nance the sixth concert OF the New York
Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hail next Sat-
urday evening and Sunday afternoon. The SOLO
tst viii be Leo Schulz, cello. Cesar Thorn
son, the Belgian violinst who TO have
played al these concerts, is prevented by illness
from coming TO America Other numbers on
Mr.. Damrosch's programme are Debussys prel-
ude. "LApres-rlidi dun Feun"; his noctur1e,
"Fetes." and the overture "Benvenuto Cellini" Z"
of Berlioz Mr.. Schulz will play Lndner's con-
oerto for violoncello with orchestra
The Olive Mead Quartet win give its second
s,
evening, with the assistance OF Arthur Foota
The programme will be: Brahms's Quartet,
Op 81, No 2; piano quartet, Op % (Arthur
foote); Beethovens Quartet Op. is. No. 8.
Russian tenors have seldom come to this coun-
try and the Russian Symphony Orchestra at
tsches importance TO the fact that Ivan Alt
schevsky has been secured as soioist for its con.
cert Of next Thursday evening, at Carnegie Hall
ID. Atschevsky is one OF the tenors at the Man
haitian Opera House. and he had appeared with
success ct Covent Garden. London and other I'm
portsnt opera houses At this concert he will
sing, IN Russian. aria from Borodin's opera
Prince Igor; song from Rimsky- Korsakofr's
opera, 'fsadko"; romance by Cesar Cm and a
serenade by Rachmsninoff.
Rimsky- -Korsakotf's second symphony. An
TAR will be unfamiliar 10 most hearers when
the orchestra plays Il next Thursday So Will
most Of the other music for orchestra the
'Karelia" overture Of Sibelius the "Marche Po-
4oytsienne' from Borodin's opera Prince Igor.
Hopak, or Cossack dance by Moussorgski: a
Lesginka, or Caucasian dance, from Glenka' g
naise '0-'-
Antar was an Arab warrior-poet, who ante
oated Mahomet- To him is ascribed a poem
11ung IN the haaba, the most sacred shrine IN
Mecca's great mosque He was also hero OF a
lated into English In 1870 by TerTic was s,l,,ns
The author OF this romance is supposed TO have
peen Asmal, preceptor 20 Heroun-e ell Rashid
whom every reader of the Arabian Nights" will
EoIs score describes Antar's adventures in the
syrian desert He is wandering amid the ma
3esuc ruins OF Palmyra. the city built bv the
SPLITS Of darkness. He has foresworn the SeI-
loWship Of men. Suddenly appears q beautiful
Sizene pursued by gigantic bird. which Antar
ceS win ms lance Both vanish and to
ANITA comes the vision of splendid palace the
Ss S9ooT oI Ile queen or Palmyra. the fairy Ghul-
-Nazsr- The gaZelle he had saved from the talons
or the spirit Of darkness was the fairy herself
f Sae promises Antar the three great fruitions OF
ne, Aho ne wakes amid the ruins. The first
or these fruiuons is the delights OF revenge the
second the delights Of power, the third the de-
lights Of love. and each provides the subject Sor
movement Of the "Antar" symphony In the
ma! movement Antar returns to PALMYRA and
aWells with the fairy. having besought her to
odness on his part Afer one aed fhe nsas
happiness, the fairy sees day that Antar lie
apsent-minded and turns his gaze upon the dis
tant horizon. She kisses him and the Ar. or he-
passion burns up his heart, so that he dies In the
arms.
Many picturesque instrumental devices are
used by the composer 70 suggest the characters
and background OF this story.
The Third Symphony Concert for Young Peo-
pie Will be given IN Carnegie Hall next satur-
day afternoon, under the direction of Frank
Damrosch. Old English and French dances o.
the sixteenth. seventeenth and eighteenth centu-
ries Will be given. The programme shows
clearly how often and with what countless