The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-07
MUSICAL MATTERS
CONCERT FOB
YOUNG PEOPLE.
Frank L. sealy's Plan Is a Success.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Here Monday Night.

The second season of the symphony
concerts for young people, (and old. too
given by an orchestra of about fifty IRON
the New York Symphony Society, under
the direction of Frank L. Sealy. OF lhi'
city, opened successfully last night with
the first concert of the series at Wallace
j Hall. There was a fair-slzed audience
present, containing many ~well-known New
arkers, who are founders of the move
ment. The presence of many young folks
accompanied by their elders, showed tha'
Mr.. Sealy's plan is being heartily re-
ceived by the class of people who az
preciate the best in orchestral music Lasi
year the concerts yere held on Saturday
afternoons, but the change to Friday
nights this season was deemed advisable
by Mr.. Seaiy. and we think the change
was well made. The concerts are not only
of educational value to the young, blu
afford pleasure to those of mature years
who enjoy and can appreciate the kind OF
music given.
The concert last night was of a nice
length, the program was interesting and
nothing dragged. The band played with
skill, ease and surety, born of long asso-
citation together and a thorough equipment
for the work on hand. MT. Sealy con-
Quoted carefully and sensibly, showing
himself once again a practical and intel
ligent musician.
Mr.. Sealy prefaced the opening number,
which was the Midsummer Nights
Dream overture of Mendelssohn, written
when he was only II years obi, by ex-
planning briefly its purport. He then
played four contrasting parts of it, and
next the work In its entirety. 1t might
add to the artistic side of the concert
land to the permanence of the educational
value, too If Mr.. Sealy would have his
explanations or analyses of the numbers
printed on the program instead of an
~nouncing them from the conductors plat
form. The other works performed were
Gillet's evenly beautiful and melodious
La Lettre de Manon," Godard's sprightly
c~anzonetta, with its p~izzicato effects, by
the strings and ~woodwinds; the andante
cantabile and the waltz from Ischaikow-
sky's Fifth Symphony, both essentially
Russian in every expression; Elgar's
pretty "Salut D'Amour,'' and the second
and fifth of Moszkowsld's well known
Spanish dances.
Alexander S~aslavsky. concert-master of
the orchestra, played the familiar ballad
and ~poloRaise Of vieuxtemps with the or
chestra. ard was SO heartily applauded that
he repeated the ballad. His tone was
beautiful and his technique that of a sure,
intelligent player. The polonaise was done
"aeh IN itqulnllt ud5I anu NeTY6 that
made it an accomplished effort.
The next concert will be given January
II. and Mrs. Mary Hissem De Moss, So
prano, will be the soloist.
Russian symphony Orchestra Back.
The Russian Symphony Society returns
from its tour in the Middle West, under
Modest Altschuler's direction, a few days
pefore its second subscription concert at
Carnegie Hall, New York, next Thursday
evening, December II, at Sis o'clock. The
soloist for this concert, Prof. Alfred Won
Glenn, the noted %'cellist, is en- route FOR
this country on the steamship America,
having obtained a short leave of absence
from the Moscow Conservatory, where he
is a member of the faculty. Prof. Won
Glenn will play Tschaikowsky's theme and
variations, a cantabile by Cesar Cui and
Davidow's Am Springbrunnen.p
The three orchestral members will all be
new to New York, and will comprise
a symphonic poem, "Korsholm,' by Jaerne-
felt; a suite by Ilyinsky, entitled ''Nur and
Anitra,H and the late Anton Arensky's
first symphony. Arensky was regarded, up
TO his death a few years g o as one of the
most vigorous OF Russian creative musI-
clans. This was especially true of his
youthful days, before his career was
clouded by misfortunes following a mar
rage which his friends deplored. His am
bition may be gagged by the fact that his
2 was a pianoforte concerto and his
4 was he symphony to be played
next Thursday by Mr.. Altschuler and the
Russian Symphony Society. A second SYM
phony IS In existence in manuscript, conn
posed shortly before Arensky's death.
Like several Of the Neo-Russian school
of composers, Arensky showed a decided
leaning toward classicism. This first sym
phony In b minor, however, has a promi-
nent feature probably suggested not by a
classic model but by the example Of Schu-
mann and Berlioz. This feature is the
recurrence al frequent intervals, in the
first and second movements, of a fixed
idea or theme. which first appears in the
slow introduction. 1t seems intended to
voice a warning or menace breaking in
upon happier utterances with a rude in
sistence, yet SO contrived as rot to check
unduly the flow OF the music. This liked
idea, which undergoes nc development, is
first proclaimed by 'cellos and basses. and
afterward by various instruments Of the
lower register, and IT never loses Z its
threatening character.
The first movement proper Is an allegro.
opening with a violin theme of def design
ana classic contour, though its mood is
0JliSAStH marks the second
theme. and the movement ends with q
brilliant coda, in which the brass choir
sounds the fixed idea. A pastoral charac-
ter distinguishes the slow movement.
which is In turn interrupted by the re-
current opening phrase. The scherzo is in
flve-four time, of which elusive tempo
Arensky was the first Russian composer
to make systematic study and use-this
work antedates by several years Tschai-
kowsky's Pathetic symphony, whose FIVE
o u movement is the most conspicuous
example Of this peculiar rhythm. The
final division Of Arensky's symphony is
marked allegro giacoso, and its mood mot
It's valued has been compared to that of
Schubert in his gay moments, or even to
some Of Beethoven's early works.
Boston Symphony Monday.
Monday night brings Newark the most
important musical event so far this year
the concert by the celebrated Boston Sym
nhony Orchestra, under the leadership OF
Dr.. Karl Muck, principal conductor of
the Royal Opera Of Berlin, and with Ma
dame Olga Samaroff as solo pianist, at
krueger's Auditorium. The sale, which
has been going on some time, shows
that Newark and its tributary towns are
enough to hear this orchestra, which
has the reputation of being the best in