New-York tribune., 1907-10-20
JOSEF HOFMANN.
At tho age of ten.

TaEs nsg YORK st Suoys Vita sxT sgT I6s to be
BeeGP IN 'ni' city at carnegie Han on Deef-
on November Il Theodore Van YORK will give a
recital Of songs by the young German composer
Eugene Halle at Mendelssohn Hall
Beginning next Sunday. Victor Herbert and his
0TehsSTa will give series Of popular suPdsy MAY
Blanche Duffied Will sing at the first concert.
Myron Whitney, jr will give a song recital in
Mendelssohn Hall on the afternoon of Monday.
SoyembsT L. his PrOsF2mms nGIgdnE songs d6 by
Ravel, schiIling Parker and Mrs Beach.
The American Guild of Orgauists has arranged a
series of free organ recitals to be given on sue
cessive Mondays beginning November Il. by W c.
Carl. Frank Wright Warren r. Hedden. clifford
r o WeigcsteT' Frank L. Seaiy. Mrs Cfertrude E
NickSaIIar T. I-i,nsr jbsrt' p Norton and +
Warren Andrews. The recitals will take PLACE in
haitian and Brooklyn boroughs.
The Holy city" the first of four oratorios to be
offered Sunday afternoons at Carnegie Hall, I'M
der the auspices of the West Side Young Mems
Christian Association will be given. beginning at
o'clock. on Sunday, October II. The oratoriOs will
be performed by the New York Festival Chorus of
three hundred voices and orchestra Of forty-f1ve
musicians. under the direction OF Tall Esen Morgan.
conductor OF the Ocean Grove festivals The solo
singers for The Holy city will be Mrs. Beatrice
Fine Perry Mcbride, Percy Hemus and William
Rogers Admission TO the body or the house is for
desire TO contribute 81 or more to meet the unusual
expenses will be given reserved seats in the boxes.
the Sunday before Christmas; ''Stabst Mater and
Julian Edwards's The Redeemer" April -, az the
Easter season
David Bispham will give three song recitaIs at
Mendelssohn Hall on Thursday afternoons. No
vernber :. 14 and Il.
Arnold Fodesy. a young Hungarian 'celist, is 70
make his first appearance in America at Mendeis-
sohn Hall on the agemoon of Tuesday. November
American tour will follow his metropolitan appear
ance-
Rudolph CAM nianist. whose playing has at
tracted wide attention in the last few years IS 10
give q pianoforte recital at Mendelssohn Han on
Friday afternoon. November Mr. CAM has re-
Gently returned from Berlin where he played nine
conCertoS in the summer with the philharmonic
Orchestra under the batons Of Vincent d'Indy.
Emil Paur and FerruccO Busoni. In this country
Mr.. CAM has played with the Boston. Pittsburg.
Chicago and New York symphony orchestras and
New York with the New York symphony under
Wengartner j. especially remembered. The con-
ductor taking the unusual course OF making tNe
pianist repeat the last movement OF the LiSzt Con-
announced as his only New York recital this season.
Nine. Marcella sembrich will give her annual
New York recital Tuesday afternoon November
.. at Carnegie Han This appearance OF the IA
nous prima donna has become so well established
as one Of the important events Of each musical
needed To arouse general interest. She will be as
sisted at the piano by lSdore l-uekstone
THE tenth season or the Symphony Concerts for
Young People is announced. Six concerts VIII be
given, under the direction of Frank Dsmrosch. IN
Carnegie Hall, at e:50 O'Clock on saturday after
moons. November 16. December 81 January IS. Feb
ruary s. February % and March Is The success OF
these concerts last season, when the programmes
were based upon the exposition and development Of
the dance found in symphonic music, has
for the coming season, whose central idea shall be
the influence of the folk song upon symphonic
Of different natonalitles I'm its natural condition
for this purpose These or similar folk songs Will
then be presented in the forms in which they have
will be performed symphonic compositions which.
while not containing actual folk songs as thematio
material. yet show tho influence OF the folk song
in their themes.
Tho directors of the Musical Art Society
nounce that two concerts viii be given in Carnegie
Hall on Thursday evenings. December 10 and March
T. $50 o'clock. In compliance with requests
made by many of the subscribers Of tine Musical
contain Il number of the works that proved most
works will be the .NIssa Papae Niarcellr' and the
'Stabat Mater" by Pslestrina.
Franz Lehar's operetta THE Merry Widow
which has been favorably received by music lovers
abroad. will have its first performance in New
York tomorrow night at the New Amsterdam
Theatre. and under the auspices OF Henry w.
Savage. 4 manager who aims to give the public
from time TO time something above the jinglng
mixture of so-called musical comedies Of the
abbreviated skirt variety.
Trial performances have been given for the last
weeks in Buffalo. Philadelphia, Syracuse and
Rochester Because OF the combined vocal and dra-
matte talent required to interpret this composition
Mr.. Savage had difficulty in getting a COM
petent company The principals 10 the cast are
Miss Ethel Jackson. Mr. Donald Brian. Mr.. r. E.
Graham Miss Lois EweIl, Mr. William O. Weldon
Mr. Walter c. Wilson. Mr.. Charles Meekns. Mr..
Harry Hyde. Miss Margaret Dalrymple Mr. F. j.
Mccarthy, Miss Frances Cameron Mr.. Fred Frear
Miss Blanche Rice. Mr. Harry Meyers, MIR. Ralph
whiting, Mr. Gerald Lane. Mr.. Nicholas Szabo,
Miss Eva Bennett. Miss Aurora Piatt Miss Pauline
Winters, Miss Marion Armstrong, Miss Jean Ward,
Sophie Witt ~ -
In addition the organization includes an ensemble
whlch has already been named the blue ribbon
beauty chorus, and orchestra of Hungarian
musicians who appear In the Maxim scene In the
course OF the third act.