The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-05
AT TIE End OF A SEASON
THE RECORD or A WINTERS
MUSICAL WORK.

petition Creators OF Music beginning
10 Regard America rs Worth Visiting.
The musical season of 1906-O7 may be
regarded as having come to an end. There
are yet to be a few scattering concerts,
Of which that to be given by the visiting
onaiv of singers from Vienna will easily
take precedence in Importance. Mont
clair Is preparing an ambitious and honor
able attempt to make certain music OF Bach
part of a religious festival, and naturally
this undertaking is removed from direct
consideration as an incident in the world
of music. The labors Of the sawers Of wood
and hewers of ivory, to paraphrase Ruskin,
have come to their inevitable end. The
Yeasty sea- are whitened with the foam
OF a hundred prows bearing back TO Europe
players and singers and their burdens OF
more or less well earned gains.
Caruso and Bonci sailed on the same
ship. On another went Geraldine Farrar
and FRITZ sohen. Oh, joyi In the autumn
they will all come trooping back again to
dear old, foolish, easy mark America,
which they all hate 80 heartily. which they
all revile in many languages throughout
the summer, but which they need in their
business just as England does.
Certain newspapers in Germany will
throb with passionate denunciations OF
iuartistio America, and the people who
sit in the high places in the two opera houses
will be described as dull, witless cattle,
who know not the difference between B
fiat and B. r. T. But in the fall, when the
press agents WOO the city editors Of the
fully pufles newspaper, we shall read
how overjoyed Nine. Whooper and Signor
Bawleasi are to return TO the land Of abund-
ant applause and swift flowing dollars.
Meanwhile let us consider. We have
had one Of the most active seasons OF music
ever known to this tolerably industrious
town. What has that seas on brought
forth? With more than two hundred opera
performances, nearly two hundred orchestra
concerts, scores OF chamber music enter
tainments and several gross Of assorted
recitals and choral concerts, what have we
received? The opera seasons AVE already
been reviewed in this place, and II anything
wss more clearly brought out than any
other, IL was the retroactive tendency Of
these enterprises. Two or three novelties
appear to be a great outpouring Of gener-
osity on the part Of our impressarios.
OF course it could hardly be expected
that the Manhattan would begin to bring
forward novelties in its first season, but
on the other hand, neither did il seem
imperative that it should bark back to such
deadly things as "Dinorah" and "Puritani."
The Metropolitan contributed an unusual
number Of novelties to the general delight,
albeit the one on which the impreeario
pinned his fondest hopes proved to be not
quite to the liking Of influential personages
IN the directorate.
However. let the dead opera bury its dead.
4 birdseye view Of the season as a whole
hiscloses a surprisingly small number OF
important incidents. The number OF new
and important compositions heard is more
significant. The concert field has on the
whole been much more interesting than
the operatic world, for although we have
been introduced to a new opera house and
some new singers. the really striking figures
in the musical world and the pregnant
music lave been brought before us in the
concert domain.
The following list comprises the first
performances here Of important works
,omitting only a few small compositions)
and other incidents Of con interest
in the entire season:
October 8 and 10-Appearances OF Leon !
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his own music.
November S-First appearance here Of
Camille Saint-Sasns as pianist. playing his
Africa" a new fantasia for orchestra and
piano.
November s-First appearance Of DR..
Carl Muck as condu otor Of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra.
November 9-First performance Of Josef
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Symphony Quartet.
November i2-First performances In
America Of Puccihi's Madam Butterfly"
at the Garden Theatre, by Henry W. Saw
age.
November 1S-First performance here Of
Gliere's A major quartet by the Kneisel
Quartet.
November 1o-First appearance here Of
Coleridge-Taylor. the English composer,
in a concert Of original compositions.
November ls-First performance here
by saint-Saens OF his E minor piano con-
certo.
November 2i-First performance Of Ed
win Grasses piano quintet.
November 22-First performance Of
R~achmaninoff's Trio Elegiaque" by the
Margulies trio.
November 26-Opening Of the opera sea-
con at the Metropolitan Opera House.
November 3O-First performance OF Jan
sibelius's violin concerto, Maud Powell and
Philharmonic Society.
December s-0pening Of the Manhattan
Opera Holee, Revival Of Il Puritani."
December First performance here by
the Oratorio Society Of Ga briel Pierne's
THE Crusade OF the Children
December 5-Frt performance here at
the Metropolitan Of Giordano's Fedora"
December s-Revival Of Bruckner's sew
euth symphony by the Boston Orchestra.
December First performance here at
the Metropolitan Of "La Damnation de
Faust in operatic form.
December s-First performance OF Gus
tave Strube's second violin concerto at the
Symphony concert.
December Thirst performance OF Ra-
r major quartet by the Kneisel Quartet.
December 2o-First performance Of Glaz-
third symphony, Scriabine's piano
concerto and Rachmaninof's "Tzigane.' |,
Debut Of Scriabine as pianist.
January 2-Reappearance Of Nine Melba,
singing in "Travlata" at the Manhattan.
January l2-Chadwick's tone poem, "Cleb-
nafra,~ PLAYED for the first time here bv the