New-York tribune., 1907-10-13
PART III
MISCELLANEOUS MODERN SONGS

eS. February :. s. Is and o. and March IS and
s4 The solo performers who have been engaged
for the concerts are Nine Kirkby-Lunn' con
f4rsitp; Edouard Dethier. violin: Katharine Good
tson. pIanoforte; Jean Gerardy. violoncello, and
.1ogef Hofmann, pianoforte. Nine. Kirkby-Lunn
VIII sing the first pair OF concerts at which the
orchestral numbers will he the prelude. fusue
and chorale by Bach~AbeTt, an andante quasi
sregretto for string orchestra, by Beethoven, and
'srsclaikowsky's fourth symphony. Subscribers or
last season NAV renew their subscriptions at the
box Office Of the society IN Carnegie Hail. for
one week from October Il TO Saturday, octoDer ~
between the hours of 3 a m. and p. m. On
and after Monday, October q. unclaimed seats
rnd boxes viii be sold 10 new applicants The
s1fhcers Of the Philharmonic Society are: Andre"
Carnegie president; Felix F. Leifels, secretary;
Henry P. Schrnitt treasurer, Wassily Safonoh'
conductor; Richard Klugescheid, Louis hester
August Foebbalen. Carl Hauser. August r. Sell
gerth and Frank Ruhender. directors; Anthony
57eif Michael Nfebing and Joseph NJ Laender'
trustees Of the pension fund; Henry C. Boewig
librarian.
The SIX concerts which the Russian symphony
Society has projected for the will be given
IN Carnegie Hall under the direction OF Modest
AItschuler on the evenings Of November a. De-
ce1lber l2 January 15 and 80, February Is ana
March s. Among the solo players who VIII take
mart in the concerts are two newcomers from
Russia, viz Miss Laya Luboschiz, violinst' and
alfred Won Glenn, voloncellist, and Julian lsserls
Until October 10 subscribers or lhsI Sea-
son NAV retain their old seats secure new ones
after that the lists viii be open to new appli-
cants Subscribers should address Mrs. Charles b.
Foote, secretary Carnegie Hall. The announce
,nenJs Of the Russian Symphony Society are al
ways instructive well interesting. The latest
calls attention a significant fact, familiar
enough TO musical historians, but not widely
known among those who merely amateurs,
namely that Russia's composers have, during the
last generation, been men Of distinction in other
fields well. The rule is holding true OF the
younger generation. out OF nearly dozen new
composers whose music the society will present
% American audiences for the first time this
son several with two more strings TO
their bow. Alexander Taneiew whose relative, Serge
TaneIew is already known here as writer Of or
chestral and choral music is influential official in
the Cars court who has used his position to help
along the cause Of good music TaneTew's second
symphony. in p minor, viii give American hearers
a chance this winter TO Judge OF his quality.
Michael Iyanow, another name on Mr..
Altschuler's programme list is music critic Of the
St Petersburg ''Novoe Vremya'' and has also de-
voted himself 20 studies in chemistry and to
essays on modern Italian literature. He IS now
writing d history Of music IN Russia Alexander
Ependarow mas been explorer In Crimean ter
Tftorv as well the little known folksOng Of
that region. .Turey Saclmovsky devoted his first
thirty years TO other pursuits and then went
Through the Moscow conservatory course, and
now he IS a musical journalist well a
poser. Arseny Koresschenko, whose Armenia
suite the Russian Symphony Society viii play has
made his mark in literary circles and traveller
sn The Caucasus. II has been remarked that this
versatility and a cosmopolitan range OF interests
characteristic Of educated Russians. Even in
Russian musicians who have not pursued ether
paths the same tendencies have been observed.
Thus Serge Vasienko, whose first symphony viii
Introduce his here this winter, is a
graduate Of Moscow University. Alexander Ilyin-
sky. now professor Of harmony in Moscow Con
servatory. was educated in Berlin. OF Nicholas
Iadoukhin, of Moscow, and Arrnas Jernefet,
patriotic young Finnish composer. less is known,
hut their music while sounding the national note,
IS said also to show the effects Of wide outlook
life.
Walter Damrosch has sent TO the management
Uf the New York symphony Society the complete
twenty programmes for the season, showing tAat
the interesting things promised were not by any
means exhausted in the announcement last week
of Beethoven cycle Of six concerts, the first pe--
forInance in concert form Of Tschaikowskys op-
era "Eugen Onegin" and the various other novel
Ties. There will be a Dvorak programme and one
devoted 10 List in which his Faust Symphony
VIII be the distinctive feature, and which Josef
Holman will perform several compositions in
frequently heard here. But perhaps the most
original programme will be that Of December /
which viii be devoted to THE Family as il has
been illustrated by various composers At this
unique concert Mr.. Damrosch will give Richard
Strauss '-Sufonia Domestica" descriptive Of the
composer, MS wife and child, and Wagners charm
Ing tribute TO hts wife the birth of their son
siegfried. entitled ''Siegfried Idyl." For the per
fornance Of "Eugen Onegin' and for the conclud-
ing concert Of the Beethoven cycle which viii
contain the "Benedctus" from the great Mass in
ID. Mr. Danrosch VIII have TIE assistance of the
chorus from the oratorio Society The Symphony
society announces that subscribers can o.
tain their tickets tomorrow at No / West gath
street and 81 Carnegie Hall
= paragraph about some visiting rianists: Pade-
fe|ski Is expected 10 sail for America on Octobar
= by the kaiserin Augustc Victoria lie viii
SaNe his frst recital m Bridgeport on Octobe- oS
6'u "iil be heard AT Carnegie Hall in this city n,
november He viii play a recital in the F2an,i4
1einpie' Brooklyn, On December Is and will D..
me solo performer az concerts Ge Ire Tsostor Cr
en@stra OF December IN Carnegie Han ana -
1,ecenlbef in the Baptist Ternple Rrool,,
since his last season ne has added the eoI1o:.
numbers 70 Eis repe:tory for the Americas -
n planoioite sonata in f fiat minor ~ bI -
set OF variations and a f1g.e On a., ,ri,,,a;
MEME piayed by AIr. Stojowski in Mep6e,ssos
nan lsst season.. Liszts minor sonata chorI,e
He'sesz' in y minor. NoctuTne In F sharn rain
anu u.e Etuaes Nos. and 10 from On IA c.
soMf- Chant glamour" and the Iaszt traps,
IeAueertz "Auf dem Wasser zu sinucn =