New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-24
THE WEEKLY CALENDAR.

THE WEEKLY CALENDAR.
acknowledgements Opera House. $50 P. m
popular operate concert: Manhattan no' opera
House, s D. m, popular operate concert:
ATion Club house. p. M. private concert "a
the Mannergesengverein Arion.
acknowledgements Opera House. :: so p. m
German opera Wagner's ''Siegfried'': Men
delRsohn Hall. p m, song recital by george
HamIin; Manhattan Opera House. faTewel
performance OF Nine. Melba, La Bonenle
Hotel Aston p. m. lecture and ilustra-
lions Musical Fetes at the French Courts
St Thomass Church. 2. M performance OF
a new cantata entitled The Message from
the Cross" music by VIII g MacfaTlane
tyuesday-Carnegie Hall. SIS p. m. concert Of
the oratOrio Society hrst perio TORN ~
America OF "The Kingdom" by Sir Edward
Elgar conducted by the composer; ST Paufs
Chapel Columbia University, 4:l5 p m,
public organ recital by w. c. Hammond.
"wednesday metropolitan Opera House. $50
p. N. German opera "Gotteroarnraerung
sIanAa9tan Opera House S p. m first APP
peaTsa85 this season OF Nine. Calve IN car
men
Wagner's 'ParsifaI': Manhattan Opera
House. >. IN, Nerdis Requiem
Observation-Disclosures Opera House p. m.
italian opera Nine. Calve in "CaNallerla
Rusticana" and repetition Of ''Pagliacci':
Carnegie Hail. s p. m. concert Of the Young
Peoples Symphony Society.
In a special dispatch TO The Tribune last May
the music reviewer Of this journal spoke fol-
lows about the orchestra of the seventeenth
biennial music festival which was then holding:
Naturally the critical attention OF local con-
noisseurs was challenged by the orchestra, and
there was large indulgence in the comforting
pHsNAht u comparison nee 49, q So
recognition Of the bands inferiority 10 that
which Theodore Thomas was Wont 10 provide
for the festivals. and not little comment among
the knowing, because Of the fact that inferior
orchestra Is going 10 cost the association some
thing like $4,000 more than the Chicago musi-
clans cost TWO years ago; this because the large
number OF rehearsals which We're necessary 10
at the inStrumentalists for their duties and the
exactions Of the musical union in the matter OF
wages. The latter item would have entered into
the financial CALCULATIONS or the association hau
any other orchestra been employed. and is
Serred 10 here only because OF the bearing which
81 has a proposition which is OF general ap-
plication wherever concert institutions Of this
kind maintained in the United States. In
Cincinnati. as IN New York, Philadelphia Pitts
burg, Chicago. Boston and other centres of cult
ure, orchestral music is in a parlous state. It
has cost the patrons of the Symphony Orchestra
here tCineinnati) $4,000 year TO maintain the
orchestra. OF this sum S25,0oo comes from
the Subscribers TO the orchestral fund and
$4,000 from the general public
Next year the musicians through their union,
will increase their demands. With the end of
she season the contract between the Orchestra
Association and Mr.. Van der Stucken Will
have 10 decide whether or not they willing
20 bear the increased burden. How much longer
can the hat be passed with success? The local
situation IS not Very unlike that with which
New York is familiar, because OF the question OF
imported conductors Cnhappily the situation
provoked by the musicians union cannot be
disposed OF here in the summary manner which
Major Higginson invoked in Boston. when he
mace the continuance OF the Symphony Or
chestra contingent upon instant and absolute
divorce from the union when his men undertook
Fhe regulation of his philanthrOpic enterprise
Here the majority OF the musicians are engaged
lor each concert. not for the season
This dispatch. probably because It came from
q journalist who had been Intimately ASSOC
eiated with musical affairs in Cincinnati in his
time and just intimately familiar with them
for thirty years. caused a huge troubling OF
che musical waters and the president Of the ma
tional body known as the Federation OF Must
clans. which insists on keeping musicians on
the level OF street sweepers and hod carriers de-
livered himself OF a broadside I'm defence OF the
local musicians and. incidentally against the
men from Pittsburg, who had been engaged by
she association 10 strengthen the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, which. because Of the
death OF Theodore Thomas had for the first time
received deserved recognition at A local festival
But the thing that said TO be then impend-
Eng has happened. dispatch in this journal
printed on Friday stated that the Cincinnati
Orchestra Association had abandoned its plan
Tor maintaining an orchestra owing TO inab BILL
the
cal union. This means that the association will
hereafter employ another orchestra (probably
The Thomas Orchestra OF Chicago) at its con-
certE, which are 10 be continued. The loss will
be 20 the local musicians, who have invited IL:
fhe gain viii be artistic one for the artistic
Rnd philanthropic people who for many years
have given OF their money 10 build up the quail
1ty OF music IN their city and to crafty local
pride Mr. Van der Stuchen has been engaged
FOR tho eighteenth festival 10 be given next
Nay. at which, II Is plain enough TO see there
viii be an orchestra from New York. Boston or
Chicago. in which tho local players VIII have no
representation
The season az the Metropolitan win come 20 a
close this week. Monday night 'siegfrled" Will
be sung, Wednesday die Ci6tterdammerung''
ana Friday, beginning al 3 D. m "ParsifaI''
BurgstaIler WIN sing the Siegfried. and also
tho Parsifal Gadsk viii be the Briinnhilde
The fnsl concert programme tonight follows:
OvsrtuTe Carnival Ronain'' . y.r,,o,
Romano. Ia Donna Russo. 'T'edora' C;ioriano
Tsiss oss niiOur from 'Taust'' oo,nos
Nine Marie RapPold
Nine TsellavIa ana Miss Elsa casici-Bcft -''i'-'
MEas. FIaischeF-Eael,
Aria :ro3 ssAEsEzEna Butfcr-y' rEecin
90, Mss Gefaldins assTaE.
sSs.eTl-Fs Der lfsisshitz .Vehei
MISS Geraldine palTaF
Les a~anes1z fIhs Fnllnsl .Faurr
eorss Fsouza nit MIR n ale FsIhilngsnaeht
Mr.. Mas.e Rss2old.
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