New-York tribune., 1907-10-20
SEASONS OFFERINGS.
Serenty-four Orchestral Concerts of
The Highest Class Only One Feature.

The Highest Class Only One Feature.
A glance at the professional observers date book,
so far as It has been made UP for the season
(which is just beginning, is calculated TO provoke
scurous questioning touching the manner IN whlch
The managers of New Yorhs concert institutions
estimate the capacity OF the local public for
EicaI enjoyment. OF the opera nothing need be
said now except that its appeal is less special
than that made by music unaccompanied by other
artistic lactors and that fashion. social ambition
curiosity and many other motives impel to its
patronage. which are comparatively imperative IN
the case Of concerts given by orchestras. choral
societies. chamber music organizations and the
like Moreover thousands Of transient visitors will
feel that their visit to The metropolis will be in
complete without a glimpse of the operate repre-
sentations at the rival establishments when scores
will feel impeed test the quality Of our con-
certs. And so the wonder grows that the musical
portion Of New Yorks public should this season be
appealed 20 10 support sixteen concerts by the
Philharmonic Society. twenty-eght by the Sym
phony Society ten by the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. six by the Russian Symphony Society,
eight ny the Peoples symphony Society three by
Mr.. Sam Franko's American Orchestra, devoted 70
the exploitation of old music and three by the Volpe
Orchestra-seventy-four concerts Of orchestral mu-
sic Of the highest class. calling for a cultivated and
refined taste intelligent appreciation a love for
lofty things true genteness and a serious mind
IN addition TO at least fifty concerts IN which or
-chestras will discourse music Of a lighter order
mixed with the singing Of songs and performances
upon solo instruments al the opera houses and the
stres Sunday nights, OF least twenty concerts
OF chamber music (which is the form Of chaste
nudity. of eight or ten choral concerts and of
solo recitals as vet unnumbered How shall all
this be compassed? Truly musical enjoyment doth
make the flesh IL feeds on for each season sur
passes its predecessor, both in the extent Of its
offerings and the support which IT receives
Many columns WI be required 10 set forth
merely the titles of the musical works which are
TO be performed.
The promises of the opera managers VIII he re
ceived with piylts not grains Of salt. There is
always much tbgRdering in The index Of the i'm
presaTios year book. \ dozen novelties held up
as an aIlurenent to subscribers in September. a
quarter Of dozen the record Of achievement I'm
MAY. is an old rule. So there is nothing 10 be
gained by speculatons touching the operate reper
tories When much is offered something and
enough, Viii be found fit every taste: and Mr.
Conried and Mr. Hamnerstein combined offer three
hundred representations between November and
May The concert bodies are more specific in per
forniance and more faithful in fuIAlment An an
nouncement in the news columns OF this journal
last Sunday told Of the music which Dr. Muck
has brought from Germany 10 mix with the stand
ard works upon which the Boston Orchestra. ike
every organization Of its kind. must rely. There
few things that pique curiosity: hut seasoned
patrons Of orchestral concerts Of a.I supporters
ri public entertainments the least curious about
now products 30 ths field They have long since
.ECppel fun Of dsapDointments and ere always
ready with a kindly greeting i0r the masterpieces
frat 90 not grow stale Mr.. Walter Damrosch
twEose purposes with regard 10 the concerts Of the
New York symphony Orchestra have also been pro
claimed) has devised scheme which IS at once so
comprehensive and so yaried extending far beyond
thc conventional orchestral field. tnat doubt
rTa2 will ant
him The plans OF the Philharmonic SOcictys six
ty-sixth season are laid along lines for The most
part cnnEonaut with the traditions Of a society
which can afford 20 remain Indifferent 10 fuctua-
tons Of taste and the pursuit Of neg, sensations
me majority 81 tie pieces that have been set aside
Tor performance long ago established their right Ia
pace IN the rerertory Of institution whose
highest mission, long and ably filed. has been n
conserve the hest. And 50 Of symphonies We are
promised Gozarts in \ major Peathoven's Pas
roral Scll3berrs Unfinished" Rubinstein's
Ocean saint-Saens's in & minor and Dvorak,s
From the New World other compositions IA
millar 10 the societys lists are Ncodes Svrnpbonio
Variations. Strauss Don Juan" GoIdmark's
overture 70 ''Prometheus." Wcber's 10 Der Frrc-
schultz, MerdeissoHE's "Wc,usInc" and "Ffngal's
Cave" Nck lo uhe ISIS VIII be two symphonic
poems Tie Sca,' b. G!azounow and The
Sunken Bell by Vladimir M+tzel q rupl Of Mr.
Ssfonof. the conductor 81 the society: 'Herod's
Dream the frs: part of Rerliozs sacred trioa,,
ture by 2.nlsky-K oIsakow. Three oi.t OF the four
novelties ar- by Russian composers, = fact which
is ciie ooib,.ess, to the predictions Of MI Safo-
noH With six concerts devoted exclusively to
Russian music by The Russian Symphony Society
i would nos appear at al strange if New York
we're called o.. to listen 10 music composed
by subjects o: The Gar This season than The people
o. 81. Petersburg or Mc-cow, where the symphony
programmes az more eclectic When afr Frank
Danffosch began hc Concerts for Young People
Go,iowiag device which Mr. Theodore Thomas
tried Ia vain 10 popularze many years ago) his
expressed purpose simply 70 familiarize rne
ht1le folks with music in the higher forms and OF
the better class. Last lie became more spc-
cial and specific jn lis educational PURPOSES and
composed his programmes so as 10 snow the inau-
ence OF the dance upon the Symphonic forms The
scheme proved attractive and is this wear To he
extended with the aim O. Illustrating the emplov-
nent OF folksong N artistic music Taken in CON
nection with Mr.. Franko's concerts of orchestral
music of the eighteenth century these entertain
fnents are liberal education in musical history
auo that OF the best sort
ne n2st interesting feature OF the choral con-
terse VIII oe The production an oratorto entitled
ne New Life" by Wolf-Ferrarf by the Oratorfo
socety- The WORK has called oat high nraiee
l@ me lovers Of serious music in Europe Christ