New-York tribune., 1907-01-27

after Thursday next during the present season.
other on tuesday evening, February I2 dim
coins Birthday. at Q o'clock.
For Friday evening the management an
nOunces "Lohengrin." with Nine. Emma Eames
as Elsa, Nine Louise Homer as. Ortrud, Mr..
Burrlan as Lohengrin, Mr.. GortZ as Friedrich.
mann the Herald. Mr. Hertz will conduct.
The second performance this season OF Meyer
beers 'LAfricaine" will be the bill on Saturday
afternoon, With the same strong cast as before.
At the tenth popular Saturday evening perform
ance la Traviata' will be presented. with
Nine. Sembrich as Violetta, Nine. Jacoby as
Flora BerYoise. Nine. Mattfeld as Annina Mr..
Dippel as Alfredo Mr.. Scott Giorgio Ger
mont and NM. Bars. Dufriche Begue and Paron
in other characters. The conductor will be Mr.
Nigna-
Appended IS the full programme OF to-nights
OSunday) concert at the Metropolitan Opera
House:
,7...,,.. ..,. Nine i Kiria.by-LHn.91 % N ,.. ~.
80 Alols BuTgstalIoT.
''"' ''''4 Miss Btssi. Abc,, 4 N'"O''
Caspars air from Der FrsschHsts. Weber
from cherubin' M.s.snet
Scenes AlsaeIennes- - - -. Na.,anst
Dimanohe Mstin.
sous les Tiileuls
cCelo solo, Mr.. MisEsch: claTinstts. Mr. B.lucc.)
Overture ''Gagiielmo eossini
Miss Bessie Abot-
s,,r .n.. AiOls BurrsiaIsr.
Nine. Kirkby-Lann
AIT Mimi nom la Bohems Paeosi
oratorio. .,Jssu, as s Ssaalsts hnl caFaer oou0os
Poi PIsneon.
BOurrse FsntasQus (Orchesat.d by Felix MOttD cabrisr
purely orchestral programme without SOLO
ist' has been made up by Walter Damroseh for
the next New York Symphony Orchestra con-
certs Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon
FEBRUARY and 3. al Carnegie Hall To ali
tnose interested in the development OF American
co composers the announcement OF THE Festival
or ran. by F. s. Converse. will prove OF special
interest The full programme Will be:
Lowe %ns6 NO and aas Rasnss s nom shuTann
Tristan and Isolde '............... -. U-aSn.-
ARRANGED for performances by Walter pam fsRer
Festival Of PAN" Romance for orcbs.,r. coD,,,r,.
1First time in New YORK; - = '00nV'rso
Variations on an original theme. Edward Elsar
Mr.. Converse is slated TO be the successor OF
the late Professor Paine at Harvard University,
and has several works to his credit, notably an
opera. The Pipe Of Desire" which bears the
honor Of being one of the only two serious
operas by American pens ever produced IN
Boston. It shares this distinction with Walter
Damrosch's The Scarlet. Letter" Converses
Festival Of Pan" is a bright highly colored
tone picture, symbolic of the alteration of nature
IN it's most Joyous moods The variations by
Sir Edward Egar IS dedicated, quantity enough
To my friends pictured within" and was COM
posed at Malvern. England, in 1899. Each varla-
tion is veritable portrait of some friend OF ths
composer, and the theme IS developed accord
ingly with ingenuity and variety.
Schumann's charming 'Rhenlsh" Symphony.
with it's vivid picture Of life on the Rhine. opens
the programme. and Mr.. Damrosch has arranged
Wagner eXcerpt-"The Love Music and Bran
gaene's Warning Call from Tristan and ISOLDE
Act II.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra leaves Bos-
ton this evening for a weeks tour In the Middls
West. Six concerts will be given-in the Lyceum
Theatre, Rochester. on Monday night; in Grays'
ArmOry, Cleveland, Tuesday night; in the
Auditorium, Chicago. Wednesday night; in
the Light Guard Armory, Detroit, on Thursday
night: I'm English's Opera House. INDIANAPOLIS
on Friday night. and in the Springer Music
Hall, Cincinnati. Saturday afternoon DIR
Karl Muck will conduct all six concerts. Mr. Tim
othee AdamOwsh will be the soIoist ia Roch-
ester, Cleveland and Detroit; Mr. Rudolph GAM
In Chicago, and Professor Willy Hess In Gin
cinnati. There will be soloist In indianapolis
The symphonies will be Beethoven's seventh in
Rochester. Cleveland and Chicago, Brahrs's
first in indianapolis, Sibeliuss first in 70 minor
in Cincinnati. and Glazounoff's fifth I'm b fat
major, in Detroit
So great has become the demand for concerts
by Nine. Melba that c. A Ellis. of Boston. her
manager. has persuaded her to postpone her
departure from this country until April 1, IN
order that she may be able to give a number
Of concerts in March, when her duties at the
Manhattan Opera House in New York have been
completed. Nearly all these concerts have been
booked. because II was necessary merely to Sc
lect convenient cities from the long list of those
that wanted her. Efforts have been made to
have her prolong her stay in America into April
but this seems to be impossible, as she must
return to London for the season Of opera at
Covent Garden.
At Mendelssohn Hall sonata recital will be
given by Hugo Hermann. violinist. and Ernesto
Console. pianist, on Monday afternoon az g
O'Clock The programme:
Sonata Enssor .&os2rt
bonata N Tat Cr .0tytuax
novelty viii be presented at the third set of
concerts OF the Peoples Symphony Orchestra at
Cooper Union on Thursday and Carnegie Hail on
Friday. The first performance OF a Southern
Fantasy" by Humistcn. is announced
Mr.. * II. Humiston's ancestors, on his
mothers side. were Of Southern extraction. In
1880 his maternal grandmother freed the plan
tation slaves they owned and came Nosth 10
Ohio. where Mr.. Humiston born. Possessing
the artistic instinct markedly in a comprehen-
sive sense. he, very early in life. was prone 10
the art Of the painter. but at the age OF thirteen
q relative who was cultivated musician en-