New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
GENER4L MUSICAL NOTES.

Enough signs have been gfveS by this public Of
q large and growing interest in j. s. Bach S music
TO indicate a wide response to the coming reVlFdi
of Bach's Passion According to St Matthew
by the Oratorio Society, at Carnegie Hali on
Thursday evening. April 16- 1t was thirteen years
ago that the Oratorfo Society last presented this
great choral work and since then the general
appreciation of Bach's genius has spread further
and gone deeper.
Thoughtful listeners to present day concert and
opera have noted the overwhelming influence OF
Bach all modern composers From Men
delssohn and Schumanu down the worlds famous
composers have been proud to acknowledge their
debt to the modest master who died in Leipsic
15S years ago Bach's great reputation while he
lived was gained largely by his skill as an organ
ist His compositions were seldom heard for 100
years 0til MendeIssohn and Schunlann revived
them. Both these musicians looked to BaCh for
abiding musical joy. In human and personal
a light did Schumann regard Bach's genius that
when writing after a long separation to cara
Wfeck just before their marriage. he beSs her
to play for him. their eagerly awaited reunion
four pieces. eliminating in the Rach c sharp
minor fugue from the tsecond book And among
Mendelssobu's important services to Bach's art
was the revival of the Matthew Passion in Berlin
in March 1922 where it created such furore that
it had to be twice repeated.
For the coming Carnegie Hall performance Of
The Passion According st. Matthew Dr.
Frank Damrosch and the Oratorio Society Wig
OrOusly at work in preparation.
Nine Sembrich's concert tour which began on
February Il, will last until May her last appear
in New York for this season being that
date in a concert to be given by her and Mr..
Paderewski for the benefit of the Legal Aid So
ciety. When she concludes her trip she will have
given thirty-two concerts in the following cities:
Syracuse Halifax. ST. John. Portland OIe.). Mont
real, Rochester. Toronto New York. Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Washington. Mobile. New Orleans Dali
las San Antonio, Austin. Joplin CIo). Clinton
Gowa). St. Paul Duluth. Omaha. Kansas City
Des Moines Lincoln. Milwaukee. Chicago. Column
bus (Ohio), Louisville. Cleveland and Indiana polls
For the concert OF the Peoples Choral Union on
April the following soloists have been engaged:
Mrs. Beatrice Fine. soprano; Mr.. Daniel Beddoe
tenor. and Mr. Edwin Evans. bass. Cigars ''Kin,
Olaf from Longfellow's version the Morse
Saga, will be sung. The chorus will have five hun
dred members, under Dr. Frank Damrosch
Vladimir de Pachmann. the pianist who max
ing what is said to be his farewell tour in Amer
lea will give his last New York recital in Car
negie Hall on Saturday afternoon, April T.
At the meeting of the Judeeans this evening at
the Hotel Astor the topic be discussed will be
The Jew in Music" The following are expected
to participate: Rubin Goldmark THE Jew in
Music; the Rev. DR.. David de SoIa Pool The
Music OF the Synagogue: Lewis Isaacs. Jewish
Music; Leon Huhner The Jew as a Factor in toe
development or Music in America Several mem
bers of the Downtown Cantors' Association will
render appropriate musical selections. DR. Henry
NJ Leipziger is president of the JudPans and Max
j. kohler is secretary
The New York Trio, which is to give it's second
chamber music coTfcert Mendelssohn Hall on
March 2S will play Haydn's Trio No 80 in n ma ior
Beethoven's Sonata No ;. Op 80 in \ ma jor and
Arensky's Trio Op- 81 in minor. The members of
the trio are Alexander Saslavsky. violinist: Henry
Bramsen. celst. and Paolo Calico, pianist
Nine. Gadskt; who is now tour, will give her
annual New York recital at Carnegie Hall Friday
afternoon. April 10.
Leslie Harris will be heard In humorous and
musical sketches on the evening of March 80 in
Association Hall. Brooklyn