New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
LECTURES BEGIN FRIDAY.
Long Programme arranged for Sea
SON bu BrOoklun Institute.

The lectures of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences begin again on Friday afternoon All
of them will be held at the new Academy OF MUSIC
in Lafayette avenue. between Ashland Place and
St Felix street, where the institute has Its new
quarters.
The institute has varied plan mapped out for
the year, and preparations are being made for
more events and for handling and satisfying more
patrons than ever before in the eighty-four years
that the institution has been in existence
Among the interesting features OF the years
work will be eight notable anniversary meetings;
the celebration of the birth of John Milton. at
which the Rev. DR.. G. A Gordon, of the Old South
Meeting House. Boston, will speak and William
Vaughn Moody will read a poem; the celebration
of the Tooth anniversary of the birth OF william
E. Gladstone, at which James Bryce, the British
Ambassador, will speak; the celebration Of the
forty-sixth anniversary of the publication or the
proclamation of emancipation, at which Booker T.
washington will speak; the Tooth anniversary OF
the birth of Felix Mendelssohn Barthody. in honor
of which there will be held afternoon and an
evening concert, the New York Symphony Or
chesra playing in the evening; the celebration OF
the Tooth anniversary of the birth OF Abraham
Lincoln at which the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman.
pastor of the Central Congregational Church. will
sneak: the celebration of the Tooth anniversary Of
the birth Of Charles Darwin, at which the speaker
will be Professor Edward b. Poulton OF Oxford
University, England; the celebration Of the birth
OF Frederic Chopin, in honor of whom two con-
CertS Will be nelO ana fdueieNShA NI'l pIoS' tHO
celebration of the birth Of oliver Wendell Holmes.
the Rev Dr. Samuel NJ. Crothers. of the First
Church. Cambridge. Mass, delivering the centen-
nial address.
The first public address OF the fall will be held
on Thursday evening, october 10, when President
Charles w. Eliot of Harvard University will speak
on 'The Building and Administration Of Modern
City
The opening song recital in the opera house
will be given Thursday evening. October 1, by
Nine. Schumann- -Heink with programme espe-
cialIy prepared for the occasion. This will be the
only time she will sing in the United States this
season. David Bispham will be the first great
artist to sing in the new music hall Of the Acad-
envy of Music. He will give the opening song re-
citaI in this hall The institute patrons will have
the opportunity to welcome back to this country
at his first concert after absence of year and
a half Alvin Schroeder. Mr.. Schroeder will be as
sisted by his daughter. Another to be welcomed in
the new temple of music is Nine Chaminade This
concert will come Thursday evening, October 29
Willy Hess will return concertmeister OF
the Boston Symphony Orchestra. and for the first
time since the destruction of the old Academy of
Music in Montague street the full orchestra will
be able to play again in Brooklyn. There are to
be five concerts Friday evenings beginning on
November G. Ossip Gabrilowitsch will play at the
December concert; the young Russian violinist
Mischa Elnlan, at the January concert. and
Paderewsk in February. The concerts are to be
given under the joint auspices of the Brooklyn
Philharmonic Society and the music department of
the institute with the cooperation of the womens >
auxiliary board.
The New York symphony Orchestra will give
five Saturday matinee orchestral concerts. last
year. In the opera house. Miss Geraldine
Farrar will give her first and only song recital in
the Academy of Music in Brooklyn this season
Wednesday evening. November IL.
The Kneisel String Quartet will return for its
fourteenth In Brooklyn. with the following
assisting artists: Miss Edith Thompson. CT Boston:
Sigismond Stoiowski. of New York; Ernest Con-
solo, of Chicago; Mrs. Thomas Taper of Boston
and New York, and Miss Katherine Goodson. of
London.
Five series of lecture recitals will be offered: the
first, by Daniel Gregory Mason. on Modern Cham
Der Music.' with assisting artists: the second by
Thomas Whitney Surctte. who spent last year in
England His subjects Will be the nine symphonies
OF Beethoven, and he will be assisted In the inter-
probation of them by distinguished pianists- In
the Joint auspices of the Philharmonic Society
and institute lecture recitals will be given on
the programmes of the Philharmonic concerts on
Thursday afternoons just preceding the Friday
evening concerts by the Boston Symphony orches-
ira by Arthur Whiting. Louis C. Eison. Howard
Brockway. Daniel Gregory Mason and Thomas
whitney Surette.