New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
GENERAL MUSICAL NOTES.

The eighteenth Cincinnati May Music Festival
rrocraror,es now announced. show the usual
breadth and progressiveness OF selection ana a-S0
it may be added in several cases a prodlsi0u'
length The festival concerts will take place on
NAV : S : s and .. with Frank Van der StucAen
as musical director and Frederick A Stock as
associate conductor The choral works 70 Dc sung
are Haydn's The Seasons" Bach's st Matthew
Passion" Gabriel Pierues The Ch1ldrens C1U-
sate" which the Oratorio Society made known %
New Workers last year; Dehussys setting OF
Rossetti-s The Blessed DarnozeI.' LISTS Psalm
MIL and Gries's olaf Trygvasson-
The singers viii be Nine Gadski. Nine. Scnu-
-FIeink Mrs. Rider-ksIsey. Miss Janet Spen-
GER Herbert WItherspOon. Edward Johnson Dan
ieI Bcddoe and others
The sprins of 1905 marks the one hundredth an
riyersary of the advent Of Goethe'5 Faust anu
in cornmenloraJion of this the German Lledersran3
has arranged Goethe festival 70 take P,@o'
al Carnegie Hall Thursday evening Aprh .
The celebration Will be musical in character tHs
programme comprising compositions. o"th w.
and instrumental inspired by the poems OF tioetls
The Philharmonic Society Of New York viii assS"
under direction OF Mr. SafOnOf. while the ILec---
k-anz viii sins the choral numbers. undaT 'As u
rection Of Mr.. CIaasseU. Several prominent sns
ers have been engaged. and Professor Goeoe+ q
Harvard University. has consented 10 deliver 'is
commemorative address. Any surplus realzea
from this coacsr, viii he presented 70 the ta'
SChurz memorial fund committee.
Pach's Passion According to SJ. Matthew
v hich the Oratorio society viii sing on lAuS
day evening. April 10. a Carnegie Ii-ll ga
ranked with the same composers Mass III
minor and with Beethovens solemn Mass a
choral work accessible only 10 highly N@'~
choirs Such are its difficulties. not only 'ec'i
cal hut of Interpretation. thai until lS'+- 50 g
as the records show. it had never been Su-'
publicly in this country. ON May CT 'A~' !' :.
the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston s2'e
for the erSt time in America. THIS ofSahl~A'
WAS then already ffty-nine years old. and II Aa-
been ambitious enough. as far back as lS-''
send "A formal request TO Beethoven u "sl'7
oratOrio for its But the Bach - Nia',
Passion" had To await fuller development -
OF choral expertnesS and OF public taSIs
Boston. the Handel and Haydn Society has
peated thus work every few years since 80 =
a total Of fifteen times. tine performances
1879 and ISS: being the only complete ones -
Guiding the entire
The Oratorio Society OF New York urds' -
Leopold pamrosch gave this Bach Pass-Oh
first March l. and Is 1850 and sang il g.
every four years or oftener 10 1895. since W
the society has not presented the WORK - -
been done at eight pairs OF concerts ey '"e
toro Society.
Reference was made recently 20 the ex'Tao.- ~
nary interest taken in the revival OF the
sion According TO St Matthew under Mende''
sohn's direction in Berlin in 1898 II WAS ., ~
one hundred years earlier, Good FridAN' =,
iJ. 1929. that Bach. with his little eAe" -.
Thomas's Church in Lepsic. brought 'le 80.
sion forward a work HoWeFe' a,
masterpiece may have impressed the heai71 he,
made little effect the members OF 'h0 -,
council These petty persOnages, WHO
Baeh'5 official employers as cantor. VIZ, W. NJ.
month thereafter deliberately diSreSaIuSN IA
carefully drawn recommendations as 10 W."
candidates should be appointed church $50 -
1t afterward became the regular custom .ry
ever. TO perform the Passion" IN Leipsi0 -
year Good Friday In choosing the -
OF Thursday in Holy Week for the cohilns cohs,fv
sentatIon Of the Passion" the Oratorio Soe-s
has sought TO enhance. Tor the auditors 10
Is religious spirit.
Mr.. and Mrs. GcorS Herschsl sailed i''