The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-22
! CONCERT OF MADUIGALS
DELIG HTFIL OLD PIRT SONGS
ara SING.

aIupe % tho Nedl~,aI Period Produced
Cnsler the DirecsiOa % kurt Scs,iDSiler
New suecess 10 Lyrics sOo Years
! Oed Ancient italian SSags Heard.
For some veal ~ the Musical Art Society
of this city hrs performed IN. choral mas
terpiecss of the Roman Catholic Church
written in the times when the trsatme
81 voices without aCCompa niInent rOss 90
I's highest level - skill OCCASIONALLY
too the orRanizat ton hrs permitted its
heaPerS 10 ENJOY some Of the secular music
~ the greet mediiPvEl me~ters hut the
choice fruit of the mFtirigRl field has not
oil le,n gathered. and for this reason
ths concert "f mf drigsiS of the French
Rene ssT nee gwen 10y Kurt Schmdl-r
ye-ter'i-S, afternoon ~ the Waldorf
Asiata had a special charm 30 it, own
Mr. SCHNEIDER a-ssmblrd . choir con
EtstIng of Alma Gluck l"anns MauhnIrg
EDNA ShoWalte-. Janet Spencer. Ellen
earned. Mrs. Pen lRthrop. P.rrick
Non Norden. Gustave Borde. Reinhnld
vnn Werlich. David Devries and Cha-l,s
Gilbert The a~companimeutz where
n"ed"d were played On two ha-ps and
a. times ON primo MnH Mar I'm
plsfa ID the entertainment nv reading
Victor Hugo's Que Ia Musislue-
Tn" beauty OF the mRdrigaI style was
we'll displayed IN the numbers chosen "a
make up the programme som. of the
best however. could not properly IL.
olAssed as French. a.. for example. th.
l. Amoura Pris mon eme- 81 Palestrina,
and tn" QUAINT mon mar went de d,.hors-
S"d -fuyOns tous d'amour le js~i- of
IC' ~. Tho latter was born in Mons and
Iasscd moot Of his life in Munich. wh.-e
tn" tourist meg $50 q notabl" statu. 10
his honor. Ps'ett-inF VA, an lteliRn end
he glorious artistic cE-cor IL linked with
the absorbing history Of ltsliRn music
IA the sixteenth century.
But the three madrigals ~ Claudin L.
Jelne and the eNquisitely dainty madri-
gals OF Clement ia nncQuin served Ia Show
that the lsbors Of the old French school
ot contrapunti-ts who hourished before
even the mighty masters of the Neither
lands and Who were the shining liRhts oT
musical art when the University of Paris
was Pops Julisn's Rose of Chri-tandnm-
had filtered their influence down through
every stratum IT song till they made pl--
slole the lovely Canticles q these ancient
singers of Rallaniry and alteration.
Perhaps the most important work his
torically was Janne1uin's lie chant dss
Oiseaux. which Is well known To must
oal historians. hut probably was never
before sung in this city. IL in this country
In this extraordinary composition the
musician endslvoTs to initiate the songs
OF such birds a. the nightingale and the
cuckoo, and he does u In unaCcompa MED
part song. written IN skilful counter
point. The wonderful color and define
alive power Of this music together with
ia irresistible humor make the compo-
siston one II the forerunners II the whole
modern method % musical description
In addition u the madrigals there were
two Italian songs Of the sixteenth century
Tor two and three voices sung boy Miss
Gluck. Mrs. La hrop aud MISS Spencer:
two old chansons sung 10y Miss Gluck a
delicious popular rondn - the six
tenth century. Lee trois begs- do
mosselles, sung 10y the Mlzsns Gluck MAJ
bours ard SpenCer and five old songs
N which the Lirnitable srt oG Charles
Gilbert had ample scope
The music offered at this crrCa-t was -
rare, 80 unique. 80 delightful and 30 inter
est.ng ~ those VINO look below the surface
that Il - q pity 20 record the fact tina.
u was by no means T'erfeC'iy sung The
ambition Il Mr.. SCHNEIDER : tsnnrs va
larger than their discretion. whie IN.
sopranos were much too modest IA tn..
matter Of tone Vet several ~ the. mum
hers were delivered with So much real
appreciation 81 their sptTit that they honor
ably won Ell ur'-z
Miss GluCk m her two solos l..tTaved
the tact that a season II uperatic Industry
has not banentsd h"T. When she first
appeared teior" this public IN" fresh
ress 81 her VOICE and the freedom ~ her
etnntnR fSpns-aais.g fauits AZ merchantmen
which were much IN evidenc" yesterday
Then u seern@d a. Il this young SINCE had
acquired all the fashionable vices 81 tone
product ION and that the success of he-
future might depend largely upon her
acquisition of a s0undeT technic.