The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-20
Programme Was Model and Audience and Musicians
 Were In Perfect Accord
MRS. TRUMAN ALDR|CH
 IS GIVEN BIG OVATION
ggishes Herself and Is Warmly AppIauded By Damrosch as
 Well as the Audience

| The opening of the music festival at
 only splendid success, but no previous
 festival ever started off quite so aus- piciousy.
 The programme was a model for a feS- | tival occasion, for it contained pleasing variety. and every number was full of
 interest. Walter Damrosch, the director.
 was all aglow His New York Symphony orchestra, superb year in and year out, fairly surpassed itself. Mrs. Truman AL
 drich, Jr., as piano soloist. had an ova-
 tion; the vocal artists, Madame Sara
 Anderson, Madame Nevada Van der Veer, and Reed Miller were enthusias-
 tically received, and the Treble Clef cho-
 rus was In its best form. And as for the
 audience, it tested the capacity of the
 house and was in every sense represent
 ative of Birminghams cultured society.
 It was an eager, appreciative audience,
 upstairs and down, and a more discrim-
 mating body of music-lovers never as- sembled here.
 This was the programme: PART I.
 Oyerture-'OberOn' ..................W Weper Chorus
 (a) ..The Nymphs of the Woods ..... .......................... DeilDeS (b) "The Primrose Gavotte". "............ ............. Xaver Scharwenka Two-part Choruses (piano accompani- ment) Treble Cleb club
 Air from 'Le Cid" CMassenD. ............ .................. Mime. Anderson Variations on the Austrian National Hymn .......................... .Qiayon)
 Scherzo, op. 45 ..................(G (Goldmark) PART II.
 Concertstueck-Mrs Truman Aldrich. Jr, with orchestra ...............(Webe Chorus
 (a) "Whene'er the Sounding Harp is Heard" .................. (Branms) (b) "The Death of Trenar". .... (Brahms) With horns and harp accom- paniment ....... Treble Clef club Air from "Pagliacci," (Mr. Reed Miller) ...................,.... QIeoncavallo) Chorus, orchestra accompaniment, Treble Clef club ...........H. Hofman) From "The Damnation of Faust
 (a) "Dance of the Sylphs" (Beriioz) (b) Rakoczy March" ............(beriloz) A Grand Concert The overture was played with breadth
  1t was to musicians and old concert-goers, 1t was so skillfully and artistically per formed that discriminating listeners
 could not have failed to feel in it new
 beauties and to have reveled in 1t as never before. For an encore the string
 section of the orchestra played delight- full polonaise by Beethoven. This was
 one of the gems of the evening. Beethoven
 wrote it for the piano, and MT. Dam- rosch's father. the late Dr. Leopold Dam- rosch, arranged it for strings. The Treble Clef's first number was ably conducted by William Gussen, the regular director of the club.
 Madame Anderson who sang at one of the Guckenberger festivals a few years ago, was a good artist then, but she has developed wonderfully, and her work last night was exceptionally fine. She has a great dramatic voice and her vocalzation
 Is perfect For an encore she sang, "rhy Beaming Eyes"
 The two orchestral numbers closing Part I were greatly enjoyed The Haydn va-
 riations were new to many, and the Gold mark scherzo was not only novelty in
 Birmingham, but it was written and pulp lished only recently. Goldmark Is one of the foremost of modern composers, and
 this piece was dashed with gorgeous color and was elegant in finish.
 As part II opened with Mrs. Aldricii' s number. the audience was keyed mp, of course. to a high pitch of expec- tancy While this young Birmingham woman has been heard frequently in private and semi-public musicales last night was the first time she had ever played with a symphony band She easily distinguished herself. The Con | certsteuck'' requires brilliant style as well as clear technique. Well, Mrs,
 Aldrich played 1t with grace and bril- Lance. Her brayura playing was full