The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-31
THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT
LAST ONE o. THE HISTORIC a.
SERIES IT VAS.
A Wsrk Net Heard Here BesOre L. New
HlstoracaI Anton nrurkner's SYM
phSay In q Flat Admiralty Pialed
-s~me aore Music bS nIchard strauss

-sSnr aore Music bJ nichard strauss
The Anal historical concert oG the Phil
harmonic Society took place last night at
Carnegie Hall The programme con-
sisted entirely Of orchestral numbers
which were PfitSner's overture To -Das
Christelfein, Anton Brnckner's -Ro-
mantle" symphony in y fat the preluCies
to acts and % Richard Strauss, opera
-0untram- and the same composer =
I'll Eu.enspiegsl.- Gustav Mahlsr con-
Quoted and the audience was very small
That We live in an automobile age has
alreadv BEEN noted Ivy M lees an author
tty than the President ~ these United
States. hut even he would marvel at the
rapid making 81 musical history. ~
swiftly IL IL manufactured that a hitherto
unheard composition linda it's way into
historical programme. Thus does the
voice OF musical record speak with the
iaconic comprehensiYeneas 90 Friar IA
cons celebrated brazen head. which ut
tered hut one sentence: Time 10. time
was, times past
But gtop. Pfitzner's magic name may
bs unknown to darkest New York, but
his overture was performed in Boston
IN 1907. the very year in which il was
accorded the honor of performance
at Munich. Il was written as the intro
duction TO fairy play by Use Won stach.
which was failure in IpOs All that 10
left of IL Is this overture
IL Is a pleas sing composition and could
be heard again. IL does not belong Ia
the class u musical prOfunditie-. but
has blood relationship 90 such delight
full fancies as Humperyiinck's -Hansel
ind Grctel.' Many 81 it, musical incl
dents seem Ia belong to the obvious
and IL il frankly mnefIl in n good old
fashioned way now out Of favor in Ger
many. Considering that the composer
h cAasssd among the revolutionistS. this
- something for which We should give
thanks. The work was eNCcllentiy PER
fo med last night ard the chosen few
Appeared to enjoy H.
Ire Bruckncr symphony again gave
music lovers All opportunity Ia study the
methods and mAnnerisms Of "A deeply
serious mind. perhaps too absorbed in
its own operations. The fret movement
OF this symphony Is crowned with con-
summIte mAsts rship in development
and orchestral treatment Its IN, matte
material II fecund and - Negotiating in
ITSELF. The most calloJs listener could
hardly fail TO discern some OF it, beauty.
Yet here. as too Oft IN in other places.
Bruckner did not know when he was
through, and his oVerwoTked repetitions
and long drawn coda detract from tho
excellence Of the movement
There u less 81 the open air in the slow
movement than in On" first. vet her. again
one il drawn undo the spell 81 tho com
pO@er's intellectual conc, ntration. This il
thoughtful music. and tn" thin king listener
can find fertile matter IN a. Hut It docs
not touch the emotion quite 80 quickly
~ some other slow movements II H. the /
romance Of the midnight oil rather than of
the field and rn"sdow
The -cherzo echoes the ardor % the /
chase. II - deli ghtful scherzo albeit !
some 81 its phrases are trihs abrupt /
The finale - th" least interesting If the I
Tour movements. II seams labored and !
without cl"irn".- of purpn-e The sym (
phOny was suUerbly played and the read |
ing was what might nav" hscn .xysct..t |
from Mr.. MAILER. whose own music he I
tokens him "A -ympathiz"r with IN. ways
Of BrIcknar
tn" -Guntrlm- pr-Gd~~ have been .
hHaru hs'i" several Tunes. In the CONCERT B
room they have - BE- received a. ab-1lut .
music for u l. impossible Ia convey their
with the drama But they .
are sufficiently musical "a endure ConCort ,
performance. A. for the Til EIlsn- .
-picg"l- u long ago p.ts-ssd into the .
Affection 81 all music lo,erS
II H. one ~ the hApyl.-t e all Strauss
orchestral tOurs DO force. "A Comuo<it On .
filled with the hITly jest Of unbridied .
humor. with Winrorn" melody. WIth Opu-
ent Instrumentation and withal cast ~
a most arr i-tic and we'll KNIT form
some Of its Grass realism remains dis
To those Who prefer -ugg,.s-
lions for the imagination to diagrams
Tor physical explores hut tho realism
" Strauss shocks W. lcs- than Il tI-s.,I to
We can heCom" accustomed 60 ali things
and this - thousands Of miles from
El-ktr1 Some day We NAV learn -
ik" eVol thai, hut when do the world
nay be darker than Il ~ now
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