New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
MUSIC
NEW RUSSIAN AND FRENCh
COMPOSITIONS.
Concert of the MacDowell Chorus.

Concert Of the MacDoweu Cnorus'
One would expect to hear American
r,us,c at least at concert by the Mac
Doven Chorus perhaps music by the man
/ after whom the chorus was named But
there ar. several reasons why the Tribune
Is not disposed to quarrel with the man
! apers OF last nights concert In Carnesle
Hall. desuite the fact that there was no
/ MacDowell music nor even Amer i0a'
music in IT, Tue Tribune Is disposeu W
st,ck N its principles 10 encourage Amerl-
can musicians by insisting upon the"
demonstrating their value-not py couu'i'e
them az Mr. NacDowell thought once that
IL ought 10 but by asking them 10 stai,1
the international test. as Mr.. MacDo"ei'
| rather ungraciously said when ne reiuseu
10 permit the performance OF one VI ms
/ COMPOSITIONS IT an American concert III '''e
! Metropolitan Opera House
/ II was because the music was so as
tinctively foreign that the concert'last nieIt
was particularly interesting. The auu''
ence heard some Russian music. more Rus
sian thar ANYTHING which has been onered
by the Russian symphony Orchestra ana
/ also a beautiful example Of modern French
dramatic music
The music was described very fully IN
The Tribune last SUNDAY. II consisted OF
Moussorgsky's Joshua" the ballet scenes
/ from Borodin's opera Prince Igor. ana
| the first act (all that he composed) OF
| Chabrier's "Briseis" The Spanish rhap-
sodv. by the last composer. familiar
piece. which Mr.. Mailer was announced n
conduct. was omitted because OF the con-
u Tt,ffl fl1 n q =
I tra's conductor But this worked no m
Jury to the concert which was quite long
| enough without II.
The MacDowell chorus, aided by the fnl'-
harmonic Orchestra. and conducted by Mt.
Kurt SCHNEIDER. put an extremely interest
ing entertainment TO its credit There was
an unusual fascination in the forcetul mu-
sic OF Moussorgsky's composition, hssed on
| folk tunes Of the Russ an Jews aud the
more barbaric tunes which Borodin used IN
the scenes from his opera, but, no DOUBT
/ the splendid audience which had gathered
10 hear the concert found it's keenest de-
light in the operate fragment by Cha-
| brier-a fragment which. not only from
the viewpoint of the French people. out
that Of all lovers Of dramatic mu-
sic. can only awaken regret that the conf
poser did not live 70 complete the
work OF course. the music lost IN
dramatic force by the omission of scene
and action. but its beauty and puissance
were made plain. nevertheless. by the per-.
formance. in which NJ Dinh Gilly dis
tinguished himself above all HIS fellows by
the eloquence Of his diction. Mines. CLICK
and Bressler-Gianon sang we'll and the
admirable qualities Of NJ Clements singing
demand recognition; but there are present
and local reasons for pointing out the SUI
perior excellence Of NJ. Gilly last night.
There are good diction and bad in French
| as well as in English. and what we need IS
less talk and more of such exemplihcatlon
as NJ Gilly gave last night 70 point the
way for opera in the vernacular OF MISS
Cara Sapin. Mrs Viola Waterhouse and
NJ. Rothier who also sang solos last night
we can only pronounce the conventional
compliments for their voices. II. b. h