The evening world., 1911-03-20
BY SYL VESTER WING.

"nE Nolpc Symphony Orchestra
gave its last subscription concert
OF the season at Carnegie Hail
yesterday afternoon. Beethoven NTH
symphony was the principal number
and Mr.. Nolpc's young men played II
as II they really loved it. Their earnest
ness and enthusiasm made IN FOR ShOr.-
comings and the large audience APP
plaudcd them until they all had to stand
and bow their Acknowledgements. The
other numbers were the prelude to Die
Meistersinger." Tschaikowsky's Fran
cesca da T,lmini." a fantasy after
Dante. and two movements from
Arthur Foote'S suite in - minor, OF. 70.
The latter was presented in pursuance
OF MIR. Nolpe's plan to give one work
ny an American composer at each Of his
concerts.
But there were other thing OF inter-
est besides the music. George Austin
Morrison jr. made an address In which
he outlined the history OF the society
which Mr.. Volpc founded in 1894 to
give young musicians a training in
orchestra work. at no small sacrifice TO
himself in time and money. Lattcrlv
guarantors had Nallcn in behind Mr..
Noipf W insure MIN d-dllsL lOSS. MI.
Morrison said that he was glad to re-
port that the present season had come
to an end without a deficit. a most re-
markable thing for an orchestra, which
now consisted OF ninety players. lie
thanked Mr.. Nolpe. the musicians. the
music critics and the public for all that
had been done to help the society. Next
season, he said. the concerts would be
held on Tuesday evenings instead OF on
sunday afternoons, and already both
tiers OF boxes were practically all en-
gagged, besides a large number OF seats
in other parts OF the house.
Later the orchestra gave Mr.. Nolpe a
surprise by presenting him with a
wreath and. rising at the instigation of
The concert master. "A musicians salute.
Sigismond Stojowski. tho pianist. vino
Is Of the faculty of the Institute OF
Musical Art, was the soloist in his own
symphonic rhapsody, or. %. played for
tie first time by the symphony Or
chestra at the New Theatre yesterday
afternoon. 1t is a scholarly and musi-
cianly work that commands respect and
that the audience rewarded with hearty
applause. The rest OF the programme
was a repetition of Friday afternoons
concert. only Tschaikowsky's "PatiD-
tiaue" symphony was played first in
stead of last. The other numbers were
Backs. "Brandenburgh" concerto, with
l.olin oUllsato by David Names, and
three Francis Nillon ballads sung by
Charles W. Clark.
The Arlon Singing Society of Brook
lyn, under the leadership of Arthur
Claassen. with Eleanor Funk. Leo
Sle2ak and Otto Goritz as s~o!oists, pre-
scented Mendelssohn's cantata Die erstc
Walpurgisnscht' at the Metropolitan
opera House concert last night to the
enjoyment OF a large audience. Before
that olive Fremstad. Bella Alien. Anna
t.as Sc, Marianne Flahaut, Allen H!nc,-
ley ana Walter sooner had appeared
In 4 miscellaneous concert under thu
direction of Josef pasternack.
..Thais." in a special performance a.
,he METROPOLITAN opera House on Satur-
Say night by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Dpera Company. demonstrated anew
by the sIzc OF the audience the draw
ing power o. Mr.. Dippelis organization
which formerly was Mr.. HlmncrsteInS
ct the Manhattan opera House. Mary
Garden, II the ll' part Wa" az ~
best. and Renaud, as Athanael, was
as impressive as ever. Bressler-Gia-
noli. Dalmores, lIuberdeau, Sicolay,
Marie Cavan and Serafina Scalfar1
made the east more effective and Cam
panini conducted with fine fcrvor, He
had to repeat the Meditation inter-
mcH2O.
"KoenIssNInder' packed the Mctropol-
tan opera House again on saturday az
ternoou. TIC popularity of the Hum
perdinck opera increases viii every
rerfornance. Geraldine Farrar's GOOSE
Glrl" is a beautiful representation, per-
laps the hes. Trims she does. Kari
Jorn has grown into the part OF the
Kings Son and Louise Homer a. the
Witch and GOr!tz, Rciss, Dldur, Lotte
Engel and the rest OF the cast are eN-
~ce,ient. Alfred Hertz, the ~conouctor,
seems to love this newer fairy Stury
almost - much as he does 'li2enso!
md Gretel.'
Stolowskl save the fourth o. his Sc
ries OF historic piano r~ecitals at Men
delssoar Hall on saturday afternoon
before another large audience. This
time he devoted himself 10 two TO
mantle masters, SChUmdnn and Chopin.
III fortune continues to pursue ferdi-
rand Kaufman, the Vlollnis,. I!s re-
cital first announced some weeks ago
for Meudclssohu Hall had to be post
p1ncd because he had hurt his finger.
Then saturday night WAS selected for
his appearance. but the han was kept
dark and the gathering audience was
Informed that Mr.. Kaufman was
threatened with appendicitis,