New-York tribune., 1911-01-15
MUSIC NOTES

The third concert In the series Of SYM
phony concerts for young people will he
given i'm Carnegie Hall on next Saturday
afternoon at 230 O'Clock. The pro-
gramme will he Of special interest TO the
young subscribers owing to the fact that
the orchestral numbers will he played by
the senior and Junior orchestras Of the
Music School Settlement, under the dlrec-
ton of David Names. These two orches-
tras number l2o players. and will show
what is being done by young people with
serious purpose and artistic ideals
Miss Kitty Cheatham will be the soloist,
and will give as her opening numbers a
group of classic songs and stories, the first
of which is written by Selma Lagerlof,
who won the Nobel prize last year. The
second part OF the programme will be de-
voted 10 the real old negro folk music,
most Of which has never been written down
and exists only as II has been passed on
from the Southern slaves. Miss Cheatham
has made a special study of these songs,
which soon in their true form will have
disappeared At the close Of the concert
Dixie" and The Suwanee River will be
sung by Miss Cheatham, accompanied by
the orchestra Mr.. Henderson, I'm his
preface to a collection Of negro melodies
which contains these two songs. says:
Although they breathe the spirit of negro
life. they were written by white men, and
bred in the magina,ions of musicians who
penetrated TO the core of the period OF
which they attempted TO voice the sentl-
ment. They have both an historical and a
sentimental value"
The programme will be this:
PART I.
chorale, Elm Feste Burg l.............. Gries
senior and Junior orchestras.
Robin RedbreaS' ,.............. Selma Lagerlot
Miss kitty Choatham.
Allegro from String Serensde. ..:....... Mozart
Quintet from Die Meistersnger' ....... Wagner
Senior orchestra.
ii 'From a ChiId's Garden Of verses'' ste
The First Friend e'''0'''' Edward German
iFron 'Just-So stories" KiplingJ
Miss Kitty Cheatham.
Largo OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. '.....' handel
Senior senior and junior orches,ras. organ, piano.
PART II.
Negro Songs and Tales
Miss Kitty Cheatham.
''Di8ie" and The Suwanee River
Miss Cheatham and Orchestra.
series Of five historical recitals by
Sigismond Sto,cwski, embracing piano lit
erature in its most characteristic aspects
from the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
trries up to the present day, is announced
10 he given in MendelsSohn Hall on fort
nightly Saturday afternoons, February 4,
February IS, March /, March IS and April l.
An outline OF the programmes follows:
German French and Italian masters of m.
clayichord and the polyphonlc forms-Bach.
Handel, Paradisi, Scarlatu. Couperin. Daquin.
Eameau and others.
and Beethoven.
Romantic classics and classic romantics
schubert Weber. Mendelssohn and Field
Tbe two romantic masters-Chopin and Schu-
Modern epiEones and forsrunners-R Brahms,
Cssar Franck Saint -Saens. Dehussy Grieg Mac
Doweu Mozkovski. Paderewski. Ruhinstein and
Bszt
In connection with the New York child
Welfare Exhibit DR. Frank r. Rix, director
Of music OF the New York public schools,
has arranged for a series of remarkable
choruses Of children, 10 he held in January
and February at the list Regiment Armory.
on the opening night OF the exhibit. Janu-
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