New-York tribune., 1912-03-04
MUSIC
The Concerts of a Sunday.

Yesterdays musical entertainments Of
fered a slight change from the usual order
| in that they approached the vaudeville
! shows In being more or less continuous for
about eight hours. The change was et-
| fected by the musical organization known
| as the Bohemians who started concert
| at 4:45 o'clock p. m. Chat is, an hour and
| three-uuarters after the Symphony and
Russian orchestras had begun To play),
and. making it OF generous length, car
rled the active period close to the time
when the evening entertainments began
| However, there seem to be many music
lovers in New York, and II all in the audi
ences did not pay for their entertainment
many did and il is no business OF the re-
| corder Of affairs to strike financlal bal
ance. In this respect however one tact
must be noticed. The concert given under
| the auspices of the Bohemlans at the Hotel
Astor had for its purpose the establish
ment of fund for the benefit or needy
musicians Mr.. Franz Kneisel, the presl-
dent OF the club. has been greaf'y inter-
ested in promoting the philanthroplc en-
terprise and Il must have been a large
satsfa action to him yesterday to nJte that
| the receipts were somewhere in the neigh
borhood Of 5000 and that, the expenses
being merely nominal. the benevolent pur-
pose was most handsomely initiated. The
performers were the Kneisel Quartet (com-
posed. in addition to Mr.. Knelsel, Of Julius
Roentgen Louis Svecensh and Willem
Willeke) Nine. Matzenauer, Of the Metro
politan Opera House; Josef Lhevinne, piano.
forte: Henry Leon Leroy, clarinet: BenJa-
min Kohon, bassoon; Xaver Reiter, French
horn; Ludwig Mandy, double bass ana
Slgmund Herzog. accompanist. The wind
instrument players mentioned and Mr..
Mandy took part in the concluding
number Of the programme, which was Bee
thovens familiar Septet. which is not so
familiar a feature of our chamber music
concerts now as It was a couple'of decades
ago.
The friends OF the Bohemians who showed
their interest by buying boxes for the con-
cert were Mr.. r. d. Adams, Mr.. Martin
Beck, Mr.. L. j. de Coppet, Mrs Charles
Ditson. Mr.. Carl Fischer Mr.. Harry Hark-
ness Flagler, Mrs. Randolph Guggen-
heimer. Mrs. Christian Herter Mr. Otto
Kahn, Mr.. Franz Kneisel, Mr. August
I.uchow, Mr.. Dave Hennen Morris, Mr..
Eikan Naumburg, Mrs. Rudolf Schirmer'
Mr.. Alfred Seigman, Mr.. A. b. Sim. Mrs.
Frederick Steinway, Messrs. stesnway K
Sons, Mr.. Maurice Sterhberser, M. Thomas
Taper, Mr.. Felix Warburg and Mr. Paul
Warburg.
The novel feature Of the concert OF
the Russian Symphony Orchestra In the
afternoon (and a very charming one
II proyed TO bel was the verbal COM
mentary on two numbers of the pro-
gramme made by Miss Kitty Cheatham
This was scarcely called for in tho case OF
Arensky's effective variations on the
melody Of Tschaikowsky's Christ Child
Legend" which has been heard here In its
original choral form. but 1t was delight
fully effective in the "Nutcracker" suite
the story OF which she told in a most
graceful and ingenious version prepared by
Mr. Walter Pritchard Eaton and herself.
So winning was Miss Cheatham's narra-
tive and so graciously helpful to tn music
that had the audience had It's way every
number would have been repeated.