New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
SYMPHONY AND SONG


trail concerts will be almost continuous
like the Keith vaudeville shows-and VIII
rub elbows several times week with the
opera, which will pursue its relentless
course and leave few chinks TO be filled in
with the recltals Of the violinists, planists
and singers whose name is legion At
intervals. not frequent, beginning next
Tuesday. the lovers Of beauty for beauty's
sake will close their ears to the euphoni-
Gus din and permit themselves TO be
waited into the higher and purer regions
Of chamber music. But they will be the
comparative few, the elect, the gracious
inner brotherhood. The serried orchestral
ranks began their assault, after couple
Of insignificant skirmishes by III trained
troops, on Thursday evening. They con-
tinued il yesterday afternoon, and will
march on to-day, tomorrow and three
other days next week. The lover OF SYM
phony, symphonic poem and concert over
ture will be Unsuitable indeed who will
yearn for more next April. Apollo save
our ear drums and keep appreciation
fresh
The more important Of yesterdays two
offerings was the first concert Of the Sym
phony Society, which took place in the
new Aeoian Hall in the afternoon. II
was so important that a fiashlight photo
graph Of the hall, the performers and the
backs OF the heads of some OF the lis
teners was taken TO perpetuate the MEM
DRY Of the occasion. A pity that the
picture Will not preserve the amazing eff
feet of the new concert rooms color
scheme, with it's startling plunge from
old rose, or Pompeian red, or whatever II
may be, TO the precious blue and gold.
or green and gold which makes the organ
background look like q boudoir edition OF
owen Meredith.
But that is a small matter compared
with the thought which was uppermost in
the minds Of the confirmed concertgoers
who had gathered to hear the Symphony
Orchestra That thought concerned the
acoustcal properties OF the hall, which
had been approved at pianoforte and
vocal concert Perhaps II was bit UNI
fortunate for orchestra and hearers that
In many cases there fingered a memory
OF the voice OF the Boston orchestra as
IT had sounded in Carnegie Hall eighteen
hours or 30 before Compared with the
crystalline, translucent and iridescent
harmonies which DR.. Muck evoked from
his instruments those which Mr.. Walter
Damrosch conjured up sounded rather
rude and Opaque. The new room invites
70 intimacy. and II orchestral music is 10
be heard there 10 best advantage It Will
have TO be brought back into the service
OF old ideals-its original ideals-those
best exemplIhed in true chamber music,
OF which the symphony once formed
part. With Mr.. Damrosch's excellent
men this will be only matter OF expert
ment and experience. and II n easy 10
imagine some Of his future concerts max
ing much more delightfully."- elemental
appeal than HIS past concerts have made,
either IN Carnegie Hall or the theatre In
Central Park West We could wish TO
hear Beethoven's eighth symphony
perfect work for such an experiment
again in three months from now. with
sweeter wedlock between the wind and
string instruments.
Mr.. DAmrosch gave his audience some
new French music, some illustrations Gas
they appear 10 the unaccountabie French
eye) OF nursery stories, TO which the
precious name OF Mother Goose has been
affixed on the lucis a non lucerdo p -
cipls. IL is In part pretty, impressionisuc
music, and some OF Il, notably the move
ment devoted 20 a dolineStion OF the en-
tertanment provided by the statuettes for
their empress, would make an effective
number for a children's rc,rt illustrated
by moving pictures.
Miss Maggie Teyte sang Cherubino's
first air from lie Nozze al Figaro
c'voi che fapete'O with the orchestra,
and to Mr.. Damrosch's delightful piano
forte accompaniment group Of four
French songs by Duparc. Debussy and
Hue The singers fine voice and nice art
showed 10 best advantage In the songs,
for in them the absence OF pure, UNI
wayering tone worked less injury 20 the
style Of the music than IL did In the
Mozart air There IL ample vitality In
Miss Teytes voice without the persistent
vibrato which so many singers and vioIon-
cellists think essential. IT would have
been a delight to hear n voice OF such
exquisite quality az hers roundly and
firmly and reposefully emitted in some II
the Mozartian phrases, which have the
serene beauty Of lien OF Greek statue.
In the evening Miss Emma Loefier gave
song recital in the seme hall. singing
hodge-podse Of German heder. French
melodies, English ballads nd French and
German opera airs The newcomer has
megzo-soprano voice Of great natural
beauty and most commendabe taste and
feeling; a pity that she has not learned
TO equalze the registers Of her voice-to
preserve evenness and unity I'm its timbre
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