New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-03
CONCERT RIVALRY
Yesterdays Symphonles-Cu-
biSm in Music.

There was pretty even diy.s.on Of in
terest in the two orchestral concerts
gwen yesterday stteru )on 10y the philhar-
monic and Symptom soci.;ies. the former
in Carnegie. the latte. IN Accian Han
and audiences which seemed about equal
in numbers attended the two. Neither
concert. however. appeared 70 have
aroused a large measure Of ploiic oi-
iiosity. The Philharmonic Societys pro-
gramme was OBVIOUSLY arranged TO make
a serious appeal IN rs ;rst haf and =
popular one IN IT. second. ana IN ga
section there was mIs!- which had been
heard here recently. The overture 10
Mozarts Cost fan '.tte' and Hee'h"-
ven's Pastoral symphony he'd cctup!cd
places on Philharmonic schemes. m.
Lists second .iano'or'~ concerto. Whi'n
Was played Yesterday ~ Nj Hnoolin
CAM. had rteviously hecn played AZ a
concert Of the Symptom Socictr Oy NJ.
Max PsGer What remained as ne"
contribution 20 the seasons muse was "a
TRANSCRIPTION for strings By A. Na'iei
Kramer OF an organ piece entitled
Vision" b. Rhelnberger: another trans
scription by Victor Herbert Of Rup.H-
stems piauoforte competition. 'haIni"e
noi-Osrrow." 40. =. and an American
Festival Overture" composed by Leo
Schulz. principal Of the orchestra NO
loncello PLAYERS for Performance AZ vi,
:. Louis exposition o. !%i
Al the concert Of the symphony So
cjety Mr.. Walter Damrosch gave the nrst
half Of the programme to Mozart ana
TIE second half % the latest Fy'"'hoHS
w. 4 In \ minor. bN Jean Sioelius. a
novelty 10 American concert rooms. inc
Mozart numbers consisted Of some OF
The music composed Tor a ballet called
Les Petits Riers.' and The violin con
certo in = Cat the solo part r.s'ed -
NJ Arthur Hartmann This concef''
had ALREADY had two hearings IN New
York this season one ~ Miss Gr"'a
Scblosser. the other by Louis Persinger
NJ Hartmann played i smoothly. hu.
y.i,hnIt tho marked distinction OF stylc
which 1, invites and which makes 'e-
yival ~ 'he old-fashioned conce.to1 ="
delightfully refreshing ~ the hands %
NJ Ysave. The pretty ballet music Was
Introduced 20 our concert rooms Toy Vi
T,arnrosch four Years ago and has Keen
rcpeatedssince then II vas composed
n l-,S. when Mozart then twenty-t"o
YEATS old. made his memorable visit 70
pare The music was los, 20 tho world
for nearly "a century" irrecoveraOIy
-,ost." wrote MOZart's biOgraph'r. jam
bit the score was found N the libfary Of
The Academic in 1873. and George Gohl"r
made ar ARA ngement Of ~ for concert
nurrosos which was published ~ l'''.
As music ~ s. greet D master IL - o
li.tle moment but there ~ enough OF
bl,the charm IN ii 20 Justify 'he occa-
sioual performance Of il at concert OF
the popular order
The sympnonv h. Sibelius = 30 slhS -
lar q work that 3ir. Danrosch th"ufH'
il incumbent on him 10 preface its PEI
forrnarce with some remarks setihN
forth the fact that T. ~as music OF an
anoms louf charac ter and protesting thd'
the fact Of its performance must not ~
acceptad as an expression OF opinion on
his part concerning the merit OF the COLI
position IN whole or IN part lie had
placed it upon the programme only b.
cause he considered il duty toward =
dis,innUished musician whose other beau
,iCu1 and important works had won adj
,,ira,ion. II wss an Ingenious apologize.
and served its purpose in invoking curl
cs,tv and no doubt helping some ir"
score OF listeners 10 make up their minds
that tie proper thing 10 do was TO ap-
plaud after each Of the four movements
AS for the rest. the music was little shofi
OF Irritating 10 all who have not mac
Ar point TO 60. beauty and significance
in everything that departs suffciently Tar
from all accepted caDons OF taste. SiNclius
has beeu heralded as nationalist ~
,,,r~,, and In hls earlier works there did
occasionally seem 10 5e a charm OF gentle
melancholy. Il wayVa'd. mystical beauty
which seemed an expression OF the spN't
Of his native Finland. But there IL nothing
Of this In the new symphony. winch Is cd!'
and rude IN its thematic material and IN
its bsrmoniza ton seems purposelN 1c-
signed 10 pain tn ears. ~ ~ an .ndividna
eypression beyond question. but II VIII De
hard for many 20 believe that the com
rossr wrote if because II was the voice
NJ any aesthetic or emotional impulse cry
inc within him Tor utterancc. some
things IN il might be explained on the
grouud that It was designed "a an OK
n,essjon Of a sequence Of scenes. incidents
~, feelings-in other words. that 1t ~
basea on external or extTs- musical no.
lions. on a programme Of some sort: but
,,,,ess this explanation be adopted and
rntu the programme is supplied it must
leave the mind OF the normal listener IN
wa The second movement breaks Off
.hruntlv in the middle Of theme. leaving
scnse and fancy painfully suspended-as
II Cowper had written:
Absence Of occupation Is not rest
A mind quite vacant is a
and stopped there II is daily becoming
nlainer that We have not only impression
lists in music but cubists also r. r. h.