New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-04
CONCERTS AND
OPERAS MULTIPLIED
The Effect of Superabun.
dant Song and Piano
forte ReCitalS.


tention was publicly invited yesterday
were pianoforte recital by Katharine
Goodson at Aeolian Hall in the afternoon
a song recital by Mr. and Mrs Reed
Miller AT the same place in the evening. a
performance of Faust" in English at the
Century Opera House. with a change Of
singers in the afternoon, and one OF TN
Ballo in Maschera" in Italian at the
! Metropolitan opera House in the evening.
The list does not seem long i'm the reading
bu; If any one were inclined 10 ponder
over IL bit especially after having
looked in upon the gatherings. j, might
suggest food for thought
Mrs. Goodson is a most csttmable artist
pianist who brings beautiful message
and proclaims it with intense seriousness
whenever she appears before our public,
but she chances 10 De the fifteenth or six
teenth or seventeenth Ohc records are
becoming wearL,omc to the mcmo.yD plan
st who has asked the patronage or tn.
1 public since the season opened. Tina; s.a-
son is still Young and q score or more
pianists are Vet iu ;Ge o'lins What IS
90 BE- said under the circumstances l.
recital audiences were genuine music lor-
RS, VINO had paid for the UrlF'l'g. 81
! hearing music ami were sincerely inter
ested Do the Interpretation Of familiar
compositions for IN, sake ~ the "dlhcd-
ton which they brought 90 might be
worth whlc 20 50, someth.us about Oh.
/ individual readings BIT when the -atu-
,riucs are ~ the nlcr'iplal recital Kind.
such discussions v'yld oe wasted 'aea.
.nr hey hear not neither do tbei under
stand"
What they do is Co fll seats and ape
p'aut. That meets the aim 81 Tine WHH-
aver Who gets bis foe. and with u the
artist who is consciously o~ unconscious
ly ignorant Of ,E.stIug conditions. must
De- content DO -s mo-; pleasant Go 30.
thlu.s llh. thrs. .u connection with 900
artist Ike Miss GoodsOI. but Tive cool
F of at and tn, good of artists require
thai Tine, Ir said. and perhaps th'y uat
hc more effective boz association Win 4"
they would is With another OF tus hun
dr.d and ono candidate f'f r1"t. at
,euuou with whom tn, runIr recorder OF
a,.u,. D.. called a.uu t. d.aI ever. seas
son
T.t .ou.. 70. 60. artists VH" signify
atr .-.nu.0a O." recognize thr ia'' that
. tuer must get pG' of conventional ruis
n thcs arD 60 deserve serious attention
has been Observable fOr % season CO., two.
Last year Nj raur startled even th"
. conservatives hy playing SchImauu
, "Kindersrereu" and Mcnd'lssohu.s con
, r.rto m q minor Pe.haps bee vac ad-
yisadlv setting % fashion. lIc was fol-
lowed by Miss Goodsou Yesterday 81" FAR
AS the pieces by Schumanu ar" com
/ rerped-UttI, pieces with large opportunl-
tie. Tor artistic expression Aitor she
had PLAYED them beautifully she brought
forward Brahms's Sonata 100 minor, {"
composition not unconventional ON OF.
PROGRAMMES but still not get common
place-ag indeed II will not become so
long as u is PLAYED with the rcN"r"nt at
tentlon 10 it, note of poctIcal ueaHtF
! which Miss Goodson bestowed upon H.
After that Their. came some of the h"p"
pieces. which when they are p'a\ra SUI
premelv and superlatiyely will ask Tor
nothing more than mention. That MISS
Goodson's recital receives more ~ due
only 10 the fact that her personality
raised her recital above the rat INTO
which the conventional style OF manage
ment forced IT,
The recital Of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Miller
dhe relative value OF the singing of the
pair iustihcs that form Of announcement
! was heard by about as many people IA
| listened to Miss GOodsOn in tn" afternoon.
Mr.. Reed Miller sang ms songs In a
straiphtforward, manly style which car
ried conviction 10 his hearers not oiiy
concerning the purposes Of III" composer
/ I'm, oIso as TO his own notions 81 what
snrg was invented for. Mrs. Reed Miller.
n whom large Difference was gallantly
mid IN the house bill. did many things.
ubep the notes led her into exalted PC
giong which were not luStlnaple "N an 'P-
| n.at IN the funda mental Law of tho nation
nor excusable b. an appeal TO The iuh"'-
| mental laws OF musical art YET. lhc re-
ci,al Of the pair had many delghtfnI mo-
,,ents. not the least pleasuraJle OF which
,.ore the Two beautiful English songs. sir
rdw.rd ElcaTs I'm Moonlight ana
uranscombe's Hail the Time Of Holi-
! DAYS"
Thcre was nothing in the afternoon per
! roruance of Faust Al the Century
onera House to indicate that there had
heen revelation concerning Us beau-
,tao y, sicniflcances TO the company over
| ni1bt Why should there have been
I.ny,ish 'Fausts" are decades bid and are
90 he,,cr under the new dispensa;ion than
,p.v were under the old. The special at
,antion commanded by them now ~ pure
l., facetitious and fictitious.
The delights Of TN Balo' IarseN
oroatod by Mr. Caruso. were purveyed to
| a eplendid audience at the Metropolitan
onera House last night. IL Is no longer
necessary to plead the one hundredth an
rtyersary of the composers birth to JUS
tfv It's revival: the name Of Caruso Is
enough. And so IL did not signify much
that Nine Duchene took the part Of u
RIGA last night instead OF Nine. Matte
naucr who had sung at its first perform
ance last week and was announced Tor
last night The change was occasloned
nv the circumstance that Nine. Nate
nauer will have to sing Brunnhildc to-
night 50 that Nine. Fremstad may sing
I'm "Tosca" on Saturday night, 10 accom-
/ n,odato Miss Geraldine Farrar. who Is
.till under the weather, as she has been