New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-17
DANCES FOR THE YOUNG
An Educational Concert and
Exhibition.
DURYEA AIDS DAMR0SCH
Last of Young Peoples Meet
ings of New York Sym
phony Orchestra.


musical doinss of great city like New
York perhaps. than to anybody else, that
50 many things are done so well that IT
Is a pity they were not done just a little
better Nothing is commoner to one who
usteus to scores of "men singers and
women singers" and PLAYERS upon "musi-
cal Instruments and that of all sorts
every season than the knowledge that
tb.fr Gifts were suCn that their perform
ances oueht To have been better Ere
ouenty 10 is only a mistake i'm plan or
purposc, or misconcepton of the vehicle
chosen Something OF this Kind mixed
itself mp with the pleasure which was
rroyided 10y the last Of the Concerts FOR
Young People at Carnegie Hall last Sat
urday afternoon. \ few words on the
programme provided the alloy. They
we're. Spring Festival OF Music and
Dance" Mr. Walter Damrosch and his
symphony orchestra provided what was
artistic unCer the head of muse. Mr..
Oscar Duryea and three graceful women.
That which was somewhat mconcrUousiE
grouped @uder the second. Here there
v5s a division again. FOR while Nj. Dur
Yea and Two of MS assistants save what
Wa called an illustrated history oi tae
dance" Miss Florence Fleming No5es
made ~ essay in the old hcld OF panto-
mimc u which very old and very
beautiful conception of the word dance
was contained The good wine which
Nj Damrosch poured out needed no
bush and his verbal Interpretation OF
the poetical significance of the Dance
Of the Furies" from Cluck'S opera of
"O~feo al Eurydice." was rather
blndrance than d help TO the enjoyment
Of tn music. though his characterization
Of the ancient ErinNeS as primitive
conception OF what the modems call con-
science was apt enough and Well calcu-
lated o. euhghten his youthful listeners
Bat the picture can scarcely be- saia L.
have been carried out i'm Chuck music
which in the opera does not ACCOMPANY
the scourclns of WrOngdOer. but u
piece Of Characteristic music which would
better be- PLAYED without action than with
the silly pantomimc which usually ac-
companies H. and in which the ancient
avengiuC deities are multiplied many
score times IL il were played duIIns
transformation scene or behind the
cloud curtain We fancy the effect of
the music would be hundredfold greater
than it is accompanied by the senseless
rushing about of a hundred Witchllke
creatures carryns snakes IN their hands
especially as il would thereby be brought
into sharper contrast with the dance oil
the blcst shades i'm the Elysian fields, as
was the case ON SATURDAY Here MI
Damrosch's words and the music We're
In happy harmony. The rest of the
concert proper needed 40 verbal eNr"Sl-
ton. and Mr. Damrosch stopped only
long enough to call attention 10 the Cos
samer strains of the dainty dance OF the
swim from Borliozs "Damnauon of
Faust. and after the enthusiasm of the
audience had eliminated in the strauss
waltz Roses from the south ma1e
up Of themes from the Operctta The
Queens Lace Handkerchief p 10 express
his qualification at its reception ana the
hone that his youthful listeners would
be,r 10 nut an end 10 the desWcapi'
one-stcp" and pave the way for the re-
turn Of the gorgeous walt The music
which hc PLAYED between the CLASSIC
onera solcD .ions and the waltz consisted
Of m. gypsy dance from Carmen the
rharsndv on Spanish dance themes D.!
Chabri,r four excerpts from Ischa'-
kovsky's Case Noisott,. "a!tzes oH
Yerlioz rs,naikowsky and strauss the
march from Ra0's "Lenore' sympoOh!'
and . concert arrangement t~lthout tbe
Ecv7uan trumyt Of the uiumphai
march from AIDA all pleasing music
bat li,tle Instructive.
The critislsm on the vulgar taste "hlch
has now such extended Illustration I'D
our private and public bathrooms i1nple"
in Mr Damroschs alusion TO the d'-
spicallo ono-step." was carried bit
further d. the dances executed by Mt
Duryca and his associates. for they
s,oppod short at the twO-stcp and mace
no effort 10 illustrate that species o'
poe,ical motion which finds its inspiration
in Tire zoolo gical garden and the BARN
yard I'm rapid succession Mr.. DurFed
presented examples Of the minuei. ga
yottc schottiscne waltz caprice, gal"p
polka varsoviennc. Yorkc. redowa ana
wished the opportunity being a Inc
one. that the exhibition had been given
higher educational purpose. 1t is. per
haps. too much to hope that the present
generation. or even the next VIII Drlhe
back tho social dance 10 tn bcautifui
purpOse which it had at time when' II
sexual morality was no greater than IL
is al the present tune. there was a hh'i
appreciation OF the graceful ana gracious
social amenities which find expression ih
the dance How much more valuable ana
beautiful II would have been IT, instead
Of series Of illustrations OF the TWO
kinds Of steps which Mr.. Duryca "N-
planned were AT the basis OF the socla'
dancing which he illustrated. he ana MS
graceful helpers had given Their impress
slonablo. opcn-mindcd young spectators
some glinpses into the courtly dances Oh
the past. The hcctng view OF the
mnuet was all too nccting and the I'M
Preston made by the gavotte not AT an
distinct II would nave been a new ana
liberal education for the Young feop'e
Patrons had they been privileged 10 sec
now their ancestors went through inc
movements # the pavan, cOranto. canary
saraband etc. and If diversion were
wanted il might have been found in the
weller galliard and the volta. But 90
not al these things belong To the lost
arts? They are surely lost TO our dra"
ing rooms. and We fear also 10 our stag
We wonder how much Of the history %