New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-10
SUNDAY SYMPHONIES
French Music at the PhIIhar-
moniC-The Symphony Society.

At the last Of the first series OF Sunday
afternoon subscription concerts In Carne-
gle Hall yesterday afternoon Mr.. Stransky
devoted the entire programme TO music
by French composers. In this he was Dut
following a precedent established some
time ago for the purpose Of giving the
composers OF all the world so Tar as they
have written music adapted FOR perform
ance at dlgnified orchestral concerts)
hearing Mr. Mailer. II will be remem-
bercd I'm his last season gave an ltahan
concert with compositions 10y SiniSaglia'
Nartucci. Busoni and Bossi; a Slavic and
Morse concert with music by Svendsen'
Tschaikowsky Sibilus and Dvorak; a
French concert 10 which Enesco, Lao
Massenet Debussy. Bizet and Chabr!er
contributed: and an English and AmcrI-
can concert wherein the composers were
stanford Elgar. Loefler MacDoweil ana
H,dlev. The circumstance Is recalled IN
connection with Yesterdays concert be-
cause Of q letter printed in The Tribune
some ten days ago i'm wtich an obviously
well meaning but certainly i'll Informed
gentleman complained OF the TOO great
predomlnance of German music In the
Philharmonic Scclety's lists and laudlnS
the fine concerts which he said ne had
heard in Italy. suggested that an ltalah
Philharmonic society be formed III Ne"
York which done. I'VE should hear music
never heard here before performed 10 per
fec,ion." The writer, indignant that the
nus,c of German composers should De
nraferred TO the exclusion Of great com
nosors ~ other nations" almost shouted
,ho question: What is the matter with
the great composers Oh SP"i"' ''"''N'' "'
especially Italy,
What indeed? But who are the orches-
trail I'VE will not say symphonic COM
posers of those countries who have been
excluded? Our correspondent compels us
m think that his knowledge of orchestral
music is on a level with that of the news
naner critic in St. Louis who some time
ago. when the local orchestra was begin
ming it's educational labors there, like the
CHAMPIONS Of Strauss waltzes and Rosslnl
oyertures in the programmes OF the Phil-
harmonic Society, protested against the
heaviness OF the ST. Louis orchestra
schemes and demanded some OF the
ucbtor works Of BerlloZ and Palestrina.
I, Mr. Holmes will produce the scores OF
SPANS great composers no doubt MT,
stranskv will read them with interest and
care not unmixed with the natural curl
osity always challenged by first ac-
uIaintance with the unknown. AS for
the French symphonists, they are no
more neglected in New York and Boston
than i'm Paris. and If our correspondent
heard much more Italian music from the
sev concert organizations of Italy than
no has heard in New York provided he
has been diligent I'm attendance on the
philharmonic concerts) he ought to make
haste and tell Mr.. Stransky and the pub
lie what it was.
italy is the land of opera The sceptre
of its supremacy in instrumental music
nossod away with Corelli. Nivaldi ana
,heir contemporaries The modern art
roots in Bach and in German, no matter
where cultivated. Sgambat, Martucc|
sin,eaglia. Bossi-who else has attempt
cd the orchestral forms with even
modicum of success?
what kind of orchestral music is cul-
uvated in Italy. where Mr.. Holmes would
have MS believe he found such interna-
,ionalism? We open at random rec
ord of the orchestral doings In Milan
where there exists the finest orchestral
organization in Italy, the Societa Or
chestrale del Teatro ALA Scala. BY
Irckv chance the leaves part at list OF
programmes for four concerts conduct
cd by signor Toscanini In 1895. The
compositions are not many, and so their
titles may be given:
First ccncert-Symphony IN d, Haydn;