New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
RUSSIAN MUSIC
NOW The VOGUE
Concert of Nine. Aida
Proves Best on Its
EXternalS.
LA FORGE FURNISHES
ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHT
Best Tribute to Slavic Peoples
Given in Recital by
BrOmberg.

In contemplating the musical dolnBs IN
New York yesterday il would have been
embarrassing 20 have tried to associate
them with anything in the character or
the deity 10 whom our pagan ancestors
consecratod the third day OF the week
Tyr was scarcely the representative OF
harmony when he was worshipped and
though music does not necessarily mean
harmony I'm the sense OF decade or go
ago. or harmony music. yet II 50 hap
pened that his day this week had 50
much music in ii that one might have
thought that his festival was enjoying a
special celebration and that it meant song
song dramatic. lyric and instrumental,
but song always and only. The opera
house which is preaching the new evan
gel. over hundred years old in this
town. cf opera i'm English used the day TO
publish the merits musically II not
morally Ielcctablel Of the AeXandrian
court.san Thais, as celebrated i'm Mas
ecnets opera. Mr.. Josef Hofman took
occasion. a long one, To- prove 10 the lovers
Of yirtuo,o piano forte playing how al
mirable genuine and uplifting an artist
he is: MIR Conucll "A barytone. who sings
well. but has not learned that he has 70
sensational message TO deliver, squeezed
I'm recital I'm the afternoon; Nine.
AIDA. who always challenges interest and
commands applause. a large hearing and
many flowers, for reasons which have
little TO do with her artistic capacity
gave n concert in Carnegie Hall in the
evening. and under conditions modest IN
the G-st case. and not objectionably OBJ
trusive i'm the second, Mr.. Edward Br"m-
berg. a bass singer and the Russian
symphony Orchestra strove To make
propaganda for the music of the land Of
the car simultaneously but IN different
halls also in the evening.
No doubt all Of these occurrences might
he discussed so as To entertain somebody
if the worlds interest in other matters
was less eager. So there must be moder-
alton and discrimination. Nine. Aida
audience would surely rather enjoy over
again the pretty external incidents In an
account of them than 10 be told how
much more entertaining they were than
her singing and now the artistic high
lights Of the affair were those provided
and the violoncello playing OF Mr. Ca
SIM. So forbearance here becomes a
virtue. Mr.. Altschuler has become so
obsessed with the notion that Russian
music is summed up in the miscalled
Pathetic" symphony by Tschaikowsky
that sincere admirers of the compositions
Of the Muscoyites are inclined 10 hght
shy of his national concerts, for the
Symphonic Pathetique' has long BEEN
not patriotic preachment, but plague
from which ordinary concert-goers would
be glad Of dcliverance for period. Last
night Mr. Altschuler made wiser EFFORT
at propagandism by producing a dainty
noveltv by Reconsideration Finnish,
nor Russian. but charming-and also
uroper. though unfortunate one, in per-
mitting Maurice Warner TO play the
Glazounow violin concerto. This failed of
its purpose only because IT was not suttl-
ciently we'll played.
on the whole. the best tribute to Rus
sian art was that paid by Mr.. BromberS
AT his modest recital in Rumford Hall.
Mr.. Rromberg sang folksongs and art
songs told his hearers something about
their meaning in Introductory remarks,
and much more by singing them with a
good voice and nice appreciation of their
beauty. That beauty is great; uniqueiy
so in the case of the foksongs and al
most so i'm the case of the art-songs.
Thank heaven for the unspolled element
i'm Pussian art, H. r.. X.