The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-20
CONCERTS, RECITALS, NOTES OF
MUSIC.

The Peoples symphony Society. with
Franz y. Arens. conductor. will give its
nrst concert OF the present season this
afternoon at Carnegie Hall Maude Powell.
me eminent American ViolinSt. will be he
soloist She Will play the first movement
OF the Beethoven violin concerto and Saint
Saens's Introduction aud Rondo Capric-
ciosa. The orchestral numbers will be
Eoldmark's Spring" overture. Tschaikow-
skys Pathetic" symphony. the air for
string orchestra from Bachs suite in ID
and Cigars "Pomp and Circumstance
march.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch. the Russian pianist
Will be the soloist with the symphony So
ciety OF New York. Walter Damrosch. con-
ductor. this afternoon at Aeoian Hall
Ms. Gabrilowitsch will play RachmaninofI' ;
concerto No. 2. for piano with orchestra
The complete programme IL as follows
symphony in G. minor. Saint-Saens: con.
certo for piano with orchestra, No. >. Rach
manlnor. Iberia" Debussy The sec.
ond series of eight Sunday afternoon con-
certs given 10y the symphony Society OF
New York. Walter Damrosch conductor
az Aeolian Hail. will begin January z and
continue on the following dates: January
10. -. 81; February :. IS, and March
An unusually attractive list of soloists VIII
be presented during this series OF concerts
including Fritz kreisler. Josef Hofmann
ferruccio Busoni. Elena Gerhardt. Leonard
borwick. Emilio de Gogorza. George Bar
rere. Ethel LeRnska and Arkady Bourstin
The next concert of the Philharmonic
society In New York will be the first OF two
concerts for young people TO be given a,
Aeolian Hall. II will take place on Saturday
Iny Il
viii appear in descriptive songs and reci-
tattons. In the meantime the orchestra
viii be occupied with rehearsals as the con-
certs which were TO have been given in
Canada during the coming week having
been cancelled on account Of the war.
Harold Bauer will be the assisting artist
at the second concert of the kneisel Quartet
which will be given at Aeolian Hal on Tues
day evening. He will play the Brahms
Sonata for pisnoforte and violoncello in T.
minor. or. IS. with Mr.. Nilleks and assist
the members OF the quartet and Ludwig
Mandy. double bas Sc. IN tho Schubert "Forel-
len quintet The opening number on the
programme will be the Dvorak quartet in
d minor, op. "a Hans Lett will be in his
acoustic med place OF second violin. as he has
recently returned TO this country after re-
ceiving release from military duty in Ger
many.
Al the Brooklyn Academy Of Music on
Tuesday evening liandel's Messiah" will
be given under the auspices of the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences The concert
will be given by the Brooklyn Oratorio So
ciety, Carl G.. Schmidt. president, and
Walter Henry Hall, conductor. with chorus
of more than $50 voices large orrhestras
organ and a vocal quartet. The soloists will
he Mrs Agnes Alsop Ward, soprano. Ida
Ga rdner. contralto; Dan Beddoe. tenor, and
Robert Maitland. barytone.
The occasion will serve 10 celebrate the
twenty NTH anniversary OF the founding
OF the Brooklyn oratorio Society. which had
its beginning with MIR. Hall and has been
under his leadership continuously for quar-
ter OF a century. The society is now under
he general supervision OF Columbia lni-
versty through the fact that Mr.. Hall holds
the chair as director of choral music at the
Heretofore concerts have been
given each season in New York and in tho
coming concert the university will cooperate
with the institute in giving BROOKLYN music
lovers an opportunity to support by their
a ttendance this distinctly Brooklyn organ
iIation
Kitty Cheatham, who na, made the songs
ton, announces her thirtieth recital in New
York al the LyCeum Theatre on Munday
afternoon, December -. In her pro-
z ra nine Miss theatha IN reveals muo h hith-
erto unheaTd material of great interest
Ten new manuscript songs by American
composers Mrs. II. H. 4 Beach. Harold
Vincent Miligan. Edward FAX Louis ,io,t-
schulhl, in addition to negro folk songs ard
historical nursery rhymes, show Miss Cheat
ha ms "A, tiventerest in what her own ,oun-
try Is producing. England is represented
by Frederick Norton and " Graha m Rob
ertson An old French Christmas carol ~
followed by group of chidren's songs
from Germany Eric Wolr's posthUmous
Marchen = and manusc rpt songs by Hoberi
Kahn aud Alfred S2endrei. Tolstoy and
represent Russia and Sihelus,
Finland.
Harold Bauers last three New ura re
,ItuIs, TWO this season and one last spring
,hancrd to be given on the same date as
the BOSTON symphony Or, lcstra, u fact
that calri .ar.E ptHsest from not few
of the latter's subscribers, Nlr Bauer's
nest recital. however. will not be oh SYM
phony day, the date chosen being Sunday
aft crnoon, December % Mr.. Bauer has
selected programme of popular piano
classics, Including among other mum
beers the Bach ChromatIc Fantasia and
Fuguc, the Beethoven Moonlight" sonata
the Schumann "Carneval' and the Wagner
Ride of the Nalkyrics
carl Flesch violinist. viii give II recital
at carnegie Hail on the afternoon of Decein-
Der ~.
The second New York recital of Fritz
Kreslrr Will be given in Carnegie Hall
Wednesday afternoon. December 30
On January 2. in the afternoon. al car
negic Hall. Efrem Zimbalst will be heard
in his second violin recital,
The Hotel Biltmore announces a series of
seven Friday morning musicales TO be given
during the present season on the following
dates, January 20. February ~. February
20. March ~, March 20. April o. April ~
Geraldine fhrrar. Luca Botta and Pablo
Casa\s are the soloisis for the first musical 10