The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08
BOSTON ORCHESTRA
IN BRAHMS MUSIC
First Matinee Concert Opens
With Great Performance Of
Second Symphony.
SUITE BY MR.. CHADWICK

II must have escaped tho not.oe 10
some OF the local commentators on rnu.
cal matters that on October 20 Dr. K,-.
Muck conducted the Boston Symphony O.
chestra in its homo city in the FRS, nor.
Torrance there OF the fourth Symptom %,
Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz. born In 1850
in Guingamp, France. and by the la',s,
accounts a resident OF tho troubled CIV
OF Nancy. Possibly the sans recorder.
forget that on the programme Of w..
terdays matinee was the symphonic
poem "FnlandIa." by Jan Sibelius horn
In Finland and living In Helslnsfors.
city in the domains OF his Imperial
Majesty of Russia.
II these facts had not been ovorlooh,,
there might have been less said sbou,
the exclusively German character OF N.
music at the first concert OF the Bo,
tonians on Thursday evening. Dr. MUCK
is musician and great master "A
well as "A Prussian. and he has under
his baton an orchestra I'm which der
mans. Bohemlans Russians, French
Belgians Italians and Americans ar.
seated together. The benefcent shield o..
art will protect them all. and thereto.
II will probably not be necessary arair
to touch upon the subject OF neutrality
Yesterday afternoons programme wa.
not one to tax the mind OF the listener
II has always been Or. Mucks plan 10
make the matinee concerts somewhat sim
pier In constitution than tho evening
ones Whether this Is because he has
no belief in the theatrical manager.
DOGGY. the tired business man." or b.
cause he Is no advocate OF the equality
OF the sexes he has not made known
The plan has certain merits at any rate
The concert began with the great .
major symphony OF Brahms. which WI.
sung by tho instrumental body In such
a manner as 10 move tho really sensitive
listener TO emotion. Tone OF tho mos.
luscious quality. perfect balance. eNqu..
site adjustment of the dynamics and the
modification OF tempt in the nuanc'ns
and a mastery arrangement OF the de
tails OF the performance in their re.a-
lions to a noble general conception wsrs
the salient features Of this unique per
Torrance.
The symphony was followed by George
Whitfield Chadwicks suite for orchestra
entitled symphonic Sketches" Ths
work has four movements with the
names Jubilee" Noel" "Hobgobln
and "A Vagrom Ballad" They we-e
composed at different times and wers
first played all together by the Boston
Orchestra in Boston on February l
1908. Or. Muck conducting
A melodous suite is this sometime
richly and sometimes inefIectvely Or
chestrated. but always bearing the ma E'
OF musicians hand. The preachmc =
OF Or. Dvorak as TO American Oh.
matte materials were not lost on Air
Chadwick. who has heard the tune OF
Afro-American folk song and found E.
TO his liking Some OF the best thoUs .
in his sketches is that which initial -
plantation melody.
The first movement is perhaps the mo-.
firmly knit Of the four, though the SOW
one has some value. But this suite b
not one OF the best creations OF the Cd
tlnguished head OF the New Engl md Cor
servalory OF Music. 1t was admirah''
played, OF course. and similar state
ment can be made In regard TO Sibeliu~'
tuneful song OF Finland which brought
the concert to a pleasant end.