New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-31
Notable Music by the
DamrosCh Society and
Nine. GOOdSOn.
WORKS BY SIBELIUS
AND PADEREWSK
A Reminder of the Polish Plan
lists First Nisit-Mr. DAM
rosch's Birthday.

ful experience with composition Tor
yioloncello and orchestra, yclcpt for
reason never TO ne learned. probably. a
"Sapphic Poem" ana composed hy Mr.
Granville Bantock II Is 20 he regretted
that the composer Of the one Hli-joy IN
Mr. Damrosch's scheme should have been
an Englishman 4 voice has been raised
in London recently generalizing broadly
and ignorantv that American critics con-
denim all English music. II would he
painful 10 read such things II they were
founded on truth. for the inevitable con
clusion would be that all American critics
are churlish toward English composers or
that all English music deserved con
domination. Neither OF the propositions
Is true. nor is It fact that American
critics as a rule have condemned English
COMPOSERS. Sir Edward Elgar Mr wal
lace Sir Charles Viliers Stanford. Sir
Arthur Sullivan. Frederick Cowen' Percy
Aldridge Granger and Mr. Bantock NM
self have had many opportunities "i'in
the last decade or two to read. many
pretty compliments 10 their art IN many
American journals. But this time tnere i
nothing rretty to say. but instead me
discipline of mind and feelings In relralh-
ing from saying the things Whlch WI
Rantock's music challenged. Let TINS
suffice: "Sappo survives because We slhs
her songs: if she sang as MT kehaIu
violonceHo did Yesterday at the lhsusa-
,ion ~ Mr.. Rantock she would never nave
deserved TO live al all.
The altog ther pleasant things onereo
for the dedication Of the audience were
Sibelius.s second symphony On d. be-
vitcbingiy arch little prelude by Jaerne-
fal, dntroduced here by the Russian SYM
nbony Society a few weeks ago.. ana
Paderewskis pianoforte concerto IN y
minor. with the solo part played by Mi'e'
Katharine Goodson. 1t would require an
overhauling Of the records 70 say "he-her
or not the symphony by Sibelius had peeh
nerfornled here before. II does NOT ilnteI
a., a.. memory of this recorder Of musical
doines. though he recalls performances -
oil tho other symphonies by the Finnish
comuoser within the last I'VE years We
sides performances Of nearly II not qui'e
all OF his symphonic poems. Siuei's' III
deed has long been persona 0rdtd IN Ne"
vork's concert rooms II cannot be re-
cauad that any one OF his four sym
rho,ies made 30 deep an impression as
aid the second yesterday. Strength mas
always been characteristic or MS "o' ~
strength. indeed, approaching rudehess'
but in this symphony the strength l.
haired with real beauty. IL IS splehu'u'f
wrought out largely on Russian mes
,boryb tbere IS some Of the spirit or I'm
land in its melodic material. us hus-
sianism lies in its uncompromlsing Nieor
n expression. its obstinate insistency OF
utterance (Sibelius can carry Out an
ootiuoto motive with the grim determlna-
tion Of Moussorgsky), its gripping cross
rbvthms and its harmonic poignaucy'
The music is full Of interesting detail
and there is not a dull moment in 1t, ana
il was superbly played
An old acquaintance, long absent ou'
whose memory fingered pleasantly IL the
mind. came back with Mr.. PadereWsHl
concerto. This was one Of the WORKS WIFI
which the great Polish artist-composei
and virtuoso- introduced himself to the
American people twenty-five years Ego
last November II may have been played
bera since by some other artist, or II
may have not: the significant fact about
il is that II deserves TO be heard ana ina,
Nine. Goodson deserves the gratitude oil
New Workers as she won their plaudlts
Yesterday for playing it. On the memo
rah1e occasion twenty-five years ago the
concerto came at the end Of programme
which contained Saint-Saenss concerto IN
& minor and a group Of solo pieces. There
Was much to talk about, but The Trlo-
mes reviewer nevertheless found time TO
sneak of the concerto in these words:
Hold his pIaviug not already made am
rl. demonstration Of the fact ;hat ne Is
something besides virtuoso. the CON
certO would have established ms rlSht 10
the title OF musician. II is full OF youln,
ful yigor and starts OF WIN a eoou uea'
Of the fire which burns in work based on
patriotic feeling 1t reflects the spirit OF
folkmusic. the music of the people. and
il discloses a splendid mastery OF lhe
technique Of writing. especially III tne %
chestration. and az the first concerto 81
a virtuoso II eXCites wonder that the SOLO
instrument should be relegated 10 the part
which il plays In the worh-not supoI
diuate part, Yet not Illuminating pa -
the part assigned 10 q single important
instrument i'm the instrumental apparatus.
II is a concerto which can be heard more
than once with pleas
There is nothing TO be modified in this
estimate. Since then Mr.. PadereWskis
Polish Fantasia" has crowded the youth
ful concerto into the background. but the
latter has again been heard with pleasure
and may still be. and more than once
especially II played with such affectionate
devotion as II received yesterday from
Nine. Goodson and Mr.. Damrosch. There
was lovely tenderness in its slow move
ment and superb verve and rhytnmical
snap in the first and last movements. IL
aroused q fine exhibition Of enthusiasm.
Mr.. Damroschs musicians had remem-
bered that the day was the fifty second
anniversary Of his birth and decorated his
music desk with verdant festoons and
fresh flowers. They also greeted MIN with
applause on his entrance.
F;ya plovc at the Princess