New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-19
Invasion of PianiStS and
ViOIiniSts-What Shall
Be the Outcome?
SIX PERFORMANCES
RECORD OF BUSY DAY
Date Book for Next Sunday Calls
for Nine COncerts-FuIl
Week Promised.
By ". 4. kKEIIBItL.

the date book for next Sunday is already
burdened with nine. Between these TWO
hypothetical days OF rest the public VII,
he asked TO patronlze sixteen concerts
and seventeen operate representations,
TO say nothing OF the plays with music
which are set down sometimes es mu-
steal comedies. sometimes comic operas
sometimes as operettas 1t would be
amusing 70 take note Of the mania for
concert giving, which is almost sc fran
tic as the dancing craze, were II not
FOR the fact that back Of all this actlN-
ity there are tales OF financial losses ana
disappointed ambitions which are heart
breaking There is nothing that can he
done TO stern IL: IL must run It's course
like the terpsichorean hysteria. II has
often been said I'm the past Of the great
est and most experienced European ar
tists that they were shrewd in timing
their visits 10 America. They did not
crowd the stase. But that wise policy
seems TO have been abandoned this year
even by them. Paderewskis coming was
announced long ago, but that did not
prevent half dozen OF his rivals and
dozen artists. little known and wholly
unknown. from rushing TO the front In
the hope of sharing with him fame and
money. AS # Paderewski, Harold Bauer,
Josef Hoffman,. Godowski, Bachaus.
Katherine Goodsop, Carreho and Nine.
Bloom1eld-Zeisler could not fill the pop
ular craving for planoforte music. re-
citals or public concerts have already
been given by Ethel Newcomb, Nine.
Rider Possart. Cornelius Rubner, Harold
Randolph. Rebecca Davidson. Harold
Henry, Nine. Leginska, Eson Putt
Eleanora Spencer. David Sapirstein and
Victor Nittgenstein. The list does not
sound complete-no doubt some names
have escaped the record-and the season
Is still young. No less numerous have
been the violinists. All manner OF them
have come from the ends of the earth
Kreisler Ysaye, Elman. Kubelik. Maud
Powell. Samuel Gardner David Names.
Cordelia Lee, Maurice Warner, Edwin
Grasse, Jaime Overton, Kathleen Parlow
Marie Casloya. Robert Pollak, \. Sas-
lavsky, Thibaud, Vera Bsrstow; there
is no time to consider the proper order
ing Of them, and If the attempt were
made the result would only be heart
burnings. And the ships Of those who are
coming crowd the offing. There is no
time to make a roster Of singers and
the instrumentalsts Of different type
II is a lnomentous fact that there are
so many musical artists struggling for
a hearing in New York that the man.
20 n
lots. il seems the only thing 10 DO in
order TO get IN dates tor them all and
irritate public attention sufficiently 10
make paving audiences possible There
have already been cancellations OF dates
after public announcements notable
instance being provided by NJ. Longy
and his fellows from Boston-and. no
doubt. there VIII be more; for great as
is the popular interest i'm music in New
York it is not large enough TO supply
having audiences for all the concerts
which managers give on their own ac-
count or on account Of their ill-advised
clients. The market is deplorably over
stocked and purses as well as reputa-
lions are going 10 suffer nightly.
"Who offers much brings something
unto many is the shrewd observation of
the theatrical manager in the prologue to
Goethe's Faust" and il is not likely that
any taste was overlooked in yesterdays
entertainments The lovers Of the classics
had the fine concert Of the symphony So
cietv TO delight them, with the Mozart
Franck and Saint-Saens compositions ana
Mr.. Kreislers playing, which was DIS
cussed IN this place last Saturday seek
ers after variety found il at the Metropoll-
tan. where Elman played, and the Cen
fury Opera House; there was recital OF
high class pianoforte music by David
Sapirstein. young and promising local
virtuoso. for his friends and well Wlshers
the lovers Of sensationalism were gratfed
nv one Of the monster Hppodrome az
tairs. illuminated by the vocal pyrotech-
mics of Nine. TetraZzini, and those VINO
have cultivated a taste for concert room
song and yioloncellO music had Miss Alice
\ielsen and Jean Gerardy TO cater to them
NJ Carnegie Hall Both Of the artists last
mentioned had been heard here earlier in
the season. Miss Nielsen at concert OF
the philharmonic Society ard ". Gerardy
n combination
Godowski IN chamber concert. when
caused more grief than pleasure among
the iudicious lovers Of the highest form
~ instrumental music. lie had better
opportnnity to show his fine musicianship
as well as his technical accomplishments
Yesterday. though he played music OF a
lower order for the most part-muslc
especially written to display the instru-
mont upon which he is an indubitable
master. The numbers set upon his pro-
rranme were Boelmann's symphonic vari-
atoms. Bruch's arrangement Of the
fam,us "kol nidrc." belonging TO the
svnarocal ice and proper 10 the Day
Of Atonement: two movements OF SUITE
bv Boccherini transcrptions OF Bachs
familiar air and Schumann's "Abendlied'
and at the close Davidoff's glittcring
| "Springbrunnen."
Miss Nielsen. following the example Of
other operate singers who fill out their
time with concerts sang two classical airs
iv Handel and Mozart ("Care selve' and
"peh vieni non tardar'D and three groups
Of soncs-the first composed OF German
Ecdcr los schubert. List and Brahms the
second ~ French melodies by Sjogrcn and
Sinding 1.-TWO Norsemen), Duparac and
Bemberg. and the third OF English songs
/ bv Parker. Leoni Spruss and Brewer
Miss Nielsen has voice OF lovely quail
uv. but there used TO be more charm In
her operetta singing than there is now In
her ESSAYS in the ambitious and difficult
/ field Of srt-song. There were too many