New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-14
Miss ParIOW Heard with
Philharmonic and Carl
FlesCh with Symphony.
S. 6. FOSTERS DEATH
IS COM MEMORATED
Modern Music Society Makes
First Appearance at AeOlian
Hall with Miss Teyte.


There were three concerts OF magnitude
yesterday. symphony and Philharmonic
societies cIashing as usual i'm the after
noon. and new organization. whose
name, coupled with its programme. tend
"a TO cause some mystiAcation, giving
it's hrst concert I'm tine evening. AZ the
afternoon concerts there were solo play
ers on the violin. Carl rlcsch playing
the Brahms concerto with the symphony
Society at Aeolian Hail and Kathleen
ParloW du place Of NJ. Thibaud) the
Mendelssohn concerto with the Philnar-
monte Society. at Carnegie Hall. Since
neither players nor works need 10 be in
trCduceI. il may suffice 10 say that Miss
Parlow played what might. in contrast
10 it, fellow be called beautifully
feminine composition IN beauuluHy
feminine. but thoroughly admirable and
artistic manner. while. Herr flesch
PLAYED a superblv masculine COMPOST
zion in manner which was alter
nately fairly virile and delightfully."- et-
Terminate Inasmuch as the Brahms con
certo Is a twin brother TO Beethoven 8
and both are properly interpreted only
when their strong melodies are presented
as IL they were carved out Of perfect
marble which q Pygmalion had warmed
into life. the description Of Herr Flesch's
PLAYING may be guessed at from the eX-
plana ton. With his superb command OF
all that is best in violin playing Herr
Flesch ought TO play 1t better than he
does; but even the best of artists Will
occasionally play for the groundlngs.
There was a double interest in nov
city on Mr.. Stranskys Philharmonic pro-
gramme-a so-called symphonic study,
entitled LA Chase du Prince Arthur. 10y
the French composer, Guy Ropartz. The
piece. obviously descriptive OF a noe
turnal and mystical hunt, might have
been given a dozen other titles without
disturbing the Imagination or lessening
the appreciation Of its hearers Uor II Is
a pretty piece of modern French musicl,
but il was calculated to pque the curl
osity OF the lovers OF folk balladry by
the fact that il was nominaly based on
a Breton poem written by a poet, Au-
euste Brizeux, who was OF Irish origin,
and was composed by a Frenchman VINO
was born in the country which III us
folk tales and one of its ballads pre-
serves record OF the ancient relation
ship of Brtons and BretCns. as was set
forth in the ballad OF the siege OF
Gwengamp. printed in one or me
Tribunes chapters Of folk music last
summer. NJ. Ropartz's music. as has
been minated. is pleasant to the ear
and delightfully."- suggestive to the fancy,
though rot necessarily on the lines IN
vited By the programme.
The evening concert at Aeoian Han
was given by an organization called the
Modern Music Society of New York ana
was nominally devoted to a commemora-
ton Of the fiftieth anniversary of the
death OF Stephen c. Foster. but only the
concluding numbers OF the evening
brought forward any OF that graceful
melodst's music, and not in the original
package" TO use a commercial phrase
but SOPHISTICATED by Mr.. Landlord, VINO
IL apparently the head of the new organ
ization Here too il might be noted that
while solo songs like "Massa's in de cold
cold ground" "Old Black joe and va
Folks at Home were sung by chorus
the amiable old quartet, Come, Wnere
my love lies dreaming. was sung as
solo BY Miss Maggie Teyte. However
there is no time to discuss the music OF
Foster here. for it was only too evident
that neither he, nor the spirit Of his mu-
sic had much to do with the real pur-
pose Of the concert. which was TO exploit
the compositions OF some Of the American
composers OF to-day who have drawn their
inspii alton. not from Foster, but from
the dominant French school There was
one significant excepton-Mr. Henry r.
Gilbert. who produced "Humoresque on
Negro Minstrel Times" rather inverte-
brate thing, not at all comparable win
other pieces of similar order which nave
come from his pen.
Other pieces on the programme were a
movement from MacDowelIs indian
suite. a setting for solo Miss Teyte),
chorus and orchestra from fragment OF
"Solomon's Song" two pieces zone in
FRENCH. by Benjamin Landlord, piece
for female voices and orchestra entitled
THE Nuns of the Perpetual Alteration
BY Edward Burlingame Hill, and a siml-
lar composition. Pan With solo. by
David Stanley Smith \ small audience
seemed highly appreciative.
ON Thursday afternoon Miss Mabel IA.
MacConnel gave a song recital in KUN
ford Hall Miss MacConnell is an unas-
suming young artist who has an ad-
mirable voice. TO which she has gwen
thorough and intelligent training. She
vocalizes excelIently. and failed 10 charm
her audience only because there was so
little OF Interpretation. OF real song-sing-
ing. in her performance. With this added