The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-16
OLD TIME MUSIC
WELL PERFORMED
First Concert Of Twenty-sccond
Season of Musical Art
Society PlcaScs.
A CHOIR MUCH NEEDED

The first concert OF the twenty-second
season Of the Musical Art Society At
Carnegie Hall last evening was arranged
largely to celebrate the Christmas time
But the programme was skiifuily varied
so that contrast was continually afforded
and the hearers appetite whe:ted OF
course the evenings music began with
\ "Stlle kacht." which Is never On the
prog anime but always prefaces The Christ
mastide concert Tne regular l.st was as
| follows:
Par, l--"salvs Res'ra, -. Ps,es;rlns.
| "Hodie Christus uatGs est Nanini, Three
KINGS Have Journtycd,' cornelius, 'siHS 20
Part Ii -"GSa'a Time Is the Best sa.
| cred ,lntataI Bach. accompanied by yiolas.
Fart iIl.-'Cns, r. vater non.en suf dIch'
] Copus 1880, Brahms, 1.-TWO Nadrigas.'
M,aH n out via ireq ns, os.a Es s
rosch,
This array OF music offers food for
| much more comment, than a morning
record can contain. Even the programme
annotatur, with abundant space and time
at his command. found himself hard put
/ TO II to restrain the historical ardor
arous in him by the entrance OF Claudio
Monteveide's name Tor the first time into
I a Musical Art Society programme.
! The magnum opus OF he evening was tho
! Bach Cantdta, but nothing more imposing
/ was heard than the great three choir
| "Save Regina" oc Il losInd. Mr. Dam
| rosCh stationed the three bodies OF singers
as tar apart as possible on the limited
| stage and thus obtained results fairly
apprUXimdting tho correct antphonal ef-
| feet.
At any rate the final union OF tho three
| chOlrs was productive OF good tonai
quality. The work as a whole was well
/ r1xg v..Ht stNkE
brought out as clearly as the acoustics
lOf Carnegie Hall would allow. Nanlnfs
] "Hodie Chr!stus' went very well indeed
and in II tho excellence OF the tenors
| OF the chvtr was well displayed. Much
! enthusiasm was evoked by tn, arrange
| ment of Corneluss Alteration Of the
! Mag for solo and chorus, an arrange
ment which practically Transforms song
| with plaHotyrts accompaniment into a
! motet
ltemzing the features OF this concert.
| however. cannot be highly profitable The
| slpgng OF the choir was on tho whole
| better han IL was last winter There was
more remote time when the quality Il
tone was richer. but SO long as the pres
l'ntation Of the works OF the old fathers
~ as good as IL was last night there " II
he cause for gratitude that the Musical
Art Society continues It's ministrations IN
this lovely department OF the tunal art
| There has never been q time In the MS
tory OF New York music when such an
organization was more needed for IN,
prose- walton of d Cer,ain purity OF taste
than NV And stu more do We need 10
, hear THIS old music breathing the splr
OF revcrent Al devotion, free from the tJr-
bu'ent utterances OF human passion. lifting
ats aspirations always upward
, For our time is exceedingly prone 10
mat, rial SIN and our musical art leans 10
realism OF the frankest type. The ms
sion OF the Musical Art Society is bench
cent The music which Il offers Is belutI.
iul not only IN It's thought but as pur,
music The performances are merttor on:
and he audiences represent the best
musical taste OF the city