New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-17
MOZART and
FRITZ KREISLER
A Delightful Concert by
the Symphony
Society.
VIOLlNIST DISCLOSES
FINE MUSICIANSHlP
"ParsifaI" Color Shown in Or
chestral Garb Of Cesar
Franck's Selection.

After IN n;crmisslon which began be
fore Christmas and was devoted 10
Western tour. the symphony Society re-
sumed its local ministrations in Aeoiian
Han yesterday afternoon. II was the
sixth concert in the Friday afternoon
series. and lts programme will nc re
poatcd tomorrow afternoon. more thor
oughly delightful affair than Mr.. Dam
rosch provided could scarcely nave been
planned The programme was divided into
two parts. the first given over to music ny
Mozart the second to French music or
what might bc called the quasi-classical
tyre as distinguished from the new school
Of to-day as-classical because the
compositions harked back to an early
period when solidity OF manner was still
respected and the noccJlcnt WITNESSES Of
Dobussv had not been dreamed Of. To
both divisions of the scheme Mr.. Frlfz
kreisler lent his superb art. playing
concerto for violin I'm ID major. and Saint
Sscns's Introduction and Rondo Capric-
cioso II was the fourth performance
which that work has received here with
in a fortnight Thibaud. Elman and Jaime
Ovcrton also having chosen II as one OF
their Introductory numbers, but played
as II was Yesterday, with rhythmical
, crispness and a purity OF intonation which
none OF Mr.. Kreisler's predecessors could
equal IL brought pleasant relief 10 the
listeners whose minds had been put on
strain by Cesar Franck's Prelude, Choir
ale and Fugue' which preceded II. and
also something of the ingenious delight
awakened by the symphony In minor
and the concerto OF the wholly classical
German master. In both the solo pieces
Mr. Krelsler disclosed consummate mu-
steamship. embodying the spirit of the
eighteenth century, with its incnabie
grace and sheer ioveliness, as completely
as the scintillant witchery Of the rondo
composed by the Frenchman who has
linked together the nineteenth and TWEEN
tieth centuries and was declared by DR..
Won Bulow a generation ago TO be the
most intellectual musician (uuSikdhsch-
er kopD then living.
1t was in the symphony that the pleas
ures Of the afternoon reached high tide.
Mr.. Damrosch and his men have done
nothing better in years. The reading was
sound, sweet and virile, the tone OF the
band splenddly muscular. pure ami
euphonious In the miruet especially
there sounded the joy Of youth and
health" and ease OF heart"
Cesar Franck's Prelude, Chorale and
Fugue" is a solo piece for pianoforte. 1t
was presented Yesterday in an orchestral
garb fashioned by Gabriel Pierne, mas
ger in orchestration. In II the Belgian
master poured out consciously an oblation
TO Bach. and. unconsciously. perhaps. re-
ceived a contribution from Wagner fact
which the orchestral transcription brought
prominently into notice. The bells or the
TEMPLE Of the Grail rang in the melody or
the chorale with its descending fourths
all the more plainly because there was
"Parsifal" color in the orchestra. The
prelude left the question whether or not
the transcription was justified by the re-
suits attained, but in the fugue and espe-
cially In the climax, where all the the
matte material is interviewer In the Drill
liant fabric, the effort was indubitably
ine. H. f. n