New-York tribune., 1915-12-26
Kreisler and PavlOwa
Appear in Weeks ReCitals

out an announcement from the society
that the Messiah" was 10 be given Is
unthinkable. Louis koemmenich will
certainly not break the old rule, and
for the performances on Tuesday after
noon and Thursday evening in Carnegie
Hall he has engaged Nine. Cormns
Rider-Kelsey. Mrs. Henriette Wakefield,
Lambert Murphy and Vivian Gosnell.
The Philharmonic Society Of New
York gave no concerts during the week
just ended and will not be heard again
az Carnegie Hall until Sunday after
noon, January ,, when an all-Wagner
programme will be presented. The
orchestra is devotlng the intervening
fortnight 70 preparations for its JAM
uary scheme OF programmes, which in
clude the Richard Strauss perform
snces and the Bach Beethoven Festi-
val. the latter in conjunction with the
0ratorio Society of New York. Dur
ing the Festival the Bach Magnihcas
will be conducted by Louis Koem-
menieh and the Ninth Symphony will
be produced under the leadership of
Josef Strsnsky.
series OF Sunday afternoon subscriD-
tion concerts TO be given by the Sym-
phOny Society of New York exceed all
previous records OF the society. The
soloists engaged for the second half
OF the concert season are Fritz Kreis-
Ter, Schumsnn-H Heink. Josef Hofmann.
Louise Homer. Marcia Van Dresser,
Alexander Saslavsky and l.. A. Schmt
The novelties TO be presented az this
series include r. Schmitt's "Pupazzi.'
Victor Kolar's Symphony No. in ID.
the prelude 10 THE Pageant Of Cape
Cod" by Daniel Gregory Mason. and
David Stanley Smiths overture prince
Hal" The opening concert OF the
series will be given in Aeolian Hall on
Sunday afternoon, January ,. An all
Beethoven programme will be pre-
sented as follows:
symphony No. q in ID
Msssr Do Bus.chsr. Csrhsrdt and Bisnco
symphony No IN A.
For those who, through the medium
OF music, wish to get better insight
into the soul of a people the Russian
folksong concert TO be given by the
Schola Cantorum on January IL will
offer ample interest. From the wide
plains OF the Volga through the rsdi.
ant, happy fields Of southern Ukraina
to the bleak, melancholy steppes Of the
north and of Siberia, the fifteen ball
lads, songs and dance tunes will cover
wide range. Little Russia will bs
represented by the Danube song, in
Moussorgsky's version, by the Spin
ming Top Catch, and by two Yuletids
carols, as the peasants sing them on
Christmas Eve, in GogoPs "Ukranian
Tales" Bright and humorous pictures
will be shown in gypsy rongs, bridal
roundelays, love songs, postillion dit
ties, and in Pantchenko's "If" song, with
its satire against the Cars govern-
ment. In THE Nightingale" by Tschai-
kovsky, the composer has taken tho
various folk tunes describing the birds
winter farewell, and made a composite
picture of them.
"Dubinushka," the song OF the cud-
gel. a century-old Volga refrain, was
adopted by the people TO express their
feeling of rebellion during the revolu-
tion Of 1905-'06. This is the song
which the insurgent students sang in
Kiev, before Stolypin, the Prime Min
lister OF Russia, was assassinated, and
It was likewise this song which Chalis-
pin, the famous basso, friend OF Gorky
and at that time the idol Of the people,
sang at mass meeting of Russian
laborsrs, with the result that he was
nearly bsnished from Russia.
All these songs will be sung BY
mixed chorus of 175 voices, most OF ths
singers being professionals, and with
incidental solos by distinguished solo
lists. They will be sung in English.
Kurt SCHNEIDER, the director Of tho
Schola Cantorum, wishes TO announce
that with this programme he Is not at
tempting an exact reproduction, in ths
foreign idiOm and Interpretation
task already nobly undertaken by the
Russian Cathedral Choir-but is try
ing to give them, in their new English
garb, the widest possible popular ap-
peal, to establish for them a permanent
place IN American choral repertoire, in
order TO bring them home 70 the heart
Of American audiences, as they came
from the heart of the Russian people.
The well known English pianist
Katharine Goodson, who has already
appeared in Aeolisn Hall this season,
will give her second New York re.
cltal on Thursday afternoon, January
O. On this occasion Miss Goodson will
open her programme with the Mozars
sonata in A major This will be fol.
lowed by the Beethoven sonata IN @
sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, or better
known 10 the muslc-going public as tho
Moonlight" sonata. Her second group
Is made up from numbers by Schu.
mann, Brahms, Bach, Gluck- Sgambsti
and Scarlatti. The Beethoven sonata
IN A fiat, Op. 40, will complete the
programme.
The Kneisel Quartet will have Har-
Old Bauer as assisting artist at its
third concert on Tuesday evening, Jan
uary H.. The programme will open
with novelty, the Sibelius quartet
for strings, in d minor, 0p. 56, which
will be played for the first time in New
York. The rest Of the programme will
be in memory Of Rafael Josefy, and
will consist Of compositions especially
connected with him the cavatina from
the Beethoven quartet, Op. 1870, and
the Sehumann piano quintet, Op. "a, in
which Mr.. Bauer will take part.
Two interesting programmes have
been arranged by DR.. Karl Muck for