New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-19

gramme for the second concert OF the
Friends Of Music at the Ritz-Carlton
this afternoon at o'clock. The open
ing number is Beethoven's Quintet in
f fat, Op. Is, for pianoforte. oboe. clsr-
met, bassoon and horn. After Baeh's
first sonata for pianoforte and flute b
minor played by Mr.. Bauer and Mr..
Barrere, the programme closes with the
Brahms Serensde for small orchestra,
Op. Is.
At the next Thursday evening concert
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra IN
Carnegie Hall. on January 9, Ernest
Seedlings new Symphonic Variations
will be played. with Mr.. Schelling as
pianist. These will have their first pub
lie performance in Boston the preced-
ing Friday and Saturday. The piano is
an integral part Of the work, and the
various leading instruments OF the
orchestra are employed much as solo
lists
At his second piano recital in Aeolian
Hall. Sunday afternoon. December 20
Harold Bauer will play Bach's ltaian
Concerto, the Schumann hreIslerlana'
the Beethoven Sonata in b fat, Op. 100;
a Chopin group, including the I'M
promptu in F sharp, Polonaise in r nat
minor. Nocturne in f major and Prel-
ude in sharp minor, and LISTS
Mephisto Waltz.
Nine. Lii Petschnikoff, violinist, will
have the assistance of Clare Clemens
Gabrilowitsch, contralto, and Rudolph
CAM, pianist, at her concert In Aeolian
Hall on Monday afternoon, January .:
Nine. Petschnikoff will play works OF
Brahms. Saint-Saens, Raft and Wien
iawski. while with Mr.. CAM she viii
give the Beethoven Sonata in A major,
On. AZ. Nine. Gabrilowitsch will sing a
Brahms group, with Maurice Eisner at
the piano.
The following concerts will be given
on Sunday afternoons in Harvard Hall
of the Harvard Club: January 3, HON.
mann String Quartet Boston Sym
phony Orchestra; January l6, David
Bispham; January %, piano recital by
David Sapirstein; January 30, vocal and
piano recital by Francis Rogers, 81,
and Lewis Williams, 90; February 8,
violin recital by Albert Spalding; Feb
ruary 10, song recital by Lambert Muir
ply. 'O8, and another singer Ito be an
nounced); February 20. Boston String
Quartet Boston Symphony Orchestral j.
For its first subscription concert, the
evening of January -, in Carnegie
Hall. the chorus of the Schola Can
/ forum of New York, under the leader
/ shin of Kurt SCHNEIDER, has been pre-
pairing a programme Of Russian and
| Finnish folksongs. The selections will
| include two of the best known Volga
songs, Ukraiuian Christmas songs
/ Southern Russia dance tunes from the
/ time of serfdom, jolly post drivers
song Chat which constitutes the main
theme of Stravinsky's ballet, "Petrush'
ka") and a Siberian prison song, as
sung in the mining camps of the IRA
Mountains. Some Of these songs viii
be rendered in the choral arrangement!
by Moussorgsky. Rimsky- Korsakof
/ Tschaikovsky and Kastalfsky. while
many of the traditional melodies have
been adapted for large chorus by Kurt
! SCHNEIDER.
The Finnish student songs, for male
chorus. found instantaneous favor
when presented in London IN me
| spring of 1918 by the Helsingfors So
ciety. Suomen Laulu, under rs director,
! Hc.kki Kenneth. They will likewise be
. in English. The programme will be
completed by set Of three Swedish
- fl1 frI a
by with Peterson Berger, a contempt
raneous Stockholm composer.
with annual visits TO cities south OF
/ New York and rehearsals of new works
/ 10 come the Philharmonic Society OF
New York will not be heard in this city
during the ensuing two weeks. The
next concert. which will be the first OF
/ the new year. will be given at the or
chestra's home in Carnegie Hall or
Sunday afternoon, January 2. On that
occasion an all-Wagner programme, the
/ first OF the present season, is an
nounced by Mr.. Stransky.
The Symphony Society's second
series of eight Sunday afternoon sub
scrption concerts will begin January
with an all-Beethoven programme. The
| solosts for the series include Fritz
( Kreisler, Schumann- Heink. Josef Hof
mann. Louise Homer, Marcia Var
J Dresser, Alexander Ssslavsky and L. A
Schmit.
Among the symphonic works to be
performed are the following: Bee
/ thoven's I'd and 7th Symphonies, Schu.
bert's Symphony in c, Brahms's I'd and
Sd Symphonies. Dvorak's Symphony
From the New World; Kallinikow''
/ Symphony in G minor, Schumann's
/ Symphony No. 4, a symphonic poem
"Ultava," by Smetana; festival
march. Louisiana" by Van del
Stucken; and the novelties will include
Victor Kolar's symphony in d, David
Stanley Smiths overture, "Prince
Hal"; Daniel Gregory Msson's prelude
to "The Pageant of Cape Cod" and
/ "Pupazzi." by F. Schmit.
The concert of February q will be
devoted exclusively to works Of more
intimate character, including Arnold
Schonberg's "Kammersymphonie," for
fifteen solo instruments; a serensde by
/ Brahms, a poem by Chausson, for vio-
| lin solo, with orchestra, played by
Alexander Saslavsky. and another num-
Der by L. A. Schmit.
Kitty Cheatham's holiday recitals
will be given, as usual, at the Lyceum
/ Theatre, on Monday afternoons, De-
cember 81 and January az o'clock
On the first programme the children's
songs from Gabriel Pierne's Children
at Bethlehem" will be heard. Christ
mas songs and legends Of France, Swe-
den and Germany; a group Of folk
songs OF England, Scotland, Holland
Russia and Japan, four children,
"Lohengrin," with Miss Emmy Des-
tim, as Elsa, tomorrow evening