New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-29
Many Concerts Given, Sew.
eral Designed for Small
Gatherings
TRIO DE LUTECE
PROVES UNUSUAL
Flonzaley Quartet in Me-
mortal Recital for Ed
ware ). de Coppet

The too-many concert-givers in New
| York yesterday devoted their whole at
tention to music designed for intimate
cnjoyment-whati is now called cham
Der music and song recital. There
were five entertainments Of the latter
! class, Julia CUP singing in Carnegie
Hall, George Hamlin in Aeolian Hall,
Edna Mampel in the Comedy Theatre,
Edward Bromberg in Rumford Hall and
Mary Tison Page in the small room,
which used 70 be large enough for the
/ best OF our chamber concerts, IN the
Carnegie Hall building. OF these af-
fairs something VIII DC found elsewhere
! in this issue of Inc Tribune.
At an entertainment Of different
/ order, and one that is still UNIQUE lan1
| likely to remain so, Miss Emma Roo
erts also sang the kind of music ordi-
narly reserved for song recitals. This
| entertainment was given by the or
| ganization calling itself the THO de
/ Lutece, q title which mas caused much
| myStihcatIon in the minds of concert
| goers who have never heard (and little
| blame TO them) that Lutece is a Call
| cised form of Lutetia, as Paris was
| called when Julius Caesar wrote his
! Commentaries. But that was a long
| time ago, the name having been sup
| planted by Parisa some fifteen hundred
| years before the kind OF music which
4 the Trio de Lutece played yesterday
was invented. That, however, is a
/ small matter since Messrs. Barrere,
1 Salzedo and Kefer, playing together.
would sound the same no matter what
| they collectively called themselves. It
was the Hon. Bardwell Slote, if we
/ remember rightly, who countered on
/ Mrs. General GilhOry's assertion shat
/ pOmmes de terre sounded better than
/ potatoes with the remark that the
/ tubcr tasted the same in all languages.
Mr. Barrere provided for his patrons,
who were not numerous, music written
I in the Paris of two centuries ago as
well as music Of to-day. With his as
{ sociates he played first a suite by
/ Rameau. later sonata by Claude De
! busy in three movements, two pieces
| by Ravel, in imitation of the style of
/ BorOdine and Chabrier. and one by AL
/ fred CasOlla in imitation of Faure;
/ finally Rave's Sonatine en- Trio,
which, we imagine, he had played at his
concerts on earlier occasions. The De-
busy sonata and the limitations (Which
were more or less musical jokes, like
the familiar orchestral variations on
I the German fOlk-tune "Kommt Elm
Vogel Gehogen") were announced as
+ first performances in America, and per
haps they we're, for combinations OF
flute, violoncCllo and harp are not COM
monty met with. They provided pass
ing entertainment and some amuse-
ment. the Debussy piece no less than
/ Ravels distortions of the melody Of
the flower song in Faust.
Miss Roberts, who was treated with
great amiability by the newspapers
when she gave a recital IN Aeolian
F Hall last Thursday, did not quite realize
all the expectations that the first praise
of her raised. She has a fine voice, but
il has not been evenly developed, either
as TO power or quality. She made her
best efforts in the Russian songs by
Arensky and RachmanlnOf and disclosed
her shortcomings most in archaic airs
by Tenaglia, Orlandini and Durantl
, the last represented by "Danzi Fan
ciulla." which she sang in place OF
I Cavalli's DELL autro magico," which
was on the programme).
In the evening at Aeolian Hall the
Flonzaley Quartet paid tribute of re-
spect 20 the memory Of its founder, the
late Edward J. de Coppet, who died las.
April, few hours after Mr.. Betti and
his associates had played for him the
slow movement from Beethoven's Quar-
tet in f flat, Op. 1917, which opened the
programme last night. It was followed
by a Mozart Quartet in c (No. 465, in
Kochel's catalogue). and the autobl-
ographic quartet, by Smetana, "Aus
meinem Leben." to which pathetic in
terest was invited by the fact that it
was written under the influence Of par
tial deafness, from which ahliction Mr..
de Coppet also suffered. All the music
was played with great beauty Of tone.
and most of it with fine insight and UNI
Outstanding. Ii. +. X.