Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
FANFARES SOUNDED
IN MUSICAL CAMPS
The Battle of the Bassoons VIII
Soon Begin in This City.
Soloists Engaged

As In other years philadelphia Ia a..
TO be split Into two rival can1pa Of ornA..'
tral and operatic music And, AZ in nsks-
years the former faction will have a srss.
the better OF II In priority One doesnT
need singers, costumes and scenery a., 80.
certs, and that is why the orchestral 49,.
can enter the field with just az many faa
fares and fiourishes and before its r,,.,
The only panoply Il needs is the nanon,, -
melodlous sound. r" Vi .
Aside from the brief visit OF tho N...
YORK philharmonic TO the Academy ny.
vemper l3, which Is rather an event =.
itself, there will be plenty of good orrn..'
tral music hereabouts before the opera,Io
invasion, with the Boston and New W.,
Metropolitan companies in the field Az
nouncement OF the first program of tha
Philadelphia Orchestra lust made ~ 4, ~
fair forecast of what is TO follow ,,n
meet with the approval which always ereets
fine art, ingeniously interarraneed win
no soloist, Mr. Stokowski will play Ree,ho.
ven's "Coriolanus" overture. Brahmss nm.
aging Third symphony, Rogers Variations
and Fugue on Merry Theme of HITLER
Opus 100" and Sibelius's Finnlandia Her.
Is no caviare for the general, or the private
either. but happy blending of nineteenth
century classicism with older and newer
music. We can spare Dukas, scriab,ne
and the other disciples bf dissonauce for
while IL Mr.. StokowslSi is going to treat
us to renascence of Beethoven and
Brahms. But we hope Bruckner ana MA
dull brothers are not going TO come IN
under the mantles Of the two bigger B's
The first concert will be at the Academy
Friday afternoon, October 10, followed bv
that OF Saturday night, october H.
Singers for Bach Passion
The jealous conductor also is busy with
plans for the performances Of the Bach
Passion music later in the season. Early
next week In New York he will rehearse
the artists taking part. Their personnel
includes Florence Hinclxle, soprano Mar
garet Keyes contralto; Morgan Kingston.
tenor: Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, and
Herbert Witherspoon, basso.
Walter Damrosch may be relied on 10
give this city some interesting concerts
| this winter. They will be three in number
on December 4, January 8 and February s.
| at the Academy. Mr.. Damrosch, whatever
| one may think of him at the conductors
| stand. is invariably bright and original in
| his effectiveness. Whoever heard him play
| "Perambulator Suite" and his own "Iphi-
| genia in Aulis' last season will admit that
and now he promises other first-time pieces
He has also engaged the excellent Swedish
contralto, Julia Claussen, once a figure in
| local operate annals. She will sing at an
sll-wagner concert, pleasant anticipation
for those who heard her robust ortrud
| at the Metropolitan.
Two panists of great attainments. Josef
! Hofmann and Harold Bauer, are the other
soloists for the Damrosch season.
The Case of Mime. Destinn
Fate has done impresarios in, as Eliza
| Doolittle said before this But seldom
| has the doing-in process been quite SO
| vic konSss in the case of F,nmy Destinn.
She Uss to have been one of the soloistz
with the Boston Symphony here, and now
across the cables comes the news that the
singer has been detained-and will be de-
tained-by German military authorities
abroad So she will hardly come TO town
with Doctor Muck's musicians. mores the
| pity. However, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
| Carl Friedberg. new" pianist Kreisler
and Susan Miller, mezzo, they may be
expected to make out fairly we'll OF the
last named the writer knows little. Her
| engagement by Doctor Muck is an earnest
Of her worth, in all likelihood.
Chamber music, II seems. is not diminish-
ing in favor. The Kneisel Quartet In two
concerts in Witherspoon Hall on Thursday
evenings, January and February ] will
prove that contention, pro or con. The
University Extension Society's department
Of music is the patron of both concerts
Paderewski's recital in the Academy OF
Music. Saturday afternoon october 21, is
calculated to give more than a flip to the
autumnal season. The Polish pianist has
and is so confident of his regained strength
that he will give about sixty concerts IN
this country during the winter He is now
on tour on the Pacific coast.
The enterprising Philadelphia Musical
Bureau comes forward lin the person OF
its ingratiating press mani to say that
"Philadelphia's first recital of the season
will be a concert by Paul Meyer, vlolinlst
and Mary Barrett, soprano in Wltherspoou
Hall, Thursday evening. October 49," Mr
Meyer has been heard in recital here be-
fore. and was at one time concertmaster
of the Chicago. Symphony Orchestra. One
of his first pupils In this city was Sascha
Jacobinoff. the young violinist who will
play here with the Philharmonic. Miss
Barrett is we'll established locally. The
Bureau. too, promises novelties. Let ni
hope they will be as piquant as Mr.. Dam
rosch's usually are. B. ID,