New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-06
NEW YORK HEARS
MANY CONCERTS
Yvette Gui1bert Renders
Songs of the Soldiers
of France"

A veritable avalanche of concerts
and recitals descended yesterday upon
the devoted heads of New York's
music lovers.
Outside the New York Symphony So
ciety's offering and that of Mr.. Pade-
rewski, the event of the greatest in
terest was the recital of Nine. Yvette
Guilbert in the evening at the Maxine
Elliott Theatre. Nine. Guilbert's sub
ject was "Songs of the Brave Sol
diers of France" from the time of
Joan of Arc 10 the present day. Mr..
Clayton Hamilton prefaced the recital
with an address on "The Heroes of
France" and VI. Gustave Ferrari again
played Nine. Guilbert's accompani-
ments most marvellously.
The programme was intensely inter
esting and one often peculiarly
poignant. There was "Reveillez vous
ficards" of the period of Jeanne, and
LA Ballade Comique du Franc
Archer" of Francis !, while of the
period of Louis XIV there were
"Saute Blonde" and "Votre Cotillon,
Mesdames." In these songs Nine. Gull
bert expressed with exquisite shading
and infinite variety the gay spirit of
the French soldier. that spirit in
which love and laughter are forever
mocking death, a spirit French and
only French, so alien to the Anglo
Saxon that for centuries il was utter
ly misunderstood, and to the English
man the instability of the Gaul had
become an axiom.
Then came the heroic days of the
Revolution and Andre Chenier's lie
Chant du depart" to the music of
Mehul. so French in spirit also and yet
so universal in appeal. This required
more voice than Nine. Guilbert could
give TO it. and yet who in the great au-
dience was not stirred by the spirit
that radiated from the singer? Then,
70 show that even under the guillotine
France was still France, we had
"Apris de ma Blonde" followed again
by tragedy in "Marlbrough sin va ten
guerre." a song far indeed removed
from its English version of 81 won't 60
home until morning"
OF Napoleon we were given "Chers
grenadiers de France" instinct with
the spirit of "les vieux groguards" and
"Le Petit Matthew" while to close the
evening there was a pot-pourri of the
refrains of the soldiers of 1914, all
closing with "The Marseillaise," su-
perbly detained by Nine. Guilbert to
a standing audience, and at the end
greeted by applause and even cheers.
IL was an interesting and inspiring
evening.
In the afternoon The Orchestral So
ciety Of New York. Max Jacobs, con-
ductor. gave concert at the Cort
Theatre, playing, among other things,
new symphonic poem by Homer y.
Bartlett, called apollo" The assist
ing artist was Arthur Hartmann, vio-
linist, who played the Saint-Saens vio-
lin concerto in B minor, OPP. 81.
In the evening the same theatre held
song recital by Miriam Ardini, So
prano, while at the Comedy Theatre
Nine. Maja Niessen-Stone sang several
songs, including two interesting ones
by Rudolph CAM and five songs by
Mr.. Paderewski TO words by Catulle
Mendes.
AT the Harris Theatre Max Sanders
gave the second of his elite musicales
to good sized audience. The string
and woodwind choirs Of the Russian
Symphony Orchestra took part. and
Charles Harrison, young tenor pos
sessed of an unusually pleasing voice,
sang songs by Charles Wakefield Cad
man and Harry Burleigh, both COM
posers accompanying him at the piano.