The evening world., 1916-11-03
Boston Orchestra
In First Concert
Without SOLOist
BY Sylvester RalcHng.
the Boston symphony


night. for the drst time this season.
II takes the place OF honor In the mu-
steal chronicles OF the day. Yet the
people Of that highly cultivated Mas
sachusetts adjunct Of the Metropolis
of America need not preep their
wings too proudly. Their orchestra
Is ours. too. Much Of Its international
reputation was made here. With due
recognition OF the philanthropy OF
Major Higglnson. which made b
cbestra possible. and the genius Of
philip Hall. the prophet who has pro-
claimed It. the organization Ia q New
York asset, just as much ours as the
Philharmonic or the Symphony Or
chestra-
Dr. Muck dispensed with . soioist-
Sometimes one wonders why ever
there should be one with q symphony
orchestra. He began his programme
with Beethoven's immortal 'Eroics"
symphony. supcrbly played. Then
there followed Berlioz's overture to
"The Corsair." Liszt's symphonic
poem "Mazeppa" and Richard
Strauss TIL Eu~lenspiegel's Merry
Franks" in the order named. Was
1t the fault Of my ear that the Ber-
lioz and Liszt works seemed a bit
too noisy? Perhaps! At any rate.
the "Til Eulenspiegol' vas pro-
,ntNn1nA uytsh an.h infi,.at, n.l.r-
standing. with such commanding
sweep and with such splendid illu-
mination as to stine criticism.
The house was crowded with New
York's best in musical understanding,
with IA large leaven OF people familiar
In New York society.
Ethel Leg1nska. the little English
witch. with her closely cropped nalr,
all in black save for the Elton collar,
ON a darkened stage after the man
ner OF Paderewski. intiexiblo us the
master not to begin until absolute
silence prevailed. gave a plano recital
at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon.
The large audience showed the meas
ure OF her popularity. and that 1t was
an audience OF musical intelligence
was proved by the absolute silence
that prevailed during the pausos in
Bach's italian Concerto" with which
she began her programme. A mas
terly Interpretation OF the work she
gave. too. In the sixteen valses OF
Brahms. with which she followed II.
her playing was exquisite. The res,
OF her programme. which included
Beethoyen's ~"Patheuque" sonata. !
could not stay to hear.
While Leginska was playing at
Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon a
French pianist was making his Amer
lean debut at Aeolian Hall. He was
Robert Lortat. OF whom Yvette Gull
bert has said such complimentary
things. NJ. Lortat justified her en-
comlums. He plays with a %crispness
an eds and a charm that are ire
sistiblc. But his programme was inor-
dlnately long; at least one-thlrd TO,
long. Yet. u II hadn't been so, | SHOULD
have heard much less OF him. Tn,
things | didn't hear included Schu
mauu's Variations SympAOnIqucs'
and Chopiu's "rwenty-tour Preludcs.'
played without pause. The things
did hear were examples OF Debussy
Faure and Chabrier.
OF the other rccitals yesterday. one
was at Acolian Hall last night hS
William Wheeler, the tenor OF ST Bar
thOlomcw's Church Choir. His voic,
has much beauty. but II lacks variety
The best thing Mr.. Wheeler accom-
plished was Richard Strauss "Liebesr
hymuus." His programme include,
compositions by S~chumaun, Schubert
brahms, and Of the modorns. IL. Il
Buricigh. j. Bcrtram Fox. Arthur
Hartman and Philip James Harold
Osborn Smith was Mr., Wheeler's ex,
cellcnt accompanies at the piano,
There was n recital AZ the Cort The
atrc yesterday afternoon by Myrtle
Moses, IA mt21o-soprano OF the Chi
CaEo Opera Company Her programme
embraced compositions by Beethoven
liayIu, Brahms Gr,cg, a Freucl
group and an English group. OF tn
latter ! heard Carpenters "On the Sea
shore Of Endless Worlds" and Tn.
"~lccp That Fits on Baby's Eyes.
In these Miss Moses showed appreci
alton of the sentiment and a vote
tnat suited n, William Reddick wa
hor accompanies at the plano.
Albert RciFs repeated al the Gar
rick Theatre last night his admirabl
production % the two MozHrtial
operas. "Rastion and Ba,tienne" an.
THE lmprosarlo." After he had pre-
scented them At n zone porformdnc
only" at the Empire Theatre las