New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20
Book of Boston
Programmes
Mr.. Hale's Interesting Ammo
tations Prepare Us for
Next Seasons SYM
phony Concerts.

A welcome visitor that come, "a
US in midsummer is the bound yoly,.
of the programmes of the series a,
concerts given by the Boston Syn.
phony Orchestra, published by C.
Ellis, manager, and edited By Phil,
Hale. Not only does the volume -.
mind US, like the nudge Of a friend,
elbow, Of some of the pleasures a,
the season which has passed away; il
also enables US to share in imagins.
ton the joys Of the people Of Bosto,
and, better than all this, prepare, y,
for some Of the delights which v.
know to be waiting for US mex. sea.
son. All these things are more enjoy.
able in midsummer than in midvints,
when We are in the midst Of n.
musical turmoil and either TOO tired
or too busy 10 read.
Mr.. Hsle's annotations o, the pro.
grammes are things TO be read AZ
leisure, not skinned over in the con.
cert room. The "Entr'actes and TX.
cursions" are an agreeable entertain
ment when the mind is at rest or in.
clined TO retrospection or speculation.
One should amble through them 70 ii,
music of the rustling leaves Of the
trees, not of the programmes them.
selves. Then they unfold their mean.
ing. The between-acts intervals o,
the concert-room are Cor moment,y
relaxation Of a sort which Is b.s.
obtained by chattering confsb with
your neighbor in the next seat ard
setting him to rights as to the many
things in which he has disclosed his
ignorance while exercising his In.
alienable privilege Of criticism. u
he sits in the next seat but one or two
all the better; so much wider will Do
the periphery of your benehcent IL.
fuence. Therefore, Mr.. Hale's books
should be carried home and read IN.
der conditions which make them
pleasant and profitable and which en-
able you to store up the knowledge to
be disseminated at the next meeting
The "Entr'actes and Excursions" in
the volume before US consist chiefly
Of essays from English newspapers
which furnish an excellent guide to
the more serious trend Of musical
thought across the water. Mr. Hal.
is also represented in Thu depart.
/ ment by an article OF his own writer
originally FOR "The Boston Herald
More fascinating and valuable than
these discussions Of the doings and
tendencies of composers, however, and
more permanently valuable, are the
thousand and one bits OF curious learn
ing with which Mr.. Hale has larded
and garnished the histories and
analyses OF the compositions which
were played at the Boston concerts.
The same value is possessed by the
biographical sketches OF composers
and artists and the many bibo-
graphical references. Here be fat
pickings indeed for Mr.. Hale's jour
nalistic colleagues. The historical re.
corder is asked by the volume 10 note
that the following compositions we're
performed for the first time in Bos.
ton last season.: Symphonies
Enesco's in E-hat major, Edgar Still.
man Kelley's New England" and
Frederick Stocks in c minor. SYM
phonic Poems George W. Chsdwick's
Tam o. Shanter," Henry Hadley's
"Lucifer," Edward Burlingame Hills
"The Parting of Launcelot and Guine-
vere," LISTS "Ce qu'on entend sur "a
Montague" Ernest Seedlings I'm
pressions from an Artists Life" and
three excerpts from the incidental mu'
sic composed by Sibelius for th'
drama Christian H." Overture
ter Braunfels's 70 "PrinEessin Brsm-
billa."