New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-17
Brilliant Artists and Audi
ence Last Night at
Metropolitan
CHERNIAVSkYS PLAY
AT CARNEGIE HALL
ViOlinist, Pianist and Cell
list Are Heard in Joint
Recital
By II. T.. kREHBIEL

There have been some signs Of
change in concert activities OF late,
which may have seemed like CLEANS of
hope to the weary observer who is
rapidly becoming pcssimistic. For one
thing, the number Of concerts has
fallen off; fewer have been announced
since tho holidays than before, and OF
those announced some have been post
poned. No matter what the alleged
cause they have been postponed.
There has also been a falling Oft in
the attendance despite what there Is
good reason to suspect is an increase
in the percentage of punched tickets.
Cards Of admission, which have been
perforated by an Industrious manager,
count in the records Of the doorkeeper,
but not in the cash returns made by
the gentleman whose face you see
through the box Office window.
There have been large audiences,
which have made the observing door
keeper long for an unpunched ticket
which he might beg Of the manage
ment to paste in his memory book.
Visited Two Concerts
VIC looked in on one such concert
yesterday, and also we saw another
where punched tickets were as scarce
as hens teeth and where the specula-
ton as to how much money the "house"
represented ranged from 100000 to
$4,000. But that was an unusual al
fair, though it illustrated another
phase Of the change which IS taking
place.
1t was combination concert, in
which three factors cooperated, each
one of which singly and alone might
have drawn at least one-hfth OF the
amount al normal prices, while at this
gala meeting the prices were quad
rupled
This occasion was the concert at the
Metropolitan Opera House last night
for the benefit of the Vacation ASso-
citation, in which the Boston Orchestra,
Paderewski and Kreisler we're COM
bined, and which was as brilliant as
an artistic and social function as It
was as a financial undertaking.
With two of its aspects we have
nothing 10 do, and of the third 1T -
possible to speak with brevity because
of the familiarity of its manifesto
tions. but not without enthusiasm, for
that was challenged by nearly every
one of its features.
Similar Concert Given
There was an affair of almost the
laa ~ NC "
the Philadelphia Orchestra played at
Carnegie Hall, with Josef Holman and
Mr.. Kreisler as special attractions; but
at this philanthropy played no part,
and the music was largely permitted 20
make its own appeal, though the aid OF
social influence was also invoked.
These two concerts, however, were
distinctly out of the ordinary course Of
events, though we have cited them
AS illustrating one of the phases which
we have set down as marking change
in the manner Of concert giving. Inc
smaller combinations were commented
on before the breathing spell which the
holiday season brought with it came.
Yesterday three foreign artists gave
a concert in Carnegie Hall. They are
not in the class of Bauer-Thioaud;
Bauer-Casals. Kreisler-Friedburg, and
so on. because they were of one family,
and though they exploited themselves
as units it was obvious that they have
cultivated ensemble playing as spe-
cialty.
Cherniavskys Play
They we're the Cherniavskys- Rus
sians-a pianist, violinist and violon,
cellist. musicians of deservedly good
repute abroad, highly trained artists,
elegant and finished salon players at
least. if nothing else. We fancy they
are something better, though their
ideals, singly and in unison, seemed
YESTERDAY TO be circumscribed by the
nntinn that the giving Of sensuous