Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-08

The all-Tschaikowsky program which
inet.with such conspicuous success last
season be repeated this year. and
he has scheduled a highly popular group
OF numbers in the symphonic repertoire
for performance at next Friday after
Moons and Saturday evenings concerts
In the Academy. Three numbers constitute
tho program and 102 musicians are re-
quired for what Mr.. Stokowski deems an
adequate performance. The Pathetic
symphony heads the list and is followed
by the fairy music which the great Rus
sian composed for the "Nutcracker" bal.
let. a rendition of the "lsl2' overture.
With its martial themes and note of
victory. will bring tho concert 20 a
resonant conclusion.
The Boston Transcript devoted half
page last spring to Il critical review of
Mr.. Stohowski's performance Gf. Tschai-
kowsky and speaking of the symphony
the writer said that he gave forth the
music with such compelling balance.
sanity and utter abandonment TO the
inner spirit. that the hackneyed battle.
horse became a revived masterpiece" ."
The entire program Is one which will
make distinct popular appeal
I.unter Welsh. tho American pianist
who will give his first recital OF the
season in Witherspocn Hall on Tuesday
night, Is an artist whose intellectual
insight in no way clouds his feeling
for beauty or subdues his sense of pCctic
imagination. Such a tempermental com.
bination is rare on tic concert stag.
and his forthcoming performance should
exert q sincere and potent appeal lie
will play the following program:
rhromati" fantaisie and fusuo. ....... q. Bach
psstoraie. rapriccio ............. Srariatti
L., ~.
Andan'e grazoso rsria5iori'.
M"nuetto . trio.
Violations end lTISue on theme clb
'rs5.as' ia, "'"GT m"y5r Fadnais %i5Ss '%'t9Ts s
soree dc Vtcnne. Rhansodic xiii .' NIIsat Lisst
Nicholas Douty. tenor. Will give his
second lecture-recital in the department
of music Of the University Extension
Society in Wtherspoon Hall on Tuesday
evening. 'fhe Romanticsts' is the
chosen subject, which will be illustrated
by excerpts from the works of Schubert.
Schupann. Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt,
Bennsu. Franz. Jensen and Brallms.
The following is the program:
"Hea ther Roses, 'lmpatience." nv.
"Mses Folk fonsr hsr9': moonlight, Franz Schubert
Folk Mendoiusohr
MAJ Dew ,......r..... Sterndale Bennett
Ia Meiancolia" ,..,.,..,..,. John Field
.,TThi"sie, 49, r.,;,.,'.'..,'',' frederiG Chopin
".!PT!ns SONG Recovery .Hobe,, grsat ran;
-, johannes Brahms
Of particular interest should be the
appearance IN the academy Oh next
Wednesday night of young Louise
Homer, soprano. daughter OF Louise
Homer. contralto. The younger sing.
or's voice has been acclaimed as a
clear soprano of undoubted promise. II
heredlty has anything to do with art
the daughter of Sidney Homer the gifted
composer, and Mime. Homer, one of the
worlds leading contraltos. should be al
the Threshold of brilliant career
Wednesdays concert Will be given for
the benefit of the Hahnemann Hospital
Reinald Warrenrath tho admirable
American baritone. whose exquisite Eng
lish diction places him in a class Will
David Bisphan. will also be a promi-
nent contributor to a diversified musica
program.
The second in the series of morning
musicales at the Bellevue -Stratford
which opened so auspiciously on Mon
day morning last, will take place or
December II at II o'clock. Oscar Sea gle
baritone, and Hans Kinder, the tirs
celiist of the Philadelphia Orchestra
will furnish the program on thi
occasion.
The midwlnter concert Of the Philo
musian Club Chorus will be given a
the clubhouse, 3944 Walnut street. OF
Thursday at s p. IN. The director /;
May Porter. The soloists will be Wal
ter Portius, tenor; Josephine CARRIER
contralto Reba Stangsr, cellist Flor
ence Haenle. yiolinist Edith NJ Nor
gan. accompanst. The concert will b'
followed by a dance. personal invitation:
having been sent by members of tn
club to the enlisted men stationed q
the Navy Yard. The officers OF thu
chorus are: Bertha S. Graham. presi
dent Mary r. Quicker, first Nico presi
dent; Mrs. George l.. Shoemaker. sec
ond vice president: Mrs. William L
King. secretary; Mrs. Herbert Ingram
treasurer.