Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-06
ORCHESTRA TO PLAY
AMERICAN PROGRAM
Leopold Stokowskfs Organiza-
ton Will Begin Season With
Native Composers Works
COMING MUSICAL EVENTS

The Philadelphia Orchestra will begin its
eighteenth season. the sixth under the di-
rection Of Leopold StOkowski, with the
concerts OIL Friday afternoon ana saturday
of next week, when a program OF American
music will he given. Following the usual
custom, there will be no sol"ist at this coH'
cert.
Four representative American composers,
all OF whom are now living and one OF
whom ie a Philadelphan, have been chosen
by Mr.. Stoiowski for the representation on
the program. Edgar Stilman NeleN
New England" symphony, which noted
critic has christened "America's most nota-
bic symphony" is naturally the most I'M
portant number on the program, while OF
equal interest are the works of Rubin Gold
mark Philip II. Goepp and Arthur Foote'
Philip Goepp annotator OF the prograhs,
Is the only one Of the composers VINO is Wen
known to the Philadelphia musical public,
but their works have been heard in Boston,
Chicago, New York and in some OF the capt.
tails of Europe The program is arranged
as follows:
Goldmark. k.............. Tone Poem, samson, :,
ItelIey- SymuhOuv \u. -. New England -
nat minor, ouus 3d. 1000. ,,,,,..,.,. r,f,,,s
Goepp ..''..''' '..'''''' '''''i'''"' 10
The symphony was composed for the
Ijtcbdeld County choral Union at Norfolk,
Conn. where it was PLAYED FOR the hrSt
time on June g. 1913. The composer con-
Quoted an OrCNeSlld IlsthS W W i''''''N'
Of the New York Philharmonic Society. In
| Anri 1914 the symphony was performed
under the direction of the composer at the
! Ijszt Society's festival at Altenberg quota
! tions are prefiXed to the movements OF the
! symnhony These quotations are taken from
| the iog-book Of the Mayower, which was
| ofterward enlarged into the History OF
| plymouth Plantation" by Governor william
| bradford They refer to the experiences OF
! those who landed in 1920.
| Nr Kelley took panoforte lessons of his
! r,otber when lie was boy, He studied
| with F. w. Merriam from 1870 to- 1874
| then i'm Chicago for two years with Car
! enre Eddy and y. Ledochowski lie went
| {o stuttgart, where he studied with Sell
friz- Kruger. Speidel and Friedrich Finck.
( returning TO the United states I'm 1850, he
/ ,.as an organist In san Francisco and oak
| rand and from 1898 10 1895 he was music
| critic of the san Francisco Examiner. !"
/ 1Sqo he conducted a comic Cperetta COM
! Many in the eastern States. In 1892 he
| hrought out his own comic opera, 'Purl-
| tania." Some years later he wrote the
| incidental music TO "Ben-Hur.' lie made
Berlin his home FOR many years Wnere
! he composed and taught but returned to
! nj, c,aintrv for q fellowship at Western
/ CnIIepe oxford O. Mr., Kelley said in an
| interview shortly after the first production
| Of his symphony: II am New Englander
| aItbough | was born in a transplanted New
I England community ~ NlSSoAieAH "''N 80 "
| lived a number of years on the Pacihc
| coast As early as 1860 there is mention
| ~ a love OF music in my family--at q
! time of course. when music was rarely
| nentioned And / have discovered since
writing my New England symphony that
The Iog-book OF the Mayhower. from which
! the symphony draws its notices, was writ
Ten bv Governor Bradford, an ancestor OF
nine feel New England. So feel that
ought to write New England
Mr. Goepp's Heroic March originally
anneared with the title Academic and
vias written for one of the early reunions
| ~ his Harvard class of 1884, to which il
10 dedicated. Its first Philadelphia hearing
,yas with the Manuscript Music Society
and a few years later it was performed
nv the Philadelphia Orchestra under thu
direction of the composer
Rubin Goldmark is a nephew or Car
coldmark. to whom he has dedicated In,
score OF "Samson." The four character
nieces by Arthur Foote were suggested by
,,erses from the "Rubaiyat" of Omar lIhay
am The work was first performed by thu
chicago orchestra in 1908, and was com
nosed al Dedham, Mass. during the months
\ OF July and August, 1900
THE Boston symphony orchestra, which
has been In this city during the last weel
waxing records for the Victor Company il
@amden. left for Boston last evening and
mis- morning Is In its home IN symphony
,Iall for its first rehearsal Of the season fol
the subscription concerts.
:. As already announced, there Will be solo
sts az three Of the hye concerts listed fol
philadephla IN peeemper Mapame MelDi