New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Music Notes


Damrosch conductor, only two members
! having been enrolled in the National
/ Army. These are Engelbert Roentgen,
first 'cellist, and Robert Brown, fifth
horn. Mr.. Roentgen, until last year q
citizen of Holland, had taken out his
first American citizens papers. He
wrote to Mr.. Damrosch: "Uncle Sam
\ has already done so much for me that
I l am glad to do something for him in
return"
/ The war has naturally limited the
production of orchestral novelties, but
Mr.. Damrosch announces in the sea-
sons programmes q symphony by Du-
bois entitled symphony FRANCHISE"
which Is replete with national color
and enthusiasm; "Tam O. Shanter," a
new symphonic poem by Chadwick, and
I a Symphony in u by Mozart, which is
said to be novelty for New York. An
interesting revival will be the Kan
symphony "Im Waldo" which was a
great favorite with concertgoers dur
ing the time of Dr. Leopold Damrosch
and Theodore Thomas. For some years
Mr.. Damrosch has omitted the "Tsehai-
kowsky "Pathetique" from the pro-
grammes of the society, as he felt 1t
had been played too often. but this
season he will revive it again in
Tschaikowsky programme. Mr.. DAM
rosch still has the original orchestra
score, which was sent to him from
Moscow by Tschaikowsky, and which
arrived in New York only week after
the cabled announcement of his death.
The Philharmonic Society OF New
York announces that the season OF
l9l--IS marks the seventy-sixth year
of its activities in the field of orches-
trail symphonic music. The concerts
to be given by the Philharmonic In
greater New York are divided into five
subscription series. Of these, twelve
Thursday evenings, four Saturday even
ings, sixteen Friday afternoons and
twelve Sunday afternoons will be given
al Carnegie Hall, and five Sunday af-
ternoons at the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music. Mr.. Stransky's programmes Of
fers a number Of novelties by foreign
and American composers. They include
a Beethoven Brahms cycle of three con-
certs, which will be part of the regular
Thursday, Friday and Sunday subscrip-
ton series. At the Thursday and Sun
day concerts of the cycle Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony will form part Of the
programme. The soloists include JOSEF
Hoffman,, Julia Culp. Jascha Heifetz'
Wynne Pyle, Vernon Stiles, Pablo
Casals. Guiomar Novaes, Alfred Meyer
lin. Fritz Kreisler, Helen Stanley, Leo
Schulz, Percy Granger, Alfred Kastner,
Marcia Van Dresser, Rudolph CAM,
Rose and Ottilie Sutro, Ossip Gabrilo-
witsch and Louis Graveure. Subscrlp-
ton tickets for the entire series o.
Philharmonic concerts are now on hand
at the Philharmonic Offices, in Carnegie
Hall. The seasons prospectus, contain
ing full account of the society's plans
for 19l7-IS, may also be obtained by
applying at the society's Offices.
Next Thursday evening New York's
fall concert season will be opened by
a concert at Madison Square Garden
with six solo artists and the Russian
symphony Orchestra. To the accom-
paniment of this orchestra, under the
direction of Modest Alschuler, En-
nestine Schumann-Heink, contralto;
Mischa Elman, violinist; Frances Aida,
soprano; Giovanni Martinelli, tenor;
Giuseppe de Luca, barytone, and Percy
Granger, pianist, will appear.
In addition, Miss Jeanette Rankin,
United States Representative from
Montana; Edwin Markham and Misha
Appelbaum will address the audience.
The proceeds from the concert will be
spent under the direction of commit
tee Of we'll known men and women to
further the work of the Humanitarian
Cult.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" played
by the Russian Symphony Orchestra.
will open the programme, followed by
the orchestral playing of Litolff's
"Robespierre" overture. Miss Rankin
will then speak. Giuseppe de Luca,
BARITONE of the Metropolitan Opera
/ Company, to orchestral accompaniment,
will sing Rossini's Largo al Facto-
tum" from "The Barber of Seville"
and. in addition, Leoncavallo's PRO
logue" from "Pagliacci." The Rus
. sian Symphony Orchestra will then
give a Russian Soldier Song and "The
Banjo Picker" from John PowelPs
suite "At the Fair; Mischa Elman
will follow with Wieniawsky's "Sou-
venir de Moscow" Albaniz-Elman's
Tango" and Bach's Air on the e
String. The Russian Symphony Or
chestra will close the musical pro
gramme Of the first half of the con-
cert with Rubinstein's Etude in c.
/ Nine. Frances Aida will open the
second half Of the concert programme
with Puccini's Prayer from "1osca"
and "Un bel d." from "Madama But
! terfy." The Russian Symphony Or
chestra will follow with Glazounow's
"Orientale" for strings; Percy Granger
I will play a sailors sea chant, entitled
zone Day More. Ny john" and, in
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