New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
The Local Concert Stage

first concert Of the Schola Cantorum, at
Carnegie Hall, the evening of January
10. The Orfeo Catala, the greatest
singing society Of Spain, was founded
in 1891 at Barcelona, and its music has
been the subject of enthusiastic COM
ment by all musicians who have heard
it in its native city. When the huge
chorus visited London and Paris in the
spring Of 1914, under Louis Millet,
the leader, it won praise for its
unique repertory and accomplishments.
Kurt SCHNEIDER, the conductor Of the
Schola Cantorum, has for some years
teen anxious to secure this Catalan
music, but without success until this
lest spring, when the offer of it came
to him voluntarily from a Spaniard res
iGent in New York, a relative of Sehor
Millet, who, being himself a founder of
the Orfeo Catala, and thus interested
in choral music, had attended the con-
certs of the SchOla Cantorum and be-
come interested in their work. Since
then a correspondence between the two
choral societies has been established
and a friendly exchange of their re-
spective repertories effected. The
sacred music of old Spain, comprising
miracle and nativity songs, and Cata-
lonian and Andalusian folk dances and
gypsy melodies, sung capella, in the
original Spanish, will constitute the
greater part Of the programme OF the
Schola's first concert on January Is.
The first of two sonata recitals by
jacques Thibaud, violinfst, and Robert
Lortat, pianist, will be given in Aeolian
Hall Saturday afternoon, December 90,
the second being scheduled for Sat-
urday afternoon, January 8. For the
first concert the two Fer n artists
will have the assistance Of a string
quartet, which will play the accom-
paniment to concerto by L. Chausson.
Other features Of the programme will
be a sonata by Guillaume Leken and
the Mozart sonata in B fiat, No. is.
This afternoon, at Aeolian Hall. the
frst symphony concert this season of
the Orchestral Society Of New York
will take place, under the baton Of Max
Jacobs. The Orchestral Society, an
American organization, whose aim IL is
to populsrize American music, will play
two works by American composers, an
the Orient" two symphonic sketches
by Arthur Hartmann, and the Irish
Rhapsody, by Victor Herbert. an the
Orient" is the first orchestral work OF
Mr.. Hartmann to be performed here.
The programme will open with Cesar
Franck's symphony in D minor, fol-
lowed by Tschaikowsky's fantasy,
Francesca da Rimini." Arthur Hart
mann's "In the Orient" and Victor Her
bert's Irish Rhapsody will conclude the
programme.
The first concert Of the Manuscript
Society Of New York, season 19l7-Is,
will take place at the Mcdowell Gal
lery, 1O8 West Fifty-hfth Street,
Thursday evening, December q, at
$3.50. A reading of the poem and first
complete rendition of the music OF
"The Evergreen Tree" a Christmas
community masque devised and writ
ten by Percy MaeKaye, music by Ar
thur Fsrwell, will occupy the evening.
Mr.. MacKsye will read the masque and
the Singers Club of Brooklyn, Frank
Won Neer, conductor, will sing the
music.
Oscar Spirescu, conductor Of the
Strand Symphony Orchestra, giving
daily afternoon popular concerts at
the Strand Theatre, has selected the
following programme for the week:
christmas Morning" Barratt; "Carne-
val" Dvorak; Grand Fantasia" from
the opera ia Toscs," Puccini. The
boloists arc Anita Tegelli and Rosa Lind,
soprano, who will sing the duet from.
"Lskme," and Herbert Waterous, basso,
singing "0ut Of the Deep" Lohr, and
"There's a Million Heroes"
The last Sunday concert Of 1917