New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-28

The hrst PAIR OF concerts OF the Dos-
ton Symphony Orchestra will be given
in Carnegie Hall Thursday evening,
November s, at S:15, and Saturday
afternoon, November 10, at $3.50. On
Thursday evening the symphony will
be Brahms's Fourth, and the shorter
pieces will be Berlioz's overture to
"King Lear" LISTS comparatively I'M
known symphonic poem, "Prometheus,"
and the prelude to "Parsifal."
On Saturday afternoon the symphony
will be Beethoven's Fifth. The other
pieces will be Sibelius's "Finlandia,"
Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem, "The
Island of the Dead" and Enesco's Ru
manian Rhapsody.
Manager Machat, of the North Star
Theatre, Fifth Avenue and 1o6th
Street, announces a season of weekly
performances of popular grand opera
by the Colonial Grand Opera Company,
beginning tomorrow evening. "Rigo-
letto" will be the opening bill. Gar
men," "Aida," "Trovatore' and new
opera, la Redenta," by Mr.. Bacellieri,
are scheduled for the succeeding per
formances.
ia Musique des Poilus" is the title
of concert which Nine. Helene Stat
off-Portier founder of the Theatre des
Idees in Paris will give at Carnegie
Chamber Music Hall the evening of
November Q. as the second of the fifth
series of Salon Musicales. Nine. Por-
tier has collected on the war field the
music of the French soldiers Giles
Chansons des Poilus') as sung at
present in the trenches. She will sing
those inspired by the present war as
we'll as the old songs, such as LA
Brabanconne" and LA Marseillaise."
They will be sung in costume.
The first of three chamber music
concerts to be given this season. by the
New York Chamber Music Society is
announced for Tuesday evening, No.
vember Is, at Aeolian Hall. Miss Car
olyn Beebe will present for the open
ing number the Mozart quintet in Z
fiat major for violin, two violas, vio-
loncelo and French horn. The second
number will be d'Indy's trio in fiat
major, Op. 80, for piano, clarinet and
violoncello. The third number will be
Dubois's "Deux Pieces en- Forme Ca
nonique" for two volins, viola, violon-
cello, double bass and oboe. The clos
ing number will be the Wolf-Ferrari
Kammersymphonie in B fat major, OPP.
8, for the entire society.
At Aeolian Hall on Tuesday evening
the Lett Quartet, headed by Hans Lett,
who has been associated with the
Kneisel Quartet for many years, will
give a programme comprising the
Haydn Quartet in G. major, the Bee
thoven Quartet in + minor and quar-
tet in Z fiat major, by Leo Weiner, a
Hungarian composer who, at the age of
twenty-six, was appointed professor of
composition at the Royal Academy of
Music in Budapest.
The Biltmore Friday Morning Musi-
Gals will open on November 8, in the
grand ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel.
The artists appearing on this occasion
will be Geraldine Farrar, Rita Fornia,
Richard Buhling, pianist, and Herman
Standby, 'celist.
The Symphony Concerts for Young
People will open their twentieth sea-
son in Carnegie Hall on Saturday, No
vember II. The dates for the other
concerts are December Is, January 5,
February 2 and % and March 9. The
programmes will be given by the New
York Symphony Orchestra, Walter
Damrosch, conductor, who will give
appropriate explanations of the music
The soloists are John Powell, Efrem
Zimbalist, Emma Roberts and Guiomar
Novaes. There will be a Christmas
concert, and the las, concert will be
devoted to dances by Roshansra and
her dancers. There will also be a new
series of four concerts for younger chill