New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

More than 10000 people have attend
ed the nine performances of the first
week of Ferrara's Royal Italian Grand
Opera Company at the Peoples Thea
ire, on the Bowery. For the second week
three new operas will be added to the
repertory. Two of the operas-"Othello'
and ia Fora del Destino"-have not
been heard in New York for several
years. The operas for the week are:
Monday, "Traviata"; Tuesday. "Caval-
leria and Pagliacci"; Wednesday matt
nee, Aida; Wednesday evening,
"Othello"; Thursday, Lucia; Friday,
"Trovatore"; Saturday matinee, "Rigo-
letto"; Saturday evening, LA Fora del
Destino'; Sunday matinee, Carmen;
Sunday evening, "Gioconda.'
There will be concert at The Mall,
Central Park, on Wednesday afternoon
at O'Clock by Franz Ksltenborn and
his orchestra. The Park Department
announces that this orchestral concert
was made possible by the generosity OF
Elkan Naumberg. This is the pro-
gramme:
The star -spsnsl.t Banner" u.,
Overture, "Phedra" .....................M assene,
Irritation to the Dance ...........'.'.'.''Ne
csyane from Queen Of sheba' ...... .Gonnod
Where NJ Caravan Has Rested" ........... Lohr
Anna Van Gerow
IL
creature "Ruy Blss''................M endeissohn
psnce Of the Hours ''Gioconds" ........ Ponehielh
soprano solos: r,,
The Story Of Old Glory the Flag We Love"
Ann, Van Gerow NJ,
Choral and Fus1Is. .........'''''''' nso.
Waltz. Southern Roses strauss
Odd Hundred"
The next concert given by Franz
Kaltenborn and his orchestra will take
place on Wednesday, July 4, at 4 p. IN.
The new Singing Society, L. Camil-
Teri, conductor, will give an evening OF
patriotic and popular songs at Aeolisn
Hall on Saturday evening, June Q, for
the benefit of men blinded in battle.
Miss Eva Gauthisr, the Canadian
singer, has offered her services, and
other artists will appear. Members OF
the Long Island Choral Society will as
sist.
The annual meeting Of the Symphony
Society of New York was held on
Thursday afternoon at the residence
of its president, Harry Hardness Flag
Ter. The president reported that the
Friday afternoon series at Aeolisn
Hall and the Young Peoples Symphony
concerts at Carnegie Hall had been
completely sold out by subscription at
the beginning Of the season. and that
in consequence the Friday afternoon
series will be transferred to Carnegie
Hall for next season, owing to its much
greater seating capacity. The Young
people's afternoon series will be aug
mcnted by an additional series Of four
Saturday morning concerts for chill
dren, thus enabling a new generation
to begin with the simple forms of
symphonic music and the study Of the
orchestral instruments.
The activities Of the orchestra OF
the society, under the direction OF
Walter Damrosch, have been enormus,
comprising one hundred and fifty
symphonic concerts, divided as follows:
fifty in New York, thirty on the win
ter tours, and seventy on the trans
continental spring tour, from which the
orchestra has only just returned. 1t is
computed that almost three hundred
thousand people have attended these
concerts, the largest audience being in
San Francisco on Sunday afternoon.
April 20, when more than nine thou
sand people heard the orchestra at the
Civic Auditorium. The trsns-conti-
mental tour covered q period Of nine
weeks, and during that time the or
chestra played in fifty cities
The soloist on the tour was NJ. Efrem
Zimbalist, and musical festivals In
which local ehoruses participated were
given In Ames, Iowa; Spsrtanburg and
Asheville. In Spartanburg, which Is
only a little town Of 5000 white In
habitants, the festival was the four
teenth in which Mr. Dsmroseh and the
erehsstrs had tskea part. Il consisted