Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-16
ICRTSP NEWS OFTHE STAGE AND SCREEN
PHONOGRAPHS KEEP
MUSIC SEASON ALIVE
Columbia Offers Beethoven
Played by Philharmonic.
Goldmark on the Victor
BY the Phonograph Editor

This Is essentially the season yvbor =.
called classical music" is a fading a. ~,
already dead, quantity; when ragtlme snS
musical comedy hits are in the ascendsn,
at pleasure parks and cafes In nhor,'
when II may not be NAL apropos 10 taIk n
little Of the truly important thinrs hat
are available only on the talking maohIra
For that is where the phonograph con,ss
In. It is able to supply you with excellent
recordings OF symphonies and songs ana
the bigger essentials OF the musical ART
Columbia announces truly great stuff IN
its first exclusive records made Sy the Ney,
York Philharmonic Orchestra. Slis ia com.
posed Of the andante, in two parts, OF Bee.
thoven's nth symphony, perhaps the most
famous of the master Of Bonn's compost.
tions. The musicians as in concert appear.
ances, are directed by Josef Stranslxy. Ths
Philharmonic has always held it's head high
above the mediocrities of musical organixa.
tions Last season II made only one vIs,
to Philadelphia, but those who heard Mr.
Stransky's men we're of one voice in IN:
matter. No praise OF its personnel and
general tessitura could be exaggerated, they
said.
The Philharmonic has sound historic
backing as we'll Its first public concert
was given on December z, 1912, when. oddly
enough, the fifth symphony, now recorded
was played. The orchestra has enrolled on
its list of directors some illustrious names
including Bergman, Thomas Seidel SAT-
ODOII ana danler, IL mas also Deen host TO
other great directors as guest artists Dur
ing its first season three concerts were
given, with an attendance Of 900. During
its seventy-fifth anniversary year, the pres
ent one, more than 160 performances were
totaled, the attendance being more than
100000.
As seasons come and vanish moro and
more do the prominent symphonic bodies
feel the impulse to register their individual
efforts for posterity through the medium
of the disc Frederick Stock with the Chi
cago Symphony Orchestra is but a sample
of this general feeling. What pity II is
that there are no records by the Philadel-
phia Orchestra. perhaps now at the height
| of its artistic fruition! 1t is not only that
Phladelphians would relish the thought Of
| their own orchestra's playing for home con-
| sumption. other cities as we'll would have
the chance of hearing just how fine the
| Philadelphia band Is. It is to be doubted
| II any current orchestra can play ultra
| romantic and semiclassicist music as well
| as these men under Doctor Stokowsk
It Is worthy of note that Victor has re-
corded two movements from Carl Gold
| marks popular Rustic Wedding" SYM
| phony This old favorite bobs up on pro-
| gram after program at our symphony con-
| certs It's debatable whether even the
| much-wrangled-over "Pathetque" of Tscha-
| kowsky or the Schubert Unfinished" are
| held in such common esteem. The two
| numbers, on reverse sides of the same rec.
| ord, are the bridal song and the serenade.
They are played by the Victor Concert Or
| chestra,