The sun., 1919-11-02
In World of Music


ems voices from the Metropolitan Opera
House. The music to be presented in
cludes Beahms's Ave Maria" for
chorus and orchestra,
Sophie Braslau. contralto, will give a
song recital In Carnegie Hall next Sun
day afternoon.
The first Sunday afternoon concert of
the Symphony Society will take place,
programme includes Beethoven's sym
phony No. s.
Greta Torpadie. soprano. assisted by
Coenraad Bos at the piano, will give a
song recital next Sunday afternoon In
the Princess Theatre. Her list of songs
includes a group of Scandinavian lyrics.
John McCormack's first concert OF the
season in New York will be given In
the Hippodrome next Sunday evening.
1t will be the tenth anniversary of
his American concert debut and his
hundredth concert In New York city.
Two Handel arias, two eleventh century
Irish songs arranged by Hardebeck, ne
gro spirituals by Burleigh, a new popu-
lar song, Thank God for a Garden" and
Writings "A Birthday" will be featured
In the programme.
Alessandro Bonci. tenor. who returned
recently to this country after a long
! absence and Is now appearing on tour
with the Chicago Opera Company, will
give a joint recital with Eleanor Brock,
soprano, next Sunday evening in Car
| negie Hall.
The Berkshire String Quartet will
give its first concert of the season in
Aeolian Hall on Tuesday evening, No
vember Is. This concert will introduce
here Ernest Blocks prize sonata for
plano and viola, the solo parts being
performed by Harold Bauer and Emile
Ferir. Mr.. Ferir will assist In this
concert by courtesy of the Philadelphia
Orchestra Association.
Mischa Levitzkfs first piano recital
Of the season will take place on Tues
day evening. November IS, at Carnegie
Hall. He will play Beethovens ZAP
passionate" sonata, group of pieces
by Chopin and selections by Rachmani-
nom. Moszkowski, Bach-Tausig, Gluck-
Sgambau and Schulz-Evler
Tho concert for the building fund of
the Beth David Hospital, which will be
given at the Manhattan Opera House
on Sunday evening. November 16, will
enlist the services of Anna Fitziu of
the Chicago Opera Company, Max
Rosen, vlolinist: Leo Ornstein. pianist.
| and Mayer Kanewsky, Jewish lyric
| tenor. This hospital is a non-sectarfan
institution. though dependent for its
support upon the members of the Jewish
community. In the six years Of its
| existence It has treated over 5000
patients and almost half of this number
have received treatment free The cam
paign for funds for 100000 new
building, to be erected on the present
site of the hospital at Lexington ave-
nue. and 113th street, will include this
concert as one Of its principal features
| Nine. Tetrazzini, who will sail from
England for this country on November
10. will be heard again for the first time
in the United States In a concert at the
! Hippodrome on Sunday. November %.
The first of the Metropolitan Opera
| company's performances this year In
Brooklyn will be given Tuesday eve
ming. November IS, In the Academy Of
Music. There will be ten performances,
| three on Saturday evenings and the re-
naming seven on Tuesdays The dates
are November 1S, November 23, Decem-
ber 6. December %. December so. Janu-
ary 13, January 81. February 10, Feb
ruary "a and March 8. The complete
list of operas to be presented has not
| as yet been announced.
or the twenty soloists who will appear
with the Philharmonic Society during its
| seventy-eighth season, which will begin
on November 13 at Carnegie Hall, the
majority have already selected the COM
| positions which they will present with
| the orchestra this season under the
baton Of Josef Stransky. Among the
violinists. Fritz Kreisler will play the
Brahms. Jascha Heifetz the Mendels-
sohn, Albert Spalding the Dvorsk. Ar
rigo Serato the Beethoven and Eddy
Brown the Tschai1owsky concerto.
| Benno Moiseiwitsch, making his Amer
lean debut with the Philharmonic at a
Thursday evening performance. will be
the first assisting artist to appear with
| the orchestra this year. He will play
Beethoven's Emperor" concerto at this
concert, and the Schumann plano con-
certo on the following afternoon.
| The concertos to be presented by the
other pianists who will appear In the
course Of the season with the Philhar-
monic include the LiEst A major, which
will be played by Olga Samaroff. Sergei
Rachmaninoff, who will appear three
| times with the orchestra. viii play the
| Tschaikowsky concerto on Thursday
evening, the Liczt d fat on a Friday
| afternoon and one Of the List con-
certos at a Sunday appearance Percy
Granger will be heard in "Concertino."
new composition by the American Car
ponsoS. and TN Hungarian Fant.sy of
Liszt- Amurg en-. ~Scalists, Margarete
Matzenauer will sing. in English. the
'Tmmolation Scene" from Twilight Of
the Gods" and Isolde's 'Love-death"
from Tristan and Isolde" and Josef
| Stransky's Symphonic Songs" one of
which, ITO Solitude" written to Sig
mund Spaeth's verse. was composed dur
| ing the past summer by the Philhar-
monic conductor. The compositions
which Rosa Ponselle, Rosita Renard,
Greta Mason, Max Rosen. Rudolph
GAM. Edwin Hughes. Guiomar Novaes,
Marguerite Namara, Sascha Jacobsen
! their appearances with the Philharmonic
will be announced later.
The Peoples Liberty Chorus. an or
ganization which Is an outgrowth OF
the activities Of the Liberty loan COM
mittee and during the Liberty loan and
Red Cross drives assembled choruses
ranging from 1900 to 5000 voices,
trained under the direction of L. Caml-
lieri, now wishes, as the war Is over, to