Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
ORCHESTRA GIVES
A VARIED PROGRAM
Symphonic Poem by Dvorsky
and Beethoven's Seventh Sym
phony the Features

Yesterday afternoon program of the
Philadelphia Orchestra was made up OF
classical and romantic COMPOSITIONS.
with one ultramodcrn work. 1t began
with the mcodiouS and ever popular
ErcisuhutH ovCrturc of Weber, which
was played with spirit and fine tone
from the Orchestra.
Thc symphony was the lovely
Beethoven No. I. which was per-
formed with good taste throughout.
especially rs to the dynamirs and tempt.
The allcgrctto was, as usual, the favor
ito movement, and the tone quality or
the Orchestra in this, as in all the
other movements. for that matter, left
nothing to be desired. Mr. Stokowski
departed a bit from precedent in this
movement by bringing out the first
counter theme in the collos so promi-
noutIy that the main theme in the second
yiolins could be heard only by an eff
fort. The schcr2O, so wonderfully de-
yclopcd from its comparatively simple
thrmutic material Clke the first move
mout m this respect and the finale.
with its Joyous swing, were both played
and read with sympathy and under
standing,
The novelty Of the program was a
symphonic poem entitled The Haunted
Joys the patronage and support of Josef
llofmunn to an extent not often found
to exist between composer and in
tcrprrtrr. Mr.. Ilofmanu may fairly
bc said TO have made DvOrSky. The
composition was given by Mr.. Stokow-
ski ut one Of the pairs of symphony
concerts last year, and appears to have
undergone material changes in
. orchrNtration since that time
The composition is purely descriptive
music, but it may be questioned as to
whether it does not come pcrilously near
the danger line of the art in attempting
to describe. in actual tones, physical
scenes, rather than emotions only. It
follows the text of the poem upon which
il is based very closely: in fact, so
closely that the return of the opening
phrases after the fall of the castle is
somewhat in the nature of an anti =
climax. This. however, is in strict
I keeping with the content of the poem.
The work is rather long for one of its
intense and sustained emotion, the lat
ter effect being due possibly to the
fact that the themes are fragmentary
rather than sustained and the orchestra
tion very exotic.
There are many beautiful places in
/ the composition. notably at the begin
ming Of the work. AID it is scored for
mn orchestra of Strauss like proper
tions. Mr.. StokOwsk conducted the
highly complicated score from memory,
and has evidently devoted a good deal
of time to it. II was well received by
, the audience. p,
The concert closed with the "Rienz;
overture of Wagner. which offered an
excellent foil to the mysticism Of the
preceding number.
After the symphony Edward Box,
chairman of the orchestra endowment
fund, appeared on the stage and made
the official announcement of the results
of the appeal to the audiences last
Friday afternoon and Saturday eve
ming. The Friday audience last week
contributed S2l 900 and the Saturday
evening audience 1868 900. Mr.. Box ex
pressed the thanks of the committee
and said that the fund now amounts to
$olj. 900, there being until Monday eve :
ming to raise the remaining $50, 900.
He said he would make no appeal for
further contributions to the audience,
but would leave what he termed "a
strong hint" '