New-York tribune., 1920-11-01
Two Symphony
Organizations
Give Concerts
Damrosch Receives Cordial
Welcome at Aeolian Hall.
Where His Society Begins
Its Series of Recitals
Some New Music Heard
Bodanzky Players Appear
in Carnegie Hall at Night:
Child Prodigy Introduced
By II. f. krehbiel

ne symphony society Degan ltS an
nual series of concerts in Aeolian Hall
yesterday afternoon and the National
Symphony Orchestra continued its
series with the first concert of
fourth pair in Carnegie Hall in the
evening.
There was also some orchestral
music at the concert in the Hippo
drome. where in the eveninw Mr.. Ian
kubehk returned to the local concert
rooms after an absence of SIX ygars.
The incidents in these affairs whi,
call for comment wcye tae production
of some music hitherto unhoard III
New York by Mr. Walter Damrosch al
the first concert and br. bodahz ny at
the second. and the pianoforte playing
OF musIcally proCisious child who
already has rece we'd snouG newspaper
puffery to make US fear that she VIII
not be permitted 70 develop normally
and healtafully, into such an artist as
will challenge our interest five years
henc But much stimulation VII. be
required to keep such d symphonic
season as has been thrust uDoN New
York or its legs; and children and
mad music may be helpful.
Mr.. Damrosch Welcomed
The Symphony Society resumed It's
laboys without any show cf fuss and
feathers, which spoke WEI for its man.
ager ana director. Mr. Damraaoh was
cordially welcomed by thc customary
audience and warm approval vas oo-
slowed upon the muse Wlic he had
prepared Beethovtn's Seventh Sym
phony, suite in cur lnoVem, nts en-
titled MASKS and Dorsomaslls." by the
French composer, Gabriel Faurt. ana
movement for strings alone by Leken
and Cesar Francl;'s frag.lo nj, "Redemp-
ton"
IN all this there was lit;lc Of the
t'end n music as it has disc. sed itsoif
in latter-day France, Italy and, measur-
ably, England Gabriel Faure is olo
enc lgh and has been brave enough to
n'oclaim that the best qualities 0
French music are not found outside
DInf aid that it is his belief that
"clea. tho1ght, formal purity, sobriety
an! a. 'ln fer big effects are essen
tisl T. rrarc. ant is TO recover its true.
old anf. adm liable character.
I'm Nos.s - this kind NJ. Faurc re-
baked ..e 'ca-s ncy toward impressions
lsm and culisn which he found in the
work OF ms Younger couNtrymen and
which seems nov to have infected tie
Young 4narcha Of musical Italy In
ne music fIom mis- pen which we
ii' 4. .t-t~lt'IN mere Is CcfLnlIiy
nost.ne Of The II which he coa-
denns4 in the preface which he wrote
Tor IAN Aubrey Dool, on modern
faeorn ..4s.e The sVitc, taken from
& shofu iyl.c coNleGy. is lucid enough
ard areAitc, tuaily firm enough to win
appi II from thc most hldo-bO
con erVative imaginable. and occasion
ally ..c!dUloEs enough u delight any
cl4tc 'rer O.. oya.siA ~ n-llno.ly
c'n-ai--:s 200 many lucent sytv9s
t.nct vith cinnamon
hellcr , contains cough y, .ly
substance - iiNe D. A.otnrr .,,a,-ol
"oald have ..aGe u stions, 4 atsl,o,o..-
,o lis o"n benaif mad It been more
ctinlIy olAVed.
S'inu,i l. \ rlc~}od
Nj Damrosei seemed to be stil in
the flush q the still. trong, sturd
energy with which h. n,.l injured III
performance o. the Beethoven sym
rhony, and neglected t. pay ell til.
noA0r &c - the second movement O
the piece. This las a minuot, grac.o,,s
enough IN its material ard structure
vVoke pictUv2s o. the deuco with VIII
it may have been associated in tn
comedy.
OF all courtly dances the ninuet Is
the most graceful, winning. soul anN
sense aNuring, the highest expression
of refinement and gentle courtesy il
the rcalln OF Tcrpsichor,, stately an.
rroud, but m2rellousl ing ~ tiating j,
the d. erencc o. each to other of th
dancers.
Something of this We should hay.
liked to find suggc,te in Faurt
music. IF for na other reason than /.
haze had hanisAcd fvom our mind al
su-1e stions % nc clown h anti>
called up ny the irrelevant ;.tie Of tn
piece.
in the evening we had another sym
en- i!-jnstrncted press agent woul,
have VS. THINK IS YopNl@rly called th
"l.ttie" symphony. We lave neve
known it to be so-cellcA except b.
Be- .'hovcn, himself, who IN a letter
hls Sliend SaloMoM asN.ng him TO tin
aA English pnbl'shcr for it Designate
it "a little symphony in F. to distin
gaish !. n score from the grand SYN
rhony IN A. tthe seventh), which ne
described i'm Ike same sentence as one
cf his mos. excellent"
II Is anything but small in its ideas
hGt rs amazing in its cXuberance Of
spirit and plentitude of inventiveness
as any Of the immortal nine. Its
peIio.iicity in our concert-rooms is
inIlE, Wn1cN is Il pltN, Dut by comet
deucc it is to be heard in this city
twice more this week at a repetition
Of last nights concert morrow after
noon and a concert of the Boston
Orchestra on Thursday evening Mr..
todanzEy conceived it in it's true vein
o. ebullient joyousness, bit his ma
teriai was somewhat refractory at
tlmss and We cannot tru1hrullv say
that all its beauty was made manifest.
Anticipated Mr. Damrosch
As MIR. Bodanzky anticipated NJ
MonteuX in this symphony, so he did
Mn. Damrosch in the first production
in New York of Malpiero's second
series of "lmrrcssioni del Vero.' which
is down in the Symphony Society's
promised list of novelties 1t is not a
vital matter. II would be best if Mr..
Bodar.ky's performance should serve
as warning example. Is this n,usic ,
In the presence Of this question we
find ourselves quite at one with the
Knight OF the Rueful Countenance
AS to whether it be pack saddle or
caparisoN,' said the curate 1T is only
FOR Senior Den Qu,Xote to say; Tor in
these matters Of chivalry all these
gentlemen and bow to authority"
BY Coo. gentemeN," said Don
QuiNote. 80 many strange things have
happened to me in thls castle that
WlN not venture to assert anything
positively in reply to any question
touching anything it contains"
We have been in merry gatherings