New-York tribune., 1920-04-08
Concert Here
Is sTribute to
Racllnaninoff
Russian Fails to Conduct
Own Compositions at list
Regiment Armory; Wins
Ovation as Performer
Changes in the Program
Substitution of Dadmun
for Baklanof as Solo
Singer Is Unexplained
By H. E. krehbieI

- ~ o'-o o'ei
Within little more than d genera
tion after the first brood of rousicaI
bantlings bearing charactoris-icsliy,
national marks was ha+chad o,+ ~,
Borodin Ito use the simile Of ons ~
that COMPOSERS associatesl the Prs-
sian school of counosers has concrared
the world. Won Riilow saw -ha scan+or
passing from Germany ia tho ennire ~
the Gar before anv of tho comnosara
Df the school were more than nan,e
known 10 few observers of rors;caI
events in this countrv. and wrote dow,
his prophecy. which was echoed hv Tha
Tribune when the frat of Tschailofr-
sky's symphonies heard in America wa {
produced by Theodore Thoroas a. one
of his concerts in Chickerinr Hall. The
genial Mr.. Huneker is fond Of RECALLING
une's reviewer the warning g" ,Wara n
the Muscovite,0 The nI,o+a+ion - no.
strictly. but il is s,1bs+antialjv correc+
We do not recall The da+e iii .ber
Rubinstein was looked mo, nc 80
representative composer Of his natiys
land, and in his nm.ic we co.,iJ renaa ,''a
nize little of the Russian ;dion, rbiIh
is now familiar 10 music lovers frnn,
the Atlantic to the Pacifc N'''
The amazing nroqress made ~, +ho
composers of Russia in the LAST cen
Grafton was due largely to the encour-
agement received bv them from the i'm
perial government Theirs was a. .ris+n- ,.,,
cratic '-lusic, but its ;dions we're taken
from the Inns Of the neonle ord =.
echoed the heart-bea1s Of the nnonla
Since the waves OF revoln-ion bawa
overwhelmed the country and ,he
proletariat have undertaken the ai~ec-
ton of artistic as we'll as politicai and
economic affairs some of the men who
won giorv for Russian music have died
places OF influence. some becr3red and
driven into exile Amono +aoee CON-
PEELED to leave their homes and in .
sense begin life anew l. Seroai Pach-
maninof. Russia lost him. +hn -ni-ad
States pained him. Hare he or;ckl,-
achieved the renown and material ai~.t re-
ward of which the madness of Rnssia
sought to denrive him. He needed Moth
ing more at our hands than he was
winning by his own modest and manly
endeavors; yet it was gratifying to
note that Mr.. Walter Damrosch had
set apart one evening of the Oratorio
Society's festival that special honor
might be paid to him.
The tribute was extended to him
at the concert in the list Reri-
nent's Armory last night. In some
of the details the occasion was de-
plorable Mr. RachmaninoF was an
nounced as participant in the con-
cert IN a threefod capucity: az COM
poser, conductor and performer. The
music in the list was all his, but he
did not conduct any of it and unex-
l..
gram. We were to hear the compost
based on Poe's poem The Bells; but
for barytone solo, chorus and or
chcstra. Of much smaller dimen iors
entitled "Springtime.' Tbs was Off
cially announced as a new com position
which was TO have its first American n
performance.
We did not regret the change, for
after hearing The Bells" excelIcntly
perform ed by the Philadelphia Orches-
ira and chorus under Mr.. Stokowski
we questioned the ability Of Mr.. Dam.
rosch and his forces TO do as we'll as
the visitors. Moreover. the work. part
lv because of the double trans~noo.ri-
fcation Of a familiar and admire, +ext
left in us no cnrions lonrircs 70 l,ea,
i arain Rnt the now corrnosi+io-
vas not now r cannot ha eais tc
have been familiar to anv apDreciabl
number of thosa Who listened tn i bi,.
iuI ~ ad "a hea oe 'Usr sTlgr [ " ~ a. +te
"rbe yo;ca of Snriro,, ~ co,,cor- -;
10 schola Ca,+ornn, an Narcb 1afs
,,,,,o, - ,,.os josor;hod 90 ~ e,,os. -,
tba T'ee'' ar+is+e ~ ae coros+;a5s as ''5
r,je e-~T, b~acod M nns - rs,,,ors
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