New-York tribune., 1921-10-01
By II. E. krehbiel

PlTTSFIELD, Mass, Sept. 30-In
presenting tablet Of bronze to Mrs
r. S. Coolidge at the conclusion of the
third concert of the Berkshire Chamber
Music festival, Mr. Rubin Goldmark,
OF New ork, spoke of the vast pleasure
and happiness given by her lovely, ar
tIstlc music attractions to everybody
VINO came within reach os them
l wish his words were really very
truth, but an exception might have
been made OF the unhappy few who,
alter hearing the new music brought
forward, are obliged to shut them
selves in hotel room and make CON
fesslon of their opinions after getting
their wits to discern whether or not
they have any. poor fellow" said
Mlllmesberger the elder on seeing a
Niennese critic leaving a concert room
How willingly he would give three
gulden if he knew whether he wrote
the musici"
The hundred who came down South
Mountain this afternoon through a
glorious picture of bronzed woods
bathed in the golden light of west
ern sun were occupied with the sensa
tons of pleasure which the Afternoon
concert had aroused in them The
frahms Trio in B major with unal-
loyed loveliness had passed through
their ears, called pretty fancies into
hfe and plucked at the tense strings
OF their emotions. Had some of the
music of the day seemed not altogether
agreeable they could forget it or re-
Call 1t with pardoning smile Not so
the reviewers for the newspapers
Theirs is the duty of recalling a host
OF 1eeting Impressions and putting
them on record, with the haunting
thought that on the morrow they might
be charged with putting fly in the
ointment of memory cherished by care
lessly happy folk of the day before.
Two Excellent Works
For them, however, if they reflected
that they were out of harmony with
the purveyors of a new musical evangel
there was comfort in the knowledge
that they had at least been at one with
a vast majority in the climactic mo-
ments of the two concerts and that
this harmony of feeling had been
brought about by two works in which
the tastes of the early eighteenth and
middle nineteenth centuries were met
The climax of the morning meeting
was reached in a sonata for flute and
clavier by Bach, though the program
ranged in time from that bewigged
worthy down to an ambitious young
American and a somewhat older but
still youthful Englishman of to-day
The performance of Mr.. Barrere and
Mr. Oswald, his associate at the piano
forte in the archaic piece, was an un-
equivocal and triumphant success.
Among the new compositions which
were played in the forenoon when the
T}o, \, 10 At,+n ole hoc
soon and French horn-were the music
makers, candidates for appreciation
were quintets by Leo Sowerby anC
Domcnico Brescia. The rest of the
pieces were bv Mozart, Bach, Vincent
d'lndy and Albert Ronssel
Prize Composition Given
In the afternoon the Elshuco Trio
after ravshingly beautiful perform
ane of the Brahms trio, gave frs
public introduction to the prize com
position of the festival, pianofortt
trio in three movements by II. Waldo
Warner, the viola player of the Lon
don Quartet, whose concerts of Bee
! thoven's music, given last season
linger lovingly in our ears. Mr.. SO
werby is an American, taste Of whose
quality we had from a pianoforte con
certo played in New York at concer
OF tNc symphony society," Ill tnaC con
certo we thought there was much tha
held out promise for the composer:
future, though we believed when WE
heard it, and still think that it nigh
have been greatly improved by heroic
use of stout pencil or meat axe.
The quintet of to-day did not suffer
from proliXity and had much to chal-
lenge admiration in its technical work
manship, especially in its interesting
material or counterpoint, to speah
technically. What, then, were the feat
ures which gave pause to our delight
and brought regret that American music
had not been endowed with a compost
tion of lasting value? They were
chiefly two-lack of essential values in
the themes and lack of skill in the
handling of the instruments. Flute
clarinet, bassoon and French horn dc