New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
Elaborate Plans Are
Laid for BROOKLYN
Musical Season
The Days of ahe Old Phil.
harmonic Soeiety; Activ-
tiles of the Institute
of Arts and Science 9

In a pleasantly oH-handed manner
NJ. David Gurtiss recently published
sarae Of hss recollections of the Brook
isa Philharmonic concerts of more
sasn half century ago. 1t was evil
sent enough TO grubbers in historical
s,arua that Mr.. Curtiss found himself
asssisnally in bit of haze las who
vousd not in recalling incidents that
ecurred between fifty and sixty years
s,,l but he succeeded in conveying
4. fact in which every veteran OBJ
.srsg of musical things will agree
ui.i him, and that is that the com
ggsssy which we used to reach by
aesns Of ferry boats across the East
alser has long ago sought to maintain
il musical affairs an independence of
yew York City. That the Philharmonic
Society, which was organized in 1857,
acknowledged only the rivalry of the
Boston Orchestra was slip of memory
Tough perhaps pardonable one. The
pas.on Symphony Orchestra, which he
said everybody knew even then was the
siast word" in orchestral music, did
net come into existence until ten years
or more after the time that Mr.. Curtiss
gossiped about. For considerable
period before 1881 symphonic music
vas expounded in Boston by the Har-
ward Association and the Boston Phil
harmonic ty-organizations whose
influence did not extend appreciably TO
the American metropolis and it's sister
town across the river.
As for the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
which still exists in name and EMPLOYS
the present Boston Orchestra to give
its concerts, it was much in affiliation
with the New York Philharmonic So
ciety. Eisfeld, Bergmann and Theo-
dore Thomas, who were conductors of
the New York Philharmonic Society,
we're in turn the conductors of the
Brooklyn concerts, and the last held
the post from 1878 till he abandoned
New York and betook himself to the
City that Sitteth at the Foot of the
Great Lakes in 1891. Except when Mr..
Thomas was in opposition to the New
York Philharmonic Society, we fancy
that the concerts of the two organiza-
tons were practically Identical, though
the programs may have differed in
their sole features.
For opera and drama Brooklyn was
long dependent o1 New York-and it
still is in large measure, though it has
heaters of it's own and hears a series
of performances from the metropolitan
Opera Company every season. But
since the Institute OF Arts and Sciences
organized a musical department be-
twenty-five and thirty years ago, that
institution has practically controlled
the musical affairs Of Brooklyn. Not
only are nearly all recitals in the city
given under its auspices, but also near
" all orchestral concerts 1t admins
ters the affairs Of the Boston Or
,hestra (Which are given under the
lame of the old Philharmonic Society
md also takes the transporting con-
erts of the New York Symphony Or
hestra under its wings. The New York
Society sails under its
wn flag, however, and so, occasionally
Ioes a venturesome singer or instru.
nau+alist with thyea ornbae%ro1 or
giving concerts in the bor-
ugh every season Brooklyn hears much
more symphonic music than it used to,
.hough it is fortunate in not being
overfed. There are many Brooklyn
names in the subscription lists Of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, the Phil
harmonic Society and the Symphony
Orchestra, but though the borough is
a large one it has what many think
is an adequate supply Of musical en-
of it's own. Those that
are already In prospect for the season
1928 are summarized as follows
from the institutes bulletin:
Six afternoon concerts by the New
York Symphony Orchestra with the
assistance of Emma Calve, Felix Sal
nond (cellist), the Schola Cantorum
i'm concert of Christmas music), Vir-
slnie Mauret and q corps de ballet Tin
dance program), Alexander Siloti
,pianist), Paul Kochanski and Albert
spalding (violinists). The dates of