New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Hadley Leads
Philharmonic
Concert Here
No Riddles Propounded and
but Single Novelty Offered
i'll Program Rendered by
Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
One Real Familiar Piece
Performance Attended bv
1000 Who Express Their
Appreciation of the Work
By III. L. Krehbiei

Henry Hadlcy conducted concert
ny the orchestra OF the Philharmonic
Society in Carnegie Hall Friday after
noon. II arranging his program ne
pfain'y aimed at gracious entertain-
ment for his audience. He performed
no riddles and offered but a single
novelty, and that of the picturesque
kind. designed TO give pleasure to the
society's Friday subscribers, who
have seemed 20 us OF peculiarly in
Senuous bent of mind At least We
have seen them bored by classical
Masterpiece and manifest delight over
a trife, scarcely consistent with tradi-
tional notions of what Philharmonic
program should contain. For them.
perhaps, our characterization Of the
program ought to ne modified so far
AS the Sreater part of the music *
,oncerred.
Though there was but ono real
v.orthy in the l'st only ono Of the FIVE
pieces generally familiar Miller
Rurghauss Transcription for orcbes-
ira Of lists Polonaise in +; 70 recall
the others required the exercise of a
long memory and in the case OF the
symphony even & veteran reporter was
compelled to appeal 10 his records
This was GlazounoF's in b flat, the
composers fifth work OF the kind
which was played here for the frs;
time at a Philharmonic concert nearly
t~enty-four years ago and the last
time by the Boston Orchestra in De
cember, 1906. Dr. Muck then offered
1t as novelty and had to be SO,
right by The Trihune's reviewer who
secalled the first per ,ormance under
Rr. Seidl eight years before. and
thought that it had been performed in
the interim by the Russian sym
phony Orchestra Few Russian compo-
sltions Of magnitude escaped Mr.
Modest Altschuler in those enterpris-
ing days.
Reviewer Freshens Memory
Friday the reviewer had to freshen
his memory by an appeal to his books
aud was not A little amused TO discover
that he had set down his opinion after
the first hearing that GlazounoT. who
had scarcely been heard of at the
trhe, depended more upon harmoniza-
tion and Instrumentation for the de-
velopment of his movements than upon
thematic workmanship. but was a
master Of the orchestra "whether
painting in broad colors or With new
and dainty tints.' Broad coors and
dainty tints sounded academic Friday.
but there was no discount on what we
described as "the splendidy sonorous
song Of the band,' and a face scanned BY
wrinkles which 'rere not there quart +
OF century ago. was again tempted 20
smile at IAN echo from III Trovatore
instrumental introduction to Fer
rando's recital, Act !. Scene ~ as did
also the crash and buster and bang Of
the finale Friday the echoes of earlier
music seemed to be more numerous. and
while listening we thought We were
surveying music almost literally from
China to Peru" for even "Moolcwha y
otherwise "The Jasmine Flower which
we culled nearly half a century ago
from Wlliamss middle Kingdom =
and put into Chinese nosegav for the
readers of "Scribners Magazine.' -
peeped pretsily from out the scherzo.
1000 Hear Performance
Ii the symphony was as good rs q
novelty TO us it must have been the
same TO some 1000 other hearers. VINO
were only little less demonstrative in
Seidls audiences, on March and 5.
1898. Borodin's delightful musical
picture "On the Stoppes Of. Central
Asia" (Which We heard when i had
its first performance in America un-
der Theodore Thomas on Nal rch %.
1885, has been played repeatedly Y
since and has always NE, with the
approval which il received Friday. And
deservedly, Cor it is bit Of musical
delineation which sacrifices nothing Of
IT'S excellence a. music to the circum
stance that il has an obvious pro-
gram. OF course. that lone-sustained
high + of tine violin tan inverted organ
point might suggest many things (thc
same device pictures the Star OF Beth
|.
certainly helps the fancy to conjure
up picture Of the vast steppes of 81
IBERIA over which moves a caravan of
Orientals escorted by Russians, the
tHo groups of men delineated BY char.
actcristic tunes
The novel number was An orchestra,
suite Of six pieces. entitled "Indiar
Sketches" by Henry T. Gilbert. com
position differing from S2ilton Pm
troduced 10 Us a month ago, in that Mir
Gilbert does rot adhere SO closely tc
his aboriginal thematic material as
his predecessor did. Mr.. Gilbert is 8
student of folk-musc, as mis- published
studies prove, and has reached the con-
clusion IA sound one) that Indian
music, on the whole. is artstically
nleager and valueless. Consequently
his "SEetches" are not mere settings
OF lDQlaI tuHeS. ne uses WaQt we
have called the conventional Indian
formula. but expands it at will and
even departs widely from it in creating
ecmc Of his themes. He does not even
attempt 10 adhere to "color" as Profcs-
scr Skilton does, but aims at producing
The moods which Indian scenes might
awaken in an observer of their life ano
ceremonies There is no great pleni-
1ude OF invention discerNlbe in his
pieces. which are mercifully short, and
his excursion into the aboriginal field
aeems to be less profitable than his
dssays in Afr o-American and Creole
territory. as eXemplified in his COMEDY
Overture on Negro Themes" and his
BALLET "In Place Congo" produced a few
;easons ago at the Metropolitan Opera
House. But the "Sketches' are inter.
csting and entertaining and were en-
ioyed by Fridays audience. The music
vas applauded heartily. and he ap-
reared upon the platform to bow his
acknowledgements to the performers
as we'll as the hearers.