New-York tribune., 1922-02-13
Mime. Leggi',ska
Leads Audience
To New Fields
Symphonic Poem Wanders
From Old Ones Into Jun
giles Where Strange Crea-
lures Snarl and Crawl
Illustrates Dunsany Poem
Product of Anythingarian
Coosens School Is Given
With Coates as Sponsor
Bv II. Z. kr. hbiel

1honS Society our educa;ion II the
music of the future goes on apace. At
concert in Acoiian Hall Yesterday
afternoon We were led by the ungeutle
hand OF Nr Coates from the third
"Leonore' overture Of Beethoven to the
latest product OF the ANytningarian
Goosens Schoo, represented by Nine.
Ethc Ieginska, from Beyond the
Fields We Know" into the iunglcs
where strange creatures crawl and snarl
and speak = Rabylonsh dialect which
woulG-be futuristS affect" For nine
ong years Nine. Leginska has always
Interested ard generally charmed the
New York public by her pianofortc
ciation almost atIecilonat~ for the
classics. Now She has Utgrown even
suHerarce OF the obsolete Beethoven and
: trying 20 lead The public INTO what
&C are told IS The promised land where
music 20 be trUiv expressive Of poeiical
md emotional content must. as Rabe-
ais said, be "above the pitch. out Of
'unc and oil the hinges Her demon
s,ratior At = recent concert Of tie
Chamber Music Society was so infan-
lie that it could cause nothing else
than comm.seraton for those Concerned
n its performance and pitying condo
encc with The ghosts Of the masters
nto whose company she was admitted
The piece which Nh. Coates pro-
doccd Yesterday WAS longer and
thicker and more ambitious. 1t was
Tor the biggest ainG o. an orchestra
with the pianotorte. tn. tintinnabu!a-
'ory ceiesta and the gathering xylo-
phone thrown in and its prOfessed
aim was 70 GIVE tonal illustration to
prose poem by Lord Dunsany which
tells of the adventures Of The Poet in
he Land of Dreams. INTO which he
: admitted by shop in "Go-by
street where there Is a faun who
comes out Of rhodoGen4soN bush and
aarceS on disk Of bronze. making
sounds With his hoofs as "baautiful as
bells The composer also has some
thing 10 tell OF . tribe OF weird. dark
people. who came down 'rom the peaks
ut Ma loon once ia seven wears and
danced because thoy We're frightened
DJ thunderstorm and the nrcs Of
death, and az length she introduces
her audience to the fair Queen Sar-
anoora. who dances trry much like
the fauu with the musical hoofs. and
hnal lnVokcs song from the
toluiu-bIrd
ftttthCV cry latIeEt
We nope .H's - cieal and that The
Symphony Society subscribers who
'9eir vorH paticnt and considerate YES
telaaN. DID aot permit their minds to
entertain thoughts OF the Jahbe,evocA;
WINE riding the program and listen
.n- TO tic soto speak music Though
Nine ieeiu ha wanted her piece to 50
On without iutcrruption from it's 6read
.cr.nn ~ 10 its fell end. Mr.. Coates
-t"rn'd 80 The middle II wipe his fore.
1ede End consult with the PLAYER Of
tic csiestA. and this may have been
harmful TO the unity; bur We do not
THINK so TO us II didn't sech, to mat
ier much where tho thread Of narrative
was ricHcd IN. 1t Was all mattei of
i'N urmr' 'odly untases. which we're
repe- TED. reiterated. rchearsed. recapit-
".afe' afie hatto osi1eA without either
'h' i"us sequence or eehererco. II one
ishcd to seek q literary analogue one
might tHd II In an effort to make an
m agieailNc poem h'- rorcatinp "Wha-
oo.s those wqrtais be-" grotosouclv.
het"reci tleaily. andraeyuously eli.
quantity ana hcwpasticailv i'm a. mary
dlaisct- Of ,,reek. Hiudustani. Yiddish.
Low Dutch and Choctaw.
II called ol, Tor furt Ter characteriza-
Flou Of the music We n ghi he helped
oNt by some citsti.as from tho rro-
cram which ~"em Quito expressive.
N9ne Of IL souudcd as If 1t came out
- lne city ca led Golthoth tho
Damned wa cA Is scntrclled ali round
by wolves add their shadops"; some
~ II like "waiinc tunes Of horror
W9icN souls nad taught them lost bv
'ie.i H the dcsert": all Of IL vac
t'"@ me. very tiieSome."
We nope our meaning is c.ea4. it is
o. pes' "e can do ~ tho confused
state OF mind From which Niss Norini
dla tine host ~ac could lo rescue as hv
playing droalfGliy old-fashioued
I'eee o' mn ca Music called q con
crF'o ~ r. Tor Nolir composed by one
NlouNtcnps. whose fossil remains viii
go I'to musopm as soon as the
gonlts0s of to-day succeed IN forget
YIN. fn' r8trf' and capacity Of the
instrument which he used To- play as
We. rs could be expected.
Dramatic tnoct in Symphony
Mr. Coaro- treated the Beethoven
ovefipro ".tH pcct. although he en-
N.a re 'f0 dramatic effect obtained
'f p'a'ine fre trumpet fanfare as if
nc tslmpo'er had como down from
the rampaite whore he was rosted
N''' ins'uctlon To- report the an
peaI"nec Of carriage Oh the road
iniorma'ion second time directly
INTO Pizarfr's ear. For this od cap-
icrde'H device there is not the slight
rsf qualification in Bccthovcn's score
me instructions TO the trumpeter arc
SIMPLY mat he shall play behind the
scenes 'Auf dem Thcaterl The cf
''' rs an old ono in our concert
rooms. however. and IS referred to
mere only because it was exaggerated
Yesterday
E'msky -horsakof's symphonic suite
Aniaf brought the concert to an