The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Ten Thousand at
Stadium Concert
by Philharmonic
Auspicious Opening With
Wagner Program and Henry
! Hadley Conducting.

Under weather conditions that were
ideal the fifth Season of summer nigh,
concerts in the Lewisohn Stadium al
the College of the City of New York
was opened last night with an audience
OF more than ten thousand persons VIII,
filled every seat in the great stone
amphitheater. II was the most success
ftl opening in the five years of the
stadium concerts. There will be forty
two of these concerts on consecutive
nights at half past eight o'clock dur
ing six weeks.
Adolph Lewisohn. who gave the sta
dium to the City College and the prin-
cipal supporter of the summer night
concerts there. welcomed the crowd in
short address ana previously enter
tained a number of men and women
some OF whom helped him to underwrite
the concerts. at dinner in the Clare
mont restaurant.
His guests included Mr.. Henry Had
ley. who will be the conductor for the
first three weeks. and Mrs. Hadley. DIR.
and Mrs. Sidney f. Mezes, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn. Mr.. Samuel
j. Rockford, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred s.
Rossin Mr.. James j. Higginson, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Bertram Fox, Mr.. Richard
III. Waldo. Mrs. Randolph Guggen-
heimer, Messrs. Arthur Judson, Frank
Lewisohn and Louis Wiley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph III. Freedlander, DIR. John
III. Finlay. Mr.. and Mrs Samuel d.
Levy, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Mankewitz,
DIR. George h. Kunz, Miss Fay Lew
isohn, Mrs. Philip Lewisohn. Miss Mar
garet Case. Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Frank.
Miss Florence Smith. Mr.. and Mrs.
George II. Andrews, Miss Sophie Irene
Loeb. Mr.. and Mrs. Martin vogel, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Adamson, Mrs. Henry
Martyr Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. Max
J. r. Rossbach. Mr.. William A.
Brophy, Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Whalen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Brisbane. DR.. and
Mrs. Frank Crane, Mr.. and Mrs. Muir
ray Hubert, Mr.. and Mrs. John P.
O'Brien, Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Miller,
Hans Kaltenbornsand Joseph Rockford.
In his address Mr.. Lewisohn said he
regarded it as great privilege to be
of service to the people Of the city,
"and," he added, naturally we are
pleased to be able to offer these spleiI-
did educational concerts to ever-increas-
ing audiences at moderate entrance
fee" He added:
II need not tell you that it is great
satisfaction to me that such splendid
results nave so far been achieved. 1t
is most gratifying to be able to assemble
sucn large and high class audiences
and equally gratifying that we were
sble to obtain the best musical talent,
the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
and such conductors as Mr.. Hadley and
Mr.. Van Hoogstraten. The program
notes by Lawrence Gilman, will prove
interesting and instructive. I hope
these concerts will continue to give
pleasure, recreation and education to
large audiences that appreciate the best
quality of music and help to make New
York attractive in summer"
The crowd that attended found a re-
built and covered orchestra stand pro-
vided with an effective sounding board.
The baroness of the field was relieved
by green trellises extending from right
and left of the platform. The new
sounding board sent the faintest music
TO the farthest reaches of the stadium.
ATusically, the concert was an i'm
prove-uent over its predecessors. The
orchestra, eighty-flves strong, furnished
n program which was, with one excep-
tion, made UP Of the works Of Wagner.
The exception, coming midway In the
Hadley, dedicated to Mr.. Lewisohn and
called "The Stadium" The march
proved to be a spirited piece into the
end of which was ingeniously woven
"Auld lang Syne." The overture from
'Tannhauser,' opened the evening.
The other Wagnerian excerpts were
the Prelude and Isolde's Love-Death
and Tristan's Vision, Forest Murmurs
from "Siegfried." Wotan's Farewell
and the Magic Fire Scene. Siegfried's s
Funeral March and the Preludes to
'Parsifal" and die Meistersinger."
Among this seasons underwriters Of
the Stadium concerts are Mrs. Willard
Straight. Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar.
Mr.. Felix NJ. Warburg, Miss Irene and
Miss Alice Lewisohn, Mr.. Henry r..
Towne. Mr.. Clarence III. Mackay, Mrs.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. John
Henry Hammond, Mr.. Henry de Forest
Baldwin, Mrs Walter j. Salmon. Mr..
r. Thornton Wilson, Mrs. Nicholas f..
Brady. Mrs. Lyttleton Fox, Gen. Cole
man du Pont. Mrs. Winthrop Chandler.
Mrs. Winthrop w. Aldrich. Mr.. Arthur
Curtiss James, Miss Mabel Choate and
Messrs. S. w. Straus and Frederick T..
Steinway
The Fifth Avenue Coach Company
announced yesterday that there will be
special service on routes and 3, to ac-
commodate patrons for the Stadium con-
certs. The buses win leave Washington
square every ten minutes, from to 80
p. NJ. going via Riverside Drive, and
every ten minutes from 7:10 to TAO
p. NJ buses will leave from Twenty
fifth street and Fifth avenue, going via
st. Nicholas avenue Buses will leave
the Stadium at the close OF the per-
formance.