The New York herald., 1922-07-23
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Van Hoogstraten
to Take Baton at
Stadium Concerts
Dutch Conductor to Succeed
Henry Hadley, Beginning
: Next Thursday Night.
Philharmonic Orchestra will

THE Philharmonic Orchestra will
change conductors this week,
\ when on Thursday evening
Willem Van Hoogstraten will take the
baton from Henry Hadley and con-
tinue the series of concerts at the
Stadium of City College.
Mr.. Hadley will conduct his last con-
cent of the series Wednesday night His
farewell will be Tchaikovsky's SYM
phony No. 4 in F minor, his own tone
poem. "Lucifer,' and Tchaikovsky's S
1872" while the Dutch conductor will
present for his opening night the
Tchaikovsky "Pathetique" Symphony
and the Wagner numbers. introduction
to Act Ill. 'Lohengrin." the Siegfried
Idyl, the Prelude and Love Death"
from Tristan and Isolde" and the over
ture to 'Tannhauser." The first two
of these Wagner numbers are new to the
Stadium concerts this year.
"Lucifer" on the final Hadley night
will be a great feature. One Of Mr..
Hadleys recent works, it has seldom
been heard in New York. and therefore
will come with much freshness to a
Stadium audience. 1t Is a striking and
dramatic composition and based on a
poetic tragedy by the old Dutch poet
Wendell.
Mr.. Van Hoogstraten has been in New
York for ten days and is actively en-
gagged at Stadium program making He
is new figure in the musical world Of
America and has additional interest
from being the husband Of ELY Ney, the
pianist. His appointment as Stadium
conductor Is due to the brilliant impress
sion he made directing the Philharmonic
in two concerts during last winter.
Hadley and Van Hoogstraten will not
be the sole features of interest and I'M
portance of the Stadiums fourth week.
though. John Barclay, the baritone, Is
to sing on Monday and Judson House,
tenor, will be the soloist tonight.
The seventh week of the concerts by
the Goldman Band. under the direction
of Edwin Franko Goldman, on the Green
at Columbia University will begin to-
morrow night.
For the following week the soloists
will be Lotta Madden. soprano. and
Ernest S. Williams, cornetist.
The Goldman Band is to have new
experience Tuesday evening when 1t is
to play for thousands of seamen at jean
nette Park where the Seamans Insti-
tute Is located. Seamen from almost
every country in tho world will be
present on this occasion and the city
authorities are cooperating with the
officers of the institute to accommodate
the huge audience that is expected to
attend the concert. The soloist will be
Lotta Madden. soprano.
The Ukrainian National chorus. which
Max Rabinoff will present to this coun-
try In the autumn. has just completed
O. three year tour of Europe, where 1t
has been acclaimed as discovering new
paths in choral art and as being a
revelation In the use of human voices
Their concert season will open with a
recital at Carnegie Hall on October 5.
These concerts will be a real festival
of Russian vocal music. but as a sepa-
rate part of the program Mr.. Rabinoff
will present, two distinguished Russian
opera artists as alternate soloists, Nine.
Nina Koshetz and Mile. Oda Siobod-
skaja, soprano. from the former I'M
perial Opera House of Petrograd.
Walter Damrosch. conductor of the
New York Symphony Orchestra, has
gone to Bar Harbor to complete his me-
moirs which will appear serially In the
Ladies Home Journal commencing in
October and will be brought out later
by Scribner's in book form.
These "reminiscences viii take in his
earliest childhood, from 1886. and will
treat Of the work In America of his
father, Leopold Damrosch. during his
last thirteen years. Walter DAM
rosch's own experiences with artists
and activities begin with the American
tour of the famous violinist wilhelm1
in 1873 with Mr.. Damrosch as his ac-
companist and lead UP to and include
the European tour of the New York
symphony Orchestra in the spring of
1920.
Miss Sue Harvard the American So
prano. recently of the Metropolitan
Opera. has just had the distinction OF
being invited to appear at a reception
to be given at the home OF Premier
Lloyd George in London on July "a.
The singer was guest at the American
Embassy on the Fourth. and sang the
previous day at a large dinner given by
Gordon Selfridge to Chief Justice Taft
and other American notables.
Reports from Florence indicate that
Albert Spalding Is hard at work on some
new compositions. Besides editing and
phrasing some of the classical concertos
with cadenzas of his own, the American
violinst is writing a. string quartet.
which he hopes to have ready In time
for a hearing for the Berkshire Festival