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· Nothing definite has yet been decided this year give four concerts in Aeolian about the New York appearances of the Hall, on Oct. 22, Nov. 15, Feb. 11 and Barrere Ensemble, the Little Symphony March 8. Unconventional programs, dif Orchestra or the Trio de Lutece. These fering radically from those of most-trios chamber music the com Hall on Dec. 18. The Ensemble will give chestra has temporarily discontinued its ing months are fraught with varied in The Mannes Sonata Recitals interesting demonstrations of the various concerts, chamber music programs under terest. Not only the conventional string uses of the harp-as a solo instrument, the auspices of the society are to be given quartet, piano trio and sonata recital David and Clara Mannes announce as a background for the voice and in the at the Washington Irving High School. for . violin and piano loom large in the their eleventh series of violin and piano aggregate. Both a Friday and a Saturday evening city's musical life, but the various com sonata recitals for the evenings of Dec. While the justly admired Olive Mead course have been arranged. At the for binations of wind and other instruments, 4 and Jan. 29 and the afternoon of April Quartet may give a New York concert or mer the following organizations will ap for which a yery keen taste has been 12 (the last being a concert for young two this winter its plans to that end are pear; Nov. 2, Letz Quartet; Dec. 7, Bar developing · in the past three or four people) in lEolian Hall. In addition to not settled at present. rere Ensemble; Jan. 4, Cherniavsky Trio; years, figure prominently in the list of sonatas by Mozart, Tartini and Beetho On January 11 the American String Feb. 9, Olive Mead Quartet; March 8, · alluring events. ven, the artists are to present works of Quartet from Boston, whose members are Rubel Trio; April 5, Flonzaley Quartet. Brahms, Chausson and Lekeu. The Gertrude Marshall, Ruth Stickney, Ade- At the latter: Oct. 20, Flonzaley Quartet; A New Kneisel Quartet Immeasurable gratification accom panies the assurance that the venerated Kneisel Quartet has not really become How the New War Revenue Act Affects a , memory, despite the poignant valedic tory of last spring. To be sure, Mr. Kneisel himself is no longer at the ac Admissions to Concerts and Operas customed place. But interest in the BY the recent War Revenue Act passed by Congress, and approved by the President on Oct. 3, 1917, a tax is levied Kneisel Quartet as it now is constituted will be increased to fever heat by the of one cent for each ten cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid for admission to any place, including admis-. presence at the first violin stand of none sion by season ticket or subscription, to be paid by the person paying for such admission. The tax is to be collected Jes.s than Fritz Kreisler. Inasmuch as !Jy each person or corporation receiving the admission price, and at the same time. All such taxes are to be accounted tradition pronounces a supreme virtuoso for under oath and paid over to the Internal Revenue Collector monthly. a poor ensemble player, the performance of the King of Violinists will be followed This tax also applies to cabarets and similar entertainments, where the charge for admission is wholly or partly all the more intently. But so command included in the charge .for refreshment, service or merchandise. ingly: great and artistic a musician is The tax on admission of children under twelve (12) years of age is fixed at one cent (1c.) irrespective of the Mr. Kreisler that he should instinctively amount of the admission charge. grasp the essentials of such co-operation. Fof the rest the personnel of the Quar In case of persons (except employees, municipal officers on official business, and children under twelve (12) years tet consists, as before, of Messrs. Letz, of age admitted free to any place when an admission charge is made to other persons of the same class, a tax equal Svecenski and Willeke. Three concerts to 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the admission price charged to such other persons for similar accom . will be given at lEolian Hall, on Friday modations must be paid by the persons so admitted free, at the time of such admission. evenings, Dec. 21, Feb. 1 and April 5. Persons having the permanent use of boxes in an opera house or in any place of amusement, must pay a tax of Like their colleagues the Kneisels, the Flonzaleys this year show a new face in ten per cent (10% ) of the amount for which a similar box or seat· is sold for the performance or exhibition at which their ranks. U go Ara, viola of the Quar the box or seat is used or reserved by or for such leasee or holder. tet· since its inception, has gone to Italy No tax is imposed where the maximum charge on admissi0n is five cents (5c.) nor is any tax levied on admissions on military duties and has been replaced to out-door general amusement parks or to shows, rides or other amusements therein, where the maximum charge is by the distinguished French artist, Louis Bailly. The Flonzaleys are booked for ten cents ( 10c.). three concerts in this city, to take place A tax of ten per cent (10% ) is likewise levied upon initiation fees and dues to any social or sporting club where at .lEolian Hall the evenings of Nov. 27, the dues or fees exceed twelve dollars ($12.) per year. Such tax is to be paid by the person paying such dues or fees Jan. 22 and March 12. Already the sub and is to be accounted for in the same manner as above outlined with reference to the tax on admissions. scription is reported greatly in excess of No tax is levied upon dues or fees to fraternal beneficiary societies operating under the lodge system and provid last season. Under the direction of the American ing for the payment of life, sick, accident or other benefits to the members, nor upon admissions the proceeds of pianist-composer, Jacques Grunberg, a which inure exclusively to the benefit of religious, educational or charitable organizations or agricultural fairs. new orchestra of thirty, called the Minia All these taxes become effective on and after Nov. 1, 1917. ture Philharmonic, will make its New York bow on Nov. 25. The programs of this orchestra are intended to cover the history of symphonic music and to tra Brahms number is the F Minor So line Packard and Hazel L' Africain, will Nov. 17, David and Clara Mannes; Dec. verse all schools and theories. New nata for piano and clarinet or viola. In be heard at the Princess Theatre. With 22, Trio de Lut~ce; Jan. 19, American American works will be introduced. this instance it will be given with the the co-operation of the Boston pianist, String Quartet; Feb.; 23, Magulies Trio; The Berkshire Quartet, which won last named instrument and thus intro Heinrich Gebhard, the artists will pre March 23, Kaufman Quartet. Students such a cordial welcome at its first New duce Mr. Mannes to New York in a new sent the great Qui~tet of Cesar Franck, and workers may attend these concerts at York concert last spring, has lost, role. The Chausson work is the Sextet Piano Quartet of Gabriel Faure and some the special rate of a dollar for the series through the draft, its second violin for piano and strings, that of Lekeu compositions by Jean Hure. of six concerts. Mr. Felber. A new man is being sought, a sonata for violin and piano. The Letz Qt.artet, consisting of Hans but owing to the perplexities of the sit With the substitution as first violin Letz, Sandor Harmati, Edward Kreiner The Choral Situation uation the precise facts of the. quartet's ist of Edward Deru for Andre Tour and Gerald Maas, has three appearances appearances cannot as yet be made. ret, now detained abroad by the war, th~ in .lEolian Hall, the evenings of Oct. 30, A new situation confronts that section New York Chamber Music Society, Caro Feb. 5 and March 19. The Beethoven of the public which rejoices in choral Only Two Margulies Concerts lyn Beebe, director, will give three of its Quartets, Op. 95 and Op. 125, in addition music through last spring's upheaval in delightful concerts of works for different to a new quartet by d'Ambrosio and one the ranks of the Oratorio Society. Because of war conditions, the Adele combinations of piano, string and wind by Leo Weiner, never before yet given in With Louis Koemmenich ousted, the Margulies THo ~ 'fill give only two, in instruments at lEolian Hall the evenings America. Mr. Letz, who l>~.ads this Quar leader's mantle falls upon the shoul stead of the customary three, concerts of Nov. 13, Dec. 11 and Feb. 19. Miss tet, has for some years 'been associated ders of Walter Damrosch who, a this year, which is its fourteenth season. Beebe has selected for this year's pro with the Kneisels as second violinist. score or more years since, presided over Miss Margulies, pianist, and her asso grams a number of novelties by Amer Firmly intrenched in public favor the the society in the same capacity. But ciates, Leopold Lichtenberg, violinist, ican and foreign composers and has also delightful Edith Rubel trio, consisting of Mr. Koemmenich does not appear to.have and Alwin Schroeder, 'cellist, have, how several neglected classics of superlative Edith Rubel, violinist, Marie Roenalt, withdrawn quietly from the arena. At ever, prepared programs of consider interest. 'cellist and Katharine Swift, pianist, will the present writing he is director of a able interest. The concerts will be held newly formed "Philharmonic Chorus." in JEcilian Hall the evenings of Nov. ' 22 which consists of those of his adherents and Jan. 8. The · Zoellner Quartet's two concerts who, as a result of the fracas, seceded occur on Dec. 16 and Jan . .6. ·As yet from the forty-five-year-old society, led the artists have not definitely decided by its erstwhile secretary. Thus there is whether to play at the Little Theater or at present no danger of schism in the the Morosco. The new works which they Oratorio's ranks. The Philharmonic intend to bring forward are Eugene Chorus, though not affiliated with the Goossen's "Two Sketches," Op. 15; the Philharmonic Orchestra, will, it appears, same composer's Suite, Op. 16, and assist it in the projected Beethoven~ Edouard Naprawnick's Quartet, Op. 28. Brahms festival. Three appearances in Rumford Hall, . Vacancies left in the Oratorio Society rnother at the Markel Morning Musi by the withdrawal of the Koemmenich cales at the Plaza and some private· con faction are in process of being filled. -certs will constitute the New York ac The concerts are announced for Carnegie tivities of the Sinsheimer Quartet this Hall, Dec. 5, Dec. 27 and March 28. Mr. year. They will introduce to American Damrosch has revised the list of works audiences a string quartet by Volkmar arranged for this season by Koemmenich. Andreae, another by Frank Ward, the At the first concert Pierne's "Children's "Fantasiestiicke" of Frank Bridge and Crusade" will be sung, at the next the Faure's Riano Quartet in C Minor, usual Christmas "Messiah," while in A new 'cellist, Michael Penha, who al March the Society will give Bach's "St. re:;tdy has been hear.d in a solo capacity Matthew's Passion," with which it tried here, is this year affiliated with the Tol conclusions last April. lefsen Trio. The organization gives t~o Mr. Koemmenich's new chorus is to JEolian Hall concerts, one · in Janqary give a concert during the spring at which and .. one in March. Among the works Bach's glorious "Christmas Oratorio" they will present are a Trio .in G, by will be given, though in a somewhat ab Auguste Chapuis; an unfamilial;. 6ne in breviated form in view of its great F . Minor,· Op. 65, by Dvorak, arid the Photo by Wh-ite length. "Trio-C:i.J)rice" of Paul Juon. The sec Interior View of the Princess Theater, One of New York's Smaller Homes of ond sonata for 'cello and piano by the Theatricals~ Which Has Been Conscripted for Concert Purposes [Continued on page 16]
