$2.00 uer Year Vol. XXIII. No. 24 NEW YORK APRIL 15, 1916 'l'e n Cents tler Copy EDITED ~ ~6 - ~------.. MAHLER·s '•EIGHTH" n llllllllllllltlll!lllll INVITE HADLEY 1=1 WINS OVATION fOR TO BECOME NEW ITS PERFORMERS RIVAL TO HERTZ ·
1=1 Philadelphians Carry Away Richly Disaffection in San Francisco Merited Honors in New York Symphony Orchestra Associa Production of "Symphony of a tion Leads to Movement to Thousand'' - Metropolitan Place Former Conductor at Opera House Scene of Inspiring Head of Recently Organized Demonstration for Conductor Philharmonic- W. B. Bourn Stokowski, His Orchestra and Resigns as President of Older Choruses- But the Symphony Orchestra - Downing to Be Itself, with All Its Elaborate Manager Healy's Successor Trappings, Is Revealed as "K£. B ureau of Musical America, 1101 P ine Street, pellmeistermusik," Lacking in San Francisco, April 3, 1916. Inspiration B. BOURN, president of the Mu W• sica! Association of San Fran USTAV MAHLER'S Eighth Sym cisco, which maintains the Symphony G phony in E Flat-the famous 1::, Orchestra, has resigned. This announce '· Symphon y of a Thousand"-underwent ment comes with the re-election of Al "' the judgment of New York at the Met 1=1 fred Hertz as conductor for another sea ropolitan Opera House last Sunday night. son, but President Bourn, who has been it had already enjoyed a r un of eight =I friendly to Mr. Hertz during all t he asso performances in Philadelphia with what 1= 1 ciation's internal discord, says the reason results readers of this journal are fa of his resignation is that he intends to miliar. To the enterprise and initiative travel. It is openly stated that tt numbet· of the Society of the Friends o£ Music of other resignations are to follow. local music lovers are indebted for ac Frank W. Healy, as telegraphed to quaintance with this, the magnum O]JUS MUSICAL AMERICA, has resigned. He of the late composer-conductor, just as still holds office, however , f or while for lhey are for a variety of more or less mally notifying the association that he sig nificant musical experiences in the will not retain t he management next sea course of the past two or three years. son he has not set the date of his retire The perfor mance represents a costly and ment. He holds the position of manager financially unremunerative undertaking, under a contract that will not expire un actuated by a spirit of indisputable a r '=I t il June 1. Never in harmony with Mr. tist ic idealism. Hertz, he is now openly opposed to him. It was necessary to import the wholo Each has been quoted as saying that he Philadelphia production-the term is de would not stay in the association unless cidedly pertinent, however strangely it the other withdrew. Cass Downing will rings with respect to a symphony-which be the new manager. comprised the Philadelphia Symphony The general condition is the same as Orchestra, liberally augmented to meet it was a year ago, so f ar as trouble in t he the vast instrumental demands of the a ssociation is concerned. Ten excellent composition, five choral organizations, ag prog rams have been presented during t he gregating 950, and an octet of picked sea son just closed, but the public has not soloists. It also became necessary to hire shown t he deserved appreciation. There the Metropoli tan a s the only auditorium has been a great falling off in the Sun large enough to contain the greatest out day popular concer t patronage, though on vouring of music lovers drawn by any :=1 Sundays the programs are just the same local concert function in years and as as at the regular concerts on Fridays. affording space enough for t he perform This interest in t he People's Philhar ers without having actuall y to trespass monic, together with the character of the on the audience's territory. Of all this backing which it has, suggests that the or and much else the Friends of Music cheer chestra may be carried into the fi eld next fu ll y shouldered the burden and paid ou t season as a formidable rival of the San of their own pockets the difference be Francisco Orchestra. Nikolai Sokoloff is tween cost and receipts-a considerable the conductor. He is an excellent violin item, t hough the house was sold out days ist who was previously presented as head in advance and many clamored for stand of Mrs. John B. Casserley's Innisfail ing room after the sale of admissions Quartet. The Casserleys are regarded as stopped. The whole project represented promoters of the new orchestra move on the part of the di stinguished society ment, and in the older organization t hey an act of genuine supererogation and al were among the enthusiastic supporters truism. of Henry Hadley. Interested with them In point of outward show and theat in the success of the new organization are rical circumstance, the event stands pre influential members of the older sym eminent among the non-operatic doings phony association. of the season. Its dominant atmosphere Nobody authorizes the statement, but and visible symbols were sharply differ there is a serious determination to build entiated from the habitually sober ele up t he People's Philharmonic so t hat it ments of a symphonic function. Copious will be in a position to compete with the advertisement of one sort or another dur-· San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for ing the p_receding weeks imparted a po !If publi<; favor. I expect to see Mr. Healy tent aspect of sensationalism to the affair llll:li llr l·tllltltllll·llllllllllltli rlrtl llli r become manager of it. I know that t here and heightened that inherent in the work · Photo by H aeselcr S t udio is a wish to bring Henry Hadley back to itself. And the arr iving audience-made LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI San Francisco very soon for the purpose up of the musical blue blood of the city of going over the ground and seeing as well as many scarcely alive to t he Who won · a Personal Triumph as Conductor of the Notable Performance of whether he cares to assume the con precise nature of t he entertainment Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Metropolitan Opera House Sunday Night ductorship. A letter has been sent to was equipped at the door with librettos, Mr. Hadley, askin g him to come out here thematic analyses, quasi-philosophic com at the close of the Newark Festival with mentaries and pamphlets compounded of posed, few suffered the un comfortable mentalists sat on an improvised apron a view to taking control of the new Phil appreciations of Mahler written by lead consequences of the edict. bui lt over the OI"chestral pit, while t he harmonic. All of Mr. Hadley's friends .. jng musical lights. Tardy arrivals were Closed curtains hid t he chorus from eight soloists had places behind the or are in t his new movement. made to stand during the first half of view until the proper moment, when, as chestra. These singers-Florence Hinkle, Two others who have been ment ioned the work, t hough as the threat of such lhey parted, the startling picture offered Inez Barbour, Adelaide Fischer, Mar are Carl Pohlig and Walter Rothwell. If punishment had been proclaimed in t he by a sea of faces rising tier upon tier , garet Keyes, Susanna Dercum, Lambert Mr. Hadley comes he will have the sup advance announcements of the concert boxed in drab-colored draperies and Murphy, Reinald Werrenrath and Clar port of some of the present members of and as Conductor Leopold Stokowski took solidly banked to nearly the full height ence Whitehill- had a welcome when they the Board of Governors in the association l:he stand at quarter to nine instead of of the proscenium, brought a spon that has re-elected Mr. Hertz. a quarter past eight, as originally pro- taneous burst of applause. The instru- [Continued on pag_e 2] THOMAS NUNAN. Enter ed a t the Post Offi ce at New Y or l<, N . Y., as m a il matter of the Second Class -