HfM''rt? ' a 18 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEE-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUAKY 10, 1920 Hk'4 j r i&S f c ffilt $ W MERCIER APPEALS TO WORLD TO STOP DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS HUNS BRUTALLY DRAGGED FROM HOMES Belgian Bishops Join in Cry of Alarm "Every Deported Workman Is an Additional Soldier for the German Army'' WO, 000 Men Are Placed in Peril of loosing Homes Bishops' Letter of Protest Tells of "Men Snatched From Us by Force'' and Prays for the Abolition of European Slavery "They Know Not Where They Arc Going" Explanatory Comment QPARE us this bitter irony!" cries the Cardinal when Von Hissing in his corruipondencc seeks to justify the wholesale deportation and enslavement of the Belgian workmen an outrage instituted in direct repudiation of the pledge of Von Huenc, when governor of Antwerp, and of Von der Goltz Pnsha, the first Governor General of lJelgium. The commission of infamies under the cloak of pious pretenso was, however, a policy to which the majority of German officials subscribed. Von Biasing was not an isolated hypocrite He was only one of many TartuiTcs in the vast Teutonic machine. In this connection it is informing to examine the unctuous despotism and oily depravity of Lieutenant General Hurt as revealed in his proclamation, "Transfer of the Unemployed," dated January 12, 1917. The following arc excerpts from this typical essay in mendacity: "All thoi-c who lie in Belgium know that thcie has been here for several years tcvcral hundreds of thousands of unemployed seeking occupation in vain; fiat many of thu unemployed, from the fact that pub lie charity is not sufficient, in many cai.es, to care for their families, have left the straight path; that under these conditions the insecurity of property, the love of gambling and of idleness have increased in large measures. In many cases armed bands of as many as forty have ravaged fields and gardens. In the neigh borhood of Troia Fontaines (luxurious summer residence of Von Bissing) and other places veritable com bats have taken place between German patrol of the forest service and those stealing wood and poachers. "The German authorities have declared several times that no Belgian will be compelled to work contrary to Article 52 of The Hague convention. Besides, the sending of unemployed to other places of labor is not pro hibited by any provibion of international law. England, Franco and Russia have never hesitated, when ever they rail occasion, to waive away thousands of inhabitants of lands occupied by these powers, and they have compelled these inhabitants to work, often treating them with indignity." Cardinal Merciers Story Indicting his corrsspondenca with the German authorities in Belgium during the war, 1914 to 1918, edited by Professor Fernand Maycnce of Louvain University and translated by the Bene dictine Monks of St. Augustine', Ramsjatc. England. Continuation of Chapter XXX The Deportation Of the Unemployed. YOUR Eminence appeals in your esteemed loiter to the eraltcd ideal of family life I can assure you that I recognize thi3 ideal just no fully iu you do yourself, but I believe that in consequence of the du ration of the war ivith its inevitable effects, con ditions of life growing daily worse, thus idea runs a great risk of disappearing altogether from .- life of the working classes, for idleness U the mott danger ous enemy of family life. The workman vjhn toil in foreign lands to support his wife and family, as was thi case in peace timi for many Belgians who quitted their own land to find work abroad, contrib utes assuredly more to the happiness of hix home than the idler who remans in Belgium. Besides, workmen who get employment in Germany may remain in close contact with their families and are given at regular intervals permwnon to visit their homes. They can even take their families with them to Germany, where they receive every spiritual care in their own tongue. A large number of Belqiun people has, with good tense, thoroughly grasped the situation. Tens of thousands of Belgian workmen have quite voluntarily betaken themeilvea to Germany, where, placed on the same fooling as the German workmen, they earn much higher wages than they have ever known in Bel gium, and instead of perishing of want, like their comrades at home, they add to their own comfort and that of their families. Many others do v.ot venture to follow their example, being held back by a conspiracy of evil influences. Unless they free themselves be times from these influenced, they will, in virtue of my order, be compcllad to work. The responsibility for the c-'vere measures, u hirh the adoption of co)straint necessarily entails, fallj upon thoie who are dis tuading the workers from seeking rmp'oyment. Finally, I entreat your Eminence, in order to realize the situation in all its complexity, to bear in mind the following important considerations. The English blockade has forced the occupied territories into a close economic union with Germany. Germany is today the only country with which Bel gium maintains intercourse. Germany has not taken any steps to hinder pay ments being made in Belgium a measure usually adopted in the cae of enemy countries and German money continues to pour into Belgium. This stream of money will be still more swollen by the workmen's salaries when they are employed in Germany. In eho't, the sunn- of money coming into Belgium as a result ofzihe occupation exceed the war contribution's, which the fart u notorious are entirely sjent in the country. This community of interests, resulting from circumstances, necessarily icquires for the two coun tries an equality of economic factors. As o the one hand there arc in Belgium hundreds of thousands of worlcr; without employment, and on the other in Germany work is abundant, the employment in Germany of Belgians who are out of work becomes o .oclcl and economic duty, imposed by the solidarity of interests in which the two countries ate knit. Any P'otesta uhich may be raised against this n'.ate of things ought to be addressed to England, which, by the blockade she hae, imposed on Germany, has brought about a constrained situation. Your Eminence, keeping in mind all thai I have said, will admit that the aurslion of deportations forms a problem ivhich should be studied from many standpoints. I should be content if your Eminence, as a result of my summary, would weigh this ques tion, as is needful, from the cvcial and economic point of view. I present to your Eminence the expression of my sincere esteem. (Signed) BAJiON VOX BISSING, Cardinal Appeals to Whole World The rigorous measures, far from being relaxed after the protestations which arose on all hides, were only extended further. The German authorities, failing to obtain from the parochial authorities the lists which they had called for of unemployed, took the opportunity of deporting all healthy men. In face of these more and more outrageous proceedings, the Cardinal, in the name of the Belgian bishops, appealed to the public opinion of the whole world and drew up the following terrible charge against the German Government: CUY OF ALARM RAISED BY BELGIAN BISHOPS AND ADDRESSED BY THEM TO THE BELGIAN PUBLIC Malincs, Nov. 7, 101G. The military authorities are daily deporting into Germany from Belgium thousands of inoffensive cit izens to subject them there to compulsory labor. As far back as October 19 we sent to the Gov ernor General a protest, a copy of which was for warded to the Holy See, to Spain, to the United States to Holland, to Brussels, but the Governor Gen eral answered that he was debaned from receiving it. At the date of our protest the go eminent regulations threatened only the unemployed. Today all able-bodied men are taken indiscriminately, penned in military wagons and carted off, no one know.-, where, like a band of .-laves. The enemy proceeds in Ins work by districts. Vague reports have reached us that men had been arrested in the war zone, at Tournay, Ghent, Alost; but we know not in what circumstances. Between October 24 and November 2 he operated in the dis trict of Mons, Quievrnin, Saint-Ghislain, Jemappes, making a clean sweep of eight hundred to twelve hundred men daily. Now he intends to pounce upon the arrondissement of Nivelles. Order for the Deportations Here is a sample of a placard announcing the attempt: "By order of the Kreischcf, all mole persons over seventeen years of age are bound to appear in St. Paul's Square, Nivelles, on the 8th of November at 8 o'clock (Belgian time) and 9 o'clock (central time), furnished with their identity papers and, in case it may be wanted, with their card from the 'MoldeHint.' "They must bring with them only a smnll hand bag. "Any one who refuses to present himself will be forcibly deported to Germany and will also bo liable to a heavy fine and a long term of imprison ment. "Ecclesiastics, doctors, lawyers and schoolmas ters arc exempted. "The burgomasters will be held responsible for the due execution of this order, which must at once be made known to the inhabitants. "An interval of twenty-four hours will be al lowed between the posting of the notice and the deportation itself." On the plea of carrying out public works in Bel gium the authority in occupation had endeavored to obtain from the communes a list of unemployed work men. With this order the great majority of the com munes boldly refused to comply. Three decrees of the government gradually pre pared us for the blow that has fallen on us today. On August 15, 1915, the first decree came out imposing, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, compulsory labor on unemployed workmen, declaring, however, that the work contemplated was to be done in Belgium only and that breaches of the order would be biought before Belgian law courts. A second decree of May 2, 1916, reserves to the German authorities the right to provide work for the unemployed and threatened with a penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of 20,000 marks any one that carries out work not sanctioned by the Gov ernor General. A decree dated May 13, 1916, author izes the governors and military commandants and the chiefs of arrondisscments to order idle workmen to be forcibly taken to the place where they have to work. Compulsory work had already begun, but in Belgium only. ,, Today it is no longer a question of compulsory work to be carried out in Belgium, but in Germany also, for the benefit of the Germans. To impart an air of sweet reasonableness to these violent measures the occupying power alleges in the German press, both of Germany and Belgium, as o pretext for these measures, chiefly two reasons: Idle workmen constitute a danger to public order and they are a charge on the treasury. The letter we addressed on October 16 to the Governor General and to the chief of his political cabinet has the following: "You know full well that public order is not menaced and that were it in dan ger every influence, moral and civil, would spontan eously be offered for its maintenance. Again the un employed arc not a burden on the bounty of the . state; the assistance they receive comes from no funds of yours." In this reply the Governor General no longer in sists on the two previous allegations, but maintains that the sums given to the unemployed from what ever source they come must eventually burden our finances and that it is the task of a good administra tor fo lessen such charges, adding that the pro longation of unemployment would impair our work men's technical skill and on the return of peace they would be of no use for any industry whatever. He does not mention other means of protecting bur finances, for instance, to spare us the forced con tributions wh'ch at the present moment reach the sum of 40,000,000 and is continually augmented by a monthly increase of 40,000,000 francs. We might be spared the requisitions in kind which total several milliards and arc exhausting the country. There were other means, too, for maintaining unimpaired our artisans' technical skill. To leave us, for instance, our machines and equipment, as well as our raw materials and manufactured goods which have left Belgium for Germany, and perhaps quar ries and limekilns, whero the Germans themselves declare that they intend to send the unemployed. Arc not, after all, these the best schools for completing the t"chnical education of our skilled artisans? The unvarnished truth is Hut every deported workman is an additional holdier for the German army. He will take the place of a German workman who will straightway join the army. Thus the situation which we denounce to the civ ilued world comes to this: Four hundred thousand workmen find themselves against their will unem ployed, chiefly because of the regime put into force by the occupying power. Sons, husbands, fathers of families, always mindful of public order, bear their unhappy lot uncomplainingly. The whole; nation united provides for their most pressing needs.'By dint 6f economy and wholesale privations, they manage to escape extreme misery and await with self-respect, tprung from an intimacy which the national mourning has forged among them, the termination of our common trials. Bands of soldiers force their way into their peace ful homes, drag young men from their parents, the husband from his "vifc, the father from his chil dren, guard every door and avenue by which wives and mothers are able to issue to bid a last farewell, form their captives into troops of forty and fifty, thrust them by force into military wagons; the lo comotive has steam up and as soon as the train is filled a superior officer gives the signal for departure. Behold another thousand Belgians reduced to slavery and without trial or sentence condemned to the se verest punishment of the penal code, only second to the penalty of death, namely, deportation. They know not where they are going nor for how long; all they know is that their work Is to benefit the enemy. From several, some by cajolery and others by threats, they extort an undertaking to work, which they dare to call voluntary. There is no doubt they enroll tho unemployed; but, on the other hand, they recruit in great num bers in the case of the ayrondissement of Mons, quite a fourth men who have never been unemployed and belong to trades of very different categories butchers, bakers, master tailors, brewcre, electricians, farmers; they take even young men, college and uni versity students, or there attending the higher schools. Yet two high authorities of tho German empire had expressly guaranteed to us the liberty of our fellow countrymen. On the day following the capitulation of Antwerp the distracted population was filled with alarm re garding the lot of tho Belgians of military age or of those who would reach that age before the end of the occupation. Baron von Hucne, military governor of Antwerp, authorized me to reassure in his name the distressed parents. Nevertheless, as a report was circulated at Antwerp that at Liege, at Namur, at Charleroi, young men had been taken and forcibly carried off to Germany, I begged the Governor to be so good as to confirm in writing the verbal pledges he had given "ic. He replied that the rumors rela tive to the deportation were void of foundation and he gave me, without hesitation, this declaration in writing, which was read on Sunday, October 13, 1914, in all the parish churches of the province of Ant werp: "Young men need have no fear of being taken off to Germany cither to be enrolled in the army, or to be there employed in compulsory labor." Pica to Von der Goltz Immediately on the arrival of Baron von der Goltz as Governor General at Brussels, I went to re quest him to be so good as to ratify for the country at large without limit of time the pledges given by Governor von Huenc for the province of Antwerp. The Governor General retained my petition in his hands to examine it at his leisure. The following day he was kind enough to bring to Malines in per son his approval and renewed in the presence of two aides-de-camp, and my private secretary the promise that Belgian, citizens liberty would be respected. In my letter of October 1 last to Baron von Biss ing. after recalling tho understanding come to bv his predecssor, I concluded as follows: "Your Excellency will understand how painful the burden of my respon sibility will become in the eyes of Belgian families if the confidence reposed in you by my intervention and at my instance should be rudely shaken." Tho Governor General answered: "The employ ment of Belgians, out of work, in Germany which has begun only after two years of warfare, differs es sentially from tho internment of men fit to bear arms. The measure has no relation to the conduct of tho war properly so called, but has been brought about by social and economic causes." Just as though, forsooth, the engagements of a man of honor were, like a lease, subject to re vision at the end of one or two years, and as though the declaration issued in 1914 did not expressly ex clude alike the operations of war and forced labor, as though finally every Belgian workman who takes tho place of a German laborer does not contribute to replenish the depleted ranks of the German army. We, shepherds of these sheep snatched from us by brute force, harassed as we are at the idea of the moral and religious isolation which they will have to endure, impotent witnesses of tho sorrows and dis may of so many homes broken up or threatened with this calamity, we turn toward these souls whether believing or unbelieving, who, in the allied or neu tral countries, or even in enemy lands, entertain respect for the dignity of man. When Cardinal Lavigerie undertook his campaign against slavery, Pope Leo XIII, blessing his mission, said to him: "Opinion is more than ever today the ruling power of the world; it is upon it you must act. You will conquer only by force of opinion." May divine Providence deign to give to some one, to some authority a phrase, a pen, to cause men to flock to our humble Belgian standard for the aboli tion of European blavery. "Honor before all things" (Nihil praeferendum honestati.) Signed on behalf of the Belgian bishops . D. J. CARDINAL MERCIER, Archbishop of Malines. We were unable to communicate with the Bishop of Brutscls. Cardinal Refutes Arguments The Governor General had attempted to justify u, condemnation of tho Belgian working classes to rn,l servitude and deportation. In his reply tho Cardinal refutes all the arguments brought forward bv p.-. von Bissing for defending the German Government, and proves, in a peremptory manner, tho anti-juridical and uiiu-Bvt'ui uuuaiKi i "ivs uiuiuinuii qi nig unom. ployed. Archbishop's House, Malines, November 10, 1916, To His Excellency Baron von Bissing, Governor Gen. cral, Brussels. Sir I refrain from expressing to your Excel lency the sentiments awakened in mc by your letter (1,100051) in answer to tho letter I addressed to you October" 19 regarding the deportation of tho uncm. ployed. I havo a melancholy recollection of tho phrase which your Excellency, emphasising each syllabic! pronounced in my presence on your arrival at Brus. sels. "I hopo our relations will bo cordiaj. I have received a mission to heal tho wounds of Bol gium." My letter of October 19 recalled to your Excel lency's memory the undertaking given by Baron von Huenc, military governor of Antwerp, and ratified some days later by Baron von der Goltz, your pred ecessor in the General Government at Brussels. The undertaking was explicit, unconditional, with out limit of time. "Young men need not fear being carried off to Germany, either to be enrolled in the army or to bo there employed in compulsory labor." This understanding has been broken daily, and thousands of times for more than a fortnight. Baron von Huene and tho late Baron von der Goltz did not speak with any qualification as your dij. patch of October 1G seemed to imply; "If the occupa. tion docs not last more than two years, men fit for military service shall not be placed in captivity." They stated absolutely: "Young men, and still more men of riper age, shall not at any time durine the occupation be imprisoned or employed in compulsory labor." io jusuiy yourseu your .excellency quotes me conduct of England and France, who have, you say, taken irom neutral snips ajl uermans between sev enteen anu any years oi ago ana lztiernea mem in concentration camps. If England and France havo been guilty of an in justice, it is on tho English and the French that you should have inflicted reprisals, not on an innocent and disarmed people. But has there been any injustice? Imperfectly informed as we are of all that takes place outside the walls of our prison, we are tempted to believe that the Germans taken and interned belonged to tho reserve of the imperial army. They were therefore soldiers whom England and France were justified in sending to concentration camps. Belgium has onjy recently, that is since August, 1.913, had universal military service; the Belgians, therefore, from seventeen to fifty years of age residing in the occupied part of Belgium are civilians and noncombatants. It is a mere play on words to liken them to German reserv- ists in applying to them the misleading appellation "men fit for military service." The orders, public notices, comments in the press designed to prepare public opinion for tho measures being put at this moment into execution have placed in the forefront two considerations. The unemployed, it was said, are a danger to public security, they are a burden on the state. It is not true, as said before in my letter of Oc tober 19, that our workmen have upset or simply threatened anywhere to disturb public order. Five million Belgians, hundreds of Americans, are wonder-struck witnesses of the self-respect and unfailing patience o'f our working classes. It is not true that workers deprived of work are si burden on the occupying power or on the benevolent funds which its administration provides. The national committee to which the occupying power makes no contribution is the sole means by which victims of enforced idleness are assisted. These two answers have been left without reply. "Rescued From Idleness" The letter of October 26 seeks another method of justification. It alleges that the measure, by which the unemployed have been struck so grievously, has been "brought about by social and economic causes." "It is because it has at heart more earnestly and more intelligently than ourselves the interest of the Belgian nation that the German Government rescues the laborer from idleness and saves him from losing his technical skill. Compulsory labor is the price to be paid for the economic advantages procured by our commercial exchanges with the empire." (CONTINUED MONDAY) Copyright, llto. by Public Ledger Co. Copyright, Canada, 1S10. by PubKo Ledger Co. International Copyright, 1910, by Public Ledger Co. i THE CRITIC TALKS TO MUSIC LOVERS Weekly Comment on Things Musical in Discriminating Philadelphia THE revival of Hulcvv's opera, "The Jcvvf"-'- " bv tl" Metropolitan Opera Co. at Inst Tin -dm evening'", perforin nnre wh one of the most interestiir events of the mumoii thus fur. It shone' the iiui'ltrii i.iierufoir tin' trcnieuilim' advum-i' I r liu- tukiu plain i'i oncriiti compoHilifui Muee Ilalcvj'i- work ' itcclnimcil a iniiKterpi As wait notoc In these eolumuh the following fluv, one of the chief characteristics of tin opera is Us lurk of melody. Another is the n'lniisf. complete iibf-ewe of ln tctise emotion m the music itself, al though the (lramiitiL' Mtuatious tlirouKfi out cull for music of his character. It was prolmblv because Ilalevy lould not compile highly emotional inuMr nTHt lie liil "i'' 'l0 ""O ",r "l!t mci""rn matle opera The dav of pun- iluj--lcUlll llll'l I'll "'I v ben lu WII-. Ill 111 prime and lleetlimrn hud shown un to what lenictlix emotional eompoMtlon could ko without ioluting the rules of the uri At the mmo time. "The Jcwi-wi" i I'tlfjlnul in flint it did not Htavlf.Ii' follow the prevailing fctle of tho Italian opera of the dny, and iu fact If and uIIut of Hulevj's work may nlinont hr wild to Iikm- fut the model for Meyerbeer. The latlrr followed the method of llulevj lu the general out -lluei of lni operas nnd especially iu the bjiectueulnr element, toward which both men hud troug inclination. had the dramatic instinct in about equal proportions though Mejcrbcer wa-. the more Mici.cssful in scttiue his bis: si cue 1 IIIUSW- Wll"ll pilWlTfllll IJHlMs 111" bearer than dues Ilalevy. It is iu the emotional content of the itisic that the Krcatet difference lies tween the music of that day and that f the present. Wagner guvo probably ie moot powerful impetus to this since i ieethoven, and all Inter operatic com- -lowers hae followed his lead in this Imofct us clovely as they have copied Hi- iirclic-tration. This is one of the chief tiling-, ile- inndeil in operatic musie, and. for that matter, in almost all music to- i !a The present-flay nudience ilors not particularly care whether it is up- t iliwl In a pastci-nuo tint, as i;eou8-j iloes it, or with a wbitewn'-h brush, ae. "orilniK to the method of Kiehiird Jfrauss, but it must be there. Verdi Iocs it through his melodies, hut, like the others, he convejs his meaning very .tronglj, though in u different manner. For this reason. If for no other, it Is not li1clv that "The Jewess" will long hold a permanent place on the operatic boards, d spite the fact that it is ul- ' most as spectacular as any opera ou , the list at the piescnt time, and. there fore, lends itself to a displav that seems 'o be a ponulHr now us tit mi) time iu , tlie worlds bislorv. Nevertheless, the oneratlc nubile of Philadelphia and New Yorl. is indebted to Mr. ilattl-t'asaa for his ieivul of this interesting old work. "liru HAVE now beard the Pastoral VV Next Week's Events 'unilds Jan 11 yr com rt Araa fmi or tlie Kino Arts, a p m Sundae Jan 11 t'lminhcr .Mu-lc Po elt Hellevut.3lra.lfun!, t p in . likh fjuartel unOav. Jan 1 1 f'hllhurmontf faoeletv orcliemral cuncert, Wiubert Theatre, h:lS p. m. MoniSav, Jan. 12 8iii-h Trio, rhumber niuM; ronitrt, New Ctntury Drawing Hoom' 8. IS p. m Monday, Jan. 12 Nicholas Douty, lec ture recital, Wltherepoon Hall. 8 If, p m. TuesiJav, Jan 13 Philadelphia. Muslo Club. AMInn Hotel 3 p m. Wednesday. Jan 14 Mendelejohn Club concert Hellevu-Ntraiford.-s u p. m. W dnexilay, Jan H Josef Hosenblatt. cantor. .Metropolitan Upira Houhc, 8 15 p m Thursday, Jan It David BlBptum. rt e'tMl. Musical Art Club. .1 p m. Thursday, Jim IS OrRitn recital. Thorl is M. Courboln, v finuinakcr .store S IS p. m. scolded about petty things of the sort." IJeetlioveii, whatever may have been his manner of composition, was flic great humanist of n'l music mid there fore his best works arc those which por tray human iniotions. This kind f music, written as IicelUoveu wrote it. is permanent because he portrayed Great emotions common to nil men in all I times. It is this element which makes tbo Fifth Symphony pre-eminent as well as some of the piano sonatas and Btring quartets. AUDIENCE CHEERS FRITZ KREISLER I, Reception Given to Famous Violinist After Appear ance With Phila. Orchestra Beethoven. , lirahine . . . Schumann . TUB mOf!BM Overture "ruiello" Violin Concerto in D Trltz Krelaler .Symphony No. 2 In c major vious beauties and it lovely melodies, it is not llccthoveu nt his best, nud it only goes to show that descriptive mu sic, or even music written to a pro gram without being actually descrip tive, is not the liighest form of the art. Keethoveu himself had very definite ideas on the subject of descriptive mil- I . IS. u I 4. nniilil lA llinrl (nr rr..n" ."" '"ol, s W foVt s'hoth on the musi iu ii u"ii. ' wm- ; An-i TN THE concert at which the l'luln dclphia Orchestra performed the Pastoral Symphoti. the audience had the unique experience of hearing a pro giam if three works given, curh in n simile movement The nvertiite, of course, was plajcd without a stop, the soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Liszt piano coucerto in E Hat is directed at the Academy of Music. Never bus by the composer to he pluvctl in the same anv soloist received u greater receptiou manner anu .vir. dioiowsm um me Mime -rnm notn nuuience ami from the mem The Philadelphia, concert -going public yesterday expressed its opinion in no uncertain manner as to the status of i nu Krelslcr, when lie appeared us rivmnhnny of Ueethoven twice in the past two wcks, once by our own or chestra and once by the lloston Sym phony. It is too bad that these dupli cations cannot be avoided when there is such an exhaustive list of works that, of the might be performed. Of course, it is l "dlvi with the symphony. While the symphony is anything but short, it cannot be detiied that the per formance in one movement was u de cided Improvement, for it kept thi atten tion of the audience uninterruptedly both on tlie music nud on the program ' " . , .,.., i.. -.. In u-ileli it was wrureu. verv sjmpnony nu mm vvrmi-u; uu," , - ried too far, nil delineation iu music i The question of p!fi.vlug every s.vm i,es ill elliciency." Which goes to phony without iiTTerminsioii bftwrui the ..i,.iii. mnii" other Ihluits thnt evf n I movements has ficoiientlv been ili-cu-seil Ueethoven knew the much-ubused word .by musicians and oihulons differ widely iKrcat ,jn)nist was co'mpclle with which he closed the sentence. ,, jr. the expediency of such n rendition. ' t0 ,iie h(ucc unf acknowledge . . . ,, Evidently the "noes have it thus fat. of applause, and the last tim There is little attempt at actual de- because it is rarely doue except in uch orchestra rose to its feet an n,,.ntinn in )it Pastoral rymnunuy Tho purling of the brook nnd the calls of the birds (both in the slow move ment) about compriso the extent of the painting of real sc.enes in tones. Jn cidentallv this movement furnishes one earliest instances oi eiiiiioruii' nuinug the strings, tuere ueing instances us the I'ourtb Kyrophony of Schumann, where the composer has specifically directed that the work be so performed. However, like most debatable things in music, it Is easy to find good aigu ments for both sides. Those in favor of playinc u tons composition in several impossible, for the two orchestras can- two solo lellos enen navitig n part m- l movements without intermisslou proudly . . i.. ....lu.. ii..i. ......... .., .. fr ,u,,,,,,,loi,t r,t tlm other nnil also iliucrrui ,,i. t u,. ... !.....' ..r ....,.... I IMII lllllUr IJI)i. iii.-i, J'. "h i.uin B,i ... ,,i. ,....----.-. - -- "- ,iu,i,i iu nt." ,.,risiiti.. ... ivtiuiiii- nirmi.HrltKl.ri however. iau tlie ,,, mlvancr. f. luileed. hev are mm i irom tlie rrsi in uic i-muo ' nz the worK in tlili way. Un tho other lYL vrr-ulcr tulent nud his works will, up for o long u time ahead which is ,.S) ,s,0 probably knew Ueethoven baud, the opponent!, declare that the m.T,m- lu, riven lone after IJnlevy liaalvery utillKciy. ias well as any man wno nvco ar. mo iimo puject oi wrutug eepuuiu movements .,.i.,.i..,r -- . . becom" een more oi o memory wmu c b now'. He had a far srcnter fund of intodr than Ilalevy and vrw alw Itmvw harmonist; tho. two composes very unlikely. It must be admitted thut the Pastoral Symphony Is one that does not wear so Wei: as tome of the other symphonies oi Bwthovea. Despite & mans ob- & as well as any man who lived at the timo of tbo grtat composer, suys that Uee thoven frequently thought of an object while oomposlng, though "he often imiphed at musical delincatiotui and " T - ,1 -' iV. X f is to furnish ''contrast" which is im paired, if not actual!) lost if the pauses between the. movements be omitted and there you' are. ""t ' bers of the orehestru. as well, than was accorded to Mr. Krelsler, both upon hi. appearance ou the stage and at the con clusion of the concerto. When he came out, offer the Fidelio overture of Beethoven had been finished, he was received with long-continued ap pluuse, and many of the audience cheered him. This lusted several minutes, hill the npplatiso then was nothing to the demonstration which fnl'owed ut the so of tlie concei'lo. ten times tin 1 to return ledge the storm iruc the entire and remained ifnniling until lie naa left the stage, M'ndelphia had expressed itself on the Kreisler question. Doctor Stokowski was ill with neuritis in his right urm, and Dr. Thaddeus Rich, coucertmasler of the orchestra, took the baton and conducted accept ibl.v. The concert opened with the Fi delio overture of Ueethoven, a fine type -f the Beethoven overture, anil one vliMi sliou'd bo ou conceit programs c frequently than It Is After thl came Mr. Kreisler In the Brahms con certo. This is ono of the two great con certos 6f the literature for the violin the other being the Beethoven, which Mr. Kreisler pluycd hero with the Dam roseh orchestra a short time ago, nud it is hard to say in which Mr. Kreisler is the greatest. The works demand the tame characteristics from the performer, mid they urc characteristics iu which Mr. Kreisler excels, the chief of them being beauty of tone, sympathy with the composition, uud, above all, nn intel lectual restraint of the intense cmotiou. ulism which is expressed iu them. The poetry of the first movement, the sub dued melancholy of the second aud the gipsy-llko gayety of the finale were all expressed with tho greatest artistry. The accompaniment was excellent, though there was u little too much tone nt times, especially in the coda after the endeuza in the first movement, where some of the delicate color was lost. After Kreisler plays the Brahms con certo, almost nuy symphony comes as mi uuti-cimax. and this was the fate yesterday pf the Schumann C major. The symphony is by no means the best of Sehumdun. due largely to the great repetition of the thematic material and the lack of development. There are some striking bits of orchestration, but except for tho scherzo, the work is not especially characteristic of the com poser. It wus well performed by the oriliestrn. Coming Musical Events . 7 l?n.ro -J1'".1 bo no concerts by thu Phllu. dolphin Orchettra "t the Academy of Jliule on trlday afternoon mid Saturday evenln 1'e.xt. Durlnc this, week the Orchestra will to occupied In jrlvlntr concerts out of tcwii. kPtiearliie Hi Baltimore, Wushlnifton. liar r bur. Cleveland and PlttehurjTi. Alfred C'urtot will te tho uololit on tlio ontlro tour. The pud, Trio, composed ot Henry Such, violin: Percy fcuih, cello, and Arthur New. "'.!? t11"0' will elve tho Drat of a eerleii cf tnreo chamber n.uslo concerts at the Nevr Century Drawlnc Uooin nest Monday ove-nlns- Tho nroaram will nc ude, th Deo. thoven tro op. "O In D. the Dvorak K.mlnor trio and a croup of violin nun.bera plased by Henry huUi. Jtm Olea btmaroff will play the Ihlrtj. two piano sonatas of Uet!ioven. with ex planatory lecture by Leopold Stokow. "t I"." reciii. Hum in nuniDer. are. chcduled to take placo In the ballroom oi lny evanlnr lyeninc, "Y. ft PrnVlr' 1.e?,lu I" .'Sonata Form and m PevtloplIltnt., Thui lecture wllf p the uellavue-Btratford. beiinnlnn on Thura- irur January u. On Thursday January 22. Mr. fitokowetd -will complimentary to tho tkkets. holders of season , The filch Quartet will appear at the meet 'le .. ,Ue Chamber Jlutlc Association In the Mallevue-Stratford ballroom tomorrow afternoon. The program conslhts of the, fjuartet in D flat. Op. 13, of Donnatiy) and the II Hat Quartet of Jlozart. No, 14 Mr Itlch and Mr Klndler will also p.ay HuIveraen'B "Paasacaglla on a Theme ot IIaendel'1 for vlclln and cello. Alfred Corlot will appear at the Mondav mornlns musicale at the Bellevue-Stratford pn Jiinuary ID. Mr. Cortot will b audited liy l.divard Lunkow, bantu, who will make his flret appearance In l'lilladclphia on this occaeion. , "enrl Scott, of this cltv, the popular bass-baritone cf tho Metropolitan Opera Co . will appear next week In vaudeville at 13 V. Keith n Theatro Mr Scott made hla first appearance In opera under the direction of .l,ou,r,.",a''".mfr"u,n' appearing in the role ot he Midi I'rlent In "Alda." and ban since been a member of the Chlcauo Op-ra Co. and the Metropolitan. Th Philadelphia Muslo Club will hold Its rejular meetlnK next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Aid inc. Hotel. Amont T thoeo appearlntr CTi the prOBTam are. Laura1 An 2fJJ?n. L?!,nln.? contraltoi Christine Zebarth. FifW,. RSTlVy 6hrmdln. reader; Ia. bel Judd Watklne. soprano; Florence llaenle. violin Maydel Haeenbucli, cello, and Ebbi It. sjoholm, piano. Next Thurrday afternoon at a o'clock the Musical Art Club will rlve the second of the series of three reclta by David Bis. ?ih.1S?!.i,ri.,n."pl!".'n wlu e.Uo numbers by dllbert and Ward (Stephens. ncludlnu with u recitation of Poe'B "Tho lven" m,llll.Ol .A. In k. .-.!... (. " . .'. - the recital tia wll) bo aerved. After Thu orean recital at the Wanamnlter "toro .Ciarl", M- Courboln next Thuri flay evenln will consist of ..elections of li?lCIWnP.T,,od "P"'hUd by Bach. Mar. h'J' vV.1 Stfhoyen: of the,, romantic period y..Arinck- , lLa(rt ,n" nr ho. nd of the vcm" ?frlt,d.by uv:l' Jarnefeldt arid S,'S2r - ". will conclude with Improvisa tions on a theme by Doctor Stokowski. Henry Oordon Thundar has arranged the fpllowlnit program for the second .Sbicrlp Hon concert ot the riillharmcnlo Hoclefy bert Theatres Overture. Pranp soln. I'Ull Anul no .MiKio riuie,- khu. William Tell"! so d Inferrm " r,m lino hu I'mll.. .-.' llareri twu movements from the T lieethoven Second Hvm-honv. I,i .. r... -iJ.' ..1J orchestra by t'larenoe K. Hawden. tho "olo 9fi.n .",tf;9,r,.KMI,ry., ko!o' '.'J uts Titanla," from ;'M Umon.'i aune by Mrs owiuy.' ,D1 " "wl 8tav" of Ynil& AUibt "i?00"0' ,the MtndeUsohn. Club at tho BeUYuatjjjrl next WtoMaJ evenlnar. numbers hv ha late nr. W. w nilchrlM, termer leader of the club, anl .-s. i.inasay .-voruen. present leader, win t sunr. Other composers on the prosrsm are Ari.aiiaeisKy. Aanrors. I'aieatrina. v-oroer, Crotchanlnoff, Dickinson and Jacobean. At tho half hour of music which will ooen thn reaular evenlnc service at St. Paul'i episcopal Church, of Overbrook. tomorrow evenlnc, Emll rolitmann. cellist, will ai slht. He will play tho "Ave Maria" of Schubert and an andante of Qolterman, ana for tho oftertorlum, a Reverie by Iuulma. Florence Easton will be the soloist at tht next concert of tho New York Symphony Orchestra. Walter Damroach conductor, at inn Acaaemv or ..viusin on 'iniirsaav evenins, January 22. The orchestral erferlnfrs will cnnslht of the overturn from "li'relichutf of Weber: Charpentler's "Impret'lops a'ltalla," in which the solo part will m piayea py icene I'ouain. soio vioia oi mo orchestra: Clear' Introduction and alletr for strings, nnd the nreludes to Acts .1 ond III pf Wasner'a "Tho Masterslnjers. When .Tnxef Tlnaenhlalt. tile celebrated cantor. tenor, who will give his second son recital ot tho Metropolitan Opera . Hoois Wednesday evenlnc next, recently ap peared In Savannah he found that Jenn McCormaek was amonir the enthusiastic H- .. Th (...a tnva m, .11., fllA CAI1. cert and Mr. Kosenblatt exclaimed that was happv indeed that "the TlddUh Jle- cormarK had come u near we uia jmi. blatt sine." The eighth free Sunday afternoon concert at the Academy of Mne Arts will be riven tomorrow, at A o'clock. The eoloiiia will he Isabel Howard Chapman, soprano, and Alexander Zenker, violinist, with Doro thea Neebo at tho piano. Tho Philadelphia Quartet. Florence. Haeri1'; first vlollni Helen new ley. second viol n, Klla now Icy. viola: Marie It. Brehm. fl all actlvo members of the Matinee Muelea' Club, were awarded a rirhie of I0 ..? A competition with a male rjuartet at W"B.' spoon an on new xear .-', -i.,,!., Welsh Eisteddfod. William Schmidt, celu" of the Philadelphia Orchestra, acting a. Judce. The first three leeture-recltaH on.n'ij American Son bv Nicholas Douty. l'L,r! or " rlu.,, mmv fcfrf1v evening. In snnnn iimii. unner ina auBvii-" V'.L... Unlveralty Extension Hociety., Tbe "" chosen by Mr. Douty for Jhln occa ilen "a he Composers of New England. .""J,, f elections will be Riven from '! yr,heri. Buck, roots. Hadlcy, Whelpleyf"J oln"'- Schism In Cicch Church London. 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