MU5ICAL CHRONICLL 1917-1923 BY PAUL RO5ENFELD NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HAECOURTj BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THK U. A. MY THK OUINN ft BODKN COMPANY NAHWAY, N, J, TO AlPKED SXIEGLITZ The greater portion of the material of which this book is composed has been printed in the form of articles in Arts and Decoration, The Dial, The New Republic, The Seven Arts, and Vanity Fair and thanks are due the editors of these periodicals for permission to reprint it. Most of the chapters have been thoroughly recobbled, and a good many have been completely re-written in the effort not of assembling them about a single point of view, but of more accurately expressing the feelings with which they were originally conceived. CONTENTS PROLOGUE TO THE ANNUAL TRAGEDY 3 ROWLAND AND THE COMPOSERS n THE END OF THE KNEISF. L QUARTET 20 PATRIOTIC CONCERT 27 PALESTRINA ON 2 2ND STREET 36 DINDY 45 THE FATE OF MONA 54 THE CONCERT HALL 61 THE BLOCII VIOLA SUITE 78 DAMROSCH HISTORICAL CYCLE 87 CYRIL SCOTT 91 THE STRAWINSKY CONCERTINO 97 THREE ITALIAN MODERNS 105 LOUISE 114 CONCERTS AT THE MUSEUM 119 SZYMANOWSKI 124 THE BLOCH VIOLIN SONATA 131 ALL-TCHAIKOWSXY PROGRAM 139 THE GROUP OF Six 146 JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER 167 SATIE AND IMPRESSIONISM 174 PRIZE SONG 185 BRUCKNER 190 SAINT-SA NS 200 THE VISIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS 209 vii viii Contents THE ORNSTEIN DOUBLE SONATA 220 Gozzi AND PROKOFIEFF 228 THE TRAGEDY OF GUSTAV MAHLER 238 BODANSKY AND HlS FRIENDS 250 ALL-AMERICAN NIGHT 257 THE BETHLEHEM FESTIVAL 264 ALICE MIRIAM 275 FOR FRANCKS CENTENNIAL 279 BART6K 285 NEW GERMAN Music 293 MUSICAL CHRONICLE