Rffeet ef the Fanny Page la Arkansas. !
Mill Crtek correspondence Oturk Nprctator.
Alfred Allen, wife and three children,
Mutt, floss snd Jlggs, spent laat Sunday
at IC. R. Klrby'a.
It waa an extraordinary programme, put
together apparently without the least
thought of relationships, of clashing
styles or musical symmetry. Plerro
Monteux, conductor of the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra, perhaps wished to play
Brahms and Kavel and had to add
something- to make the customary two
hours of mutilc. He succeeded 1" doing
Just that and nothing else.
Mr. Monteux tinds himself entirely 1"
sympathy with the exotic musio (exotic
to a Frenchman) of Brahms, but it can
not bo said that he perfectly assimilates
it. He has endeavored to do so. and he
conducts it with sincerity, with devotion,
lut usually from without. He Is far
happier, of course. In the music of Ravel,
which is Oallic, Parisian, urban, palpi
tating with the vivacity and Intelligence
of the salon. The walties h<-ard lost
evening have moved numerous French
men to extended comment.
There is room for doubt that they will
stir the sluggish imagination of Ameri
can commentators, who are so f*iftidly
matter of fact that a creative critic like
the late Jajnes Huiiek/- ruffled the
waters of all the great lakes. Of a cer
tainty he could have written much deli
cate and delicious prose about these
tulry trifles, which are instinct with
grace and captivating in badinage. But
they do not seem lo be worthy of pro
longed lyricism. They are pretty and
they are admirably scored.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra hae
played better In the latter part of the
season than It did in the early days.
