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Show LARGE ORCHESTRA COMING SOON The playing of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction di-rection of Emll Obcrhoffcr, is soul satisfying. No lesser term will describe de-scribe it. Technically It Is marvel-oub, marvel-oub, and lnterpretively It Is a Joy beyond be-yond words to express. Spontanlty buoyancy and elasticity arc threo words well exemplified In this playing, play-ing, andwhile mood, color, shade, contrast 'and climaxing are more or less common to all big orchestras, in the Minneapolis body they reach tho apotheosis. Mr. Oberhoffer always sets a mood picture clearly before his men, and they Invariably rise to It with full conviction. Neither he nor they are afraid of color, glowing in primitive purity or splashed upon the canvas in great brushes full of wide variety of tint and immenso contrasts of tone. In the Frolschutz Overture (Von; Weber) at the Orchestra Hall concert con-cert last Sunday afternoon there wan such a .glow of lovely color, such musicianship of phraso and such charm or interweaving as to make the number a pure fascination, and in the Dance nhapsody (Delias) there was such a riot of tone, such shading and such cllmnq building m to provide a wonderful ending for a program which had already presented present-ed to view so many and such brilliant bril-liant aspects that no further Bur-prise Bur-prise and delights seemed possible. These works, admirable as thev were In themselves, were merely bagatelles, however, when compared to the great Symphony In F minor, (Tscbalkowsky), which formed the keystone or the entire program. All tho excellencies noted In the other works wero here again In evldencs plus a slncereity, poise and assurance assur-ance which aro rarely equalled in the reading or any symphony. Mr. Oberhoffer has a way of pointing point-ing out motifs and leading voices which Is realty wonderful, and his men respond fo this leading with precision and full effect. When the first violins lead no ono In the 'audience -has any doubt In the matter; when the cellos need to come to. tho fore Mr. Van Vllet and Mr. lscher give out a volume of beautiful tone which is all enveloping; envelop-ing; when the harp Is needed for specific color Mr. Williams gives It out In great abundance and beauty, and on Sunday last the woodwind choir again and again distinguished itself, and the brasses spoke forth In no uncertain voice when tho motif of Tschalkowsky and the baton of Oberhoffer pointed to them. It was a great reading of a massive mass-ive and beautiful work. Article In Music News," Chicago, March 10. 19 1. C. - W. |