Concerts Reviewed

October 19, 1919

Symphony, D minor, César Franck

Nocturnes, “I: Nuages”; “II: Fêtes”; “III: Sirènes,” Claude Debussy

Evocations, op. 15, Albert Roussel

October 25, 1919

Symphony, D minor, César Franck

3 Pièces formant suite de concert, op. 40, “Variations en Ab mineur,” Gabriel Pierné

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Claude Debussy

La Péri, Paul Dukas

October 26, 1919

Rédemption, César Franck

Psyché, César Franck

Evocations, op. 15, Albert Roussel

November 1, 1919

Psyché, César Franck

Nocturnes, “I: Nuages”; “II: Fêtes”; “III: Sirènes,” Claude Debussy

La Péri, Paul Dukas

November 2, 1919

Chant funèbre, op. 9, Albéric Magnard

Les Heures dolentes, Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont

Chansons de Miarka, op. 17, “I: Les morts,” Ernest Chausson

Sur un vieil air, Charles Bordes

Proses lyriques, Claude Debussy

Trois ballades de Villon, Claude Debussy

Symphony no. 3 “Eroica,” E-flat major, op. 55, Ludwig van Beethoven

November 8, 1919

Les Heures dolentes, Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont

La Vie antérieure, E-flat major, Henri Duparc

Nocturne, César Franck

Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, “III: Le jet d’eau,” Claude Debussy Symphony no. 3 “Eroica,” E-flat major, op. 55, Ludwig van Beethoven

November 9, 1919

Der Freischütz, op. 77, “Overture,” Carl Maria von Weber

Piano Concerto no. 3, C minor, op. 37, Ludwig van Beethoven

Le Navire, Alfred Bruneau

Jour d’été à la montagne, op. 61, Vincent d’Indy

Rapsodie espagnole, Maurice Ravel

November 15, 1919

Der Freischütz, op. 77, “Overture,” Carl Maria von Weber

Piano Concerto no. 3, C minor, op. 37, Ludwig van Beethoven

Le navire, Alfred Bruneau

Jour d’été à la montagne, op. 61, Vincent d’Indy

Art begins where definition stops—thus reason seems unable to analyse it— and yet, art does not exist in its fullness except when it satisfies reason, when it responds to a logic of which we know only the results.

Can we accept, then, that its fundamental law is among those that remain unknown to us, while ruling over life and intelligence, and guiding us in such a way that without knowing anything, without needing to know the causes, we accomplish the effects with the obscure certainty or the clear awareness, according to our moral understanding, of obeying an established order, of continuing the movement that nothing can stop.