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Philharmonic Jubilee Concerts

The Philharmonic Society of New York devoted last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to four jubilee concerts which included some interesting features. The first of these concerts had what is now known as a "Pulitzer programme"; that is to say, a programme made up of pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Franz Liszt, the three favorite composers of the late Joseph Pulitzer, the Philharmonic's greatest benefactor. By way of calling attention to the fact that the Philharmonic has been hospitable to French composers and also to Americans, the second of the jubilee programmes was devoted to the second symphony of composer Camille Saint-Saëns, composer Paul Dukas' "L'Apprenti Sorcier", composer Edward Alexander MacDowell's "Indian Suite," in which the red man's music is made so admirably to serve the white man's purpose, and the Symphonic Fantasie of one of the younger American composers, Henry Hadley. The third programme included the fifth of Beethoven's symphonies, with which the Philharmonic had made its debut in 1842.