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VOL. XXVI.
N o . 1 4 .
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth Street
VIOLIN RECITAL
RY PUPILS OF FERDINAND CARRI.
In spite of the unfavorable weather a very
large audience assembled in Chickering Hall
on the evening of March 22 to listen to the
recital given by pupils of Ferdinand Carri,
director of the violin classes of the New York
Institute for Violin Playing and School for
Piano and Vocal Culture. It seemed as
though the audience enjoyed the concert im-
mensely, as there were many outbreaks of
genuine enthusiasm and a great many recalls.
The rising young virtuosi went through a
program entirely composed of violin works,
which were by no means easy, but the re-
markably finished and perfectly easy manner
with which they overcame all the difficulties,
and the artistic conception they exhibited,
was highly commendable. A quartette for
violins was played with precision by four lit-
tle artists, Rosa Ohla, Ida Wanoscheck, Isi-
dor Moszkowitz and Willie Monaghan, the
youngest taking the leading part. Miss Midge
Gilson performed the Gondoliera and Moto
Perpetuo, by Ries. The Gondoliera was
played with fine taste, and the Moto Perpetuo
very fluently, Miss Gilson showing that she is
the possessor of a very flexible wrist. Messrs.
Schoner and Moszkowitz gave a splendid per-
formance of Ernst's Rondo Papageno, ar-
ranged as a duo by F. Carri. The bowing
exhibited in this piece became perfectly daz-
zling. Two youngsters, Charlie David and
Isidor Moszkowitz, made quite a stir with
their master's Ernani Fantasie, a piece which
abounds in technical difficulties, but which
were overcome by the little artists with great
ease. Mr. Carl Moszkowitz's artistic inter-
pretation of Saint Saens' Rondo Capricioso
was rewarded by much applause. His bow
arm especially works with ease and he has an
excellently developed left hand. Mr. Carl
Brenner played Vieuxtemps' Reverie with
beautiful expression. The broad tone he
drew out of his G string was especially fine.
Miss Theodora Lilienthal played Vieuxtemps'
Air Varie op. 22 admirably. Her tone was
generally good, her double stopping clear,
and her down and up bow staccato playing
remarkably clean cut. Mr. Carl Schoner's
playing of Vieuxtemps' Ballade and Polonaise
made quite a furore, being recalled four times
for his eminently artistic rendition of this
piece. The Misses Theodora Lilienthal, Jen-
nie Tim and Flora Boyd gave a splendid per-
New York, April 2,1898.
formance of Mr. Carri's sparkling variations
on the Carnival of Venice; and the Messrs.
Schoner, Moszkowitz, Brenner and Amster-
dam gave a classical interpretation of Bach's
Preludio and Gavotte from the E major
sonata arranged for four violins by Mr. Carri.
The violin playing of Ida Wanoscheck cre-
ated quite a sensation. When one considers
that she is only ten years of age, her finished
performance of Leonard's Souvenir de Haydn
was certainly very remarkable. Her wrist
motion in the intricate Arpeggio Variation,
her cantabile in the slow movements and the
rapidity in which she took the finale was as-
tounding. But the wonder of the evening
was Rosa Ohla, a beautiful little girl with
dark complexion and deep black hair and ap-
parently not over five years old. When she
appeared upon the stage people were won-
dering, but after she had drawn the first few
tones from her little fiddle, every one felt con-
fident that she would go through her solo like
one who knows how. The volume of tone
she produces, her true intonation and accur-
acy in general was remarkable for a child so
young. She also appeared in a duo with her
little companion, Willie Monaghan, and both
played their parts charmingly. With Mr.
Carri's arrangements of Gounod's Meditation
for Violins, with piano and grand organ, the
recital closed. It received a magnificent ren-
dition by the Misses Lilienthal, Boyd, Everitt,
Wanoscheck, Gilson, Tim, Kenney, Porter,
Ohla and the Messrs. Schoner, Brenner,
Moszkowitz, Amsterdam, Mallett, Locke,
Van Deventer, David, Monaghan and I.
Moszkowitz. The immense quantity of tone
volume produced by such a great number of
violins was greatly enjoyed by the large au-
dience. Mr. Ferdinand Carri is doing a
great work here at his institution, which was
again demonstrated by the highly artistic per-
formance of his pupils at this recital, and New
York is indeed fortunate in possessing a vir-
tuoso of his standard.
Fred. D. Parsons.
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What a lot of truth there is in this aphor-
ism of Rubinstein's! It will pay to read it
several times. "Talent, genius even, with-
out application will not go far. Without
talent, but gifted with application, it is quite
the contrary. Thus it is that genius slowly
fades away, while the worker, in time, makes
his worth known."
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••DIE SENTIMENTALER."
In spite of perverse utterances of certain
critics, the public has reached a musical ele-
vation which entitles it to hearing the score
or more of composers that are clamoring for
admission into the magic circle; Beethoven
and Schubert, likewise Berlioz and Wagner,
were in advance of their time, but their
strongly pronounced intellectuality opened
the way for them; now comes another class,
which von Bulow would have called "die sen-
timentaler." Sentimentality was recognized
by Schiller as a peculiar attribute of the Ro-
man as opposed to the Greek poets, but un-
like Schiller, von Bulow uses the word in its
disparaging sense, as a thing hardly to be tol-
erated in art. The subjective has superseded
the objective school, and rules, that were sup-
posed to be rooted in the foundation of nature
as any subject which has engaged the atten-
tion of scholars, have been abrogated as if
they had never existed. The same thing hap-
pened a hundred years ago; Fux, Albrects-
berger, etc., wrote rules; Beethoven and
others disregarded principles and followed
their own impulses.
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flUSIC IN EDUCATION.
On Wednesday evening, March 23d, Dr.
Hugh A. Clarke delivered a lecture before
the pupils and patrons of the Broad Street
Conservatory of Music at 1331 South Broad
street, Philadelphia, on " T h e Place of Music
in Education."
In the consideration of this question the
first point made was the distinction that exists
between the development of all the powers of
the individual, moral, intellectual, emotional,
and physical; the second, the fitting of the
individual for some special calling or occupa-
tion in life. The main part of the lecture
was devoted to the consideration of the power
exerted by art in general, training the emo-
tions and making them subservient to the in-
tellect and moral sense, and the necessity of
beginning this training as early as possible in
the life of the child that its best results may
be secured. The lecture concluded with a
recapitulation of the special advantages of
the cultivation of music in schools as a means
of developing mental alertness, order and
concerted action.
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The daughter of the celebrated Norwegian
poet Bjornstjerne Bjornsen is a highly gifted
musician—a clever pianist and vocalist.