The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-28 00:00:00

FARR lONA BL_E CONCERT.

Tho 01[1.11011 public of We.month bid a delightful
ontartainment on Monday evening last. Isban Herr Val
.ieddrehem. the talented conduntof of the bond of the
lb &Telli re. and Mr. T. Avant, who ha. pro-
vided ouch tasteful concerts on pvesiousoec.sions united
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to give • CODOnfi at the Floyd 1 Hotel Assembly it.,om
Thew bed eogeget Mr. H. Taylor as the tenor vocalist
of the evenlog, and Me. G. Thorne kindly consented
to not at aecompanyiat. The imdience .44 select and
f•shionable ; but the music was of too high • class, or
the sttrections or the eeening out.of.doors wrre too
great for a Ism middle.cless audience to support the
yretenxions of Weymouth genet-Ally to pure musical

The programme commenced with Beethoven'. Sonata
dedicated to Ereutter, arranged as a duett for violin
and piano. This remark.bly fine pieoe was most
erti-tically played. Heir Van Hed.egagim at once coo.
fironin • the impression, of hp great power on his
tsvourite inatrument. Although his violin gull no
doubt give a more mellow toe. with age, his ma•tetly
management of it elicited tones of rest sweetness.
The Herr wee well supported by Mr. T. Avant, and it
was coh•rming to hear them touch lightly some playful
th-ine. then perh•ps introducing a *train fro., 'nine
beantifel air. when the ianuforte would rattle of in •
display of musical fireworks, the two lost, uments again
betiding in a pathetic pant.ite, folio wed by some
splendid dolin-p'aying, and uniting again in a pats-age
if indeserobeble beauty. Th., audience of course
warmly applauded, an I wanted an enoo e. It was too
early to yield, and Mr. H. Tailor canoe on to sing
" When we are potted." He bus a voice of very
beautiful tenor quality, and infused the Whon due
to the word*. But, at the ri-lt of being trommd of
mu-icsi heresy, we cannot but prairie against the want
of clear intonation of the word., Mr. Thorne soon.
rallied with proper dio-crionination, yet the sound of
Mr Taylor's voice wax lather too low for the rower-
taniment. We cenoider it the mere affection of musical
couceit to cure nothing for worts, and while songs are
sung in English. it is folly to slur away the consonente,
and give us • mixture of Italian and Pulyne.ian with
or 1-ngu..g., odes, the words are vo iieficlent of
morality tnt good sense thet they had better be left
un•ung. Mr. T. Avant followed with the so-spieling
" Romence" by Ascher, which demand. %real musician
to play it at all. The moat brilliant fingering yielded
in charm to the sweet harmonious sounds that under.
laid sod int. two... with POMO of the most rapid parts,
and •greeahly melleerd our rem. mbranoe of the
An encore was demanded and yieldtd with greets. Mr.
Taylor then tang Cl-ribel's " You •nd I," with
taste and a capital voice, and the defect we have already
allnded to wee not so noticeable as before. If the
mania of Claribel is so tiny that singers of it are nnt
afraid of opening their months and singing with
ruiner., its comiag Alert of the highest art will be
easily forgiven. Herr Van Heddegtoem thee came on
to give the promiaed gem of the evening Peganini's
" Prayer of Moses," on the 4th string only. Herr Van
Fled leghem. itoe he draws a how necrosis the
violin shows that he I. then all at home. Fte.-tifully
tender pas..ges. nice touches, were respond-d to in a
feeling manner by Mr. Avant, then the violin's tones
would melt swam into thin air, the very spirit of a sound.
blosocians were compelled to hold their breath, or to
whisper. " How beautiful I" while the audience
burst into applause, of which even the most lady like
clap seemed net tender enoueh for the lovely tones that
had gone before. Then the violin seemed to sing some
little ditty fit for a lover to his gentlest love. followed
hy one o' the brightest lilts we ever heatd, There was
a persistent encore. Herr Van Heddeghem has, by the
power he hes gained shown his detetmination to conquer
the extreme difficult'sn in his art, lard certainly loi.
great natural capacity for that f ont.tatio style, of which
Paganini's work is so great a triumph.
The second part opened with Rethoven's Sonata in
fi .t, a duett for violin •n I pianoforte. Herr Van
lie-ideghem and Mr. T. Av-nt. The sweet and oft
emrta wet., delightfully rgndered, the rapid peonage.
given ...Rh nutpassmg brill:ancy, and the pretty move-
ments towards the close delighted all. Mr. Taylor next
, gave that his song "Tom Bowling," and the delicious
mu-ic of Hiblin evidently inspired him, for he did his
lovely voice the ju-tice of letting it flow out through
the room in an unexceptioneble Way, and one was
able to appreciate his purity of tone. "Tom Bowling,"
'.hen well ming, cannot fail to be a treat, and it was,
so mach an on this ocession, th•t there was an emote
which would not be denied. Mr. Anuat then seated
himself to play his femona solo, introductiona, varip
lions, and finale, on "Robin Adair," and "The
Hundred Pip•rs." The "Robin Adair" part was vely
charmingly played; but in the last part Mr. Avant sir-
passed himself, hie brilliancy and taste being demona-
trotted to he of high rank. Mr. Taylor neat sang that
very pretty song "Philip the Fele 'Der," with much
archnen and • charming voila., but he seemed to have
relapsed into the too-easy style of the imitators of the
Italian school, and consequently his words could not be
h If made out. If this style be toot checked by a sound
English taste, we shall havo• bonelesagetality of singing
that h. no more like what we believe the people like,
than a idly-fish is like an erect and besutitul girl. It
is this emelemoess about words thet has excited the
contempt of souse earnest men in the Church of England
and anxong Dia•enters for beautiful mu.ic in public
wornhop.and threatens to convert them to words without
music. by way of revulsion from music *latent words
Herr Van Heddegheni capped the evening', pleasures
hy ti. Selo on the violin, Paganini's "Carnival di
Venim." Our musical (rinds teem the extraordinaty
nuceession of diverse sound. that Paganini caught from
the Coorntwal. and Herr Vous Heddeghern reorndoced
them wi'h wonderful power. The singing of the birds,
the sweet melody, the dancing tune, the harlot-cum of
the air, all were liven with delimooy, sweetness, hr.-li-
nts., or erotesque humane, a. the ease riqui ed. The
performance we. a p.,fect scow-salon of dal-ghta, and it
was received with uproars of epplatm-, and a persistent
encore. This was kindly seceded, and again every One
•O lo.t in admiration at the beeutiful harmonica no
wonderfully liven void.. We shall hope to beer Herr
Van Heddeghem and Mr. Avant many times more, end
that later in the *stetson they may have crowded roomt.