Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-07-26
Tuesday, July "a.


Ills performances on the Piano were mas,erly
in the extreme at times the touch was soft
aud gentle as the bland zephyrs Of n June
morning, and fom that they became wild
and terr fc, like the r,aring OF The ocean in a
storm, or the fearful cash Of conflicting arm
les in The last grand struggle for victory. No
pen can describe on paper the effect Of Stra-
kosch's performances there is an electricity
if we may so speak, which touches the chor Is
Of the soul and vibrates through the whole
spiritual man, arousing him from the lethar'
gy Of earthliness, and awaking within him a
nober conception of the Immortality Of his
nature, and the splendid de tiny that awai $
him.
Strakosch was assisted by Madame Casini,
the Prima Donna of the French Opera at New
o. leans asini is not handsome. in the oIdi-
n;ry acceptatlon of the term, although she has
an interesting and inte lgent face /; and an
eye that reveals the music Of the heart She
executes admirably, and controls her voice,
rough IA hundred modulations, with the
ease and grace of conversational enjoyment
Her Echo Song from lie Se.ment, was
exqui>itely beautiful, and exhibited all the va
ri-d powers and compass of her voi'e she
was oud encored on this. Every piece, by
both artists, was warmly apPlauded. At the
earnest solicitation # those who were present,
aud many oilers who were unableto stcnd,
they VIII give one more Concert at the Ocean
House. Monday evening.
AS Sirakoschs life has been an cventful
one, glowing with ali the " ldness of a ro-
nance, We give brief memoir Of it, from
the New Orleans Delta -
MAURICE STRAkOSCH.
This uusical celeb ity being in this city,
those Of our read RS wlo are sufficiently ac.
quainied with the artist: world 10 know his
s'a'ion an degree, will be pleased TO learn
what impress on his music and appearance
have made upon those who have heard him
We propose 10 give some account Of both I;
I'd also of the facts Of his life. S,rakosch is
s..ll SO young "A man, his career has been so
fully chron cled by the press, and the whoe
J ans bak 81 shot time, thai this is not diff
cult. We have no entire Biography of this
musician; but the facts which have been
brought forward in the notices of the Eng 'ish
and American newspapers are so numerous,
that We think ii not impossible to weave a
sufficient sketch from our recollection Of them
a.. ne.
BY parentaae he is Russian on both sides
oi the house but by birth he i Pole hav-
ing first seen the light near Warsaw, in Rus
sian Po His ia her was nob'e, and
held the rank ,f Colonel in the Imperial ar.
my but the latter and better part Of his life
va, spent as diplomats, in the Imperial SER
vice. lie was anxious that his son should
follow the same profession. But from the
dawn of his existence, the boy eyinced that
unconqucrabie passion music which ever
accompanies the power TO excel in the divinesi
art. This passion met with no encourage.
mcni from the Russian colonel and diplomat
LIST. lie could not ioresee the glorious ath
up which the bright phantom could lead his
son.
He knew tie life Of poverty ard obscurity
TO which every mu iciau is dest ned, save two
o! three ofa century, TO whom nature gives
the superhuman powers of Pagann or
Ii,tz And he knew that in a land of kings
aud pri sis he who sr red kings and Priests
was Ear better of than he who served themis- |
tTess nt music's wondruus but unsubstantial
realm-in short, he kn"w that the days Of I
diplomatic colonel would pass much more
pleasantly than those Of poor devil Of a pi "
snist, and he knew not that his son would be I
sught else Therefore, with all the iron stub
bornnrss Of a true Cossack, H. set about max |
ng diplomatic co'onel out Of the future crea !
Tor Of Sardanapalus. His business carrying .
hin 10 the courts ofGermany, the very land
Of song and of dreaming, he shut up his son in
a Russian military sch ol There he knew,
no music Vas heard but the kettlr.drum and II
gong there he knew algebrac roots were ex.
anned much more frequently than musical
themes. But even the rugged discipno of
Cossa"k seminary failed to quench the eternal
fire which nature kdes in tn heart of each \
hid Of g Mus. The ma,hem,tcians of the \
bayonct and knrut, who never ia led 10 "teach
the young idea bow to shoot" loun at las, a
piece of stuff too stubborn for lhcm, in the
musical boy an in his twelfth year they in
form d the Colonel that the task he Lad i'm
posel upon them was an imposs bic one that
his sons passion for harmony was stronger
thau either pain or fear; ard that it was use
less 10 teach him any mathematics save the
mathem tics Of muse. lie was sent Tor by
hIs father, then residing a, The Court of Wen.
na. No counienance was given to his pur-
sUrs ; but he obtained in that city some oppor-
iunty loT study, and some lessons in harmo-
ny from Schier, the orgauist ofthe i-usirian
court. With the first glimpse of sunshine the
Iicb buds began to exrand; and before he
his thirteenth wear, he was hermit