Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-13

From the series of papers You have heard
Of theu." published in the Boston Evening Ga
zeue. We nuke the following extract. A. the
great master is to- BE- here ON Tuesday evening
il will be read with the interest
"cone let mr introduce you In Thalberg. Do
you see that handsome fresh colored English
looking individual seated by the firesde-he has
lately been too much accustomed to warm eli j.
mates 10 relish the SHOWS Of New England-read e
ingl Do you remark the fine and intelligent
his placid grey eye and simple costume
Well that is Ihalberg. He arises and i intro
dueed 10 you. Let mo give you word OF cpun-
sci Do not talk Of the piano TO him--sny not IA
word of his playing. Believe me. if you do he
will for the future eSchew your society whenev-
er he reasonably Can witho 4 offence Of course
he knows his own power upon the instrument. 1t
has been settled some score of years sncr-a
score of years sincc All! know you are about
10 tell me that Sigsmund rhalbcrg must be still
a.young man. SO he j.. He has mol lived fnst
as many of our acquantances have aud do. lie
has contriv"d to keep health and strength by not
squnDdcring them.
But you say to me, how admirably he speaks
English.
In truth that is not - wonderful. 1t i some
sixteen or seventeen yeurs or more since his rep
uta,ion was accepted from continental Europe
and confirmed in England. He ought To be ube
10 speak English well. For that give him ere
dit
But you must see him in the Concert Room
to DO fully aware of biz total lack of pretension
to be regarded as musical marvel.
lie sits down to the piano and touches few
notes Then he begins 10 play SO soberly and
SO quietly does he do this. that nom save the
technically initiated can know what musical
prodigies his fingers are performing. His mnn'
ner il so essentially undemonstrative md unprc-
tending that it light lead you almost to believe
were you not aware that you had come express
" To hear him. that it some unknown and
unheralded performer who had taken his place at
the instrument,
Anon, comes passage crowded with manipu-
latiye difficulties, If our ears may be trusted
But watch his hand5-mark the calmness OF his
countenance and the total absence of all that ex-
aggeration which you have been wont TO SEQ in
the leading performers upon the piano. Would
yon not say that to him at least it was "a passage
of singular ease and simplicity! Now you begin
to imagine that you really listening 10 mu-
steal marvel,and when the Fantasia is concluded
which he has been playing. tit was the 'MoiseD
you feel that it simply the truth. Then ho
arises from his seat, and, amidst the bursts of
almost frantic applause with which he is reward
ed for his performance. retreats half fapoogetl-
cay as though he had been committing some al
most objectionable error in having the presump
ton TO appear before the public
This innate modcsy Of manner it is which has
invariably made him iavore with the press in
every country which he may have visited. We
all Of us, inherit natural tendency to relish our
direct opposite. The press Is singulary human
IN its nature; therefore the press bears modesty
In espr cal favor 49, Boston J0Hraai.